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.

Upcoming "Special Guests" at the Colony Café – Monday Night Open Mic for June 2008

Every Monday Night “Forever”. All events include an open mic of poetry/prose/performance hosted by Phillip Levine (Chronogram Poetry Editor).Doors Open at 7pm, start time is 7:30pm. Features read for approximately 20-25mins each, beginning around 8pm. Open mic before & after the featured readers. Upcoming “Special Guests”: Monday, June 2nd, 2008:Northeast Center for Special Care – […]

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Veterans’ Reading From the Anthology “Post Traumatic Press 2007”

Where: ‘Over The Rainbow’, 35 Hudson Ave, Nyack, NY (corner of South Broadway)When:  Monday May 12th, 7:00 – 9:00PM Come join us. Open mic, before and after features.  Sign up for open mic before or during reading. We also want to hear your voices!Post Traumatic Press 2007 is a …      …searing raw-whisky anthology by military

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Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival Reading Featuring Gretchen Primack and Allen C. Fischer

Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival as part of the Woodstock Arts Consortium is sponsoring the following poetry event as part of the Woodstock Arts Week. For a full listing of Arts Week events, see: www.woodstockartsconsortium.org. Poets Gretchen Primack and Allen C. Fischer will be the featured readers when the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival meets

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Michael Eck Featured Artist At UAG "WTF?" Show

Musician and multi-tasker Michael Eck is the featured artist for Upstate Artists Guild’s third national exhibit, “WTF? What The Folk” Michael Eck’s visual representations of seminal American folk, blues and jazz musicians have been featured nationally at venues such as The Lisle Station Museum (Illinois), The Outsiders Art (Connecticut), Inside/Out Gallery (Minnesota), Fairleigh Dickinson University

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Caffe Lena Celebrates National Poetry Month

On Sunday, April 6th, 2:00PM at Caffe Lena (47 Phila Street, Saratoga Springs, NY), in celebration of National Poetry Month, Caffè Lena offers a program of poetry written by and about women. Five award-winning poets will read their works: Barbara Ungar, Nancy White, Elaine Handley, Marilyn McCabe and Mary Sanders Shartle. In addition, Handley, McCabe

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Reading From The Anthology "Post Traumatic Press 2007: poems by veterans"

On Thursday, April 3, 6:45 – 8:45 pm at the Bethlehem Public Library (451 Delaware Ave, Delmar ) Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, Veterans For Peace & Post Traumatic Press presents a reading from the anthology “Post Traumatic Press 2007: poems by veterans”, edited by Dayl Wise. The featured readers will  include Dayl Wise, Jim Murphy,

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Horowitz, Seaton, and Hirsch at the Bowery Poetry Club

Horowitz, Seaton, and Hirsch in one show at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY (@ Bleecker just north of Houston) on Sunday March 30 at 3:00PM. Mikhail Horowitz is a widely excoriated performance poet who has perpetrated his literary lampoons, impenetrable parodies and metaphysically unfit riffs at the Taos World Heavyweight Poetry 

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