Mike Jurkovic - mooncussers

Planet Poet-Words in Space  – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my May 24th, 2022 WIOX show featuring poet and performance artist Mike Jurkovic.  Mike will read and perform poetry from his latest collection of poetry mooncussers and other works. “From suburban streets to worldwide events, Jurkovic fights back with humor, ranging from dry to hilarious. Everything is political, and Jurkovic doesn’t care what you think. He’ll keep writing dis-turbing notes and speak his mind. His new collection, mooncussers, provides entertaining lessons for us to emerge from the matrix that keeps our minds imprisoned.” - Patricia Carragon, Curator/Editor in-chief Brownstone Poets, Brooklyn, NY, author of Angel Fire (Alien Buddha Press).  “A poet of intense precision, a collection of little daggers that head straight to the heart of things.”-John Pielmeier, Playwright (Agnes of God), Screenwriter, Novelist (Hook’s Tale)  Mike Jurkovic’s poetry collections include mooncussers (Luchador Press 2022),  AmericanMental, (Luchador Press 2020) Blue Fan Whirring, (Nirala Press, 2018); and smitten by harpies & shiny banjo catfish (Lion Autumn Press, 2016).  Anthologies include Mightier - Poets for Social Justice and Calling All Poets 20th Anniversary Anthology, (CAPS Press); Reflecting Pool: Poets & the Creative Process (Codhill Press, 2018); Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose (Bright Hill Press, 2018); WaterWrites: A Hudson River Anthology, (Codhill Press, 2009) among others. A 2016 Pushcart nominee, he is President of Calling All Poets, now in its 23rd year, in the Hudson Valley. Mike’s radio show New Jazz Excursions can be heard on WIOX 91.3FM.  He loves Emily most of all.