Name: Advent Poetry & Music Series
Start: 2025-12-04T11:00:00-05:00
Location: 1901 23rd St, Vero Beach, FL, United States, Florida 32960

This unique offering developed in 2016 as a series of the spoken word and organ improvisation, and has since enriched our Advent and Lenten seasons while welcoming nationally-recognized and published poets from across the country and around the world.
In 2024 our series expanded to include piano and other instruments, prompting the title change, “Poetry and Music.”
Each year promises a different approach to the themes and emotions the seasons of Advent and Lent can evoke, skillfully curated by Sean Sexton and Director of Music & Fine Arts, Jill Truax.
Sarah Carey is a North Carolina native who grew up in Florida. A graduate of the Florida State University creative writing program, her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Rattle, Gulf Coast, Five Points and many others. She is the author of one full-length collection of poems, The Grief Committee Minutes, (2024, Saint Julian Press) and two chapbooks. Her second collection, Bloodstream, is forthcoming in 2026 from Mercer University Press.
Sarah’s poetry will be highlighted by organ repertoire chosen and performed by Logan Koller in the Sanctuary on the Toffey Family Organ.
Logan Koller began studying pipe organ performance in 2015 under the direction of Dr. William Haller, the Professor Emeritus of Organ and Organ Literature at West Virginia University. Logan served as an organist for Greene Valley Presbyterian Church in Carmichael, Pennsylvania, from 2015-2023, as well as the principal organist at First Baptist Church of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, from 2021-2023. Logan graduated from Waynesburg University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and a minor in Music.
Logan currently works full-time as a Florida State Trooper and is Musician in Residence as organist and accompanist at The Community Church of Vero Beach.