Live Poetry: Indran Amirthanayagam, Claudia Gary, & Mike Jurkovic
2026-07-08 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday July 8, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE
Indran Amirthanayagam is a poet, editor, publisher, translator, youtube host and diplomat. He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole and is the author of 30 books and translations. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly, writes a weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento; has received fellowships from the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The US/Mexico Fund for Culture and the Macdowell Colony. He is the 2025 Matwaala Poet of Honor. His first book The Elephants of Reckoning won the 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize in the United States and is the 2025 Poet of Honor for Matwaala and IFLAC’s 2022 World Poet/Poeta Mundial. Indran comments on poetry at indranmx.substack.com
Claudia Gary’s new poetry book, Time and Other Solvents, is a story of healing. She lives near Washington DC and teaches workshops on Sonnets, Villanelles, Natural Meter, Persona Poems, Poetry vs. Trauma, etc. at The Writer’s Center (writer.org). She is also the author of Humor Me and chapbooks, and is an advisory editor for New Verse Review, health/science writer, visual artist, and composer of tonal art songs and chamber music.
Mike Jurkovic is 2025-2027 Ulster County Poet Laureate. Published globally. Little reportable income. Collections: Circling Planes, Buckshot Reckoning, mooncussers, AmericanMental, 2016 Pushcart nominee. President Calling All Poets Series. Co-chair of the Music Fan Film Series, Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale, NY. CD reviews online All About Jazz and lightwoodpress.com Host of NuJazzXcursions, Mondays, 9-11a WVKR-FM 91.3 Vassar College. He loves Emily most of all.
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