On Wednesday, October 4 Andrea Gibson will be the  Featured Performer at Caffe Lena’s first Wednesday of the month poetry open mic. Andrea is a powerful spoken word artist with a strong political bent. She is currently touring the east coast. Her full bio is below and sample poems and recordings are on her website; www.andreagibson.org Caffe Lena Poetry Open MicWednesday Oct […]

The New York State Writers Institute began its 2006 Fall Visiting Writers series last week with short story writer Amy Hempel (“The Dog of the Marriage”) and novelist Margot Livesey (“Eva Moves the Furniture”).  According to the Times Union: Poets, fiction writers, historians and journalists will be on hand in the coming months to read from their works

Jack Prelutsky is the inaugural winner of the Children’s Poet Laureate award from the Poetry Foundation. The announcement was made at the third annual Pegasus Awards ceremony last night on the stage of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park in Chicago. The new award aims to raise awareness that children have a natural receptivity

There are a couple of special poetry and spoken word events coming up in October. Tuesday, October 10 at 8:00PMWize WordsWAMC Performing Arts Center, Central Ave., AlbanyWAMC sponsors an evening of spoken word/ poetry slam that will challenge every conventional rule of poetry. Come support local wordsmiths at the Linda. Wednesday, October 11 at 7:30PMAn

From the Upstate Artists Guild: The Arts are alive in Albany! 1st Friday September brought almost 400 people to Lark Street to see the openings of 4 new art shows. For October, the Albany Center Galleries will be joining this new Albany Art tradition and promises to make the evening even bigger. Our mission is

WAMC’s RoundTable program this morning is asking listeners to call in and tell who their favorite local artist, musician, or artist, alive or dead. It is about time that people are realizing that there is a lot of talented people in this area involved in the arts.  From what I have heard of the show so

Documentary on Music Legend Gram Parsons Makes Capital Region Debut at The Sanctuary For Independent Media; Local Musicians To Present Music Tribute On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 some of the Capital Region’s most talented musicians will pay tribute to country/rock music legend Gram Parsons as “Fallen Angel,” the documentary film about his life, premieres at

Are you too busy to read your favorite novel?  Well, here is a service where you can have novels emailed to you a little bit at a time.  There are many classic books and novels to choose from on the site.  How long will it take to read the book?  DailyLit answers that in their

The Mop & Bucket Co., the area’s oldest improvisational theatre troupe, will stage its season premier at Steamer 10, 500 Western Avenue Albany, on Sept 29 and 30 at 8 PM. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for all others. Originally founded in 1995, the company has been the chief innovator in the Capital

Another little resource for writers.  I have never heard of some of these websites, but it seems like they may be good jumping off point for aspiring writers. “They offer plenty of advice and insight into the world of writing and publishing by those that are within the industry. And if five isn’t enough, each

Here is a great website with a huge list of resources for writers who are self-publishng their work.  Self-publishing has long been the only way that poets can get their work published as many of the big publishing houses do not want to take the chance and print something that may be interesting and thought provocing.    Link to

Here is a website featuring recordings of poets from all over the world.  It looks like this is a great resource for teachers and students for research.   According to their About Us page: “The Poetry Archive exists to help make poetry accessible, relevant and enjoyable to a wide audience. It came into being as a result of