Local Poet Andy Fogle will read from his work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY on Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 7:30PM, with an open mic for community writers.
Andy Fogle is the poetry editor of Salvation South, and the author of Mother Countries (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2023), Across From Now, and seven chapbooks of poetry, including Arc & Seam: Poems of Farouk Goweda, co-translated with Walid Abdallah. Andy is from Virginia Beach, spent years in the D.C. area, and now lives with his family in upstate New York, teaching at high school.
A reading by a local or regional poet/writer has been held since July 2006 each third Thursday at the Social Justice Center. The event includes an open mic for audience members to read. Sign-up starts at 7:00PM, with the reading beginning at 7:30. The host of the readings is Albany poet and photographer Dan Wilcox. The suggested donation is $5.00, which helps support this and other poetry programs of the Poetry Motel Foundation, and the work of the Social Justice Center.
For more information about this event contact Dan Wilcox, 518-482-0262; e-mail: [email protected]
The Social Justice Center, founded in 1981, is a non-profit organization working for progressive social change through education, community building and collective action. The center advances the struggles against racism and for peace and justice. For further information about the SJC call 518-434-4037.
