You may remember him and/or his extraordinary hats from Houston's art scene past — come say HI! as he tours through Houston & shares some of his award winning poetry & performance!

The One

The Only

Toussaint St. Negritude

Self-taught on the bass clarinet, poet and hat maker extraordinaire, Toussaint St. Negritude blends the unique dual performance of his poetry and reeds, by intuitively interspersing his words within the compositions of his bass clarinet, and/or vice versa, while also orchestrating the flair of a well-poised hat.

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More about the Artist:

Performing throughout the globe, along with the intuitively sensorial bassist Gahlord Dewald, Toussaint St. Negritude leads the jazz duo Jaguar Stereo, powerfully evoking the free-form dialogue of worlds far beyond the pale. Much as one might describe his horn, Pulitzer Prize Winner poet Gwendolyn Brooks described his poetry as “Full of Sweet Sounds and Surprises.” In his poem “Like Alice in the Garden of a Satchidananda Dream,” St. Negritude honors the Afrofuturist legacies of Alice Coltrane and Eric Dolphy and the interstellar-bound expansion of his own journey forward.

Toussaint St. Negritude is a former Poet Laureate of Belfast Maine, as well as a 2024 nominee for Vermont Poet Laureate and has published throughout his career in such journals as The Michigan Quarterly Review, Birchsong, Philadelphia Stories, The Savannah Literary Journal, The I’ve Known Rivers Project, and The San Francisco Bay Guardian. Toussaint St. Negritude has also performed extensively, including the venues of The Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Public Library, The Philadelphia Free Library, The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, The University of Houston, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), The Village Voice (Paris), The Black Dot Collective (Oakland), The Loft (Minneapolis), The Belfast Public Library (Maine), and the Vermont venues of Bread & Puppets, The Spruce Peak Performance Arts Center, Catamount Arts, Sweet Melissa’s, Charlie O’s, Buch Spieler Records, and The Art Hop / Community of Sound.