Albany Poets highlights and features new poetry by poets and writers from right around the corner and around the world.
Three poems from poet, writer, and Capital Region native Rose Marie LaPietra, whose collection of poetry “So what if maybe” was published in 2023.
Three poems – “Beetle Song,” “How Long Will I Bleed,” and “Is This Where You Keep Your Skeleton Keys?” – by poet & open mic host Nathan Smith.
Three poems – “Where the River Pauses,” “In Dreams Cars Flew,” and “White Dinner Jackets, Black Bow Ties” – by poet and editor Rachel Baum.
Three poems – “Daddy, I’m Fine,” “On Being Encouraged to Take that Love Language Quiz, I Pass Knowing,” and “No More” – by Candice M. Kelsey.
Three poems – “On its way?,” “Blossoms Unfolding,” and “Cloud Collisions” – by writer and librarian Denise Garofalo.
Three poems – “Memorial Day,” “Personal Archeology,” and “Couldn’t Be Happier” – by retired teacher and poet D.R. James.
Three poems – “May Burials of December Bodies,” “We’re Going to the Store,” and “Again, Let Me Tell You What I Know About Breathing” – by Dameien Nathaniel
Three poems – “I AM The Seeds Of Yesterday,” “Have We Forgotten?,” and “Cycle-Breakers” – by Hudson Valley poet Maxine A. Moncrieffe.
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.
