2025 Ulster County Poet Laureate

Mike Jurkovic

  • Poetry, prose and music reviews published globally with little reportable income. Full-length collections include 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) 2016 Pushcart nominee; President, Calling All Poets, celebrating 26 years in the Hudson Valley. Co-chair, Music Fan Film Series, Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale, NY. CD reviews online at All About Jazz and Lightwood 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. Hosts NuJazzXcursions, Monday 9-10am, WVKR-91.3FM Vassar College. He loves Emily most of all.

Upcoming Events

  • RESISTANCE: Poetry As Common Language

    Mike Jurkovic, Joann Deiudicibus, & Thomas Festa Featured Reading Community Discussion/ Open Mic

    Hosted by Mike Jurkovic

    Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 6:30 p.m.

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  • “Sing in Me, O Muse!” Poetry Reading: Mike Jurkovic, Jason McMahon, Robyn Hager, Lisa Titus

    3 Featured Poets & Student & Community Open Mic

    Hosted by Jason McMahon

    Friday, April 25, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.

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  • Brownstone Poets On Zoom

    Featured poets: Maria Lisella, Mike Jurkovic, Ann Wallace

    Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 2:00 p.m.

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  • RESISTANCE: Poetry as Political Action

    Featured poets, discussion, community open mic

    Saturday, May 1, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.

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Previous Ulster County Poet Laureate

  • Kate Hymes

    2023 - 2024

    Kate Hymes is a writer and poet living in New Paltz. She has led Wallkill Valley Writers workshops for over twenty years. Writers who have written with her have dubbed her the story doula. Her poems have been published in national and regional anthologies, most recently mightier: Poets for Social Justice, published by Calling All Poets, 2020. She is currently working on poems inspired by the history of people of African descent in New Paltz and Ulster County.