Three Poems – Tobi Alfier
Three poems – Greensleeves Pantoum,” “How Many Times,” and “Anything But Blue” – by poet and editor Tobi Alfier.
Albany Poets highlights and features new poetry by poets and writers from right around the corner and around the world.
Three poems – Greensleeves Pantoum,” “How Many Times,” and “Anything But Blue” – by poet and editor Tobi Alfier.
Three poems – “On the Nights We Listen to Nina Simone,” “All That’s Revealed,” and “Do Tell” – by Los Angeles-based writer Connie Johnson.
Three poems – “The Breaking Point,” “Through the Window,” and “The Bathers” – by Hudson Valley poet and writer Kristina Labaty.
Three poems – “Letter To Jim,” “But First: This Is Today,” and “Sense Or” – plus a video from local poet and artist Steven Minchin.
Three poems – “Aromantic Garden,” “I Thought I Was Crazy,” and “Distant Memory” – by Dutchess Community College student Alex Levantis.
Three poems – “Hope,” Too Soon?,” and “Muddy Puddling” – by Hudson Valley poet and fiction writer Denise Garofalo.
Three poems – “And Sometimes Something Else,” “My Slender Book—The Loaner Version,” and “Lasting Words” – by Albany poet Robert Harlow.
Three poems – “Thanksgiving in the Catskills,” “Train Time,” and “Old Poet Reading to Students” – by poet and writer Barry Seiler.
Three poems – “Canards from Close Relatives,” “Functional Funeral,” and “Starvation Poems” – by poet and writer Brannon O’Brennan.
A prose poem – “Voluptuous Breakdown” – about body positivity and acceptance by former NYC English Teacher Shannon O’Neill.
Three poems – “Now and Forever,” “Expensive,” and “Another Day” – by writer, journalist, and poet Taylor Dibbert.
Three poems – “eyes in the dark,” “beneath the frosted full moon glow,” and “as the city sleeps” – by poet, editor, and social worker Tohm Bakelas.
The Hudson Valley Writers Guild supports the efforts of writers in all genres by sponsoring readings, workshops, and contests and providing a number of valuable resources for the entire literary community.