Local poet Jill Crammond will read from her work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY on Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 7:30PM, with an open mic for community poets.Jill Crammond’s first book of poems, Handbook for Unwell Mothers (Finishing Line Press), was released in July 2023. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net, and have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies, and recently as part of “Poem Village,” a community program celebrating local poetry in the Adirondack town of Saranac Lake. She currently lives in upstate NY, teaching art and preschool at a nature-based school.
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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: dwlcx46@gmail.com
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.
