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2025 MEMBERSHIP DRIVE!
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LIVE, In-Person & on ZOOM!
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Readings start at 7:00 pm
Opens at 6:30 pm for connection issues, socializing, open mic sign up, etc.
Help appts available from 6:00;
contact Greg.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
containing a link to join the meeting.
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And we're back!
LIVE at FULL CIRCLE
in Gardiner
297 Bruynswick Rd,
Gardiner, NY
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A community hub in the
Hudson Valley offering great food
and drinks, events, good vibes,
and a break from the hustle.
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Mike Jurkovic
2025-2027 Ulster County Poet Laureate. Published globally. No reportable income. Circling Planes (Bushwhack Books, 2026) Other Full length collections Buckshot Reckoning, mooncussers, AmericanMental, (Luchador Press 2023, 2022, 2020); haiku collections Monet’s Bamboo (CAPS Press, 2025) Blue Fan Whirring, (Nirala Press, 2018); Anthologies include: Poets For Harris Anthology, (Viewless Wings Press, 2024); Calling All Poets 25th & 20th Anniversary Anthologies, (CAPS Press); Reflecting Pool: Poets & the Creative Process (Codhill Press, 2018); Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose (Bright Hill Press, 2018); WaterWrites: A Hudson River Anthology, and Riverine: Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers (Codhill Press, 2009, 2007) A 2016 Pushcart nominee, he is President of Calling All Poets, now in its 27th year in the Hudson Valley. He serves as co-chair of the Music Fan Film Series, Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale, NY. CD reviews appear online at All About Jazz and lightwoodpress.com The Rock n Roll Curmudgeon appeared in Rhythm and News Magazine, 1996-2003. Chronogram, 2003-2007. Van Wyck Gazzette, 2013-2022. Elmore Magazine, 2013-2017. He is the Monday 9am-11am host of NuJazzXcursions, WVKR-91.3FM Vassar College.
He loves Emily most of all.
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Maria Lisella
Mary Makofske grew up in Washington, DC, and received a B.A. from Douglass College and M.A. from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of TRACTION (Ashland Poetry Press, 2011), The Disappearance of Gargoyles (Thorntree Press, 1988) and Eating Nasturtiums (1998), winner of a Flume Press chapbook competition. Until her retirement in 2006, she taught expository writing, literature, and creative writing at SUNY Orange. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Mississippi Review, Poetry East, ZONE 3, American Poetry Review, Natural Bridge, Calyx, Louisville Review, and other journals and anthologies. She and her husband live in a solar house in New York State.
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Martin Steingesser
Martin Steingesser is author of three books of poems, Yellow Horses, Brothers of Morning and The Thinking Heart: the Life & Loves of Etty Hillesum, the latter also an award-winning performance performance work, Etty’s Song, based on Hillesum's journal and letters. The Thinking Heart-Etty's Song toured in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont; and in Europe, in Poland, and at the International Etty Hillesum Congress in Belgium. “His poems are ablaze with imagination,” said poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar. “A burning, tender voice,” said former Maine Poet Laureate Baron Wormser. An elementary school student once wrote: “He brings you over the bridge to beautiful poetry—it moves you.” He served as Portland, Maine’s Inaugural Poet Laureate, 2007-09. As a performance and teaching artist, he has given presentations and taught writing workshops for diverse audiences and groups from the Annual Young Writers Conference on the Breadloaf Campus of Middlebury College, Vermont, to the State House at the Maine Capitol. He has been teaching poetry workshops for 38 years and given the Maine Alliance for Arts Education’s 2006 Bill Bonyun Award “for exemplified talent and professionalism as an artist and contributions to arts education” and is also recipient of a Stonecoast Pierre Menard Poetry Scholarship in 2000. “Writing and presenting poems is a way I touch and make present a sense of grace I want in my life,” he says. “There are moments I love in poems I have made—when they are given, when windows, doors, walls blow off, and I am in a warm, boundless space with whoever is listening.”
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Consider A Membership to
Calling All Poets
(Pretty Please)
We've never really done this before but we would like to ask you to please consider a donation or a membership to CAPS. 2025 promises a host of new featured voices from Ireland, Malaysia, and seven different states. We're brainstorming another anthology, this one based on the need for RESISTANCE!
We also hope to expand the website to enable members to communicate with each other salon style to discuss various poetic ideas, post poems and seek feedback, etc. We'd also like to take RESISTANCE! on the road for readings. Plus the calls for more JAZZOETRY are growing louder and louder.
So please consider what CAPS means to you and consider a membership or donation. The link to the membership info/page is https://callingallpoets.net/community/membership.
If you would like to donate or join you can also use the TipJar on the CAPS homepage or PayPal us at me...@callingallpoets.net
Remember: CAPS is, because you are.
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Be Safe
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Compassion is Everything
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