This series has been popping up on the 2nd Friday of each month at the Pine Hollow Arboretum Visitors Center, usually with a featured poet as well as an open mic, under the aegis of Rootdrinker Institute. Tonight, it was a program of poets who have be…
Poetry At The Aboretum, August 10 Read More »
Saratoga Springs in August means mortal combat over parking spaces, crowded bars. But I was able to negotiate both to get myself & my guest Ken Hada to the reading on time, after a convivial time at the Parting Glass with the other featured poet, …
Caffè Lena Open Mic, August 1 Read More »
Poets Speak Loud!, July 30 In the back room things got raucous with “Vodka Mary” Panza as our host, telling stories, trading insults, & creating new grammar & vocabulary & no one was safe.Sylvia Barnard began it nicely enough with her poem…
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The final reading in the 2012 series was not held in the Park at all but at the Social Justice Center, our rain site. The weather had been so uncertain earlier in the day, & the forecasts reminded me of the newspaper picks for the daily races in S…
Poets in the Park, July 28 Read More »
This is a new series at Francesscas Cafe during Troy Night Out, run by poet D. Colin. But before most of the poets arrived a neighborhood regular, Dan Schultz, stepped up to improvise a tune on an Irish tin whistle. Meanwhile other poets wandered in …
Between the Lines, July 27 Read More »
I like to gender balance my readings so since 2 male poets read last week (Don Levy & Donald Lev) I scheduled “The Women Poets of Willett St.” for tonight’s Poets in the Park. It was another fine Summer eve under the shadow of the Robert Burns sta…
Poets in the Park, July 21 Read More »
We are proud to add long time poet / artist / educator Nancy Klepsch to the Albany Poets website and we keep asking ourselves, “what took so long?” Nancy has been involved in the area poetry community for over 20 years now and currently co-hosts an open mic for poetry and prose in Troy with
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This has become an annual event, the Erotique Noire night of sex spoken word & music at UGT at The Linda, so of course I had to drop in. Mojavi & Lady T served as our hosts/madams, warning “what says here stays here.”As in the past the perfor…
Urban Guerrilla Theatre presents Erotique Noire: "50 Shades of Gray", July 20 Read More »
One of the great annual traditions in the area, and around the country, is coming up in late-Spetember. Over the years this event has brought out some biggest names in the local arts, poetry, and music scenes. Banned Books Week began in 1982 as a way to celebrate the 1st Amendment and the freedom of everyone to read the written
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Dan Wilcox is once again sponsoring this great annual event, commemorating the first time an atomic bomb was used in war. On August 6, 1945 the Enola Gay dropped the bomb on the city of Hiroshima, killing between 90,000 – 140,000 people and destroying almost 7-% of the cities buildings. Reading of John Hersey’s Hiroshima Monday, August 6, 11:00AM at Townsend
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at the Social Justice Center. A lovely summer evening with poets & audience gathering early for the open mic & eventual arrival of the featured poet, Mojavi. But to start us off I invoked the Muse of the late poet/activist/fiction writer Grac…
Third Thursday Poetry Night, July 19 Read More »
With all the poetry events in Albany & environs I’m not often motivated to head up to Skidmore College & the NYS Writers Institute Summer Reading Series. In past years I’ve been begged to be a companion to local (woman) poet(s) to see Robert P…
Writers Institute Summer Reading Series, July 17 Read More »
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.
