The 51st Louisville Conference on Literarure and Culture kicks off on Thursday 2/22 with a free event featuring UofL Professor of Jazz Studies Jerry Tolson in a conversation on jazz and poetry with 2024 GRAMMY WINNER A. B. Spellman, a leading poet of the Black Arts Movement, a pioneering critic of Bebop-era jazz. Free public talks continue with the multi-talented writer Maxine Chernoff reading her poetry on Friday and the cultural critic Anna Kornbluh on Saturday discussing her new book, Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism.