The Nitty Gritty Slam is celebrating its one year anniversary at NGS #21 at Valentine’s on Tuesday, August 24 and we are inviting all of our previous winners to come back and compete at this special Night of Champions. In the past year we have had 12 seperate first place winners at Nitty Gritty Slam: […]
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Last week we released the brand new, five track, album featuring the Team Nitty Gritty members titled”Ten Point Zero” for just $5.00. Well, we just sweetened the deal by putting the finishing touches on a chapbook featuring the slam team. “Are You Like Writing Lyrics?” is collection of some of the best poetry from the Nitty Gritty Slam team (Kevin Peterson, D. Colin, Elizag, Alorhythm,
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We are gearing up for a big week for Albany poetry and spoken word as Team Nitty Gritty will be heading down to Charlotte, NC for the National Poetry Slam representing Albany and upstate New York for the first time ever. Thom Francis and Mojavi will be going with the team (Elizag, ILLiptical, D. Colin,
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A few days ago I liked a post on Facebook. It was a post with a photo of cake. Not just any cake, mind you, but a rainbow cake. It was a white cake with rainbow frosting between each layer. Much to my surprise, “liking” this cake was my coming out. I kid you not.
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One of the original poets on the Albany Poets website, way back in 2000, was A.C. Everson. She is an incredible poet and artist and we are very, very lucky to have her in our community here in Albany. She is always finding new and exciting ways to combine her powerful poetry and amazing pinatas
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The COW series continues this Saturday, August 4 (after a couple of recent cancellations) at Outdated – An Antique Cafe. This great poetry open mic series is usually hosted by Phillip Levine, but this time around there are going to be two sub-hosts (Bruce Weber and Joanne Pagano Weber) filling his shoes. This month the featured
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Just because Team Nitty Gritty is going to be in Charlotte for the National Poetry Slam that doesn’t mean that we are suspending NGS at Valentine’s. Join us on August 7 for the 23rd installment of the Nitty Gritty Slam with special guest hosts Mary Panza, Daniel Nester, and Keith Spencer. That’s right, Mary “F’n”
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This Wednesday, after a day at the track, poetry returns to Saratoga Springs in its normal, first Wednesday of the month spot at Caffe Lena. This month host Carol Graser has Mark O’Brien and Ken Hada as the featured poets. As always, there is an open mic for poetry and spoken word at this fabulous,
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Yesterday we released the brand new, five track, album featuring the Team Nitty Gritty members D. Colin, Elizag, Alorhythm, and ILLiptical titled”Ten Point Zero“. This album is available as a digital download via Bandcamp and only costs $5.00. If you have not yet had the opportunity to hear the team perform, this is your chance to sample
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We had a great week of poetry and spoken word in Albany this past week. Now let’s take a look at what is coming up in another busy week in Poetryland. We are kicking the week off with Poets Speak Loud at McGeary’s with featured poet and Nitty Gritty Slam team member, ILLiptical. This is
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We are proud to add long time poet / artist / educator Nancy Klepsch to the Albany Poets website and we keep asking ourselves, “what took so long?” Nancy has been involved in the area poetry community for over 20 years now and currently co-hosts an open mic for poetry and prose in Troy with
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Our very good friends over at the WordXWord Festival has just sent out the event schedule for their upcoming 8-day poetry and spoken word extravaganza. Performing this year is a fantastic lineup of talent including Anis Mojgani, Derrick C. Brown, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Thuli Zuma, Jon Sands, and Taylor Mali. Here is the press release with all
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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.
