New Poetry

Albany Poets highlights and features new poetry by poets and writers from right around the corner and around the world.

Candice M. Kelsey

Three Poems – Candice M. Kelsey

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.

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Three Poems – Denise Garofalo

Three poems – “On its way?,” “Blossoms Unfolding,” and “Cloud Collisions” – by writer and librarian Denise Garofalo.

D.R. James

Three Poems – D.R. James

Three poems – “Memorial Day,” “Personal Archeology,” and “Couldn’t Be Happier” – by retired teacher and poet D.R. James.

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Three Poems – Dameien Nathaniel

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

Maxine A. Moncrieffe

Three Poems – Maxine A. Moncrieffe

Three poems – “I AM The Seeds Of Yesterday,” “Have We Forgotten?,” and “Cycle-Breakers” – by Hudson Valley poet Maxine A. Moncrieffe.

Tobi Alfier

Three Poems – Tobi Alfier

Three poems – Greensleeves Pantoum,” “How Many Times,” and “Anything But Blue” – by poet and editor Tobi Alfier.

Connie Johnson

Three Poems – Connie Johnson

Three poems – “On the Nights We Listen to Nina Simone,” “All That’s Revealed,” and “Do Tell” – by Los Angeles-based writer Connie Johnson.

Kristina Labaty

Three Poems – Kristina Labaty

Three poems – “The Breaking Point,” “Through the Window,” and “The Bathers” – by Hudson Valley poet and writer Kristina Labaty.

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Three Poems – Steven Minchin

Three poems – “Letter To Jim,” “But First: This Is Today,” and “Sense Or” – plus a video from local poet and artist Steven Minchin.

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Three Poems – Alex Levantis

Three poems – “Aromantic Garden,” “I Thought I Was Crazy,” and “Distant Memory” – by Dutchess Community College student Alex Levantis.

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Three Poems – Denise Garofalo

Three poems – “Hope,” Too Soon?,” and “Muddy Puddling” – by Hudson Valley poet and fiction writer Denise Garofalo.

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Three Poems – Robert Harlow

Three poems – “And Sometimes Something Else,” “My Slender Book—The Loaner Version,” and “Lasting Words” – by Albany poet Robert Harlow.