Calling All Poets (CAPS), April 11, 8 PM, Green Kill Sessions
Green Kill Sessions presents Calling All Poets (CAPS) on Thursday, April 11, 8 PM
Green Kill Sessions presents Calling All Poets (CAPS) on Thursday, April 11, 8 PM, hosted by Mike Jurkovic, featuring the poets Tana Miller, Mary K O'Melveny and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt. Read about the poets below.
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Tana Miller
Tana Miller is the co-author of two anthologies from the long-standing Hudson Valley Women's Writing Group, An Apple in Her Hand (Codhill Press) and Rethinking the Ground Rules (Mediacs Books). Joseph Cornell: The Man Who Loved Sparrows, co-written by Jan Zlotnik Schmidt and Tana Miller, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books in July 2024. Tana enjoys teaching writing courses at Lifespring Institute in Saugerties, reading, and hanging out with her 11 grandchildren.
Mary K O'Melveny
Mary K O'Melveny began writing poetry after a long career as a labor rights lawyer. Mary's award-winning poems have appeared in many print and on-line literary journals and anthologies, including Split Rock Review, American Writers Review, THINK, Passager, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Minerva Rising and Slippery Elm Literary Journal. She has also been featured on blog sites such as The New Verse News and Jerry Jazz Musician. She is the author of four poetry collections. Her most recent, "Flight Patterns,” was nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her collection, “Merging Star Hypotheses” was a semi-finalist for The Washington Prize, sponsored by The Word Works. Mary is an active member of the Hudson Valley Women's Writing Group. Currently, Mary is working with the publisher of Jerry Jazz Musician on an on-line poetry chapbook “album” featuring some of her poetry inspired by music and birds.
Jan Zlotnik Schmidt
Jan Zlotnik Schmidt is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita at SUNY New Paltz in the Department of English where she taught autobiography, creative writing, American and contemporary literature, women’s Literature, and Holocaust literature courses. Her work has been published in many journals including The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Broadkill Review, The Cream City Review, Home Planet News, Kansas Quarterly, Memoir (and), the Vassar Review, and the Westchester Review. Her work also has been nominated for the Pushcart Press Prize Series. She has had two volumes of poetry published by the Edwin Mellen Press (We Speak in Tongues, 1991; She had this memory, 2000) and two collections of autobiographical essays, Women/Writing/Teaching (SUNY Press, 1998) and Wise Women: Reflections of Teachers at Mid-Life, co-authored with Dr. Phyllis R. Freeman (Routledge, 2000). In addition, she co-authored with Laurence Carr an anthology of women’s writing from the Hudson Valley: A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley (Codhill, 2013), which won the USA Best Book Award for Anthology. One chapbook, The Earth Was Still, was recently published by Finishing Line Press and another Hieroglyphs of Father-Daughter Time by Word Temple Press. Her full length volume, Foraging for Light, was published in September 2019 by Finishing Line Press. Recently her chapbook about Bess Houdini, Over the Moon Gone: The Vanishing Act of Bess Houdini, was published by Palooka Press.
Mike Jurkovic
Published globally with little reportable income, Mike Jurkovic’s full lengths include Buckshot Reckoning, mooncussers, AmericanMental, (Luchador Press 2023, 2022, 2020). Blue Fan Whirring (Nirala Press, 2018) 2016 Pushcart nominee. President Calling All Poets, now celebrating its 25th year in the Hudson Valley. Reviews appear at All About Jazz & lightwoodpress.com Hosts New Jazz Excursions, Mondays, 9-10am, WVKR-91.3FM Vassar College. The Rock n Roll Curmudgeon appeared in Rhythm and News Magazine, 1996-2003.
He loves Emily most of all.