Third Thursday Poetry Night Featuring Nancy Dunlop

Poet Nancy Dunlop will read from her work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany on Thursday, March 15.

Nancy DunlopPoet Nancy Dunlop will read from her work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany on Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 7:30PM.  [Please note that this event is re-scheduled from December, 2017.]. Nancy Dunlop taught poetry and writing at the University at Albany for over 20 years.  A finalist in the AWP Intro Journal Awards, she has been published in “The Little Magazine,” “Writing on the Edge,” “13th Moon,” “Cowbird,” “Truck,” and “Writers Resist.”   Her work has also been heard on NPR.

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.

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.
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