Great news to report that CAPS returns to First Friday in-person readings on Friday March  6, 2026 7pm @  Full Circle Gardiner, 297 Bruynswick Rd, Gardiner, NY

After a three  year hiatus from in-person readings and due to strong demand to go live, CAPS First Friday 3/6/26 features Ulster County Poet Laureate Mike Jurkovic (launching his new collection - Circling Planes) and award winning poets Mary Makofske and Portland, Maine's inaugural Poet Laureate, Martin Steingesser.  Mike, Mary, and Martin will each be  reading for 20-23 minutes with a 2 poem/5 minute open mic to follow. Both food & refreshments are available at Full Circle's onsite bakery and restaurant!  

A $5.00 admission to CAPS is much appreciated. For CAPS & Full Circle members, students & seniors a $3.00 admission is also much appreciated.

For our ever-expanding Zoom audience, fear not. The live readings will be a hybrid, so Zoom in and enjoy the show. Share your words on the open mic. Nothing about First Friday changes but the in-person readings. Virtual doors still open at 6:30.

So come and join the CAPS community and become a part of Full Circle! See you Friday  March  6, 7pm.

1. Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy — ✔️
2. Laurus, by Eugene Vodolazkin — ✔️
3. The Wager, by David Grann — ✔️
4. Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges — ✔️
5. on earth we're briefly gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong — ✔️
6. Babel, by R. F. Kuang — ✔️
7. Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez — ✔️
8. Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust — ✔️ [8 thru 19 read over a 3 mo period]
9. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
10. The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
11. Sodom & Gomorrah, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
12. The Prisoner, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
13. The Fugitive, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
14. Finding Time Again, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
15. Proust's Way, by Roger Shattuck; — ✔️
16. Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time, by Patrick Alexander — ✔️
17. Lost Time, by Józef Czapski; — ✔️
18. Proust and the Squid, by Maryanne Wolf; — ✔️
19. Proust Was A Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer; — ✔️
20. In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes — ✔️
21. A Thousand Ships, by Natalie Haynes — ✔️
22. The Enchanters, by James Ellroy — ✔️
23. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, by William H. Gass — ✔️
To The Ends of The Earth (trilogy):
24. Rites of Passage — ✔️
25. Close Quarters — ✔️
26. Fire Down Below — ✔️
—by William Golding
27. The Mezzanine, by Nicholson Baker — ✔️
28. A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel — ✔️
29. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver — ✔️
30. The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal — ✔️
31. The Saga of Icelanders, trans by various; intro: Jane Smiley — ✔️
32. The Popol Vuh, transl/edited by Lewis Spence — ✔️
33. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, by Douglas Adams (5 novels + shrt story, omnibus) — ✔️
34. The Mabinogion, transl by Jeffrey Gantz — ✔️
35. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, transl by Simon Armitage — ✔️
[+ Tolkien's translation, read in tandem ]
36. The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, transl by Royall Tyler — ✔️
37. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, by Luo Guanzhong (Penguin, Martin Palmer transl) — ✔️
38. The Landmark Anabasis, by Xenophon — ✔️
39. Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, from Sumer, transl by Wolkstein & Kramer — ✔️
40. The Oxford History of the Biblical World — ✔️
41. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders — ✔️
42. The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk — ✔️
43. by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*The House of the Dead (1862)
*Notes from Underground (1864) — ✔️
*The Gambler (1866)
44. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy — ✔️

45. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert — ✔️
46. The Human Comedy, by Honoré de Balzac, NYRB transl — ✔️
47. The Decameron, by Boccaccio, Rebhorn transl — ✔️
48. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk — ✔️
49. Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville — ✔️
50. Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, by Chateaubriand, Penguin Classics — ✔️
51. The Works of Horace: The Art of Poetry, Odes, Epodes, Satires And Epistles — ✔️?
52. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce — ✔️
53. Ulysses, by James Joyce — ✔️
54. Ulysses Annotated, Gifford/Seidman — ✔️
55. The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses, by Patrick Hastings — ✔️
56. The Táin, from the Irish epic Táin B ó Cuailnge (Thomas Kinsella, transl) — ✔️
57. Cervantes's Don Quixote, by Roberto González Echevarría, Open Yale Courses — ✔️
58. Lectures on Don Quixote, by Nabokov (k) — ✔️
59. Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Edith Grossman, transl) — ✔️
60. Imperial Spain, by J. H. Elliott — ✔️
61. Exemplary Stories, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra — ✔️
62. The Golden Bough, by James Frazier — ✔️
63. The Journey to the West, transl by Anthony C. Yu, Vol 1 — ✔️
64. Anthology of Chinese Literature Vol 1, edited by Cyril Birch — ✔️
65. West, transl by Anthony C. Yu, Vol 2 — ✔️
66. West, transl by Anthony C. Yu, Vol 3 — ✔️
67. West, transl by Anthony C. Yu, Vol 4 — ✔️
68. Anthology of Chinese Literature Vol 2, edited by Cyril Birch — ✔️
70. The Real Tripitaka and other pieces, by Arthur Waley — ✔️
71. Cervante's Don Quixote, A Casebook, edited by Echevarría — ✔️
72. The Aeneid, by Virgil, transl by Fagles — ✔️
73. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy — ✔️
74. The Book of Songs, transl by Arthur Whaley — ✔️
75. Sources of Chinese Tradition, from earliest times to 1600 (Vol 1), transl by De Bary & Bloom (1000 pgs) — ✔️
76. The Story of the Stone, a chapter-by-chapter guide, by Egan & Hsien-Yung (250 pgs) — ✔️
77. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuequin, vol 1 — ✔️
78. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuequin, vol 2 — ✔️
79. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuequin, vol 3
80. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuequin, vol 4
81. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuequin, vol 5
82. Edda, by Snorri Sturluson — ✔️
83. James, by Percival Everett
84. Description of Greece, by Pausatanias (K)
85. Complete Works, by David Hume (K)
86. Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (K)
87. Amadis de Gaul, transl by Cadell and Davies (K)
88. Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto (K)
89. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
90. The Trivium
91. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, by Erich Auerbach
92. Theory of Literature, by Paul H Fry
93. The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann (K)
94. Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann (K)
95. Doctor Faustus,by Thomas Mann
96. Tolstoy's or Doestoevsky, an Essay in the Old Criticism, by George Steiner (K)
97. Lectures on Russian Literature, by Vladimir Nabakov (K)
98. Crime and Punishment (1866)
99. The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
100. The Idiot (1869)
101. Demons (1872)
102. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov (K)
103. Pot Luck, by Emile Zola
104. Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrell
105. Dante, Open Yale Courses
106. Inferno, by Dante, Hollander transl
107. Purgatorio, by Dante, Hollander transl
108. Paradisio, by Dante, Hollander transl
109. Paradise Lost, by John Milton
110. Psalms, Torah, JPS translation
111. Satyricon, by Petronius
112. The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius — (finish)
113. The Nature of Middle-Earth, by J. R. R. Tolkien
114. The Silmarrilion, by J. R. R. Tolkien
115. Lempriere's Dictionary, by Lawrence Norfolk
116. The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
117. Unknown Masterpieces, edited by Edwin Frank
118. Beautiful Evidence, by Edward Tufte
119. The Comforts of the Abyss, by Philip Schultz;
failure, by Philip Schultz;
120. best poetry 2023
[+20 poems each by select list of twenty poets: ]
121. Free Indirect, by Timothy Bowes
122. Seduced by Story, by Peter Brooks
123. The Emigrants, by W. G. Sebald
124. 100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
125. Macunaíma (The Hero With No Character), by Mário de Andrade
126. The Treasure of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pizan
127. Epitaph for a Small Winner, by Machado de Assis
128. Three Major Plays, by Lope de Vega, Edwards transl
129. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (K)
130. 10:04, by Ben Lerner
131. The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride
132. A Month in the Country, by J.L. Carr
133. Histories Grecques, by Maurice Sartre — (finish)
134. Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
135. The Metamorphoses, Ovid, Miller transl
136. Stay True, by Hua Hsu
137. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich
138. Touch, by Elmore Leonard
139. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
140. The Somme, by Peter Hart
141. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt (K)
142. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, by Michiko Aoyama
143. The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
144. Truth and Repair, by Judith Herman, MD
145. The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald
146. The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (K)
147. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov — (finish)
148. Blindness, by Jose Saramago
149. My Antonia, by Willa Cather — (finish)
150. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
151. The Night Watchmen, by Louise Erdrich
152. The Trial by Franz Kafka
153. Americanah, by Chimamanda
154. The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
155. Middlemarch by George Eliot
156. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
157. The Last Mughal, by William Dalrymple — (finish)
158. The Better Angels of Our Nature, by Steven Pinker
+ The Sense of Style, by Stephen Pinker
159. Weekends at Bellevue, by Julie Holland, M.D.
160. When Religion Becomes Evil, by Charles Kimball
161. Looking for Spinoza, by Antonio R. Damasio
162. A Book Forged in Hell, by Steve Nadler
163. The Bird Artist, by Howard Norman
164. No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood (K)
165. The Landmark Campaigns of Julius Caesar, edited by Robert Strassler (finish)
166. Underworld, by Don DeLillo (finish)
167. A New World Begins, by Jeremy D. (K)
168. Death in Venice and other stories, by Thomas Mann (K)
169. Illuminations, by Walter Benjamin (K)
170. The Ten Thousand Things, by Marina Dermoût (K)
171. The Outsider, by Stephen King (K)
172. The Caprices, by Silvana Murray (K)
173. Live or Die, by Anne Sexton (K)
174. The Corrections, by William H. Gass
175. God's Chinese Son, by Jonathan Spence (finish)
176. Annals of the Former World, by John McPhee (finish)
177. **[The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691172684/?coliid=I2MPSYSFLK4O8B&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
178. The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (K)
179. Purgatorio, by Dante, Hollander translation (FINISH)
180. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton, nyrb (K)
181. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
182. Absolam, Absolam! , by William Faulkner
183. Butcher's Crossing, by John Williams
184. The Waterworks, by E. L. Doctorow
185. Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
186. The Iliad by Homer
187. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
188. The Oresteia by Aeschylus
189. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
190. Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
191. The Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
192. The Ramayana by Valmiki
193. Hiroshima by John Hersey [re-READ]
194. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
195. Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
196. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
197. The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
198. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
199. The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
200. Our Town, by Thornton Wilder
201. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
202. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
203. Middlemarch, by George Eliot
204. The Dirty Dust, by Máirtin O Cadhain
205. Chronicles of Jean Froissart
206. Poems of Wang Wei
207. Satires of Juvenal
208. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
209. The Golden Ass, by Apuleius
210. Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
211. The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White
212. The Pillow Book, by Sei Shonagon
213. Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin
214. One Thousand and One Nights
215. Njal's Saga
216. The Outermost House, by Henry Beston
217. The Heptameron, by Marguerite de Navarre
218. The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Matsuo Basho
219. The Conference of the Birds, by Attar
220. The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton
221. The History of the Franks, by Gregory of Tours
222. Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke
223. Krieg, by Ludwig Renn
224. The Tale of the Heike
225. Antigone, by Sophocles
226. Poems of Du Fu
227. The Scholars, by Wu Jingzi
228. Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
229. Poems of Catullus
230. The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
231. Troilus and Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer
232. A Shropshire Lad, by A. E. Housman
233. The Mahabharata, by Vyasa
234. Stories of Lu Xun
235. A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume
236. Odes of Catullus
237. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon (?)
238. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
239. Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles
240. The Secret History by Procopius
241. Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer
242. The Republic, by Plato
243. The History of the Kings of Britain, by Geoffrey of Monmouth
244. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
245. The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope
246. Roughing It, by Mark Twain
247. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuegin
248. Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell
249. Confessions of Saint Augustine
250. Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto
251. The First Folio of William Shakespeare
252. Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth, Samuel Tavlor Coleridge
253. The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
254. The Demons, by Heimito von Doderer
255. On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
256. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
257. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West
258. Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
259. The Once and Future King, by T. H. White
260. The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides (READ Landmark edition)
261. On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius

262. The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell
263. The Poetic Edda
264. Annals of Imperial Rome, by Tacitus [I READ IT]
265. North and South, by Elizabeth Bishop
266. Germinal, by Émile Zola
267. The Water Margin, by Shi Nai'an
268. History of the Conquest of Mexico, by William H. Prescott
269. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
270. Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt
271. The Last of the Just, by André (Gide?)
272. A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes
273. Hindoo Holiday, by J.R. Ackerley
274. The Unknown Masterpiece, by Honoré de Balzac
275. Seven Men, by Max Beerbohm
276. On The Yard, by Malcolm Braly
277. The Radiance of the King, by Camara Laye
278. The Go-Between, by L.P. Hartley
279. Classic Crimes, by William Roughead
280. The Golovlyov Family, by Shchedrin
281. The Unpossessed, by Tess Slesinger
282. The Life of Henry Brulard, by Stendhal
283. The Pilgrims Hawk, by Glenway Wescott
284. The Honey and the Hemlock, by Eli Sagan
285. The Yellow Cross, by Rene Meis
286. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf (K)
287. Cartographers, by Peng Shepherd (K)
288. Less, by Andrew Sean Greer (Apple)
289. The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Apple)
290. Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Apple)
291. The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (Apple)
292. A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park (Apple)
293. A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Conner (Apple)
294. Other Minds, by Peter Godfrey-Smith (Apple)
295. Gulag, by Anne Applebaum (Apple)
296. Not My Father's Son, by Alan Cumming (Apple)
297. The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker (Apple)
298. Phantom on the Bookshelves, Jacques Bonnet
299. The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights (The Annotated Books) [The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights \(The Annotated Books\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1631493639/?coliid=I2Y52LAMFFYWL4&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)
300. Arabian Nights (Collins Classics) https://www.amazon.com/Arabian-Nights-Collins-Classics-Richard/dp/0007420102/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
301. Undine - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham [Undine - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1445505975/ref=sspa_dk_detail_0?psc=1&pd_rd_i=1445505975&pd_rd_w=bfXZC&content-id=amzn1.sym.8c2f9165-8e93-42a1-8313-73d3809141a2&pf_rd_p=8c2f9165-8e93-42a1-8313-73d3809141a2&pf_rd_r=ADVC00F11C9W8FQ3Y0KH&pd_rd_wg=ka97E&pd_rd_r=eba28241-b50f-45e5-9b91-330eb7f2e75d&s=books&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWw)
302. **[The Journey to the West, Books 1, 2 and 3: Three Classic Stories in Simplified Chinese and Pinyin, 600 Word Vocabulary Level \(Journey to the West in Simplified Chinese\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733165045/?coliid=I33NJ5UD5JPG8H&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
303. **[A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts: Selected Poems \(New York Review Books: Poets\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1681376482/?coliid=I2EBO8YA37JBV9&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
304. **[Slave Narratives of the Underground Railroad \(Dover Thrift Editions: Black History\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486780619/?coliid=I3I1FJOWHQUZET&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
305. **[Native American Songs and Poems: An Anthology \(Dover Thrift Editions\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486294501/?coliid=IQAYK7XLZTI9&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
306. **[Prometheus Bound \(Dover Thrift Editions: Plays\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486287629/?coliid=I21KASZ25JTE0P&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
307. **[Great Poems by American Women: An Anthology \(Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486401642/?coliid=I159SDXGA6H6K9&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
308. **[Death in Venice \(Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486287149/?coliid=IQ3SJFQNRIR9O&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
309. **[Short Story Masterpieces by American Women Writers \(Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486499944/?coliid=I2RAAZITHEL3DZ&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
310. **[The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593712943/?coliid=I3FL81XR92U4L5&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)** by Olga Tokarczuk
311. **[A High Wind in Jamaica](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003KN3KDS/?coliid=I1UTCVSN0YR0FZ&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
312. **[The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345807146/?coliid=I1T7IREU8FS8D&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
313. **[Proust on Art and Literature](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0786704543/?coliid=I2E7PRNVEMMPH9&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
314. **[On Reading \(On Series\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1843916169/?coliid=I3HGY1VY8RJQVA&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
315. **[Penguin Classics Against Sainte Beuve And Other Essays](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140444971/?coliid=I2ZD5BW0JZ8UUK&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
316. **[A Room With a View \(Annotated\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL9TKY6/?coliid=IXGFO37J66U68&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
317. **[The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008J4RP5C/?coliid=I3FVODFXT8R3JD&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
318. **[The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140444254/?coliid=I3L9HAA841YSFQ&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
319. **[The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English: Seventh Edition \(Penguin Classics\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0141197315/?coliid=I29E8DFWWY7ILN&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
320. **[The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061626007/?coliid=IOUNJCS4PFTPL&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
321. Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, by François-René de Chateaubriand
322. [Monsieur Proust \(New York Review Books Classics\)by Céleste Albaret, Barbara Bray](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1590170598/?coliid=I2OJKZJ3FDUCEW&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)
323. The Immoralist (Penguin Classics), by Andre Gide, David Watson

