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.

Lori Desrosiers

Sunday Four Poetry Open Mic Featuring Lori Desrosiers

On Sunday, October 28 poets will be gathering at the Old Songs Community Center (37 South Main Street, Voorheesville) for the next edition of the Sunday Four Open Mic series. This month the featured poet is Lori Desrosiers, who maintains the Poetry News website, a weekly newsletter/magazine which chronicles the poetry events in the Pioneer Valley and Western MA as well

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Terry Bat-Sonja

Yes! Featuring Gracie Leavitt, David James Miller, Terry Zacuto, Al Margolis, and Doug Van Nort

The next Yes! reading will take place on Friday, October 26 at the Social Justice Center (33 Central Ave., Albany) starting at 7:00PM with another great lineup of talented artists; Gracie Leavitt, David James Miller, Terry Zacuto, Al Margolis, and Doug Van Nort. This is one of the great reading series in the area always

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Anne Trubek

Frequency North’s National Day on Writing Featuring Anne Trubeck

The Frequency North series continues this coming Thursday evening at The College of Saint Rose. The evenings featured reader is Anne Trubeck, under the umbrella of the “National Day on Writing”. Host Daniel Nester says that “Anne is a super-great writer, has a book on the history/death of handwriting coming out from Bloomsbury next year, and has written

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Dan Wilcox

The End of an Era at Professor Java’s

Albany Poets would like to thank all those that came out on Monday night, October 8, 2012 for our last installment of Professor Java’s Wide Open Mic. After careful consideration we have decided this series has run it’s course and to concentrate our efforts on new and exciting projects including Nitty Gritty Slam, Poets Speak Loud, a new literary journal, and even

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