Local poet Todd Fabozzi will be the featured poet this Wednesday at the Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic night at the historic Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs. Here is the information from host Carol Graser: the first Wednesday of every month Caffè Lena presents: Caffè Lena Poetry Open Mic Wednesday, October 5 7pm sign up, […]
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The Hudson Valley Writers Guildhas two big events coming up in the next couple of weeks. This coming Sunday is their Writers Conference with a panel discussion on e-publishing. HVWG Writers Conference, October 2, 1:30 p.m. The Hudson Valley Writers Guild will sponsor a free Writers Conference on Sunday, October 2, starting at 1:30PM at
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Yesterday we talked about Dan Nester’s Memoir Office project and new eBook and today we have news from the good folks over at The Arts Center who have a call for entries going on right now for their group reading series, “BookMarks”. There is a category for almost every style of writing in this call
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This is a series, now in its 19th year, at the Bright Hill Center, tucked in the little town of Treadwell, NY, about an hours & half from Albany. I’ve been featured there, once in the early days in Bertha & Ernie’s farmhouse with the 3 Guys fr…
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Our friend Daniel Nester recently set up shop at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy for “The Memoir Project“. Dan explains the project like this: Inspired by practitioners of personal monologue, first-person documentarians, and conceptual and performance art, The Memoir Office is a working writing space for The Memoirist (Daniel Nester), who
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The COW poetry / spoken word series in beautiful, crime-free downtown Kingston continues this coming Saturday, October 1 with featured readers Cheryl A. Rice and Samuel Claiborne. There will also be an open mic for those who wish to share their own work. This series is hosted by Chronogram’s poetry editor Phillip Levine. COW (Chronogram
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Dan Wilcox is one of the hardest working retired men that we know. He runs two monthly events (“The Third Thursday Poetry Night” at the Social Justice Center and “Poetry + Prose” at the Arts Center in Troy), the “Poets in the Park” series every July, and has the “World’s Largest Collection of Photos of
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This was the second gathering of this new Slam event, tonight upstairs at Valentines because some bands were scheduled downstairs. But this posed no problem for Slam poets who are typically loud & full of spit. You can get a full listing of the S…
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Our featured poet, Elizabeth Thomas, had to cancel but I will re-schedule her for 2012. But there are plenty of great poets in this area with a bunch signed up for the open mic tonight, with plenty more in the audience just to listen. & since the…
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The second Nitty Gritty Slam happened on Tuesday this week in front of a great crowd at Valentines. This time we were upstairs, battling the bands that were playing under us. Elizag came in first place this time around. We return on Tuesday, October 4 for the next installment of Albany’s brand new poetry slam
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Shannon Shoemaker, who has made a strong showing at the first two Nitty Gritty Slams, performed “Tongue In Cheek” and a new poem at the Professor Javas Wide Open Mic on September 12.
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Poet, Painter, Artist – Marcus Anderson has blessed the Capital Region with his art, both written and visual, for a few years now and we are very glad that he has shared his poetry with us. Marcus has been one of the featured poets on the Albany Poets website since the beginning, 11 years ago,
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The Hudson Valley Writers Guild supports the efforts of writers in all genres by sponsoring readings, workshops, and contests and providing a number of valuable resources for the entire literary community.
