From our friend Deb Bump: Greetings From The Electric City! WIRED!, Schenectady’s open mike reading for poetry and the spoken word, was happy to have been personally contacted by this months’ featured poet, expressing interest in reading at our venue! The SPOTLIGHT POET for Nov.is (drum roll, please!) … ROBERT MILBY Saturday, Nov. 4th, at THE MOON AND RIVER CAFE, […]

Music and poetry open mic this month with special musical guests Tom McWatters and Ashley Pond. We will also be releasing the brand-new issue of Other:____ on the 7th at Valentines. Tom McWatters is a local singer/songwriter whose band, the Sense Offenders, are preparing to release their debut album. Tom’s solo performances are a stirring

This Saturday, November 4, Behind the Egg: A Reading Series presented by Tool A Magazine and Unpleasant Event Schedule at 4:00pm at POINT 5 The Capital District Federation of Ideas (383.5 Madison Avenue, Albany) featuring Pierre Joris and Ted Pelton Pierre Joris, UAlbany English professor, avant-garde poet and leading translator, is the author of Poasis,

Translations Lost and Found, works by Tara Fracalossi and Harold Lohner at Albany Center Galleries. Translations Lost and Found, works by Tara Fracalossi and Harold Lohner opens November 7 and runs until December 16. The opening reception will be held on December 1 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and the gallery will participate with

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