Events

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

After the Banned Books event at the library, be sure to head down to Madison Ave and check out what is looking like a great poetry reading at the CDFI. Behind the Egg: A Reading Series at The Capital District Federation of Ideas, 383.5 Madison Avenue, Albany returns on Saturday, October 6 at 4:00PM with

Frequency North is kicking off its third season tonight at Saint Rose with poet, editor, and critic David Lehman.  Lehman will read at The College of Saint Rose Thursday, October 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the College’s Neil Hellman Library, 392 Western Ave., Albany. Copies of Lehman’s works will be available for purchase and signing.

Tomorrow night, the first Wednesday of the month, Caffe Lena presents its Poetry Open Mic night with featured poet Michael Czarnecki. This open mic is hosted by Carol Graser. There is a $2.00 admission. Sign up at 7:00PM, the reading starts at 7:30PM. Caffe Lena is located at 47 Phila St, Saratoga Springs. Michael Czarnecki