Meet K. Lovell, Featured Poet at BPL's Bards & Brews at UpTown Jazz This Friday, August 2

 

What: Bards & Brews Open Mic 

When: Friday, August 2, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Where: UpTown Jazz, 2250-B 9th Ave. North, Birmingham, AL 

Details:  The Birmingham Public Library's spoken word series, Bards & Brews, celebrates International Beer Day at UpTown Jazz with an Open Mic - with featured poet K. Lovell. Hosted by Thed Weller, Bards & Brews is sponsored by the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Free to the public; you must be 18 or older to enter. UpTown Jazz will have alcoholic beverages available for purchase on site for those 21 and older. Follow Bards & Brews on Facebook.

Birmingham, Ala. - Bards & Brews returns this Friday, August 2, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Uptown Jazz with an Open Mic hosted by Thed Weller. Birmingham's K. Lovell will be the featured poet at this event, which is a celebration of International Beer Day.

Bards & Brews, BPL's popular monthly spoken word poetry event, is free & open to the public. You must be 18+ to enter & 21+ to drink with proof of I.D. Uptown Jazz is located in the BJCC's Uptown Entertainment District at 2250-B 9th Avenue North. 

BPL's open mics are welcome to all forms of spoken word arts- including poetry and singing.

This will be the second time UpTown Jazz has hosted Bards & Brews (the first was March 2023).

Bards & Brews is sponsored by the Alabama State Council on the Arts. 

K. Lovell performs at Bards & Brews inside Uptown Jazz in March 2023.

 About K. Lovell, Featured Poet at Bards & Brews Open Mic -UpTown Jazz, Friday, August 2 

Since returning to Birmingham about a decade ago, K. Lovell has fallen in love with the Magic City by becoming more connected with the art community. Music, poetry, dance, and graphic arts are often presented in the various types of art he composes.  Additionally, certain facets of growing up in Birmingham become subjects of his work. 

K. Lovell "back-doored into poetry" at the behest of his friend, Marlon Spears. Marlon was playing in a jazz group that was backing poets performing at a local event. Marlon encouraged his friend to perform as poetry, some lyrics K. Lovell composed for a song they co-wrote. The fire was lit. 

 K. Lovell most often synchronizes his artistic, poetic, and musical ideas. A series of art called the AYE Musicians was developed so that Marlon, who has been blind since birth, could "view" them. Some of his poetry now "illustrates" a few of those pieces. 

 K. Lovell hopes to display some of his poetry, music, and art that coexist in his thought processes—and hopefully, will in yours.

Come hear featured poet K. Lovell and other spoken word artists at BPL's Bards & Brews this Friday, August 2, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at UpTown Jazz, 2250-B 9th Avenue North in downtown Birmingham.