Poetry Jam Night
LIVE at Taylor Pavilion!
A Celebration of Language and Spoken Word Poetry
Featuring NJ Native Spoken Word artist
James C. Ellerbe
Thursday, April 30, 2025, at 6 PM
Taylor Pavilion, 500 Ocean Ave., Belmar
Poetry Jam Night
April 30 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Meet Our Featured Artist
James C. Ellerbe
“James C. Ellerbe, a seasoned poet and performer from New Jersey, has appeared on BET’s Buy The Book, Showtime at the Apollo, and Spoken Word Apex at Newark’s NJPAC. He’s performed internationally at venues like Montreal’s Kola Note and at esteemed institutions like Rutgers University and Sarah Lawrence College. A finalist for the 2017 Indie Author Legacy Award for Poet of the Year, he authored poetry book Beyond the Event Horizon (2015) and spoken word album Pulsar (2018). His work also appears in the 2020 anthology On Verge: Poets of the Palisades.”