Caffe Lena Poetry Night Featuring Indran Amirthanayagam and Sara Cahill Marron

Caffe Lena 47 Phila Street, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States

On Wednesday, April 6, 2022, Caffè Lena will present a poetry reading by Indran Amirthanayagam and Sara Cahill Marron. An open mic poetry reading will follow. Doors open for sign-ups at 6:30 pm and the readings will start at 7:00. The host for the event will be Carol Graser and the cost is $5 general, free for students. The […]

Poetic Vibe featuring Ian Macks

Poetic Vibe is back at The Fish Market with featured poet Ian Macks! Doors open and sign up for the open mic starts at 7 pm.This is hosted by D. Colin, Artist in Residence for The Fish Market Community Project brought to you by the Arts Center of the Capital Region This event is free […]

Reading and Discussion with Tiffany Jewell

Tiffany Jewell is the author of the #1 New York Times Young Adult bestseller, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work (paperback, 2020), a how-to manual and guided journal featuring more than 50 educational activities. TIME magazine said the book “equips young people with the tools they need to be actively antiracist,” […]

A Conversation with Nancy Allen

Nancy Allen practiced law for fifteen years as Assistant Missouri Attorney General and Assistant Prosecutor in her native Ozarks, trying over thirty jury cases. She served on the faculty of Missouri State University for fifteen years, teaching law classes. She is the author of the Ozarks Mystery series starring prosecutor Elsie Arnold. With James Patterson, […]

Third Thursday Poetry Night featuring David Graham

Social Justice Center 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY, United States

Poet David Graham will read from his work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany on Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 7:30PM. David Graham has published seven collections of poems, most recently The Honey of Earth (Terrapin Books, 2019). Currently retired from a long career in teaching, he now writes a column, “Poetic License,” for the online […]

A Conversation with American Novelist Gary Shteyngart

Craft Talk at 4:30 p.m. – Multi-Purpose Room, Campus Center West AdditionConversation/Q&A at 7:30 p.m. – moderated by Times Union Editor Casey Seiler, Campus Center West Auditorium Both events at University at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany 12222 Free and open to the public. Read more   Gary Shteyngart’s most recent novel is Our Country Friends (2021), a story of various […]

Katonah Poetry Series with Arthur Sze

On Sunday, April 24, the Katonah Poetry Series is honored to present award-winning poet Arthur Sze for an in-person reading. It will also be broadcast on Zoom.Arthur Sze is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives. He has […]

“The Chocolate Jar and Other Stories” by Roselee Blooston Book Launch

Book Launch Reading and Signing by award-winning Hudson Valley author Roselee Blooston for her new collection, The Chocolate Jar and Other Stories.Roselee Blooston is the author of the novel Trial by Family, a Gold Medal Winner in the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards, the memoir Dying in Dubai, a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year and […]

Barzakh’s Spring Celebration

You are cordially invited to Barzakh‘s Spring Celebration at the Albany Distilling Co. 75 Livingston Ave., Albany, NY on Friday, April 29th from 7-10PM. This year’s celebration is totally free and will feature live music from Albany’s very own Doctor Baker as well as short readings of prose and poetry from the digital pages of Barzakh Magazine!Barzakh Magazine is an online literary […]

Favorite Poem Project 2022

Please join us in combatting the dreariness of “mud season,” as well as our long “pandemic hibernation,”  by celebrating Spring, poetry, and this beautiful place/planet that we call home, at our 18th annual Favorite Poem Project – featuring the inimitable Claire North as emcee, local poets and musicians, and YOU (our friends and neighbors).Every April, […]

Poetry Open Mic with Featured Poet Richard Nilsen

April is National Poetry Month! Come celebrate poetry on the last day of April at the Meadowbrook Saloon. Richard Nilsen will be featured poet, and others may sign up to read. Each reader will get 5 minutes to read. $5 Cover Charge. Come on out to hear local Mohawk Valley and Capital Region poets reading live!Richard […]