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POETS BUILDING BRIDGES

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Zoom Event, March 12, 10am-12pm EST

Calling All Poets is proud to host the third in a series of March 2022 POETS BUILDING BRIDGES ZOOM EVENT, a triangulation project for World Poetry Day that brings together artists from three different regions on the world for a few hours of sharing. The event, set for Saturday Mar 12 10am-12pm EST, will be MC'd by series host George Wallace, writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace and director of Poetrybay Productions.

Participants will include

from LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY: Octavio Quintanilla Edward Vidaurre ire'ne lara silva; musician Ray Perez

from KOREA: Hack Hee Kang Park Dukkyu Hanyong Jeong; musician Young Ok Hwang f

from NYC: Mike Jurkovic Kofi Forson Marc Ellot Stein; musician Alan Semerdjian

comperes Octavio Quintanilla, Tanya Ko Hong fb livestream by Calling All Poets

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About the author

Mike Jurkovic

Full length collections, AmericanMental, (Luchador Press 2020) Blue Fan Whirring, (Nirala Press, 2018); smitten by harpies & shiny banjo catfish (Lion Autumn Press, 2016) Chapbook, Eve’s Venom (Post Traumatic Press, 2014) Anthologies: Calling All Poets 20th Anniversary Anthology, (CAPS Press); Reflecting Pool: Poets & the Creative Process (Codhill Press, 2018); Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose (Bright Hill Press, 2018); 11/9 Fall of American Democracy (Independent, 2017)); WaterWrites: A Hudson River Anthology, and Riverine: Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers (Codhill Press, 2009, 2007) among others. A 2016 Pushcart nominee, he is President of Calling All Poets, now in its 22nd year, in New Paltz & Beacon, NY. CD reviews appear online at All About Jazz, and Lightwood, Featured poet: London, San Francisco, NYC, Albany, Baltimore. He hopes to again host his Tuesday night Jazz Sanctuary, WOOC 105.3 FM, Troy, NY. New Jazz Excursions can be heard every second Saturday on WIOX 91.3FM, Roxbury, NY. Elmore Magazine, 2008-2016; Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange, 2003-2010; Chronogram, 2005-2007. The Rock n Roll Curmudgeon appeared in Rhythm and News Magazine, 1996-2003. His photo-visualizations have been published sporadically and exhibited twice in the Hudson Valley.