Featured Poets @ ZOOM

the monthly CAPS readings

New Talent & Open Mic

Be The Feature @ ZOOM

talk back to writers—10 minute open mic

CAPS Press Publications

Featured Poets @ ZOOM
New Talent & Open Mic
Be The Feature @ ZOOM
CAPS Press Publications

Friday, June 06, 2025

Calling All Poets Series

Featured
Holly Iglesias
Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram
Arthur Russell

2 Poem/5 min Open Mic follows Features.
Zoom room open at 6:30, readings start at 7:00
Streamed LIVE on Facebook.

Holly Iglesias

Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram

Jared Harel

Calling All Poets is made possible in part from funding by Poets and Writers and through the generosity of our members and donors.

Jim Zimmerman

Be The Feature

Thurs, May 15
Jim Zimmerman

Third Thursdays, 7 pm
(Zoom opens at 6:30)

One Feature, and 10 Minute Open Mic

TIP JAR

Be the Feature

Calling All Writers—10+ Minute Open Mic only—no features. Your 10 minute play, prose excerpt, longer poem, special set.

CAPS Monthly

twenty-one years of monthly readings

Zoom room open at 6:30, readings start at 7:00

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“Calling All Poets has successfully created a diverse community of poets and writers who support one another. Whenever I’m there, I feel as if I am part of something bigger, a movement in the arts. In addition, they have embraced technology, streaming readers outside the area live and broadcasting the events online. Calling all Poets is the best series in the Hudson Valley!"
—Rebecca Schumejda, poet
"Cadillac Men", "Waiting at the Dead End Diner"

“CAPS is about poetry of course. But it's also about community, how it's actually created a community of diverse personalities and backgrounds that come together each month to speak in the one language we all know. The spoken word. Every month there's a mark on the calendar that we all look forward to.”
Ken Holland, poet
Pushcart nominee

"Being a part of CAPS has been a tremendously enriching experience from the very first time I read there. It is a truly nurturing, inspiring, environment where you can develop your voice among a diverse family of extremely talented writers.”
—Laurence Sansone
1st Poet Laureate of Beacon
co-CAPS Tech Czar

"Poets have grown up at CAPS."
Jim Eve, poet
founder, co-host, Calling All Poets

“Poetry in the Hudson Valley is as important to American culture in the 21st century as the Hudson River School of Painting was in the 19th century and Calling All Poets is at the forefront.”
Dr. Barbara Adams, poet, author
Professor Emerita, Pace University 1981-2001

"The Hudson Valley is one of the most vibrant and exciting poetry regions in the country and Calling All Poets at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon is a centerpiece for the power of words. I feel fortunate to be part of this creative current and to be able to share the art of language with the hundreds of writers I’ve met and whose works I’ve been able to read and hear over the years.”
—Laurence Carr, author "Pancake Hollow Primer"
editor "Riverine," co-editor "WaterWrites" "A Slant of Light" (Codhill Press)
Professor of English & Theatre, SUNY New Paltz

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