Join host Rachel Baum at the Saratoga Senior Center (290 West Avenue, Saratoga Springs) on Friday, December 13, 2024 at 1:00pm to celebrate the One Year Anniversary of the Center’s Poetry Open Mic! Poet Elaine Handley has agreed to once again be our Featured Poet. She was our very first Feature in December 2023. For the […]
Holidays are usually fun times for families and friends to gather together, eat good food, and catch up with one another. So why are so many murders committed during the holidays? Fictional murders, of course! What is it about the holidays that novelists decide it’s a good time to kill characters?Several authors from the Upper […]
The Hound Books brings together two debut authors: Danny Goodman & Aaron Jacobs.Reservations: https://resy.com/cities/cllcn/seminary-hil Danny Goodman’s writing has appeared in various publications, and he was the recipient of a writer-in-residence fellowship from Rivendell. He earned his MFA in Fiction from the University of New Orleans, where he was a two-time winner of the Samuel Mockbee […]
Poet Barbara Ungar will read from her work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY on Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 7:30PM, with an open mic for community poets.Barbara Ungar’s sixth full-length poetry collection, After Naming the Animals, concerning the sixth extinction, was published this June by The Word Works, which also published Immortal Medusa and Charlotte Bronte, […]
Writing memoir is writing from a place within our minds, hearts, and bodies where the information is so raw, perhaps we haven’t yet processed it fully — the cognitive and analytical mind has not yet taken over to codify, slice, and splice into discernible chunks of story. This raw inner space of emotion and experience […]
Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day: All Day Reading open to any and all to participate!December 21, 2024 – start time 1pm “Midwinter Day” is a 120-page work in prose and poetry written by Bernadette Mayer on December 22, 1978, using notes, tapes, photographs, and memory. It divides the day into six parts: dreams, morning, noontime, afternoon, evening, and […]
Whirlwind, this year’s New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza is sponsored by the Saugerties Arts Commission and presented by the Hudson Valley New Years Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza and The Local in Saugerties.The six-hour event will feature more than 110 poets, writers and musicians drawn from the Hudson Valley region. In the spirit of democracy, […]
Apertures of Intimacy:Voyeur as Witness a 5 week bibliotherapeutic writing series Fridays, 10am – 12pm EST via Zoom January 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 2025 $50 USD registration fee, $200 USD balance by Jan 3. (various payment plans & methods are available. What’s App or text Suzanne for more info. No one is turned away. […]
Friday, January 10 – 7pm – 9pmDoors open at 6pm – Free and open to the public. Featured Reader: Elaina M Tysdal is a US Army veteran, Aviation. She served 10 years including Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) from 2008 to 2009, where she assisted in Quick Reaction Force and Combat Medical. Elaina is from Binghamton […]
The Baltimore Consort (Mary Anne Ballard, Mark Cudek, Larry Lipkis, Ronn McFarlane, Mindy Rosenfeld, and Danielle Svonavec), the “rambunctious sextet” (Washington Post), known for their lively renditions of Renaissance tunes are joined by acclaimed writers Sarah Giragosian, Jill Hanifan, Jonathan Dubow, and Susan Comninos in a collaborative performance featuring original poetry inspired by music from […]
Poets Guy Reed and Will Nixon will be featured followed by an open mike when the Woodstock Poetry Society meets in-person at the Woodstock Library and virtually via Zoom on Saturday, January 11th, 2025 at 2pm (eastern).WPS meetings are held the 2nd Saturday (2pm) of every month. The readings will be hosted by Woodstock area poet Phillip X Levine. All meetings are […]
Join the Poetry Caravan of Columbia County and your neighbors and friends at the Chatham Public Library for an open-mic style poetry event. Bring your favorite poems – yours or someone else’s – to share with the group. Or, just come to listen and enjoy poetry! Light refreshments will be served.This event is free and […]
The Hudson Valley Writers Guild supports the efforts of writers in all genres by sponsoring readings, workshops, and contests and providing a number of valuable resources for the entire literary community.
