We are back at Valentine’s on Tuesday, January 29 for a special, fifth Tuesday edition of Nitty Gritty Slam. Earlier this season Kevin Peterson and Poetyc Visionz advanced to the Grand Slam, joining Season One Champion of Champions ILLiptical. The Grand Slam will determine who will be representing NGS at the National Poetry Slam in […]
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Yes! is back at the Social Justice Center (33 Central Ave., Albany) next Friday, January 25 with another night of words, music, and art featuring Joshua Ware, Eunai Joh, and Zovi. Joshua Ware lives in Cleveland, OH where he teaches poetry and composition at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Homage to Homage
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A new year and a new opportunity to get over to Voorheesville for the Sunday Four Poetry Open Mic. This is one of the great poetry open mics in the area with wonderful, welcoming hosts combined with some awesome poets sharing their work. Here is what is coming up next week, January 27 at the
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The great folks over at WordXWord in Pittsfield is bringing in one of the biggest and brightest stars on poetry and spoken word, Jon Sands, on Tuesday, January 22 for their Writers Room series at yBar. Jon was part of the WordXWord Festival over the summer and has read his work in Troy last year
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What a week we just had here in the upstate poetry community. It is really warming up on the stages in the area and it looks like we are getting ready to beat the cold weather with some great poetry and spoken word this coming week. Here’s what is going on… Monday, January 21 8:00pm
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The upstate poetry calendar is getting another event starting on Wednesday, February 6 in High Falls. The organizers of this new reading have already announced the first two featured poets; Donald Lev (2/6) and Robert Milby (3/6). Here is some more information on the series: A new poetry reading series will begin Wednesday, February 6th at 7
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Happy New Year! The first slam, actually the first POETRY event of 2013 in the area happened on January 1 at Valentine’s. Some of us came from the incredible annual get together at Dan Wilcox‘s house, other right from the Governor’s open house with Sandra Lee, and the rest were shaking off their hangovers from
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Albany Poets will celebrate the 8th anniversary of Poets Speak Loud at McGeary’s on Monday, January 28, 7:30 PM. The event will also commemorate Tom Nattell, local poet and community activist, who died the same day the poetry open mic began, January 31, 2005. Tom had been scheduled to be the first featured reader at the new
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We are now full steam ahead into 2013 and the poetry community is staring the year off strong. We have had some great open mics and events so far. NGS kicked things off on Jan 1, and then the party moved up to Saratoga with Cheryl Rice and Tess Lecuyer featuring at Caffe Lena. This
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Two of the institutions of the upstate poetry world are the Woodstock Poetry Society and Home Planet News. Tomorrow afternoon starting at 2:00 pm Phillip Levine will be hosting a very special afternoon of poetry to benefit the long-running poetry publication. The list of poets who are going to be a part of this event
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I feel safe to say that December 2012 was cosmically bad. Tragedy, tears and people asking questions that will never be answered. It is a freaking scary world. Please realize that I realize that my problems are very small and petty. That being said, they are still my problems. This NYE was the first one I have spent
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On Tuesday, January 15, the women of the poetry world in upstate New York will again take over the stage at Valentine’s for Nitty Gritty Slam #35. This will be the third and final preliminary bout to determine who will be representing NGS at WOWps (Women of the World Poetry Slam) in March 2013. And
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The Hudson Valley Writers Guild supports the efforts of writers in all genres by sponsoring readings, workshops, and contests and providing a number of valuable resources for the entire literary community.