R. Bremner has worked as a taxi driver, a security guard, a UPS truck unloader, and a 40-year computer programmer at Pan American World Airways, Continental Airlines, Amtrak, and Citibank.

A four-time honoree in the Allen Ginsberg Awards, Ron has been writing of incense, peppermints, and the color of time since the 1960s, in ten books/chapbooks, and hundreds of journals and anthologies including International Poetry Review, Paterson Literary Review, The Journal of Formal Poetry, Red Wheelbarrow, Oleander Review, eighteen jazz poems in Jerry Jazz Musician, and Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry. Ron appeared in the legendary first issue of Passaic Review in 1979 along with Ginsberg, Laura Boss, and a plethora of sanguine young poets.

His latest book is You Who Are the Stranger: Collected Poems 1979-1989, Westbrae Literary Group, publisher, $10 at Amazon

NOMINATED FOR THE WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS AWARD

https://tinyurl.com/youwhoarethestranger/

5.0 out of 5 stars

"In You Who Are the Stranger, R. Bremner gathers a decade of poems that wander city streets, back rooms, dreams, and memories with an unflinching eye and a restless heart. Here are poems that drift like smoke rings and strike like thunderclaps, moving from cab rides through Paterson to late-night reckonings with fathers, lovers, and ghosts.

Bremner's voice—by turns raw, tender, irreverent, and luminous—captures the grit of sidewalks, the ache of longing, and the absurdities of living. His poems wrestle with responsibility and rebellion, the weight of history, and the fleeting, fragile brilliance of art.

From intimate portraits to surreal vignettes, these works testify to a life both ordinary and extraordinary, where every bus ride, back alley, and broken mirror becomes a stage for meaning.

For readers of Leonard Cohen, Allen Ginsberg, and anyone who has ever felt both stranger and intimate in the same breath, Bremner's collection offers a rare, candid music of the soul." 

Okay, so maybe it is not as big a reveal as Al Capone's or Jimmy Hoffa's resting grounds, but it is big news to us. After featuring several poets from overseas and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Cornelius Eady in 2025,  2026 will feature seventeen new voices plus some returning champions -- Roberta Gould, Cheryl A. Rice, Irene O'Garden, Lucia Cherciu, Michael Mackin O'Mara, Ken Holland, and more!

Here is  the whole schedule. Please note we will be starting up a quarterly second Tuesday zoom event! March, June, September, & December. Please remember all events are  Zoom events until further notice.

Here is the 2026 CAPS Reading Schedule. 

Jan 2: Doug Anderson, Lenny Dellarocca, Octavio Quintella

Jan 18: Beth SK Morris

Feb 6:Michael Hettich, Josephine LoRe, Juan Pablo Mobili

Feb 19: Zohreh Zadbood

March 6: Mike Jurkovic, Mary Makofske, Martin Steingesser

March 10: Catherine Ronan

March 19:Laura Daniels

April 3: Ruth Danon, Matthew Spireng, Tim Tomlinson

April 16:Irene Sipos

May 1:Roberta Gould, Jude Marr, Irene O'Garden

May 21:Patrick Hammer

June 5: David Applebaum, Michael Mackin O'Mara, Gregory SETH Harris

June 9: Natalya Sukhonos, PHD

June 18: Sandy Yannone

No July First Friday

July 16: Catherine Gonick

Aug 7: Prince McNally, Poet Gold, Rebecca Schumejda

Aug 20: Cheryl Rice

Sept 4: John Bartell, Kate Hymes, Shaun Panoski

Sept 8: Chris Kingsley

Sept 17:Ron Kolm

Oct 2:Meghan Gruposso, Alison Koffler Wise, Dayl Wise

Oct 15:Susan Chute

Nov 6:Ken Holland, Edwin Torres, Ann Wallace

Nov 19: Greg Correll

Dec 4: Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, Lucia Chercui, Victoria Redel

Dec 8: Julie Standig

Dec 17:Amanda Russell 

I knew I wanted, was going to ask you

and I couldn't put my first foot forward

and now here we are, artless and ingenuous.

Your deliberate phrases fly, flutter around us,

wake us from twosies hibernation, yet seize me with

can't, don't, won't. I invite you now to imagine

lucid dying: moments after breath and heart stop,

but brain’s on a hot wire: so,  do we think, or dream?

I want to believe we dream one last time,

As we disintegrate into the mist of baryons.

We insist, demand, to glide into the abyss in a dream state…

Perhaps some few of my molecules will be ingested

By a creature in a 100 million years.

Hope so. 

Due to popular  demand and  just in time to celebrate National Poetry Month 2025, CAPS announces a new, tri-annual ZOOM ONLY event, OPEN MIC TUESDAY NIGHT on Tuedsay, April 8, 2025 7:00pm EST

OPEN MIC TUESDAY NIGHT will feature no featured poet, just all the good folk who have joined CAPS from far and wide, bringing their words and ideas to the mix. Hosted by 2025 Ulster County Poet Laureate Mike Jurkovic and Greg Correll (ensconsed in CAPS  IT  Control Center) OPEN MIC TUESDAY NIGHT will hopefully take shape as an open mic/discussion/salon style conversation.

