Hosted by John Broduer and MotherJudge on Sunday, October 29 starting at 7:00PM at Tess’ Lark Tavern (453 Madison Ave., Albany) 21 and over – No cover Hosted by Mother Judge and John Brodeur, co-hosts of the long-running Lark Tavern open-mic night, “Why Can’t I Be You IV” is the fourth in an ongoing series (following […]

Poets Night Out is a featured reading series with an open mic afterwards held on the 4th Tuesday of every month at Billy Jacks, 77 Central Avenue. The next reading will be Tonight, Tuesday, October 24th with Bob Sharkey and Rachel Zitomer. Bob Sharkey is the author of The Yellow Fairy and has been published in

“Lifshin is here to stay. For men, she’s sexy. For women, she’s an archetype of gutsy independence. As a poet, she’s nobody but herself. Frighteningly prolific and utterly intense. One of a kind.”     – San Francisco Review of Books It is Lyn Lifshin’s gift to seem perfectly artless, to make poems of immediacy and power

Figure Drawing SessionsDue to attendance drop off our weekly figure drawing sessions each Tuesday and Sunday evenings have been postponed. Figure drawing will  start up again in November using a pre-registration & pre-pay method  rather than a drop-in method. Once we have finalized our dates for the  new figure drawing sessions we will post them

From Aidan Thompson: Please join us for the next Jawbone reading coming up this Friday, October 20 at 7:00 at the Red Square, 388 Broadway, corner of Broadway and Hudson. Featured readers will be James Fox, second-year PhD student at SUNY, and local poets Daniel Nester and Erik Sweet. Hope to see you there! Michael

By The Book: Genre and Gender – A Readers’ Advisory Conference This November 13 and 14, Albany Public Library will be hosting its third annual continuing education opportunity for library professionals, library school students, and library support staff. By the Book: Genre and Gender – A Readers’ Advisory Conference will include presentations by well-known readers’

Writers of the newly published book Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, edited by Maxine Hong Kingston, will be reading and signing books at The Bookstore in Lenox this Saturday, October 21, at 5 p.m.  Phil Johnson of Great Barrington and Fred Marchant of Boston will read selections from this collection of creative, redemptive storytelling

From Mike himself– so after a beautiful week in cape cod and two fab daysin maine, ( or as kerouac said, celebrating october inthe railroad earth) em, I and my cousin Chris and herhusband were rearended by a fully loaded loggingtruck going 40 miles and hour and propelled intooncoming traffic for another head on collison…miraculously,only

The Three Poets, Elaine Handley, Marilyn McCabe and Mary Sanders Shartle, will be reading their poetry at Borders on 395 Broadway in Saratoga Springs, this Friday, October 20, at 7:00 p.m. The Three Poets recently won the Adirondack Center for Writing Literary Award for Best Book of Poetry for their chapbook “Notes from the Fire

Daniel Nester has a great article on the Poetry Foundation website about Lyn Lifshin and her recent reading at Caffe Lena in Saratoga.  Nester talks about her work appearing in more than 300 journals (this includes Albany Poets quarterly journal, Other:____) and more, “We talk about a lot of things—how her father’s friend Robert Frost praised

Community of Writers: a reading sponsored by the Hudson Valley Writers Guild on Saturday, October 21, 2:00PM at Albany Center Galleries in the Albany Public Library (161 Washington Ave., Albany). Scheduled Writers:Tim Cahill, JournalistThe Poet Essence, Performance PoetRachel Zitomer, Scholar Free and open to the public For information call: 449-8069 or visit www.hvwg.org Made possible

We are very saddened to learn of the recent unexpected passing of local poet, musician, and friend, Pat Covert. Pat had been a member of the local arts community dating back to the poetry readings at the old QE2 in Albany hosted by Tom Nattell. More recently Pat had appeared at the New Age Cabaret,