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Jim Eve is the originator of Calling All Poets (CAPS), which began in 1999 at the Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY, where Jim was a board member. With Mike Jurkovic and others, he has shepherded CAPS for more than 20 years, to its current stature as a leading literary force in the Hudson Valley. His main concern with CAPS is to provide the community and its poets an open, democratic stage for gathering, reading, and hearing poets of all levels and styles. Jim, who writes poetry whenever the mood strikes him, considers himself a facilitator of poetry and a lifelong apprentice of the genre.

Judith Kerman’s new book, Definitions, was published by Fomite Press in May 2021. She has published ten prior collections of poetry, most recently Aleph, broken: Poems from My Diaspora (Broadstone Books, 2016), as well as three books of translations of Cuban and Dominican women’s poetry and fiction. She was a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic in 2002. A retired university professor and administrator, she founded Earth’s Daughters magazine in Buffalo, NY (1971 to present) and runs Mayapple Press, located in Woodstock, NY.

Stuart Bartow teaches writing and literature at SUNY Adirondack. He is also chair of the Battenkill Conservancy, an environmental group focused on the watershed bordering Vermont and New York. His Teaching Trout to Talk: the Zen of Small Stream Fly Fishing, received the non-fiction award from the Adirondack Center for Writing. His latest collections are Einstein’s Lawn and Green Midnight, from Dos Madres Press, and One Branch (haiku and haibun), from Red Moon Press.

Caffè Lena offers extraordinary music in an intimate venue steeped in history. It has been in continuous operation longer than any other folk club in the USA. First opened in 1960 in Saratoga Springs NY, the Caffè's early years were entwined with the social movements of that era. Emerging artists such as Bob Dylan, The Freedom Singers, Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris and Don McLean took their turn on the stage, alongside esteemed veterans such as Clarence Ashley, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James and Pete Seeger. The venue has been called “An American Treasure” by the Library of Congress, and has received recognition from the GRAMMY Foundation for its contribution to American music.

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