A separate ZOOM registration will be needed to access the event. Watch the  website for that. OPEN MIC TUESDAY NIGHT will be held April 8, August 12, and December 9. The  number of participants will eventually rule the number of poems participants get  to read, but let us start with 4 short poems (no Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner or Beowolf please)

So come on out.... donate to the TipJar . . . CAPS is what  you are!

Patricia Carragon hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. She is the editor of the new online journal, Sense and Sensibility Haiku, and listed on the poet registry for The Haiku Foundation. Patricia received a 2025 Best of the Net nomination for her haiku, "Cherry Blossoms" from Poets Wear Prada. Her latest novel is Angel Fire (Alien Buddha Press, 2020). Her books from Poets Wear Prada are Meowku (2019) and The Cupcake Chronicles (2017). Her book Innocence was published by Finishing Line Press (2017). Brownstone Poets is a Brooklyn based literary series that ZOOMS LIVE every 4th Saturday featuring three great poets and an active open mic  2pm EST. Check out Brownstone Poets at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063538933207#

Linda McCauley Freeman is the author of two full-length poetry collections The Marriage Manual (Backroom Window Press, 2024) and The Family Plot (BWP, 2022) and has been widely published in international journals, including in a Chinese translation. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been the featured U.S. poet in The Poet Magazine and won Grand Prize in StoriArts' Maya Angelou poetry contest, and honorable mention in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards 2024. Lines from one of her poems are on display at the Civil Rights Memorial Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. She has an MFA from Bennington College and is the former poet-in-residence of the Putnam Arts Council. She lives in the Hudson Valley, NY, where she is a swing dance teacher and a yoga instructor. Follow her at www.LindaMcCauleyFreeman.com, Facebook@LindaMcCauleyFreeman

I'm excited to be one of CAP's Featured Poets on February 7, 2025

I'll also be doing a number of readings and poetry workshops throughout the Hudson Valley this year including at the Poughkeepsie Library and ArtsMidhudson. 

April 8, 6-8pm POETRY CRAFT WORKSHOP & April 16, 6-8pm POETRY PUBLISHING WORKSHOP

ArtsMidhudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie

April 10, 6-8pm THE ART & CRAFT OF POETRY WORKSHOP

Poughkeepsie Library, 93 Market Street

May 16, 3:30-5pm WRITING FROM LIFE writing workshop

June 5, 7-8:30pm POETRY AS MEMOIR, MEMOIR AS POETRY, writing workshop

Sarah Hull Hallock Library, Milton, NY

UPCOMING READINGS 2025

February 7, 7-8pm

Featured reader, Calling All Poets

April 2, 7-8:30pm

Featured reader with Kate Hymes and Raphael Kosek, followed by open mic. Arts MidHudson, 696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie

April 17, 7-8pm

Featured reader @the Poughkeepsie Library, 93 Market Street

November 8, 2-3pm

Featured reader Woodstock Poetry Society

ABOUT ME: Linda McCauley Freeman is the author of two full-length poetry collections The Marriage Manual (Backroom Window Press, 2024) and The Family Plot (BWP, 2022) and has been widely published in international journals, including in a Chinese translation. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been the featured U.S. poet in The Poet Magazine and won Grand Prize in StoriArts' Maya Angelou poetry contest, and honorable mention in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards 2024. Lines from one of her poems are on display at the Civil Rights Memorial Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. She has an MFA from Bennington College and is the former poet-in-residence of the Putnam Arts Council. She lives in the Hudson Valley, NY, where she is a swing dance teacher and a yoga instructor. Follow her at www.LindaMcCauleyFreeman.com, Facebook@LindaMcCauleyFreeman  

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The 2025 Calling All Poets Featured Readers schedule is complete. Please remember we are ZOOM ONLY and to make a donation toour TipJar:  $5.00 non members   $3.00 members/seniors

CAPS First Friday 2025  

January 3: Roger Aplon, Andrea Deeken, Bob Heman

February 7: Pratibha Castle, Linda McCauley Freeman, Harvey Soss

March 7: Joann Deui, Thomas Festa, Julian Matthews

April 4: Janet Kaplan, Ethan Sirotko, Victoria Redel

May 2: Jared Harel, Nancy Shih-Knodel, Kathy Weld

June 6: Holly Iglesias, Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, Arthur Russell

