Poet Amy Nelson McVeigh will read from her work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany on Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 7:30PM.
Amy Nelson McVeigh, together with her husband, the photographer Andrew McVeigh, composed the book of pictures and ekphrastic poems based in the Hudson Valley region, “What Time and Tempest Hold Is True” (Authorhouse). She has taught at Rugers University, Brookdale Community College and Fairleigh Dickinson University.
A reading by a local or regional poet is held each Third Thursday at the Social Justice Center. The event includes an open mic for audience members to read. Sign-up starts at 7:00PM, with the reading beginning at 7:30. The host of the readings is Albany poet and photographer Dan Wilcox. The suggested donation is $3.00, which helps support this and other poetry programs of the Poetry Motel Foundation, and the work of the Social Justice Center. For more information about this event contact Dan Wilcox, 518-482-0262; e-mail: dwlcx@earthlink.net.
The Social Justice Center, founded in 1981, is a non-profit organization working for progressive social change through education, community building and collective action. The center advances the struggles against racism and for peace and justice. For further information about the SJC call 518-434-4037.
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