Sat, Sep 20
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
A.B. Spellman, Between the Night and Its Music: New and Selected Poems
In collaboration with the New Mexico Jazz Festival, we're thrilled to have A. B. Spellman, an acclaimed American poet, music critic, and arts administrator, widely recognized as a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, celebrating his book and 90th birthday with us!
Date, Time & Location
Sep 20, 2025, 4:30 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Purchase Between the Night and Its Music ($30.00, hardcover) online from CWB here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
Between the Night and Its Music brings together A. B. Spellman's early work with a collection of powerful new poems. Spellman's literary career took flight in 1965 with his debut poetry collection, The Beautiful Days, which introduced his distinctive voice blending elements of jazz, blues, and African oral traditions. In 1966, Four Lives in the Bebop Business established Spellman as a respected music critic and scholar. It was a groundbreaking work that chronicled the lives and struggles of four influential jazz musicians. Spellman held senior positions at the National Endowment for the Arts for thirty years with a lasting impact on arts funding for inner cities and rural and tribal communities. In addition to poems from The Beautiful Days…