No July reading

August 1: Doug Anderson, Suzanne Rancourt, Raphael Kosek

Sept 5: Patricia Carragon, Cornelius Eady & students

Oct 3: David Hutcheson, Will Nixon, Hannah Webster

Nov 7: Ken Holland, Guy Reed, Margaret R. Sáraco

Dec 5: Greg Correll, Maria Lisella, Perry Nicholas

CAPS Third Thursday Be The Feature 2025

January 16: LJ Sysko

February 20: Salaam Green

March 20: Mike Jurkovic

April 17: Beth SK Morris

May 15: Jim Zimmerman

June 19: Lisa St. John

July 17:Tana Miller, Mary K. O'Melveny, Jan Zlotnik Schmidt

August 21: Brian J Liston

September 18: Matthew Layne

October 16: Betty MacDonald

November 20: Eddie Bell

December 18: Peter Crowley

Before the year turns over, it would be neglectful of us here at CAPS HQ to not send out a special SHOUT OUT to our new and returning CAPS members. Many thanks for your continued support to Dan Wilcox, Raphael Kosek, Mary Louise Kiernan, Lisa St. John, Stephen Roberts, John Levy, William Van Ornum, Lynda Wisdo, Linda   McCauley  Freeman and to two folks who have donated to the CAPS ongoing mission especially Irene O'Garden and John Martucci. CAPS is because you are! Happy New Year everyone.

The spirit of freedom, diversity, democracy, has been woven through the fabric of Calling All Poets for decades, embedded in our mission and our purpose.

With great pride, Calling All Poets announces our unwavering support for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to lead us into the future as our next executive leaders.

                        We Won't Go Back. We Can't Go Back.

For our fellow NY poets, we urge you to vote Yes for Proposition 1 to enshrine in the state constitution abortion rights and equality for all under the law. 

It's been a while since we last chatted to let you all know that the CAPS 25th Anniversary Anthology was complete and on it merry way and . . . well . . . it is here and it is beautiful with over 120 poems and an In Memorium section to remember those many grand voices who have gone on before us.

All contributors should have your copies (as promised) or should be receiving them any day now There was tad of a hold up but we're over that now the 25th year is half over. Contributors who desire more copies for friends, family, pets, and what not can purchase them at our publisher price + postage. For everyone else, the special anthology is $20 + postage ($4)

Speaking of purchasing, our other three anthologies -- Mightier (curated by Poet Gold), CAPS 2020 (curated by Roger Aplon) and CAPS 2015 (curated by Marina Mati) -- can be purchased individually for $14.99 each + postage or purchase a three pack for a summer special of $35 (plus that nagging postage of course). Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for all the particulars.

Other news: CAPS will once again participate in the NYC Poetry Fest on Governor's Island on Saturday,July 13 at The Black Bird Stage at 4pm. Our featured poets will be our own Ken Holland, NYC poetry legend Ron Kolm, and the world travelling emcee of Cultivating Voices and our 2nd Place Anthology Winner, Sandy Yannone.

And finally, due to a number of unforeseen realities, our First Friday readings from August 2 forward will be ZOOM only. We hope to return to in-person performance at Unison Arts Center sooner than later, but for the foreseeable future, ZOOM is ZOOM is ZOOM. First Friday and Third Thursday. ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM.

With that said, we're hoping to make the CAPS webiste more active with member salons, conversations, etc. If you're a CAPS member (and why o why wouldn't you be?) please use the site to best spread the word about your readings, books, and other media.

That about wraps it up. . . Happy Summer everyone. See you online!

Susan Chute (Invasion of the Body Ukraine), Sandy Yannone (The Glass Studio), and Tim Brennan (Notes From a Terrestrial) are the First, Second, and Third Place winners of CAPS 25th Anniversary Anthology Poetry Competition.  Dollar prizes of $100, $50, and $25 will be awarded to Susan, Sandy, and Tim when they feature for us on First Friday, March 1st at our new home at Unison Arts Center, 9 Paradies Lane in New Paltz. 

The inaugural event (it will be the first live event at the new Unison) will be an in person/Zoom hybrid experience so please join us anyway you can. Physical & Virtual doors will open at 6:30 pm and the readings will start at 7:00pm (or as close as poets standard time allows) As is twenty five years of tradition, a two poem open mic will follow our prize winning features. Refreshments as always will be available. $5.00 donation appreciated. $3.00 for students/seniors/CAPS & Unison Members.

