Write On is happy to continue our collaboration with Midsummer’s Music, Poetry Meets Music. At one concert in each of Midsummer’s series offerings, a poet will read a poem written in response to a piece of music to be performed. Poets were given recordings in advance with no identifying information as to the title, composer, era, etc., and were asked not to look up this information. The result is a poem composed entirely in response to the emotions or memories the music evokes. 

For today’s concert, we are pleased to present poet Lisa Hase-Jackson. To order tickets, please visit  Midsummer’s Music.

Lisa M. Hase-Jackson is author of  Insomnia in Another Town  (Clemson University Press 2024), and  Flint and Fire  (The Word Works 2019). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in  Sugar House Review ,  Chiron Review , and  Cimarron Review. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh.