"Poetry is a lot like music. Poetry has rhythm and it can rhyme like a song. Jazz Jive Jam is a fun poem about the power of music. It's by poet Kwame Alexander, who dedicated the poem to another famous poet, Langston Hughes.

Kwame Alexander is the award-winning author of many books for kids, including the basketball verse novel, The Crossover. Langston Hughes was a poet famed for writing poems influenced by jazz music. He was part of the ""Harlem Renaissance"" in the 1920s when many African-American artists, writers, and musicians produced remarkable works of art."