Events

Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival as part of the Woodstock Arts Consortium is sponsoring the following poetry event as part of the Woodstock “Second Saturdays” Art Events. For a full listing of “Second Saturday” events, go to their website at:  www.woodstockartsconsortium.org. Poets Barbara Louise Ungar, Sparrow, and Sylvia Mae Gorelick will be the featured readers […]

The fourth annual visual poetry exhibition, featuring work by Skidmore students and faculty, will be presented in Case Center Gallery from Monday, Feb. 25 to Saturday, March 1. An opening reception is scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the gallery. The gallery is open without charge starting at 9 a.m. daily. The exhibition

Here are some upcoming events at the Java Jazz Cafe (318 Delaware Avenue, Delmar). Thursday, February 21st from 7pm to 9pm, Blue Wilder and Chrys Ballerano, will combine their talents and energy for a great evening of guitar and folk music. Friday, February 22nd from 7pm to 9pm we are pleased to introduce Rob Skane to our growing

Jawbone and Albany Poets are proud to bring poetry back to the UAG Gallery on Lark Street.  The series started on January 25 with Thom Francis and Michael Peters and continues tonight with a special reading from Flim Magazine featuring Jaye Bartell, Jennifer Karmin, Michael Ives, and Deborah Poe.  The next reading will be on

This coming Friday (January 25) Albany Poets and Jawbone are bringing poetry and spoken word back to the UAG Gallery on Lark Street with a new season of this long-running series featuring both local artists and visiting poets from around the country. The doors open at 6:30PM with the poetry beginning at 7:00PM with writer,

It is going to be a busy Thursday night for poetry in upstate New York.  There is the Word Thursdays reading in Treadwell,  the Bohemian Book Bin open mic in Kingston (featuring Marylin Barr and Dennis Bressack), the Rockhill Bakehouse open mic in Glens Falls, the Van Dyck open mic in Schenectady, and the second Frequency North

The Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic returns on the Wednesday, November 7 (sign-up at 7:00, reading starts at 7:30PM) with featured poet Tim Verhaegen. Tim Verhaegen has been living in the Capital District for almost thirty years and is a regular at this and many other local poetry events. His work has been published in

The featured readers for the November open mics have been announced.  Below is information on all of the upcoming readings.  The Monday Night Open Mic at the Colony Café (Colony Café, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock) takes place every Monday night starting at 7:00PM with and open mic before and after the featured readers. All

Behind the Egg: A Reading Series returns on Saturday, October 27 at 4:00PM with Aaron Belz, Peter Davis, Daniel Nester, and Michael Schiavo Aaron Belz writes poetry in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. His work has appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Painted Bride Quarterly, Black Clock, and other places, and his first full-length book,

We are back with the Dan Wilcox Poetry Open Mic Commentary Round-Up. This week Dan did not comment on any open mics, but he did give his views of the new Behind the Egg reading at the Federation of Ideas and the Banned Books reading at the Albany Public Library. Banned Books Read-Out, October 6

Welcome back to the Dan Wilcox Open Mic Commentary Round-Up. This is the third edition of the round-up that brings all of Dan’s commentaries from his blog together in one place. This time around we have two open mics and the first Frequency North of the new season. Albany Poets Presents, October 2 One often