Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald, August 16 , 7 PM, Green Kill Sessions

Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald hosts Mike Jurkovic — Sunday, August 16, 7 PM.

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- Please plan to arrive about 10 minutes before showtime so everyone can be settled before the event begins.

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Mike Jurkovic
Mike Jurkovic — 2025–2027 Ulster County Poet Laureate. Published globally. Little reportable income.
Collections: Circling Planes (Bushwhack Books, 2026); Buckshot Reckoning, mooncussers, AmericanMental (Luchador Press 2023, 2022, 2020); haiku collections Monet’s Bamboo (CAPS Press, 2025); Blue Fan Whirring (Nirala Press, 2018). 2016 Pushcart nominee. President Calling All Poets Series. Co-chair of the Music Fan Film Series, Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale, NY. CD reviews online at All About Jazz and lightwoodpress.com. Host of NuJazzXcursions, bi-weekly Mondays, 9–11a WVKR-FM 91.3 Vassar College.
He loves Emily most of all.

Betty MacDonald
Writer/actor Betty MacDonald contributed to the writing of and performed in TMI’s What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting. Her essay “Before Roe v. Wade” appears in the anthology Get Out of My Crotch! Her work is included in the anthologies 80 Things to Do When You Turn 80, Open House, Better With Age, and Lightwood, an online magazine.

Betty presented her essay “First Love” at the Cell Theatre in New York City and at Vassar College. Videos of her essays “First Love”, “Daughter of Twins”, “Not Jewish Enough”, and “I’m Not a Woman of My Age!” are available at WritersRead.org. Her essay “First Love” is included in WritersRead’s anthology Well Said Well Read.

Betty hosts Words Carry Us, a livestream presentation of readings and interviews from Green Kill in Kingston, NY. Words Carry Us videos are available online at YouTube.com.

Following an early career as radio personality Tiny Lee, Betty became a travel industry correspondent. Presently she finds travel exhausting and prefers staying home in New York’s Hudson Valley. For close to 40 years, storytelling has influenced her work as a performer with Community Playback Theatre.

All My Monsters are Dead or Why I Love Being Old, Betty’s book of poems and essays, is available from Codhill Press and also at The Golden Notebook (Woodstock, NY), Oblong Books (Rhinebeck, NY), The Blue Heron (High Falls, NY), and The Gift Shop at Mohonk Mountain House.

Green Kill Sessions program
- One-hour livestream shows featuring musicians and performers, with a small in-person audience (30 seats) and global livestream access.
- Performances typically happen Friday through Sunday evenings (except the first and third Fridays).
- Performers are expected to help promote their shows, arrive early for sound checks, and send in equipment lists ahead of time.
- The venue provides a full sound and lighting setup, including drums, amps, a digital piano, and livestream equipment.
- Earnings from ticket sales are split among performers, the venue, and the sound engineer. Green Kill shares event highlights on YouTube and Substack, giving performers professional-quality footage to use for promotion.