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2025 -2027Ulster County Poet Laureate. Host of NuJazzXcursions, WVKR 91.3FM Vassar College

2025-2027 Ulster County Poet Laureate. Poetry, prose and music reviews have been published globally but with little reportable income. Full length collections include Circling Planes (Bushwhack Books, 2026) 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) A 2016 Pushcart nominee, Mike is President of Calling All Poets, now in its 27th year in the Hudson Valley. Serves as co-chair of the Music Fan Film Series, Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale, NY. CD reviews appear online at All About Jazz and lightwoodpress.com Featured poet: London, Paris, San Francisco, Seattle, LA, NYC, Albany, Baltimore, Philadelphia. 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. He is the Monday 9am-11am host of NuJazzXcursions, WVKR-91.3FM Vassar College. He loves Emily most of all.

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The first jazz record I bought was A Love Supreme so for a certified rock n roll kid you can only imagine the seismic shift in consciousness. I then went to the Salvation Army and, for a quarter a piece, picked up Brubeck's Jazz Goes to College, Garner's Concert by the Sea, and Miles' Kind of Blue. My advice to new listeners: be fearless and stay new.

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