Do you like having fun with silly monsters? Or “howe”ling with delight? Come on down to the historic Howe Branch of the Albany Public library for a special story time with puppetry, dance, and music. Featuring Gruff the “Howe”-ling Monster and his librarian side-kick. Registration is required. For registration visit: https://albanypubliclibrary.libcal.com/event/10264280
Join us in your jammies for Pajama Story Time with Miss Melissa. We will read books, sing songs, and have lots of cozy fun!
Join Ms Melissa for fun songs and short books to introduce your baby to story time! We will meet in the community room, and babies and their caregivers are welcome to stay and play after story time.
Please visit https://rachelluna.eventbrite.com for more info and to register, registration is required.Among her many accomplishments, Rachel Luna is an innovative journaling workshop leader who will spend time in a variety of Capital Region settings imparting her knowledge and teaching her craft to young people and adults. A successful entrepreneur who teaches and speaks all around […]
Lucid Voices: Open Mic & Poetry NightElectric City Barn (400 Craig Street, Schenectady NY 12307) Free to all! Hosted by Adonis Richards, of Lucid Writers, an ECB member. Performers will sign up when they arrive and it will be on a first come, first served basis. We will only be supplying a small speaker and […]
Foothills Arts Council, Inc is sponsoring a poetry open mic at 10 AM-12 noon on Saturday, April 1st, 2023, at the Amsterdam Free Library, 28 Church St., Amsterdam, NY.Free and open to the public. Judith Prest will be the featured speaker. Sign ups begin at 10 AM. Contact Irving (Jay) Towne at 518 496 2707
April is National Poetry Month! Stop by the Washington Avenue branch Children’s room to create your own unique cut-up poetry all month long. What is cut-up poetry, you ask? It’s the process of cutting words out of books, magazines, or newspapers and putting them together to create a poem. We will have a cut-up poetry […]
The NYS Writers Institute at the University at Albany proudly presents the 3rd Annual Albany Film Festival, a celebration of the convergence of film and storytelling featuring a lineup of award-winning filmmakers, novelists, and screenwriters, feature-length film screenings and conversations, and a presentation of the Ironweed Awards and short film awards.The Ironweed Award for Exemplary […]
“Spirit in Nature” Art Opening, Poetry Reading and Open Mic at Golden Leaf Bookshop in Waterford, NYJoin A Cauldron of Crones for poetry, art and conversation at Golden Leaf Bookshop, a local hub for ideas and camaraderie. Rhonda Rosenheck, Judith Prest, Carol Graser and Nancy Klepsch write poems that are visual, musical, truth-telling and evocative. […]
Tuesday, Apr. 4, 5:30pm to 6:30pmJoin this evening book group as we explore the wide world of mysteries. We will discuss mystery classics and those that are favorites. Focus will be on one book, as chosen by the group. No registration necessary. For March, we will be discussing The Searcher, by Tana French A “taut, […]
Ann Lauterbach, author of Or to Begin Again, and a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in poetry will read from DOOR, her new collection of vivid, personal and provocative work. In Ann Lauterbach’s eleventh collection, the image of a Door recurs across several poems, as she considers the perpetual dialogue between what is open and […]
Join us for a romance book club, aptly titled “The Happily Ever After Book Club.” The only rule is that the book has to have a happy ending! The book club meets on the first Wednesday of each month. Tea and light refreshments will be provided.We will be meeting April 5th to discuss The House in the […]
The first Wednesday of every month is Poetry Night at Caffe Lena. Hosted by Carol Graser, this event includes an open mic reading and a featured poet. The doors open for signups at 6:30 and the readings start at 7 PM. In April, the featured poet is Chase Twichell.The featured reading will also be livestreamed; […]
Due to a change in the author’s schedule, he is no longer able to join us in person. This event will now be available online.Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, breakout bestselling author and UAlbany English Department alum, is the author of the debut novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars (May 2023), the story of two top women gladiators fighting for […]
Woodstock Poetry Society (www.woodstockpoetry.com) is sponsoring the following poetry event as part of the Woodstock “Second Saturdays” Art Events.Poets Darcy Smith and Dennis Wayne Bressack will be featured followed by an open mike when the Woodstock Poetry Society meets in-person at the Woodstock Library and virtually via Zoom (and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoodstockPoetry/) on Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 2pm (Eastern). WPS meetings are held the 2nd […]
Join us for a conversation with two members of the University at Albany faculty discussing the “journey” of making a book, including the joys and challenges of conducting research, making time to write, organizing content, editing, revising, and finding a publisher.4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11 Campus Center West Boardroom (1st Floor) University at Albany 1400 […]
Gish Jen, one of America’s greatest storytellers, is the author of the new book, Thank You, Mr. Nixon (2022), a collection of stories that, together, constitute “a fictional journey through U.S.-China relations, capturing the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change.”7 p.m. Wednesday April 12 Reading and McKinney Writing Contest Awards EMPAC […]
Storytelling Open Mic Hosted By Mike De SocioTheme: Justice The idea of justice has been getting a lot of attention lately: Social justice, climate justice, economic justice—worthy causes, all. But justice also has a pretty elemental meaning to most of us. Getting even, righting wrongs, standing up. These are forms of justice, too, that might […]
