Third Thursday Poetry Night Featuring Nathan Smith

Local Poet Nathan Smith will read from his work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY on Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 7:30PM, with an open mic for community poets.

Nathan Smith has been writing for 10 years since he was a high school student in rural Pennsylvania, but only decided to start sharing his work when he moved to New York in 2020. He has been published in literary magazines such as Baily’s Beads and Resonance and won first place in the McKinney Writing Contest at RPI in 2023 and 2024, as well as in the Talk Without Borders Poetry Contest. He published his first book Cotton Candy Sun in 2022 and hopes to publish a second in the future.”

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.