at the Social Justice Center. A lovely summer evening with poets & audience gathering early for the open mic & eventual arrival of the featured poet, Mojavi. But to start us off I invoked the Muse of the late poet/activist/fiction writer Grac…
Third Thursday Poetry Night, July 19 Read More »
With all the poetry events in Albany & environs I’m not often motivated to head up to Skidmore College & the NYS Writers Institute Summer Reading Series. In past years I’ve been begged to be a companion to local (woman) poet(s) to see Robert P…
Writers Institute Summer Reading Series, July 17 Read More »
Our host, R.M. Engelhardt started off the open mic with a reading from the poetry of singer Nick Cave, from his book King Ink. Then on to the rest of us open mic poets.I was first up with recent pieces, the salacious “Hemingway” & the cosmic “The …
Saint Poem Reading, July 16 Read More »
This was a booking I’ve wanted to do for years, at least since Don Levy once complained to me that he got an email from someone thinking he was Donald Lev. What genius, I thought, to have on the same program sometime the poets Donald Lev & Don Lev…
Poets in the Park, July 14 Read More »
This series of relaxed readings in Slingerlands as been gradually attracting more attention in a rare Friday slot for poetry. Our host, Alan Casline, the director of Rootdrinker Institute (which along with the Delmar Writers Group is a co-sponsor) &am…
Poetry Reading at Pine Hollow Arboretum, July 13 Read More »
The first of this year’s series (which has been happening in Washington Park in Albany, NY since 1989) began with 2 very different poets, Adrianna Delgado & Howard Kogan. It was a lovely summer evening under the trees around the Robert Burns statu…
Poets in the Park, July 7 Read More »
Tonight Nitty Gritty Slam, Albany poets entry to the world of Slam, had its 21st event, now legal to drink (& we did) — upstairs at Valentines while a band set up downstairs. Someone somehow scrounged up a bunch of chairs & benches so most of…
Nitty Gritty Slam #21, July 3 Read More »
Hudson Valley Writers Guild Newsletter, July 2012 In This Issue Guild Announcements: Poets in the Park 2012, 2012 Poetry Contest Details Member Announcements: Janine Cammarata, Sue Oringel, Marilyn Rothstein, Bob Sharkey Area Announcements: Caff…
Hudson Valley Writers Guild, July 1 Read More »
Tiffany JonesThis event was at Tierra Coffee Roasters in Albany, right where I started the Third Thursday readings at the former Cafe Web, lo on these many years ago. This was a reading by writers of both poetry & prose (& polemics, as befits …
Inaugural Reading of the New Surrealist Institute, June 29 Read More »
I can’t be in 2 places at once, but I tried to be at 2 different readings on both ends of the evening. Conflicts happen because we have here in the Capital District of New York State a very diverse, active local arts scene, & probably more poetry …
Jon Sands Reading & …, June 25 Read More »
I am sitting here in a great house on the Cape. This is a tradition my family has carried on all my life. We take a week, pack up 20 or 30 bags of groceries and head off on 28South. This tradition has been going on way before I was born. It is actually rumored (and the timing
Housewife Tuesday – Vacation Read More »
In the last Thom’s 10 Things… I began running down the list of the other slam teams that will be competing at the National Poetry Slam with Team Nitty Gritty. This time around I am picking it up with teams 11 – 20. Some of these teams do not have much information readily available on the internet,
Thom’s 10 Things… The Other Poetry Slams Going to NPS, Part 2 Read More »
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