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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Erren Kelly reads his poem at its conclusion.
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“I Try Sweet Baby I Try,” by Christel Roelandt
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Her Eyes Carry Oceans
her eyes carry oceans
like her hair carries
sunlight
and bells ring in her
hips
and her ice cream
kisses are full of
summer
walking with her is
having a playground next to
me
talking to her is hearing a
symphony
lying next to her is keeping jazz
( or heaven, some days )
in my brass bed…
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Listen to Erren Kelly read his poem
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Erren Kelly is a three-time Pushcart nominated poet from Boston whose work has appeared in 300 publications (print and online), including Hiram Poetry Review, Mudfish, Poetry Magazine, Ceremony, Cacti Fur, Bitterzoet, Cactus Heart, Similar Peaks, Gloom Cupboard, and Poetry Salzburg.
Click here to read “Under Quarantine” — COVID-era poetry of Erren Kelly, published by Jerry Jazz Musician
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Christel Roelandt is a Belgian painter from Ghent in Flanders. Her work focuses on the human form; faces and nudes, and she finds inspiration by all things beautiful and often by books, music and films.
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Listen to the 1954 recording of Thelonious Monk performing the Dorothy Fields/Jerome Kern composition “The Way You Look Tonight,” with Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone); Tommy Potter (bass); and Art Taylor (drums). [Universal Music Group]
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