D-CLAIM 004: Katie Condon

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 at The Wild Detectives, D-CLAIM brings together hip-hop tinged jazz with a poetry reading, highlighting an improvisational confluence of words and music.

Piano: Manny Galindo
Saxophone: Ste’fon Landers
Bass: J.D. Debris
Percussion: Nicholas Rothouse
Drums: Jackie Whitmill Jr

Katie Condon is the author of Praying Naked. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and American Poetry Review, as well as the 2025 Best American Poetry Anthology. Condon is the recipient of a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the Nadya Aisenberg fellowship from MacDowell. Condon is an assistant professor in the English department at Southern Methodist University.

This event is free and open to the public.

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