Third Thursday Poetry Night featuring Susan Oringel

Poet Susan Oringel will read from her work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany on Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 7:30PM, with an open mic for community poets.

Susan Oringel is a poet and writer in New York’s Capital District. Publications include: Carnevale (2023), My Coney Island (2019) and work in various journals. She was awarded fellowships by NYSCA and the Vermont Studio Center. She taught creative writing at Hudson Valley Community College from 2004-2017.

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.