Albany Poets highlights and features new poetry by poets and writers from right around the corner and around the world.
Join us in welcoming a new poet to the Albany Poets website; Robert Zimmermann. Robert is a writer and outdoorsman from Summit, NY who has sent us some amazing, emotional, and personal poems for us to publish on the site. Robert Zimmermann has lived in Summit, NY for most of his life. He graduated with […]
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Avery is a poet and spoken word artist who has been featured at many of the open mics and readings in the area in the past couple of years (Third Thursday Poetry Night, Live From The Living Room, Saint Poem Reading Series, 2011 Albany Word Fest) , but he has been in and out of
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As you may have noticed, we have been adding new poetry on the site from the many local poets that we currently have featured here. One poet in particular that we wanted to get some new work from was Kristen Day. Her poetry has always been thought provoking and from an interesting point of view.
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Cheryl has been active in the upstate poetry community for many years. She has hosted open mics, readings, and workshops in her neck of the woods in the Hudson Valley and has been a great part of the Albany scene as a reader and feature here. Most recently, she was one of the featured poets
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Dan Wilcox is one of the hardest working retired men that we know. He runs two monthly events (“The Third Thursday Poetry Night” at the Social Justice Center and “Poetry + Prose” at the Arts Center in Troy), the “Poets in the Park” series every July, and has the “World’s Largest Collection of Photos of
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Poet, Painter, Artist – Marcus Anderson has blessed the Capital Region with his art, both written and visual, for a few years now and we are very glad that he has shared his poetry with us. Marcus has been one of the featured poets on the Albany Poets website since the beginning, 11 years ago,
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We are continuing to add new poetry to the site from the poets that make the upstate poetry and spoken word scene so vibrant. One of the people that really make things happen is Mary Panza. She has been a major part of the community for over 20 years and continues to balance work, family,
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Carol Graser has, as many of the poets on the Albany Poets website, been one of the driving forces of poetry in the area for many years. She hosts one of the longest running poetry open mics in upstate New York at Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs. In recent years she has brought some big-name
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The “Pinata Queen” of Albany is a very busy local artist who has been a featured poet at many of the events (Albany Word Fest, LarkFest, Poets Speak Loud) over the years and usually brings a special pinata to mark the occasion. She even made a special one for last year’s Roast of Dan Wilcox.
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Bob Sharkey has been a part of the Albany poetry community for over a decade now. In that time he has been a featured poet at many of the open mics and events in the area and has had his poetry published in a number of journals, websites, and magazines. Bob Sharkey started on the
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Don Levy has been a part of the local poetry community since the old QE2 days. He has been a fixture and one of the most recognizable faces in the local arts scene. Don is another poet who has been on the Albany Poets site since the beginning and we are glad that he is
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As part of rolling out the new AlbanyPoets.com website, we are inviting the poets on the site to send us some new work that we can post. One of the first poets to take us up on the offer happens to be one of the first poets on the site when Albany Poets began in
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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.
