Former United States Poet Laureate and saxophonist Robert Pinsky is joined by jazz pianist Laurence Hobgood as Pinsky reads from his poems and translations with a musical accompaniment, presenting selections from the recent CD (on Circumstantial) entitled POEMJAZZ. Mr. Pinsky remarks, "POEMJAZZ treats a voice speaking poetry as having a role like that of a horn: speech with its own poetic melody and rhythm, interacting with what the music is doing." And the injunction at the end of his poem "Horn" might apply to either poet or musician: "Persist,/ You practiced addict, devotee, slave of Dante/...listen/ Bondsman of the tool-- you honker, toker, toiler."