Thom Francis

Live From The Living Room, a featured reading series with an open mic afterwards is held on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at the Capital District Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY. The next reading is January 10th with featured poet Tim Verhagen. Tim is a member of The Every Other […]

There is a new initiative in town based at the Social Justice Center on Central Ave. The Actual Theatre Company’s mission is to create a sustained Playwright’s workshop to build community, diversity, and inclusion by creating dynamic, original theater that represents the stories of real people in a manner that a diverse audience will find

Tomorrow night, Saturday, January 6 at Red Square (388 Broadway, Albany) Alien-Nation Presents Beneath The Mire (R.M. Engelhardt, WMN3, and Kim 13) with local poets Josh Turner, Jason Dalaba, and Thom Francis opening the show starting at 9:00PM. After the show, stick around for the Alien-Nation Dance Night starting at 11:00PM featuring DJ Addam Bombb

It is First Friday again and this month art will be shown at Visions Gallery, 215 Lark Street, Ambrose + Sable, Capital District Federation of Ideas, Froebel Gallery at the eba Dance Theatre, Romaine Brooks Gallery, Upstate Artists Guild, Albany Center Galleries, and the Galleries at Monroe. The E. Anthony & Co. Jewelery Studio, Elissa

Happy New Year!  Albany Poets is kicking off 2007 with an old school open mic for poets and musicians at Valentines tonight starting at 8:00PM.  Sign up for the open mic will begin at 7:00PM. Poets, spoken word artists, and musicians are all welcome to come out and share their work.  Hope to see everyone

Apparently, Charles Bukowski is taking a page from Tupac and Johnny Cash and beginnng to release albums from the grave.   The Temple Bookstore has just put out a new album recorded when Buk did a reading at the Underwater Poetry Festival in 1974.  Here is the decription from the Temple website:  “A never before released recording of

Here is an interesting story about how reading Shakespeare can be good for you.  I wish that I knew that back in high school.  I thought all along that my teachers were just lying to me. Here is an excerpt from the article, where the writer explains what this new study found. “Shakespeare uses a

In this article about a poetry and spoken word program from the Journal Times in Racine, Wisconsin, the reporter writes about the a program at the Racine Correctional Institution called the Scribe Circle where inmates get together every third Friday of the month to read poems and word on their own writings.  They also talk about fundraising

Poets and performers in Fort Wayne, Indiana are coming together and putting on an incredible series of shows much like what has been going on Albany over the past few years.  From this article in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, it appears that the poetry scene was getting a little quiet for a while until

The New York Times published some reviews of some recently released poetry books in this past Sunday’s paper.  Poets Frederick Seidel, Erin Belieu, Roy Jacobstein, Bill Coyle, Constance Quarterman Bridges, Bill Zavatsky, Cynthia Cruz, Steve Kronen, and Adrian C. Louis are all reviewed.   One of the more positive write-ups is for Bill Zavatsky, where critic Eric McHenry says:

1994 National Poetry Slam and 1996 International Poetry Slam Champion Gayle Danley recently took her performance to school children at the Bridge City High School in Texas.  Hundreds of students listened to her work and were “captivated by Danley’s emotion”. “It’s a chance for poets to get in touch with the audience. It’s what I

Saratoga’s monthly open mic for poetry and spoken word is tomorrow night (December 6) at the historic Caffe Lena (47 Phila St, Saratoga Springs) with featured poets Robert Milby and Beatriz Loyola (with Skidmore students reading work by Hispanic poets and their translations). This open mic is hosted by Carol Graser. Sign-up starts at 7:00PM