Song So Wild & Blue
PAUL LISICKY with RAHNE ALEXANDER about the music of Joni Mitchell … with special musical guest – KRISTIN PUTCHINSKI

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
31st Street & Barclay Street
Waverly Neighborhood

A deepened connection to legendary musician and songwriter Joni Mitchell led PAUL LISICKY to the creation of Song So Wild and Blue: A Life With the Music of Joni Mitchell, as a guide to life and an artist manual in that recognition. Part memoir, part biography, part homage to Joni, Lisicky paints a tribute that is, too, “a stunning collage of nonfiction that pieces together the lives of writer and artist. This book will revolutionize how authors forever explore music in their work. It will change the way we remember ‘that album, that song’ that changed our life.” (The Rumpus) Baltimore icon, RAHNE ALEXANDER, author/musician, speaks with Lisicky about Song and how he navigated life’s challenges, including the health struggles of his parents and mortality and death, and the art in pursuit of a creative career, reminding us that love doesn’t come without tests. “Anything of worth demanded a test.” Sharing with the reader, “Sometimes writing about love doesn’t look like love.” Paul Lisicky is the author of seven books, including Later, The Narrow Door, and Unbuilt Projects. Rahne Alexander is an intermedia artist, writer, and musician. Multi-disciplinary artist, formerly ellen cherry, KRISTIN PUTCHINSKI joins us today in a special musical request to celebrate the legendary Joni Mitchell. Of Song, Melissa Febos assures us that it is, “An exquisite, subtle ode to the people we used to be, and their inextricable intertwinement with the artists who change us …  it left me aglow with recognition and wonder.”