Vodka Mary Panza was back as our host with that hot blue flame & during her pointedly personal introductions one spoke up at our peril. Thus, it was an energetic open mic, with the featured poet, L-Majesty quivering in the wings (if ther…
Poets Speak Loud!, August 27 Read More »
So with a little help from arithmetic one could determine that, if this event is held twice a month, #24 would mark the end of a year of slams, & indeed it was, & it also marked the (not quite triumphant, but undaunted) return of the Nitty Grit…
Nitty Gritty Slam#24, August 21 Read More »
Believe it or not, I used to be easy. Call it low self esteem. Call it the 90’s. Call it not being able to pass up (what was supposed to be) a good time. Call it what you will. Now, however, I have to be an example. More like, I am an example of how to do EVERYTHING
Housewife Tuesday – That Kind of Girl Read More »
at the Social Justice Center, with the tour bus circling the block looking for a parking space, we had enough poets to begin & few enough to read 2 poems each (if you wanted to). Our muse for the night, in honor of our featured poet, George Wallac…
Third Thursday Poetry Night, August 16 Read More »
This series has been popping up on the 2nd Friday of each month at the Pine Hollow Arboretum Visitors Center, usually with a featured poet as well as an open mic, under the aegis of Rootdrinker Institute. Tonight, it was a program of poets who have be…
Poetry At The Aboretum, August 10 Read More »
Saratoga Springs in August means mortal combat over parking spaces, crowded bars. But I was able to negotiate both to get myself & my guest Ken Hada to the reading on time, after a convivial time at the Parting Glass with the other featured poet, …
Caffè Lena Open Mic, August 1 Read More »
Poets Speak Loud!, July 30 In the back room things got raucous with “Vodka Mary” Panza as our host, telling stories, trading insults, & creating new grammar & vocabulary & no one was safe.Sylvia Barnard began it nicely enough with her poem…
Poets Speak Loud, July 30 Read More »
The final reading in the 2012 series was not held in the Park at all but at the Social Justice Center, our rain site. The weather had been so uncertain earlier in the day, & the forecasts reminded me of the newspaper picks for the daily races in S…
Poets in the Park, July 28 Read More »
A few days ago I liked a post on Facebook. It was a post with a photo of cake. Not just any cake, mind you, but a rainbow cake. It was a white cake with rainbow frosting between each layer. Much to my surprise, “liking” this cake was my coming out. I kid you not.
Housewife Tuesday – Gay For Cake Read More »
This is a new series at Francesscas Cafe during Troy Night Out, run by poet D. Colin. But before most of the poets arrived a neighborhood regular, Dan Schultz, stepped up to improvise a tune on an Irish tin whistle. Meanwhile other poets wandered in …
Between the Lines, July 27 Read More »
I like to gender balance my readings so since 2 male poets read last week (Don Levy & Donald Lev) I scheduled “The Women Poets of Willett St.” for tonight’s Poets in the Park. It was another fine Summer eve under the shadow of the Robert Burns sta…
Poets in the Park, July 21 Read More »
This has become an annual event, the Erotique Noire night of sex spoken word & music at UGT at The Linda, so of course I had to drop in. Mojavi & Lady T served as our hosts/madams, warning “what says here stays here.”As in the past the perfor…
Urban Guerrilla Theatre presents Erotique Noire: "50 Shades of Gray", July 20 Read More »
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