On Sunday, April 6th, 2:00PM at Caffe Lena (47 Phila Street, Saratoga Springs, NY), in celebration of National Poetry Month, Caffè Lena offers a program of poetry written by and about women. Five award-winning poets will read their works: Barbara Ungar, Nancy White, Elaine Handley, Marilyn McCabe and Mary Sanders Shartle. In addition, Handley, McCabe […]
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It is that time of year again…Albany Word Fest! In celebration of National Poetry Month, Albany Poets is proud to present the 2008 Albany Word Fest featuring the poetry, spoken word, and music of upstate New York. This year’s event will take place on Friday, April 18 and Saturday, April 19, 2008. The 2008 Albany
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On Thursday, April 3, 6:45 – 8:45 pm at the Bethlehem Public Library (451 Delaware Ave, Delmar ) Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, Veterans For Peace & Post Traumatic Press presents a reading from the anthology “Post Traumatic Press 2007: poems by veterans”, edited by Dayl Wise. The featured readers will include Dayl Wise, Jim Murphy,
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Horowitz, Seaton, and Hirsch in one show at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY (@ Bleecker just north of Houston) on Sunday March 30 at 3:00PM. Mikhail Horowitz is a widely excoriated performance poet who has perpetrated his literary lampoons, impenetrable parodies and metaphysically unfit riffs at the Taos World Heavyweight Poetry
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In honor of National Poetry Month, the North Chatham Free Library is pleased to present Dr. Jeannine Johnson with a program entitled: “Why Read Poems? Why Do People Write Poems?” Jeannine Johnson graduated with a BA from Haverford College, and a PhD from Yale, Dr. Johnson went on to teach at Yale, Wake Forest, and
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Shirley Powell (who was one of our features at the 2006 Albany Word Fest) will read her work at the next program in the Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series. The event will be held at the Baby Grand Bookshop at 7 West Street in Warwick at 4:00 p.m. on April 5. Following the featured
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This Friday poetry returns to the UAG Gallery with poets Jacqueline Jones LaMon and Carol Graser. Jacqueline Jones LaMon is the Associate Director of the Indiana University Writers’ Conference. A Chancellor’s University Fellow and an associate poetry editor of the Indiana Review, she is in her third year of her MFA studies in poetry at
The next Poets Speak Loud will be on Monday, March 31 at Tess’ Lark Tavern with featured poet John Raymond followed by an open mic for poetry and spoken word. John Raymond is a local rapscallion who is coming out of seclusion to take part in Albany’s open mic poetry scene. He enjoys music, backpacking,
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Hudson Valley writers are invited to submit short works for possible use in collaborations with visual artists for “VisuaLit”, an innovative, July 2008, exhibition at the Arts Society of Kingston. A writer may submit one to three works that are each no more than one page in length. Works may be on any subject and
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Two widely regarded Hudson Valley poets, William Seaton and Susan Sindall, will be the featured poets when Poetry at the Hudson meets at the Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 2 p.m. An open mike will be part of the occasion. Seaton, who for 14 years has produced the
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Live From The Living Room, a featured reading series with an open mic afterwards is held on the second Wednesday of every month at the Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY. The next reading is March 12th with Chris Brabham. Chris has read in many venues in the region
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We usually do not post stories and articles that are of a political nature on the Albany Poets blog, but we thought that this was an important issue since it took place right in our backyard. The following is the press release regarding a press conference marking the publication of the memoir of Yassin Aref,
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.
