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J R (Judy) Turek strives to write a poem a day and mostly succeeds. An award winning poet, she is Moderator of the Farmingdale Creative Writing Group for the past nine years, Secretary of The North Sea Poetry Scene, and the author of They Come And They Go.
In 2007, she was a co-editor of Long Island Sounds: 2007, and for the forthcoming anthologies: Finding Our Voices, and Performance Poets Association Literary Review #11.
J R has been published in Long Island Sounds: 2007, Long Island Quarterly, For Loving Precious Beast, Long Island Sounds: 2006, The Long Islander, the East Meadow Herald, Performance Poets Association Literary Reviews, Long Island Expressions Autism Awareness, 2001: A Long Island Odyssey, and the Farmingdale Poetry Chapbook. She is also a contributor to Grassroot Reflections.
Her book, "They Come and They Go," can be purchased by sending an e-mail to: msjevus@optonline.net $20, plus $2 postage; a portion of the proceeds supports Autism awareness organizations on Long Island.
Her poetry will appear in Primal Sanities!, The Towe Auto Museum Poetry Collection, and PAUMANOK: Poetry and Pictures of Long Island.
J R's poetry has won awards from Princess Productions, Writer's Digest, The Towe Auto Museum, Mid Island Y JCC, and Lake Ronkonkoma poetry contests.
She is a born and bred Long Islander who resides in East Meadow with her soul-mate husband, her dogs, and her extraordinarily extensive shoe collection.