Po' Monkey's

Willie "Po' Monkey" Seaberry ran his juke joint from 1963 until his death in 2016, and it was also his home. He spent his days farming land he rented from the Hiter family, who gave him a lifetime lease, and opened the door one night a week. On Thursdays a five-dollar cover brought locals, tourists, writers and students from Delta State together until the wee hours. Seaberry often played soul and R&B from a jukebox rather than live bands. Annie Leibovitz photographed it, and Anthony Bourdain filmed there for Parts Unknown.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mound Bayou — 3.8 mi
  The Bolivar County town founded in 1887 by men who had been enslaved at Davis Bend, built to be Black-owned, home of Taborian Hospital and a museum on Roosevelt Street.
• Dockery Farms — 11 mi
  The plantation on the Sunflower River where Charley Patton lived and played from about 1900, now a working farm, a National Register district and a Mississippi Blues Trail stop.
• Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary) — 14 mi
  The state penitentiary on Sunflower County cotton land, built in 1900 as a prison plantation, where Freedom Riders were held in 1961; a working prison with no visits and a Blues Trail marker at its gate.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 14 mi
  The small park on Byron Street in Ruleville where Fannie Lou Hamer is buried beside her husband, with a Freedom Trail marker and a 2012 bronze statue.

More markers nearby

• AKA Mobile Health Project — 3.4 mi
• Margaret Wade — 6.1 mi
• The Marshall Plan — 6.2 mi
• Cleveland — 6.2 mi