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Irene O'Garden and Mike Jurkovic in an Evening of Poetry at Howland Center
Calling All Poets presents Irene O'Garden and Mike Jurkovic, followed by an Open Mic on Friday, March 7, 2008 at 8pm.
Irene O'Garden's writing is anthologized with Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem and others in The Greatness Of Girls (Andrews McMeel) Included is an excerpt from her book, Fat Girl, which describes how she came to peace with food and body after a decades-long struggle. She is again included in Who's Who of American Women, in the 2008 edition. Her critically-acclaimed play, Women On Fire, starrring Judith Ivey, was nominated for a 2004 Lucille Lortel award for Best Solo Show and twice extended and played to sold-out houses Off Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre. O'Garden won the Gold Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Book Award 2004 for her latest children's book, The Scrubbly Bubbly Car Wash (Harper). Her first children's book, Maybe My Baby, (Harper) has sold over 83,000 copies.
Her poetry is found in literary journals and anthologies. She has taught poetry workshops at NYC schools as well as in the Hudson Valley, and has presented at Children's Literature Conferences at NYU and Vassar College. In 1987, she created a performing literary magazine called The Art Garden and has continued to produce, host and write for it ever since. Her new play, Little Heart, won her a Berilla Kerr Playwriting Fellowship and was awarded full development at the 2005 New Harmony Play Project.
For the past thirty years, she has lived joyfully with her husband John Pielmeier, most known for his play Agnes of God. Please visit ireneogarden.com
Mike Jurkovic Co-director of the Calling All Poets Reading Series in Beacon, NY & host of the annual Hudson Valley Poets Fest. Poems have appeared/ are forthcoming in The South Carolina Review, The Comstock Review, Xavier Review, Confluence, The Baltimore Review, RiverSedge, Main Street Rag, Meridian Anthology, The Haight Ashhury Literary Review, Heaven Bone, Diner, Home Planet News, and The Wisconsin Review. Anthologies: Riverine (Codhill Press, 2007), Will Work For Peace (Zeropanik,1999), Dyed- In-The-Wool. A Hudson River Poetry Anthology (Vivisphere,2001).
CD reviews appear regularly. His column, The Rock 'n Roll Curmudgeon, appeared in Rhythm and News Magazine 1997-2004.
The Howland Center is located at 477 Main Street in Beacon. For more information call 845-831-0077, or visit www.howlandcenter.org
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