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Robert Milby, born 4/18/1970 is an American freelance writer and poet. He serves as Orange County, NY Poet Laureate, 2017-2019. Active in the Hudson Valley, NY poetry communities, Robert has been hosting poetry readings since September, 1995, and currently hosts 5 regular poetry readings series, as well as assisting with facilitation of 7 other readings in the region. Books include: Ophelia's Offspring(Foothills Publishing, Kanona, NY, 2007)  Victorian House: Ghosts and Gothic Poems(Lion Autumn Music Publishing, NYC, 2015). Chapbooks: Crow Weather(Fierce Grace Press, Wilmington, DE, 2007) Dickens' Pet Raven(Fierce Grace Press, Wilmington, DE, 2014). His most recent collection: Gothic, Orange: Poems for Orange County, NY, (2018) was published with a grant from the Orange County Government, via the Office of the Orange County, NY Historian, Johanna Yaun. Each October, since 2003, Robert and Ulster County, NY Artist, Carl Welden haunt the Hudson Valley as the duo: Theremin Ghosts!. Welden plays Moog Theremin, accompanying Robert's readings of ghost poems pertaining to haunted sites and legends in the Hudson Valley, NY and beyond. He serves as a judge for the annual Timothy Mumford Memorial Poetry Contest, of the Cornwall Library, Cornwall, NY, and for the annual Storm King School Poetry Contest, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY.www.robertmilbypoetry.com