We would be utterly remiss at this time not to recognize our finalists who span the poetic spectrum and the planet. They are, in alphabetical order:

Alan Caitlan, Half Awake and Dreaming;  Ruth Danon, Grief;  John Dorsey, Sleeping Tips for the Partially Blind

Gina R.Evers, Coronavirus (after reading Natalie Diaz's The Facts of Art);  Meghan Grupposo, Plume

Matthew Hupert, Philaster, Keats, & the way of Bushido;  Bonnie Law, On Days Like This;  Heller Levinson, Friday the 13th

Mary Makofske, Drive;  Tim Tomlinson,The History of Jazz;  George Wallace, The Next Time I Fall In Love;

Glenn Werner, 25 Wide Pantoum

Thank you all!!!!! See you on  March 1st

Happy New Year everyone! As 2024 begins its electoral trundle, March 2024 marks TWENTY-FIVE YEARS of Calling All Poets! Man, who would ever have thought that?!

Anyway the anthology is moving along as planned and announcements will go out this month. I have no idea who the contest winners are nor who or what was excepted but hang tight. We'll all find out soon.

We recently found out that First Friday in March, or March 1st, will be our inauguration at the new Unison Arts Center at 9 Paradies Lane, New Paltz. As promised the features will be our three anthology contest winners. We will be in person and also Zooming so there's a whole lot going on. There is a CAPS conversation with Ulster County Poet Laureate Kate Hymes slated for March 23 at Unison. We're planning an Anthology Marathon for sometime in March plus a special livestream from Green Kill Gallery.

I'd also like to take a moment and thank the folks who join us regularly via Zoom from pretty much every state in the union as well as the Virgin Islands, New Zealand, Canada, France, England, and Ireland. And imagine, we were a little open mic in Beacon at one time.

So thank you one and all!

Join yours truly Thursday, July 13 at 7pm for Green Kill Gallery presents Calling All Poets Livetsream featuring Rebecca Schumejda, John Dorsey, and CAPS founder Jim Eve. There will be a live in person open mic for all who come by and want to share their truths. . . here's the ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/calling-all-poets-caps-july-13-7-pm-green-kill-sessions-tickets-668544784447?aff=oddtdtcreator 

As I announced last month at our new home at Unison Arts Center in New Paltz, CAPS will be publishing a 25th Anniversary Anthology in March of 2024.

Can you believe it? 25 years! You have all been an integral part of our continued success at building a community from Beacon to New Paltz, Albany to NYC, and, thanks to Zoom, a global presence. On any given day of our three monthly events (First Friday, Second Thursday Livestream, Third Thursday Be The Feature) fellow poets are logging in from any of the fifty states, six European countries and Australia. How freakin cool is that?!

So you will all be invited to submit. Ww are in the process of establishing a Submittable account. Submissions of 3 poems will begin to be accepted from July 1 - October 31, 2023.  There will be three contest winners: Best Poem: $100, Second Place: $50 and Third Place: $25. All three winning poets will feature in March, 2024. We are also planning an anthology marathon in March also.

To help offset costs, there will be a reading fee: $5.00 for CAPS Members (so sign up or renew while you can) and $7.00 for non members. All contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the Anthology and the contest winners and contributors will be notified no later than January 2024. All submissions will be read blind and chosen by the CAPS Editorial Board.

So there you have it. Get your pens and pencils ready. All this info will also be posted on our FB page at: https://www.facebook.com/callingallpoetsseries

4/20 @ 7PM (Honors Center/College Hall, Campus Location TBD) – Professor Thomas Festa reads from his debut chapbook poetry, Earthen. Signed books will be for sale! 

Festa's "linguistically rich, taut poems show how the communities we create arise through acts of attention—between student and teacher, parent and child, lover and beloved. Evocative, contemplative, and often moving, Festa's poems inhabit these moments of attention that make us both more alive and more compassionate." –Carrie Etter 

This event is free to the community and sponsored by the English Department. Contact the department, 845-257-2720 or Kris Jansma, Creative Writing Director, for details: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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The man next door is useful.

He mows around our shed in spring, cuts

firewood, stacking it smartly for winter.

His wife comes outside only in morning,

shuffles down the driveway, crossing the road

to the mailbox. She is pale as an ocean

stone with sand-scraped skin

softened by the circling sea.

Now, it is summer. Her husband

skims the in-ground pool.

For hours, he stands over nearly-

clear water removing debris.

He never stops skimming, skips

breakfast, work, phone calls, dessert.

The grass grows high against the shed.

The lawn stretches lazily as the wind yawns.

The mailbox shuts its mouth:

it is full of unanswered statements.

The man next door skims

the surface of the unused pool.

He catches leaves, Polly noses, Japanese beetles.

At night, he dreams of quarantine: black

iridescent blotches, Rorschach

butterflies floating into white net.

-Joann Deiudicibus

(Originally Published in Typishly 2020)