Calling All Poets (CAPS), July 8, 7 PM, features Host Mike Jurkovic with Karla Brundage, Alison Koffler, & Dayl Wise, livestreamed from Green Kill.

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Karla Brundag

Karla Brundage is a Bay Area based poet, activist, and educator.  Born in Berkeley, California in the summer of love to a Black mother and white father, Karla spent most of her childhood in Hawaii where she developed a deep love of nature. She is the founder of West Oakland to West Africa Poetry Exchange (WO2WA) and is a board member of the Before Columbus Foundation. She is co-editor of Colossus:Home which features poets from the Bay Area in solidarity with Moms4housing and advocating for housing justice. Her poetry, short stories and essays have been widely anthologized and can be found in Hip Mama, Literary Kitchen, sPARKLE & bLINK, Lockjaw, Nervous Ghost Press, Bamboo Ridge Press, Vibe and Konch Literary Magazine. She holds an MA in Education from San Francisco State University and an MFA from Mills College.  In 2020, her poem Alabama Dirt was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work can be found at http://westoaklandtowestafrica.com/ as well as on https://www.karlabrundage.com/ .



Karla Brundage is a poet, editor, essayist, activist, performer, teacher and beach lover.  A recipient of a Fulbright Teacher Exchange she spent a year teaching in Zimbabwe and three years on Cote d'Ivoire where she founded West Oakland to West Africa Poetry Exchange.  She has one collection of poetry Swallowing Watermelons and is a board member of Before Columbus Foundation. In 2020, her poem Alabama Dirt was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Alison Koffler

Alison Koffler was the recipient of the Green Heron Poetry Award in 2011 and was the 2016 winner of the Bronx Council on the Arts’ BRIO Award for poetry, having won it as well as in 1993, 2000, and 2006.  Her poems have been published in numerous publications and are included in A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley, SUNY Press, 2013, Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose by Bright Hill Poets and Writers, Bright Hill Press, 2017, and CAPS Poetry 2020, CAPS Press, 2020.  She lives in the Bronx and Woodstock, NY with her husband, the poet Dayl Wise, and their dog, Cole. She and Dayl are the co-founders of Post Traumatic Press.

Dayl Wise

Dayl Wise is a husband, father, grandfather and a keen gardener.  He was drafted into the US Army in 1969 with service in Viet Nam and Cambodia, 1970. He returned to Viet Nam in 1993, 1995 and 1997 with a different mission, in the form of reconciliation delivering medical supplies.  His poems have appeared in numerous publications, and he is the author of Poems and other stuff (Post Traumatic Press, 2004) and Basic Load (Post Traumatic Press, 2009). He lives in Woodstock, NY with his wife, the poet Alison Koffler and their dog, Cole. He and Alison are the co-founders of Post Traumatic Press. Web site: posttraumaticpress.com

Mike Jurkovic

CAPS president Mike Jurkovic hosts the monthly Livestreams. AmericanMental (Luchador Press, 2020)

is his latest full length book. Read CD reviews at All About Jazz and Lightwood press. His work can be found at www.callingallpoets.net and www.mikejurkovic.com