The first week of 2013 was a great one with Nitty Gritty Slam #34 on Tuesday night. That night Ben Golden came back to the area to take the win from Elizag and Shannon Shoemaker. Then on Wednesday, we traveled up the Northway to Caffe Lena for an incredible reading from Cheryl Rice and Tess Lecuyer. This […]
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The amazing WordXWord Festival is much more than its annual week long literary event. They are bringing poetry and spoken word to the Berkshires each and every month at the Writers Room. Kicking things off for the new year is a great line-up of events and featured guests including Jon Sands. WXW Writers Room is
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The Live from the Living Room series hosted by Don Levy at The Pride Center continues on Wednesday, January 9 with featured poet Kevin Peterson. Live From The Living Room, a featured reading series with an open mic afterwords, always held on the second Wednsday of the month, will have it’s next reading on January 9th with featured
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The first poetry event of 2013 in the area is NGS #34 tonight at Valentine’s but tomorrow night up in Saratoga is the second poetry event of the new year at Caffe Lena with two incredible poets; Tess Lecuyer and Cheryl Rice. Here is more information from host Carol Graser: Happy New Year! Isn’t one of your new
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Happy New Year! What a great year we had in 2012. A full week of Word Fest, the slam team going to Nationals, great featured poets, and a lot of new faces at the mics. We hope that 2013 is just as exciting and we are kicking things off on Tuesday at Valentine’s to make
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What better way to kick off the new year than a good old fashion poetry slam? That’s right, we will be at Valentine’s on January 1 for the first poetry event of 2013! So, shake off the hangover from the night before and start the new year off right. This will be another Open Slam
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Happy Holidays from all of us here at Albany Poets. Since we do not have a lot of poetry events coming up this week, we hope that you take the opportunity to spend time with the ones you love. Here’s a look ahead at some of the events and readings that are happening this coming
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This coming Thursday will be the last Third Thursday Poetry Night of the year 2012 at the Social Justice Center (33 Central Ave., Albany). Host Dan Wilcox will be welcoming featured poet Marilyn McCabe. Marilyn McCabe’s book of poetry Perpetual Motion was chosen by judge Gray Jacobik to be the Hilary Tham Capital Collection selection by The Word
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Tomorrow night at the Colony Cafe in Woodstock poets Bruce Smith and Jules Gibbs will be presenting a special reading and discussion starting at 7:00pm. The day starts with a workshop with Bruce starting at 2:00pm Here is the information on the reading and workshop from Phillip Levine: Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival Presents Bruce Smith
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We are coming to the end of another great year of poetry and spoken word in upstate New York. We had a lot of wonderful readings and events over the past 12 months and we want to know what your favorites were. Leave a comment and let us know what you thought about the poetry
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Last week at Valentine’s we had a another packed house for poetry and spoken word (and of course our featured poet Influence all the way from Connecticut). This was also the night where we reset the Season Two scores and held an Open Slam. By the end of the night and for the second slam in
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We are very proud to be partnering with the Albany Barn again in 2013 to bring teens through the process of writing, editing, and performing their poetry with the return of the From The Page to The Stage workshop series. This time around the series will be taking place at the Brighter Choice Middle School for Girls. This will
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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.
