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Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival as part of the Woodstock Arts Consortium is sponsoring the following poetry event as part of the Woodstock “Second Saturdays” Art Events. For a full listing of “Second Saturday” events, see: www.woodstockartsconsortium.org. Poets Iris Litt and Jana Martin will be the featured readers when the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival […]

Caffe Lena presents its monthly poetry open mic on Wednesday, June 6 (7pm sign up, 7:30 start) with featured poet Diane Lockward.  This open mic is hosted by local poet Carol Graser.  There is a $2.00 admission for this event. Diane Lockward is the author of What Feeds Us (Wind Publications, 2006). The collection received the Quentin R.

Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival joins in the celebration of the third annual WOODSTOCK ARTS DAY. On Saturday, May 26, WPS&F in association with the Woodstock Arts Consortium will present a reading with featured poets Will Nixon, Philip Pardi, and Matthew J. Spireng from 2:00PM – 3:00PM. This reading is hosted by Phillip Levine at

The New York Times has an interview on their website with the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Natasha Trethewey.   In it she talks about her new book of poetry, growing up with a single mother, and the racial issues of living in the South. From her biography at Emory University, where she

Two highly respected poets who live in the Hudson Valley, Therese Broderick and Dan Wilcox, will be the featured readers when Poetry at the Hudson meets at the Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, on Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 2 p.m. An open mike follows the featured readings. Broderick , who has a master’s

This just in from Dan Wilcox: Celebrate the Birthday of Walt Whitman at the Robert Burns Statue Washington Park, Albany, NY A reading of “Song of Myself” by local poets and other citizens Thursday, May 31, 2007 starting at 6:00 PM (rain or shine). This reading is free and presented by the Poetry Motel Foundationand

We have stumbled upon a video of Pierre Joris from a recent performance at the “Behind The Egg” series.  In this video Pierre reads from “Meditations on the 40 Stations of Mansur Al-Hallaj,” accompanied by Munir Beken on Oud. If you have any videos or audio of Albany area poets and spoken word artists, let us

Poetry Open Mic on Wednesday, May 2 at Caffe Lena (47 Phila St, Saratoga Springs) with featured poet Bernadette Mayer.  Sign up at 7pm, reading starts 7:30.  Admission for this event is $2.00.  This open mic is hosted by local poet Carol Graser. Bernadette Mayer’s poetry has been praised by John Ashbery as “magnificent.” Michael

Esther M. Swanker, President of the Board of Trustees of the Schenectady County Public Library has announced the leadership for Schenectady’s third One County One Book community reading program.  The co-chairs are SCPL Trustees Carol Raphael of Glenville and Carl Erikson of Schenectady. The library is in the process of accepting nominations from the public

“Frequency North,” the aggressively eclectic visiting writers series at The College of Saint Rose, wraps up its second year with readings by Denise Duhamel and Katie Degentesh. Duhamel and Degentesh will appear at Saint Rose Thursday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Saint Joseph Hall Auditorium, 985 Madison Ave., Albany. Copies of their works

New York Magazine has an interview up with David Halberstam, who died in a car crash over the weekend.  Halberstam was a Pulitizer Prize winning journalist and author.  He began is career covering the Vietnam War for the New York Times.  He later went on to sports journalism in his books The Breaks of the