Third Thursday Poetry Night featuring Barbara Ungar

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, You Ruined My Life. After almost three decades teaching at the college formerly known as St. Rose, and two decades as a single mother, she is happy to have only one full-time job now: writer.

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.