There is a very busy poetry community in Voorheesville and below is some information on the next Sunday Four Poetry Open Mic with featured poet Ron Pavoldi and the upcoming 3rd Annual Poet Laureate Contest. Here is the information on the next gathering of poets at the Sunday Four Poetry Open Mic: Please make your […]
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Last night at Valentines, we saw three new slam poets take the stage for the 11th installment of the Nitty Gritty Slam. We also had a surprise sacrificial poet in Thom Francis who made Mojavi mad with his hidden ability to slam. But before Dain Brammage took the stage as Slam Master, we had an
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At the last slam, NGS #10,Ben Golden took the top prize after not even making it to the second round at NGS #9. In second place was Dan Wilcox, another poet who has never seen the second round. Rounding out the top three was Elizag who, at the same time, was trying to win a
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Robery Milby is probably the busiest man in poetry business. He works tirelessly to bring poetry and spoken word to as many people as possible each and every month. Even though February is a short month, that is not slowing Robert down. Here is what he has planned for this month in the Hudson Valley.
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Our friends at Excelsior College sent us this announcement of the poetry reading that they have coming up on March 19 featuring Pushcart Prize nominated poet James Whitley, who has been published in over a hundred print and online literary journals, including African American Review, First City Review, Barrelhouse, Mississippi Review, River City, Umbrella, Poetry
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This month at the Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic, on Wednesday, February 1, there are two featured poets, Paul Pines and Stuart Bartow. Here is the information from host Carol Graser. On the first Wednesday of every month Caffè Lena presents: Caffè Lena Poetry Open Mic Wednesday, February 1 7pm sign up, 7:30 readings start Featured
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Our good friend Phillip Levine is hosting two poetry events in the next couple of weeks down in Ulster County. Everything kicks off next Saturday for a pre-Super Bowl “anything goes” open mic at the BEAhive in Kingston. COW (Chronogram Open Word) Wide Open Mike, “anything goes”, hosted by Poetry Editor Phillip X. Levine Poetry/Prose/Performance
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Hosting an open mic is not as easy as it may look. There is a lot that goes into putting a poetry mic together behind the scenes even before the poets start filling the room. Organizing the venue, lining up features, promoting the event, setting the stage, inviting all of your “friends” on Facebook, printing
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Albany Poets will celebrate the 7th anniversary of Poets Speak Loud at McGeary’s on Monday, January 30, 7:00 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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This year PSi (Poetry Slam Inc.) held an online video slam competition. Poets who live their life as a woman could submit a video that was placed on poetryslam.com for a chance to win a free slot into the WoWPS (Women of the World Poetry Slam). The entered poets ralleyed their troops to vote them
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Do you have a story to tell? Most of the poets and spoken word artists that come out to the open mics in the area do tell stories through verse, but there are those who want to just tell the story without the structure of writing a poem. Recently at the Nitty Gritty Slam Daniel
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A couple of weeks ago Mojavi said that this was going to happen. He said that we would be seeing a new face take first place and he was right. Ben Golden, who had been away in New Paltz for school finally made his way to the stage at NGS #9, but came up short
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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.
