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Word Thursday Live! in the Bright Hill Community Library featuring Linda McCauley Freeman and Mike Jurkovic
7:00 PM EST – 9:00 PM EST – also on Zoom and Facebook Live
Word Thursdays featuring Linda McCauley Freeman and Mike Jurkovic will read Live in the Bright Hill Community Library Thursday, September 11, 2025, at 7 PM EST. This reading will also be broadcast on Zoom and streamed on Bright Hill’s Facebook page. To attend the event on zoom, please use this link just before 7 PM EST:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746
Or visit Bright Hill’s Facebook page at 7 PM EST to view the live stream.
Suggested donation is $5, and free to students.
FEATURED WRITERS
Linda McCauley Freedman: Linda McCauley Freeman is the author of two full-length poetry books 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. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Grand Prize winner of StoriArts’ Maya Angelou poetry contest, lines from one of her poems are on display at the Civil Rights 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
LINDA McCAULEY FREEMAN: The Marriage Manual: Poems (BWP, 2024); The Family Plot: Poems (Backroom Window Press, 2022)
www.LindaMcCauleyFreeman.com; Facebook: @LindaMcCauleyFreeman; Twitter: @LindaMccFreeman; Linda McCauley Freeman | Directory of Writers from Poets & Writers (pw.org)
Mike Jurkovic: Since his retirement from the evil empire, the 2025 Ulster County Poet Laureate wonders the hours writing whatever the muses surrender and volunteering within the community. Poetry, prose, and music reviews are 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) and 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); andLike Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose (Bright Hill Press, 2018)
President, Calling All Poets celebrating twenty-six years as the Hudson Valley’s most open and nurturing poetry forum. Through Zoom, poets and patrons from around the world participate in a vital dialogue for a better world. A 2016 Pushcart Award nominee, he co-chairs the Music Fan Series at the Rosendale Theatre. He and Emily are members of the Tower Society of SUNY New Paltz.
Online CD reviews at All About Jazz and lightwoodpress.com. The Rock n Roll Curmudgeon appeared in Rhythm and News Magazine, 1996-2003. Mike hosts NuJazzXcursions, Monday 9-10 am, WVKR-91.3FM Vassar College.
He loves Emily most of all.
To be considered for open mic please email info@brighthillpress.org
Hosted By
Bright Hill Press and Literary Center
Address
94 Church Street, Treadwell NY 13846
County/Region
Delaware County / Catskill Region
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