Albany Poets highlights and features new poetry by poets and writers from right around the corner and around the world.
The great Alan Catlin just released his new book, “Books of the Dead: A Memoir with Poetry”, a combination of prose sections and poems.
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We are happy to welcome Steven Minchin to the website. He a long time part of the poetry scene, reading at the Word Fest, Poets Speak Loud, and more.
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We continue the 2013 Albany Word Fest Online Open Mic with three new poems from local poet Brian Dorn. Brian has been coming around to many of the open mics in the area in the past few months and participated in the Haiku Battle this past Tuesday at Valentine’s. Huge Promoting giant sell-a-thons Like exchanging stocks and
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We are kicking off our 2013 Albany Word Fest Online Open Mic with three poems by poet Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia. Garcia is the author of This Sentimental Education and Enter the After-Garde. He was raised in Brooklyn, NY and has a degree in Linguistics from SUNY Albany. He was a cook for a dozen years but
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If you were at the 2012 Albany Word Fest Open Mic at the Albany Public Library you will remember Frederick Glaysher and his epic poem The Parliament of Poets. His work certainly wowed the crowd at the library with the performance and the words themselves. Dan Wilcox mentioned in his post that “Frederick Glaysher came all the way from Michigan to
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We return to McGeary’s on Monday, October 29, just a couple of days before Halloween, for another edition of Poets Speak Loud with this month’s featured poet Bryan Roessel. We first met Bryan at the second Nitty Gritty Slam last September where he came in second place right behind Elizag. Since then we have worked with Bryan
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If you were at the 2012 Albany Word Fest, you heard Rick Harrienger read his work. He was one of the of the few local poets who made it to almost all of the events that were part of the first ever week long Word Fest (he even performed at the Nitty Gritty Slam). In
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In preparation of Team Nitty Gritty as the featured poets at the Caffe Lena Open Mic tonight in Saratoga, we are posting the poetry of Kevin Peterson on the website. Kevin has been a strong part of the local poetry community since last year when he stepped up and took over the hosting duties for
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Today we celebrate our 1,000th post on the Albany Poets website with new poetry from one of the great poets who has been a part of our community since the beginning. Shannon Shoemaker has been coming out to open mics and events for a while and we have been bugging her to send in some of her
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We return to McGeary’s on Monday, August 27 for another edition of Poets Speak Loud with this month’s featured poet L-Majesty. Luis Pabon has read at many of the local poetry open mics over the years, most recently at Nitty Gritty Slam #22, and if you were at the 2012 Albany Word Fest open mic,
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One of the original poets on the Albany Poets website, way back in 2000, was A.C. Everson. She is an incredible poet and artist and we are very, very lucky to have her in our community here in Albany. She is always finding new and exciting ways to combine her powerful poetry and amazing pinatas
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We are proud to add long time poet / artist / educator Nancy Klepsch to the Albany Poets website and we keep asking ourselves, “what took so long?” Nancy has been involved in the area poetry community for over 20 years now and currently co-hosts an open mic for poetry and prose in Troy with
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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.
