The Poetry Foundation website has added a few new tools for readers to find and read poetry. You can browse by category or by poet name. Some of the featured categories are love, autumn, school, weddings and funerals. They have also added the “Poetry Tool” to assist visitors in narrowing down searches for their favorite […]
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It is going to be a busy Thursday night for poetry in upstate New York. There is the Word Thursdays reading in Treadwell, the Bohemian Book Bin open mic in Kingston (featuring Marylin Barr and Dennis Bressack), the Rockhill Bakehouse open mic in Glens Falls, the Van Dyck open mic in Schenectady, and the second Frequency North
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Bright Hill has sent us this announcement for their last Word Thursdays reading for the year with featured poets Robert Milby (the busiest poetry host in upstate New York) and Christopher Zegers (from New York, NY). On Thursday, November 8, Word Thursdays, for its last regular reading of 2007, will present Florida, NY poet Robert
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Local poet Barbara Garro sent this in about a great resource for poets who want to share their work and get feedback from their peers. Attention all Poets who want 45 minutes of sharing and critique in a professional setting! Saratoga Springs Poet, Barbara Garro, offers a monthly, Third Wednesday morning from 9 a.m. to
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In celebration of her new book of poetry, The Wild Twist of Their Stems, Carol Graser will be performing at Caffe Lena Sunday, November 25 at 7pm. She’ll be joined by jazz musician Elisabeth Woodbury and percussionist Chrys Ballerano. Opening for her will be comedian Marly Halpern-Graser. For reservations call 583-0022. Praise for The Wild
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Our friends at the Hudson Valley Writers Guild sent along the following announcements. For more information on these and other projects from the Guild, check out their website at www.hvwg.org. Annual Meeting of the HVWGMonday, Nov. 5, 2007, 6:00-8:00, Colonie Town Library. Call for all Board Members to be there to introduce yourself to our
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The Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic returns on the Wednesday, November 7 (sign-up at 7:00, reading starts at 7:30PM) with featured poet Tim Verhaegen. Tim Verhaegen has been living in the Capital District for almost thirty years and is a regular at this and many other local poetry events. His work has been published in
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On Saturday, November 10 at 8:00PM a Harvest Celebration with multimedia artist Nicole Peyrafitte, saxophonist Joe Giardullo and poet Pierre Joris will take place at the Sanctuary For Independent Media (3361 6th Ave., Troy). The trio will celebrate, harvest, and gather together non linear momentum through their music, poetry, voice, visuals and yes, a soup! Nicole,
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Today begins the annual National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). NaNoWriMo “is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.” Last year almost 80,000 writers took part in this unique approach to novel writing where quality is not what
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What a busy week it has been on the Dan Wilcox blog. He posted a blog last week about a recent HVWG event with a small audience and the comments section exploded. Here is what happened on Dan’s blog this week. Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center, October 18 So then the
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It looks like the most recent post on Dan Wilcox’s blog (about low attendance at the latest “Community of Writers” event sponsored by the Hudson Valley Writers Guild) has touched off a big discussion on the state of poetry and spoken word in the area. There are a lot of different ideas and thoughts on the local poetry
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The featured readers for the November open mics have been announced. Below is information on all of the upcoming readings. The Monday Night Open Mic at the Colony Café (Colony Café, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock) takes place every Monday night starting at 7:00PM with and open mic before and after the featured readers. All
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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.
