Whether it is at an open mic, on a website, or in print, Albany Poets strives to integrate poetry and spoken word into the Capital Region.
In case you missed last night’s Poets Speak Loud Fourth Anniversary Open Mic / Tom Nattell Tribute / Beret Toss or if you were there and want to take the reading along with you, go to the Albany Poets Podcast page and download the recordings. Poets Speak Loud – January 26, 2009, Part 1 Dan […]
Recording From Poets Speak Loud Tom Nattell Tribute Now Available Read More »
The local poetry scene has been getting quite a lot of coverage over the past few weeks. Today, the Times Union has a post on its Creative Capital blog about tonight’s Poets Speak Loud tribute to Tom Nattell (pictured on the right with Allen Ginsberg in 1990 in front of the QE2). Until his death
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In this weeks edition of Metroland, there is an article about the local small press poetry scene. Thom Francis, Mary Panza, Dan Wilcox, Chris Rizzo, Rachel Zitomer, Matthew Klane and many others were interviewed for this article discussing the current Albany scene, its history, and where it may be going from here. The article also
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Albany Poets own Mary Panza and Dan Wilcox are featured on the Times Union site reacting to Elizabeth Alexander’s poem at President Obama’s inauguration. “She was speaking about the immigrant experience. The kitchen table is the meeting place for so many different ethnic cultures in this country. I’m third generation Italian, and in our household
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The folks that brought you the very successful small press fair at the UAG Gallery (247 Lark Street, Albany) for First Friday a couple of weeks ago are coming back for a special poetry reading this coming Saturday at the UAG. From 2:00PM – 5:00PM poets and representatives from Albany Poets, Flim Forum Press, Fence
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You read that right. OTHER:TEN, the long awaited tenth issue of Albany Poets’ magazine will be available during the small press open house at the UAG Gallery that was mentioned earlier. We would like to take this time to apologize to our readers and contributors for the delay on getting this issue out. Due to
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First Friday, January 2nd, 5-9pm at the UAG Gallery, 247 Lark Street. The Upstate Artists Guild (UAG) Gallery, as part of their January “New Beginnings” show, will be hosting a Publisher’s Open House for many of the poetry small presses producing books in Albany, NY. Across poetics, aesthetics, and institutional status, contributing presses will include:
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Happy Holidays from all of us here at Albany Poets! We will return to Tess’ Lark Tavern, Monday, January 26th for our Anniversary/Beret Toss/Tom Nattell Tribute. Our host for that evenings event will be Dan Wilcox! Dress warm! Albany Poets has a huge year planned with our annual events and some surprises along the way.
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Albany Poets in association w/ Flim Forum + Les Figues Press is hosting a special edition of Albany Poets Presents at Valentines (17 New Scotland Ave., Albany) on Tuesday, October 7th featuring Vanessa Place and Matthew Klane. Vanessa Place is a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of
It is that time of year again…LARKfest! And again this year Albany Poets will be a part of the event bringing poetry, music and spoken word to upstate New York’s largest arts festival. Albany Poets will also have a table with information about our organization, the open mics and poetry events in the area, local
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First of all, we want to thank everyone involved in WORD FEST 2008. The audiences were great, the performances were stellar and the UAG was once again so generous in lending their time and space to us. Now here is what Albany Poets is asking from you: We need contributors, editors, artists, photographers, and especially
So far this years Albany Word Fest (This Weekend! April 18-19) is looking like it will be the biggest and best yet! Four days until the 2008 Albany Word Fest and there is still time to sign up online for the Friday Night Open Mic at the UAG Gallery. So far there are 75 poets
2008 Albany Word Fest Update Read More »
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.
