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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.

Third Season for “Frequency North” Writers Series at Saint Rose

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“Frequency North,” the visiting writers reading series at The College of Saint Rose, returns for its third season with another aggressively eclectic mix of award-winning poets, authors, essayists, and one comedian/playwright/actor/bartender. The 2007-08 series kicks off Thursday, October 4, with David Lehman, acclaimed author of several collections of poems and series editor of The Best […]

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Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival Reading Featuring George Nicholson and Will Nixon

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Poets George Nicholson and Will Nixon will be the featured readers when the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival meets at the Woodstock Town Hall, 76 Tinker Street, on Saturday, September 8th, 2007 at 2:00pm. The readings will be hosted by Woodstock area poet Phillip Levine. All meetings are free and open to the public. For

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OTHER:EIGHT To Be Released at Valentines on Tuesday, September 4

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As announced last night at Poets Speak Loud at the Lark Tavern, we will be releasing the newest issue of OTHER: next Tuesday, September 4 at Valentines (17 New Scotland Ave., Albany) during our monthly open mic for poetry, music, and spoken word.  OTHER:EIGHT has poetry from Lilibet Ana, Farrah Nayka Ashline, Alan Catlin, Michael Conner,

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Schenectady County’s 2008 “One County One Book” Narrows Choices to Five Books

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Five books, including three works of fiction and two works of non-fiction, were announced as finalists for Schenectady County’s popular One County One Book (OCOB) program at the Schenectady County Public Library on Wednesday, August 15.  For the first time in the program’s three-year history, non-fiction books placed in the final five. The books are: 

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Book Signing and Reading at the Bohemian Book Bin

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On Sunday, September 9, starting at 3:00PM hosts Teresa Marta Costa and Olga Kronmeyer present The Alchemy Club’s book signing and reading at the Bohemian Book Bin with poetry by Ruth Green West, Mildred Barker, Marylin Barr, Gloria Bernstein, Barbara  Boncek, Kathryn Cloonan, Heddy T. Czerm, Mary Durham, Peggy Friedman, Gen Gia, Werner Jatzke, Olga Kronmeyer, John

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Short Play Festival

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From Confetti Stage: “The 3rd Annual Short Play Festival boasts 6 plays written, directed, and performed by Capital Region artists.  These plays were chosen from 27 submitted works most written right here in the Capital Region.  The Albany area is thriving with talented, writers, directors, and actors.  Confetti Stage prides itself on giving these artists

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