St. Rocco’s has been a curated invitational series since our inception in 2016. This is our first time hosting an Open Mic format, and we are limiting our sign-up to students.The event begins with a gathering at 4pm. Readings begin promptly at 4:30pm. The reading will be held on the Saint Rose campus at MidKnight Eats in Centennial Hall, 930 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY. Left side entrance.
Nancy Klepsch is a poet and teacher who was born in Brooklyn, NY, and currently lives in Upstate NY. She has been writing poetry since she was in the fourth grade and decided to go to college after watching her mother type envelopes for a penny a piece in the late 60s. She studied education at College of Saint Rose, co-hosts the 2nd Sunday at 2 open mic for poetry and prose, and is one of the founders of Riverside Community Press. god must be a boogie man is her first published book of poems.
Kenning JP García is an Afro-Absurdist diarist, humorist, performer, and tragedian . Xe is the author of OF: What Place Meant (West Vine Press), With (Really Serious Literature), Ghost Notes (Spiral Editions), and Suffused (If and Only If Press). Xe is an editor at Rigorous and Dream Pop Press, and a founding member of St. Rocco’s Poetry Collective.
St. Rocco’s Poetry Collective was founded in September 2016 as a writers’ workshop-cum-reading series, by founding members Alexis Bhagat, Aimee Harrison, Kenning JP Garcia, Michael Peters, dgls.n.rthschld and Alifair Skebe. Albany writer Brandon Tankersley was also a member of the workshop in the first year.
St. Rocco’s Poetry Collective is currently Alexis Bhagat, Kenning JP Garcia, and dgls.n.rthschld.
St. Rocco’s Reading at Saint Rose
