Susan Comninos Teaching Poetry Workshop at The Arts Center

Susan Comninos will be teaching a Saturday day-time course at the Int./Adv. level for poets at the Arts Center of the Capital Region this fall.

Susan’s university-level teaching credentials include The Univ. of Michigan, RPI and Siena College. She has been hired to teach literary analysis at Siena this fall.

Over the past few years, her poetry has appeared in such prestigious and paying publications as the Harvard Review Online, Rattle, Subtropics, The Malahat Review, The Common, Hobart, Southern Humanities Review, Spoon River Poetry Review and The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.

In 2010, it won the Yehuda Halevi Poetry Contest run by Tablet magazine. Last year, it won a VQR Writers’ Conference Scholarship award, a Tishman Review Staff Favorite prize and a Poets Respond (to the news) contest run by Rattle.

For more information and to enroll, please contact Chris Ristau at the Arts Center of the Capital Region at (518) 273-0552 x 231 chrisr@artscenteronline.org.

About the author: Thom Francis

Thom Francis has been organizing, promoting, and hosting open mics and poetry / spoken word events in Albany such as Nitty Gritty Slam, School of Night, Albany Poets Presents..., and the Albany Word Fest for over 20 years. As a poet and performer, Thom has been featured at many of the upstate poetry and spoken word events from Saratoga to Woodstock as well as LarkFest, Art on Lark, 1st Friday, and the Albany Word Fest.