Live from the Living Room, May 8
There were actually about 5 more folks in the living room of the Pride Center in addition to the poets that read this night, so the cozy was getting crowded. […]
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Upcoming Poetry Events – Week of May 12, 2013
We have updated and overhauled the events listings here on AlbanyPoets.com (more on that later) over the past couple weeks and we have added even more readings and open mics
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Caffè Lena Open Mic, May 1
I was away last month & missed the open mic but had to be here tonight for the featured poet Mary Panza, whom I’ve known since she was a young
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Nitty Gritty Slam #43, April 30
One of the rare 5th Tuesday Slams at Valentines & the visage of il papa Thom Francis has yet to surface from beneath the pile of diapers & extra laundry,
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Inside Out: Poems & Music from Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility, April 23
This was a benefit held at historical Caffè Lena in Saratoga Springs to support the Mt. McGregor Arts Fund, providing poetry workshops for inmates at Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility. The
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WordFest 2013, Day 6: Open Mic, April 19
Way back in ancient times (i.e., 12 years ago) when Word Fest started, it was just a stumbing toddler in Thatcher Park in the Fall, a grand open mic of
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WordFest 2013, Day 5, April 18 — Third Thursday Poetry Night
They packed the house tonight at the Social Justice Center for the second standing-room-only event of WordFest. Of course it helped that there were 18 featured poets, students from the
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WordFest 2013, Day 4, April 17
This night’s piece of WordFest 2013 was a free screening of the 2011 film Louder than a Bomb at The Linda on Central Ave. This is from the press release
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Word Fest 2013: A 7 Day Poem – Part 5
A reading we are all familiar with, hosted by Dan Wilcox. The “featured poet” a group of students from St. Rose forced to take a performance class. The second event
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WordFest 2013, Day 3 — Nitty Gritty Slam #42
It was the WordFest edition of the regular Nitty Gritty Slam, a special Haiku slam, & perhaps one could also say the “Jackie Robinson Slam” (42 being his number). My
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WordFest 2013, Day 2, April 15
One has to wonder “what the frack is going on?” but of course it is only WordFest 2013, with “Poets Against Fracking” at the UAG Gallery, day 2 of this
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WordFest 2013, Day 1, April 14
Editor Jill Crammond (left) with poetry co-conspirator Carolee Sherwood As I have been wont to say during April, “In Albany, every day is Poetry Month.” Especially today as the week-long
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