Poets in the Park 2013
Dan Wilcox looks back at the 2013 Poets in the Park season featuring Dennis Sullivan, Elizabeth Gordon, Melissa Tuckey, Tomas Urayoán Noel, and Jill Crammond.
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Dan Wilcox
Poet, Peace Activist — Host of the Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center in Albany NY, member of 3 Guys from Albany, & photographer who has “the world’s largest collection of photos of unknown poets.” Active member of Veterans for Peace. For listings of upcoming poetry events see the calendar on www.albanypoets.com & on www.poetz/hudson.
Third Thursday Poetry Night, July 18
A hot night in the Social Justice Center with the little air-conditioning quickly overwhelmed by the vast crowd with featured poet, Bob Elmendorf,
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Live from the Living Room, July 9
The feature at Live From The Living Room, Ken Denberg, jumped right in to read from his new manuscript of poems before he could get a proper introduction.
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Caffè Lena Poetry Open Mic, July 3
The July edition of the Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic in Saratoga featured Avery and host Carol Graser welcomed over a dozen area poets to the historic stage.
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Vincent Ferrini Centenary Gala, June 22
Dan Wilcox was recently at one of his favorite places for a celebration of the life and work of Cape Ann poet, dancer, lover Vincent Ferrini, sponsored by the Gloucester Writers Center.
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Third Thursday Poetry Night, June 20
This edition of the Third Thursday Poetry Night was on the eve of the Summer Solstice, with a full complement of regular community open mic poets & our feature Glenn Werner.
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Poetry Night at Harmony Cafe, June 10
Harmony Cafe is a weekly reading and open mic, quintessentially Woodstock. It was good to make the trip, hang out with old friends and poets.
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Poetry + Prose: 2nd Sunday @ 2, June 9
A day of parades, the Pride Parade in Albany, & the Flag Day Parade in Troy where this reading happened in spite of it all. Nancy Klepsch & me, DWx, the hosts, readers & listeners. I was first up with a clutch of new poems, the first perhaps goes on, “Counting Moons” then “Delete this
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SLAM! – Saratoga Literary Art and Music, June 8
As you can see, this was not a “Slam” but a S.L.A.M., but 3 of Albany’s finest poets performed in another of Saratoga’s problematic “Arts Festivals.” This was held on the patio of Sperry’s Restaurant on Caroline St. The problem here being Caroline St…
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Poets Speak Loud!, May 27
Poets Speak Loud!, May 27 This series is held on the last Monday of the month & so each year it falls on Memorial Day in May. Today we gathered in spite of (or because of) the Holiday in the back room of McGeary’s, our busy, attentive waitress was Victoria (a real cutey) & our
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Sunday Four Poetry, May 26
The house was packed for today’s featured poet, Jill Crammond, with a long list of open mic poets, introduced by Edie Abrams. I’d gotten there early before the doors were even open, with a carload of Albany poets, including the perfectly coiffed featured poet, so I ended up at the top of the sign-up sheet.
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Nitty Gritty Slam #45, May 21
Now that the Slam team has been selected, nominated, whatever, this was a wide-open slam for anyone to give it a shot & it was refreshing to not see all the same faces. But 1st K.P. (Kevin Peterson) served as host for the open mic. First up with a love poem in rhyme (“High Wire”) was
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