We bring National Poetry Month 2012 to a close with Ed Rinaldi’s latest on his quest to write a Poem A Day for the entire year. Thank you to everyone who submitted their work for our Poetry Month project.
We have a lot going on this week in Poetryland. Here is a quick rundown of what is going on so you can make plans for some great poetry and
press this city to beginportal scented rapturesomewhere I rememberthe smell of rusted Sun in the alleysoft clay, oiled with combustible churnbuilt upon, torn downand built upon againghosts of horses carry the burden as I teem with a madness manifested …
practice apocalypse / little boy / camo pants / Spidey socks / feathery hair / dirty nails / red cheeks / mixed teeth / front gap / deer shirt / legs crossed / on bed / killing zombies
On Wednesday, May 2 two great poets will be reading their work at the NYS Writers Institute. Harry Staley and former student George Drew (side note, I was a student
Mark O’Brien & Dennis SullivanAnother annual poetry-rite-of-Spring & I just had to be there. This was the third year for this event, with 10 poets competing for the laurel crown. This is a very well organized & structured contest, run by …
It’s all over except the shenanigans (or as we used to say, the “PsychoClusterFuck”). Karaoke + Poetry = Fun was held upstairs at Valentines. Lila ran the music machine & in order to sing you had to first read a poem. There was a great variety o…
Welcome back to Thom’s 10 Things. I took last week off so that I could give all of my attention to the Albany Word Fest. This weeks post is all
Ed Rinaldi is back talking about the power of poetry and the words written on the page with his newest poem “spoken words”. If you are keeping track at home, this is Ed’s 140th poem of the year so far.
Are you writing a poem everyday for National Poetry Month? Want to post those poems on the Albany Poets website? Send them to [email protected] and they will be available for the world to read.
On Tuesday, May 1, we storm back into Valentine’s for the 17th installment of the Nitty Gritty Slam. At the 16th Nitty Gritty Slam last week at Valentine’s we were
It’s National Poetry Writing Month! A poem a day, each day in April. This poem was made using one of Charles Bernstein’s experiments: Acrostic chance: Pick a book at random and use title as acrostic key phrase.
