Talking With Poets: Erren Geraud Kelly at The Linda

Thom Francis welcomes Erren Geraud Kelly to the stage for a reading at The Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio, presented by the Hudson Valley Writers Guild and literary journals Hobo Camp Review and Trailer Park Quarterly.

That night in August 2023, Kelly read a series of memoir poems grouped under the title “8-Track Tape Reminders” along with poems about Tyre Nichols, Bessie Coleman, and women who have caught his eye – a patrol officer in a homeless shelter and a woman in a Starbucks.