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,” […]
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, […]
Next Year’s Words, A New Paltz Reading Forum presents its National Poetry Month edition with three brilliant poets: Rachel Hadas, Suzanne Cleary, and Lucia Cherciu on Wednesday, April 20 at 7:30 pm via ZOOM.Rachel Hadas’ most recent books are a poetry collection Love & Dread, and a book of selected prose titled Piece By Piece. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Invocation of the Muse, Albany, NY’s open mic for poets, writers, poetry, and the spoken word continues at its new home, Lark Hall!This month’s featured poet is K.R. Morrison from San Francisco. K.R. Morrison is a poet and drummer who during The Plague days, splits her time between the Bay Area and a place she […]
Aditi Machado is a poet, translator, and essayist from Bangalore, India. Her second book of poems, Emporium (Nightboat, 2020), received the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award. Her other works include the poetry collection Some Beheadings (Nightboat, 2017), winner of the Believer Book Award; and a translation from the French of Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia (Action […]
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.
