Attentive Wait Staff at McGeary’sBack in the backroom of McGeary’s, Clinton Square, Albany, NY, on the last Monday of December or, as our host, Mary Panza, characterized it, “the post-holiday hangover edition.” She herself was treating the disorder wi…
At my sister’s house during the holidays, I fed her pet bird from my lap. I’ve never before been so close to a bird. One of my holiday gifts was a beautiful pair of chopsticks with which I now eat grapes, peas, pasta, chunks of bread, and anything else fit for chopsticks.
Once again I went down to Valentine’s, hoping for a slot in the Slam (&, of course, hoping to make it at least to the second round). But first an interesting open mic, where folks seem to do real poems, rather than just perform. Mojavi was the ho…
Actually on the third Sunday this month (otherwise it would have been on Christmas Day), with its usual gathering of fine regional poets & a featured poet (Cheryl A. Rice), & a special surprise for me. Co-hosts were Edie Abrams & Denn…
With just a couple of days before Christmas and on the first night of Hanukkah the poets gathered at Valentines for the eighth installment of the Nitty Gritty Slam. The
Every day before lunchtime, the boxy white mail van pulls up for a moment to the mail box across the road. Upstairs in my bathrobe at my computer with a window view of the road I’m tempted to interrupt whatever I’m writing to walk over in my slippers to see what the day has brought.
Albany Poets and The Barn will be kicking off the new year with a very special poetry and performance workshop at Stage 1 on North Swan Street in Albany. This
I don’t usually “allow” guitar players at my poetry open mic, having in the past been too often the ugly-stepchild-of-poetry at music open mics, but tonight I had to make an exception because the unique poetry-performance duo Murrow was the featured performer.
Hudson Valley Writers Guild Newsletter, December 15, 2011 In This Issue Guild Announcements: HVWG Board Meeting, Request for Writers from Guilderland High School, Help Needed for Newsletter Member Announcements: M.E. Kemp, Linda Sonia Miller, Laurel Saville Area Announcements: Bookmark Holiday … Continue reading →
Hudson Valley Writers Guild Newsletter, December 15, 2011 In This Issue Guild Announcements: HVWG Board Meeting, Request for Writers from Guilderland High School, Help Needed for Newsletter Member Announcements: M.E.
This Tuesday night we will be back at Valentines for the last Nitty Gritty Slam of 2011. This is the eighth edition of the new slam series and so far
Our cozy host, Don Levy, welcomed a tidy audience for the monthly open mic on the 2nd Wednesday — and it really was, even if the third Thursday was the next day, ah the shifting calendar.But first the featured poet, Barbara Ungar, read, not from her…
