Local poet Barbara Garro sent this in about a great resource for poets who want to share their work and get feedback from their peers. Attention all Poets who want 45 minutes of sharing and critique in a professional setting! Saratoga Springs Poet, Barbara Garro, offers a monthly, Third Wednesday morning from 9 a.m. to […]
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In celebration of her new book of poetry, The Wild Twist of Their Stems, Carol Graser will be performing at Caffe Lena Sunday, November 25 at 7pm. She’ll be joined by jazz musician Elisabeth Woodbury and percussionist Chrys Ballerano. Opening for her will be comedian Marly Halpern-Graser. For reservations call 583-0022. Praise for The Wild
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Our friends at the Hudson Valley Writers Guild sent along the following announcements. For more information on these and other projects from the Guild, check out their website at www.hvwg.org. Annual Meeting of the HVWGMonday, Nov. 5, 2007, 6:00-8:00, Colonie Town Library. Call for all Board Members to be there to introduce yourself to our
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The Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic returns on the Wednesday, November 7 (sign-up at 7:00, reading starts at 7:30PM) with featured poet Tim Verhaegen. Tim Verhaegen has been living in the Capital District for almost thirty years and is a regular at this and many other local poetry events. His work has been published in
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On Saturday, November 10 at 8:00PM a Harvest Celebration with multimedia artist Nicole Peyrafitte, saxophonist Joe Giardullo and poet Pierre Joris will take place at the Sanctuary For Independent Media (3361 6th Ave., Troy). The trio will celebrate, harvest, and gather together non linear momentum through their music, poetry, voice, visuals and yes, a soup! Nicole,
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Today begins the annual National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). NaNoWriMo “is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.” Last year almost 80,000 writers took part in this unique approach to novel writing where quality is not what
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What a busy week it has been on the Dan Wilcox blog. He posted a blog last week about a recent HVWG event with a small audience and the comments section exploded. Here is what happened on Dan’s blog this week. Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center, October 18 So then the
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It looks like the most recent post on Dan Wilcox’s blog (about low attendance at the latest “Community of Writers” event sponsored by the Hudson Valley Writers Guild) has touched off a big discussion on the state of poetry and spoken word in the area. There are a lot of different ideas and thoughts on the local poetry
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The featured readers for the November open mics have been announced. Below is information on all of the upcoming readings. The Monday Night Open Mic at the Colony Café (Colony Café, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock) takes place every Monday night starting at 7:00PM with and open mic before and after the featured readers. All
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This one day workshop will take place on Saturday, October 27 is sponsored by the Lake George Arts Project. The workshop will be held at the Arts Project Courthouse Gallery located at the side entrance of the County Courthouse Building on Main St. in Lake George Village from 10:00a.m. – 2:30p.m. with a short break
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Welcome back to the Dan Wilcox Open Mic Commentary Round-Up. This week we have Dan’s comments on Shaun Baxter’s open mic at the Night Sky Cafe and a special report from Miss Mona about the Allen Fisher reading at the UAG. Allen Fisher Reading at UAG Gallery, October 12 I asked my old friend, Miss
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The next Albany Poets Presents (Tuesday, November 6, starting at 8:00PM) at Valentines will be an open mic with a bit of a twist. Last month Mary Panza laid down the challenge…perform the best dramatic reading of the worst song lyrics and you win a featured reading at the Poets Speak Loud open mic at
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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.
