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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
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Listen to Sean Howard introduce and read his poem
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The album cover of JD Allen’s 2015 album Graffiti [Savant]
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Never Again (Working Poems, for JD Allen)
Taken note of Graffiti, JD Allen Trio, 2015
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Listening? Stow
away…
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Rag against the
machine? This vital
group remember-
ing, it’s never
provided we
care
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Blue, bass oasis –
slow walk through
smoke & mirrors,
the swallowing
bars
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Unsparing change:
on what grounds,
the Lost more
than the
found
?
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Ballad, God post
haste: Sonny un-
der the bridge,
playing the
river
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Ugh, undedicated
songs? The task in
hands: stuck drums,
say never play
about the
blues
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What difference minds,
announcing Arrival, the
field has no goals! Let
the hooks undo us:
to be naked,
or not to
be
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The saxophone, sincerely
yours? (The solo doubles
as the self?) At once: in
& out of the studio, the
deer listens to the
tracks
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Sean Howard is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Overlays (Gaspereau Press, Canada, 2025). Sean’s poetry has been widely published in Canada, the US, UK, and elsewhere, and featured in The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English (Tightrope Books, 2017). Sean is a peace researcher and anti-nuclear activist, and adjunct professor of political science at Cape Breton University.
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Listen to the 2015 recording of saxophonist JD Allen performing his composition “Graffiti,” with Gregg August (bass); and Rudy Royston (drums).
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