Celebrate Poetry month and Eastertide by joining Evan Craig Reardon and friends for the poetry of Wallace Stevens on Zoom. The course includes two sessions: April 18 and 25. The workshop is free, but you can show your support for the Cathedral Arts mission by making a donation HERE. For registration please visit this […]
If you’re looking for something a little different to read, Author Jeri Westerson probably has it: Medieval, Tudor, LGBTQ mysteries, Historicals, and Paranormal. Her Crispin Guest Medieval Noir Mysteries have been nominated for thirteen awards. The Los Angeles native currently writes a Tudor series, the King’s Fool Mysteries, and a Sherlockian series, The Irregular Detective […]
Whether you’ve never written a poem, or published your third collection, this workshop is a treat for your inner-poet. Come and learn how to use a variety of simple prompts in a safe, fun environment, where you’ll transform memories, impressions and sensations into powerful poems. Sharing is optional and encouraged.Led by Rhonda Rosenheck, a published […]
Join us for a conversation with award-winning fiction writer and essayist Peter Orner, whose work often celebrates the joy and necessity of reading. His new essay collection, Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin (2022), is “a unique chain of essays and intimate stories that meld the lived life and the reading life.” […]
Next Year’s Words: a New Paltz Reading Forum and Elting LibraryCelebrate National Poetry Month with featured readers Myra Shapiro, Cynthia Manick, and Timothy Liu on Wednesday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. LIVE at the Elting Memorial Library’s Steinberg Room and via ZOOM. For National Poetry Month, Next Year’s Words presents the noted and well-published poets […]
Russell Sage College’s Troy Campus hosts a poetry reading, discussion and book signing by published poet and translator: Hajar Hussaini!
Local writer Ellen White Rook will read from her work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany on Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 7:30PM, with an open mic for community poets.Ellen White Rook was born in Germany to American parents, but was raised in Rhode Island. For the majority of her adult life, […]
Enjoy a live performance of poems by members of the capital region’s poetry troupe, A Cauldron of Crones. Each member will share selections from her recent and forthcoming poetry collections. The audience will be invited to participate in community poetry-making.You will hear poems written by participants in the Free Your Inner Poet workshop on April […]
Join us for a conversation with Elizabeth Graver, the author of Kantika (April 2023), a dazzling multigenerational saga about Sephardic Jewish families that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home.Gish Jen said, “Intimately imagined, lyrically written, and rich with historical detail, Kantika weaves forced displacement, wild […]
Wednesday, Apr. 26, 2pm to 3pmJoin this afternoon book group as we explore newer adult fiction as chosen by the group. Meets on the last Wednesday of each month. No registration necessary. Our April Discussion on 4/26 will be focused on Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley. Request it here. Summary: Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never […]
Part 1 of 2 – You must take Part 1 to register for Part 2In this 90-minute workshop we will get grounded in what distinguishes life writing from other kinds of writing and get started on figuring out what stories we want to record about our lives. We will write together and leave the session […]
Lucid Voices: Open Mic & Poetry NightElectric City Barn (400 Craig Street, Schenectady NY 12307) Free to all! Hosted by Adonis Richards, of Lucid Writers, an ECB member. Performers will sign up when they arrive and it will be on a first come, first served basis. We will only be supplying a small speaker and […]
In this two hour drop-in workshop, Kate McCarroll Moore will be reading a bit from her book, Alphapoetica: A Poetry Primer for the Everyday Poet. She’ll be leading participants through two poetry-generating exercises using accessible poetry prompts. There will be a haiku wall available, and participants can also add to a collective poem.Kate McCarroll Moore […]
This is 2-day poetry workshop, “The Creative Fire of Folklore.” It pairs present-day auditory observations with old family sayings, showing how the past informs or intrudes on the present. The course uses Carolyn Forche’s poem “The Morning Baking.”Susan Comninos is a widely published writer and author of a debut book of poems, “Out of Nowhere” […]
Youth Slam In collaboration with Lucid Voices & Electric City Barn Saturday April 29, 2023 starting at 3PM At Electric City Barn (400 Craig Street, Schenectady NY 12307) Free to Enter & Perform Youths 11-17 years of age to Perform 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes come with paid prizes! Hosted by Adonis Richards, of Lucid […]
Miniature Worlds in VersePlease join the Katonah Museum of Art for Miniature Worlds in Verse, an evening of poetry and conversation exploring themes found in the KMA’s spring exhibition Miniature Worlds: Joseph Cornell, Ray Johnson, Yayoi Kusama. The conversation, led by Victoria Redel, author, poet, and professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College will […]
Open Mic Café @ Guilderland Public LibraryIn celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re offering an Open Mic Café! Everyone is welcome to read their own work, or something they enjoy from the library’s collection. This is the final event for the ‘Reads & Roasts Book Challenge’—so get that final bingo card badge and join us! Please […]
