Dan Wilcox forwarded this an email from the folks at Wellspring House in Ashefield, Mass about their new fall and winter rates. Need to boost your creativity? Wellspring House, Artist and Writer Retreat, in Ashfield MA has openings for the fall and winter months and has just reduced its rates to $50/night $200/week. This artist’s […]
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We are gearing up for another big week of poetry and spoken word in the area by welcoming John Survivor Blake to the Nitty Gritty Slam on Tuesday evening as the featured poet at NGS #27. Then on Wednesday evening, Carol Graser has the legendary Emily XYZ as the featured poet at Caffe Lena. Here
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There are a lot of stories on the web about poetry and spoken word from all over the world. Here are a couple of articles that caught my eye today. Natasha Trethewey Begins her Domestic Work as Poet Laureate Writer, teacher, and scholar Nicole Brittingham Furlonge has an article up on the Huffington Post about
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Many of us local poets have wanted to have our work published, but only to realize that it is very difficult to find a publisher willing to take the chance on poetry. It can also be expensive if you have to pay to have your work published. Some of us have gotten lucky and fortunate
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The next Poetry on the Loose reading will be taking place on Saturday, October 6 with featured poet Eileen Van Hook at the beautiful Seligmann Estate in Sugar Loaf. Eileen has been reading and writing poetry for a number of years and recently her poem “Crow” was published in Chronogram. She is also included in the
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As part of the NYS Writers Institute’s fall season of visiting writers, Paul La Farge, novelist, essayist, and short story writer will be presenting both a seminar at 4:15PM and a reading at 8:00PM this coming Thursday, September 27 at Assembly Hall in the Campus Center on the Uptown Campus of SUNY Albany. Paul La Farge is the author of a much-talked-about new
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After the Banned Books ReadOut Saturday morning in Troy it’s time to get on the road and head down to one of the great independent bookstores in the Hudson Valley. Starting at 7:00PM on Saturday evening Laura Ludwig is hosting a poetry reading featuring Donald Lev, Patricia Martin, Dean Schambach, and Chris Wood at The Inquiring Mind Book
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The one-two punch of poetry and spoken word on the first Tuesday and Wednesday of the month continues the night after NGS #27 on Wednesday, October 3 with the Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic featuring Emily XYZ with reading partner Myers Bartlett. Emily XYZ is an American writer and performer best known for her spoken-word
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With tornado warnings hitting the news, rain pouring down, and bluegrass playing downstairs, the poets still came out to Valentine’s for Nitty Gritty Slam #26 last Tuesday. We were joined by some familiar voices as well as new poets hitting the Nitty Gritty stage for the first time. We kicked the night off with the open mic,
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The next Yes! Reading takes place next Friday night, September 28, at the Social Justice Center (33 Central Ave., Albany) with an evening of poetry, music, and film with poets Emily Pettit and Evan Chen and filmmaker Scott Puccio. The show starts at 8:00PM. Donations are greatly appreciated. Emily Pettit is the author of Goat
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We are back with the 27th edition of Nitty Gritty Slam and this time around we are welcoming a special featured reading by John S. Blake. John is an incredible poet who wowed us at the National Poetry Slam in August in Charlotte and it is an honor to have him in Albany with us
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If you were at the 2012 Albany Word Fest, you heard Rick Harrienger read his work. He was one of the of the few local poets who made it to almost all of the events that were part of the first ever week long Word Fest (he even performed at the Nitty Gritty Slam). In
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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.
