Robert Milby - Poet Laureate Orange County, N.Y. / by Sharon Israel

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LISTEN to my August 3rd, 2021 WIOX Radio conversation with Robert Milby, poet, teacher and freelance thinker.  Milby was Poet Laureate of Orange County, NY from 2017 to 2019.  He’s given over 500 featured readings and hosted 30 poetry series including Calling All Poets in the Hudson Valley. He’s been published in over 2 dozen magazines and 25 anthologies, including: Home Planet News, Chronogram, Waymark, and on many websites. His chapbook, Gothic, Orange  (poems inspired by Orange County, NY) was published through the County Historian’s office, in October 2018.  Milby was the 2020 winner of the Wild West Poetry Contest sponsored by Flying Monkey Productions in Kingston, NY. His latest collection, Corona d’état:  The Pandemic Poems, 2020 was published by Lion Autumn Music Publishing in 2021.  And, each October, since 2003, Milby and Ulster County, NY Artist, Carl Welden haunt the Hudson Valley as the duo Theremin Ghosts!    Robert Milby lives in Florida, New York in the Hudson Valley.