Jazzoetry: In & Out of Time - Music Set to Words

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Mike Jurkovic

Saturday, January 28, 2017

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Quinn's

330 Main Street Beacon, NY

Monday, February 27th 8-11pm Suggested Donation

Calling All Poets & Quinn's presents JAZZOETRY – Music Set To Words.

This hotly anticipated inaugural event features many of the Hudson Valley's celebrated

actors, poets, and storytellers who know how to groove 'n flow with the incredibly gifted

musicians that make up the Jazzoetry Quartet.

The evening will move in and out of time with jazz instrumentals & jazz vocals, as poets

and storytellers perform spoken word and improvise with the ensemble.

Jazzoetry Quartet:

Kitt Potter - Vocals/Jazzoetry

Neil Nail Alexander – Piano

Robert Kopec - Upright Bass

Eric Pearson - Sax, Reeds, Flute

Jazzoetry Features:

Dutchess County Poet Laureate Poet Gold

Mike Jurkovic

Glenn Werner

Join us as CAPS pushes free speech forward when we need it most.

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#jazzoetry #callingallpoets #beacon #quinns #jazz #spokenword free

About the author

Mike Jurkovic

Poetry, prose and music reviews have been published globally but with little reportable income. Full length collections include mooncussers, (Luchador Press, 2022); 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: Mightier - Poets for Social Justice and 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 24th year in the Hudson Valley. He serves as chairman of the Music Fan Film Series, a curated film program for Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale, NY. CD reviews appear online at All About Jazz and lightwoodpress.com Featured poet: London, San Francisco, NYC, Albany, Baltimore, Philadelphia. Regional features Van Wyck Gazette, 2013-2020. Chronogram, 2003-2006. The Rock n Roll Curmudgeon appeared in Rhythm and News Magazine, 1996-2003.