Poet Ifeanyi A. Menkiti has strong feelings about the power of poetry, and last month, he put his money and patronage where his heart is when he bought The Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Boston’s Harvard Square.

Jazz and poetry are close, there”s no question about it. Jazz musicians feel poetry in every song they play. Larry Simon, Guitarist and composer, is the man who organizes this four-day event, beginning on April 20th. This is the second edition of this festival that unites music and words getting a fantastic result. The place? [...]