D-CLAIM 001

D-CLAIM 001: Sebastian Páramo.

D-CLAIM is a Dallas-based jazz & literature collective founded by poet/bassist J.D. Debris, backing contemporary poets with hypnotic live-band grooves. Sponsored by SMU Project Poëtica, the third Thursday of every month, D-CLAIM brings together hip-hop tinged jazz with a poetry reading, highlighting an improvisational confluence of words and music.

Manny Galindo: piano

Ste’fon Landers: saxophone

Jackie Whitmill Jr.: drums

J.D. Debris: bass

Sebastian Páramo is the author of Portrait of Us Burning (Curbstone Books, 2023), a finalist for the Best First Book of Poetry by the Texas Institute of Letters. He is the founding editor of The Boiler and is Assistant Editor at Texas Review Press. He lives in Texas.

This event is free and open to the public.