Poet Lucyna Prostko will read from her work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany on Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 7:30PM. Lucyna Prostko graduated from the M.F.A. program at New York University, where she was awarded the New York Times Fellowship. Her first book of poems Infinite Beginnings, the winner of Bright Hill Press Poetry Competition, was published in 2009.
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.
