The “etc.” was the final event of the semester in the Yes! Poetry & Performance series at the Social Justice Center, in Albany, NY. I was just passing through on my way to Urban Guerilla Theatre but caught part of the performance. This night comb…
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In the past, when the weekend of WordFest started on Friday, the Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center was often proclaimed “the official un-official start of WordFest.” This year with a week of activities, this reading was folded i…
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We are back after an incredible 2012 Albany Word Fest with Ed Rinaldi’s Poem A Day, “showeringherself”
Poem A Day – Ed Rinaldi – showeringherself Read More »
where I’m loving Brooklyn “I’m having one of those days where I’m loving Brooklyn so much” we were walking down 5th Ave when she said it, bellies full of sushi noses full of blooming magnolias (we thought the plant on our window sill was a lilac but it wasn’t) “and you” she added, holding my […]
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It was a dual/dueling event night, with the Yes! WordFest Communal Reading at the Social Justice Center & Live from the Living Room at the Pride Center. I had hoped to participate in both, but there were others using the store-front space at the S…
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A packed house with plenty of open mic-ers & more than enough for the Slam, “N-4-2” tonight.Carolee Sherwood began the open mic with a new poem from her Blog “On Varietals: Dressing for Dinner.” A new poet here, Leo, followed with a long, lon…
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I’ve made myself an iron mask / that mimics flesh / with concerto notebooks / and memories that dig for words / in the trenches / with the surreal / parts of my senses
Poem A Day – Ed Rinaldi – Inside my forested brain Read More »
the Jewish girls are running the Jewish girls are running long black skirts fanning out behind them long dark pony tails flapping against their understated sweaters they’re laughing, these anachronistic young women speaking Hebrew shouting to one another in voices they’ll soon lose not far away, their future selves are pushing strollers filled with the […]
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Uh-oh, a call from Madame Vice-President (of AlbanyPoets.com) Mary Panza just as I getting ready to head down to the UAG Gallery for the Saint Poem series tribute to e.e. cummings (open mic) that the host, R.M. Engelhardt was under intestinal assault &…
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Ed Rinaldi is back with his continuing effort to write not just a poem a day for National Poetry Month, but for the entire year. This is poem 134, so it looks like he is ahead of schedule a bit.
Poem A Day – Ed Rinaldi – Yeah, I said Read More »
The 2012 edition of Albany WordFest is a week-long heart attack of events, starting with this night’s reading by Albany poets who were there at the beginning: Thom Francis, R.M. Engelhardt, Mary Panza, Don Levy, Marcus Anderson, A.C. Everson, Mojavi, &…
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the ripple boundaryinsects will figure out the hive triggersthat feed on our imbalancesand this will give thema quantum computationalpower of survival amidstthe strewn litter of our disregard for being part of something larger than ourselves we might b…
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