April 25, 2012

Smith's Tavern

Smith’s Tavern Poet Laureate Contest, April 22

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 …

Karaoke plus Poetry equals Fun

Albany Word Fest Karaoke + Poetry = Fun, April 21

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…

Ed Rinaldi at the 2012 Albany Word Fest Open Mic

Poem A Day – Ed Rinaldi – spoken words

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.

Nitty Gritty Slam #17, May 1 at Valentine’s

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