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Jazz Riven Overview

“Jazz-Riven” is a contemporary jazz poem by American writer Michael Baldwin, which first appeared in Jerry Jazz Musician in 2025. It shifts midway through from a structured poem to a more fluid and free verse form. The poem explores the shift in tension in a jazz club before and after the music begins.