New Poetry

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

Kate Schmieding

Three Poems – Kate Schmieding

Three poems – “coffee,” “snow day,” and “satisfaction” – from local poet and creative director Kate Schmieding.

Arthur Russell

Three Poems – Arthur Russell

Three poems – “The Flat Rock’s First Skip on Sleep’s Lake,” “College,” and “Julie Hirsch” – by New Jersey poet and editor Arthur Russell.

Michael Youngs

Three Poems – Michael Youngs

Three poems – “Hot Hands,” “Vanishing Act,” and “Taxonomy of Fruit” – by writer, professor, and musician Michael Youngs.

Naomi Bindman

Three Poems – Naomi Bindman

Three poems – “Why write when it’s all been done before?,” “Found Poem: Texting with my Brother,” and “lament” – by poet & educator Naomi Bindman.

Nancy Shiffrin

Three Poems – Nancy Shiffrin

Three poems – “Keeping Distance,” “Limbo,” and “The Mystery of Breathing” – by poet Nancy Shiffrin.

Maria Weber

Three Poems – Maria Weber

Three poems – “All the beautiful things,” “The first 3 months and forever,” and “For my baby” – by Maria Weber.

Timothy Resau

Three Poems – Timothy Resau

Three poems – “A Rainy Night in Ore Town Revisited,” “An Imaginary Vision of Us,” and “Imaginary Balconies” – by poet & writer Timothy Resau.

Aishwarya Khale

Three Poems – Aishwarya Khale

Three poems – “The Lighthouse Under the Sea,” “In the Midst of Loneliness,” and “The Watch” – by poet and fiction author Aishwarya Khale.

Rhonda Rosenheck

Three Poems – Rhonda Rosenheck

Three poems – “Piñatas,” “That Song,” and “Now Starts the Telling” – by local poet, humorist, and bible-translator Rhonda Rosenheck.

Liz Grisaru

Three Poems – Liz Grisaru

Three poems – “Walking to the Cove,” “Prose Poem I,” and “Once I Took Some Pebbles” – by poet and writer Liz Grisaru.

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Four Poems – Denise Garofalo

Four poems – “Rejuvenated,” “Never Too Late,” “Is It Spring?,” and “Wind” – by poet, writer, and librarian Denise Garofalo.

Bruce Robinson

Three Poems – Bruce Robinson

Three poems – “Debris Field,” “Archival,” and “Chastened” – by poet and writer Bruce Robinson.