The New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany has announced its Fall 2013 schedule of visiting writer appearances.
Just looking at the calendar and realizing, once again, that we have a lot of poetry and spoken word events in the upstate New York region.
Nitty Gritty Slam #52: Season 2 Night of Champions was delivered to us like Monday night wrestling, only not quite (but almost) as scripted.
Poetry and spoken word are getting a lot of attention in the news all over the country. Here are a few articles that caught our eye this week on the web.
The Hudson Valley Writers Guild has announced the winners of its 2013 Short Fiction Competition with first prize going to Colleen Geraghty.
2013 Hudson Valley Writers Guild Short Fiction Contest Winners and Honorable Mentions First Place Winner – $100 The Beer House by Colleen Geraghty, New Paltz, NY Second Place Winner –
Dan Wilcox was at the Rensselaerville Festival of Writers for the “This Upstate Life: Local Writers Read” reading and here are his thoughts.
Rebecca Schumejda is back with another, One Poem and Three Questions, this time featuring a conversation with poet April Michelle Bratten.
The Third Thursday Poetry Night for July featured Jacky Kirkpatrick and she dragged in her friends, making for a great, full open mic list.
We are kicking off Nitty Gritty Slam Season Three at Valentine’s with all of the points reset to zero so everyone is on a level playing field.
The poetry and spoken word starts at McGeary’s with the Bertha Rogers as the featured poet at Poets Speak Loud and goes all week long.
Mary is getting ready to go on a trip. While packing her suitcase and figuring out what to bring she realizes she knows nothing about traveling.
