NGS #20 Results – It Was Blood Sport
In what was billed as the “Blood Sport” edition of the Nitty Gritty Slam in order to fill the open spots on Team Nitty Gritty, the poets who came out […]
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Poets In The Park 2012
The “Dean of Albany Poetry” Dan Wilcox just released information on the Poets In The Park series for this year. The Poets In The Park reading series has been bringing
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A Very Funny Fellow, a Review of the book by Donald Lev
Back when I lived in NYC, skulking on the fringes of the downtown poetry scene, before I ever thought of photographing the poets, I heard Donald Lev read as part a marathon reading in a loft on Lafayette St. Others I recall reading that night were Eni…
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Upcoming Poetry Events – Week of June 17, 2012
Let’s take a look at the week ahead as we make our poetry plans. We have a new open mic series starting on Monday at Ben & Jerry’s on Lark
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Professor Java’s Wide Open Mic, June 11
I hadn’t been to this venue in many months, & certainly not since Kevin Peterson took over the duties as host, not because of any particular reason, just a string of conflicts. This is one of the few (only) music & poetry open mics that I do g…
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Poetry + Prose Open Mic, June 10
The final gathering of the season, before we take a teacherly break during July & August, on a Summer-like day of 2 parades — Albany’s Gay Pride Parade & Troy’s Flag-Day Parade, you might say Albany knocked the “L” out of Troy’s parade.It was …
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Third Thursday Poetry Night Featuring Anna Eyre
Dan Wilcox has a busy summer coming up with the Poets in the Park series beginning in July and his monthly Third Thursday Poetry Night. Dan has a great feature
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Upcoming Poetry Events – Week of June 10, 2012
We had a great week of poetry and spoken word in the area last week and we are not skipping a beat going into the next week. There is no
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Sunday Four Poetry, May 27
In the midst of the weekend of parades, Mall sales, & backyard cookouts poets showed up to read their work & listen to others & then … but I’ll leave that for the end. So Mike Burke served as MC then Edie Abrams took over introducing the…
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NGS #18 Results – Elizag Wins Again and El Presidente Ties For Second
Another great night for poetry and spoken word at Valentine’s on Tuesday, May 15 as we huddled together for the 18th edition of Nitty Gritty Slam. We had a few
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Pine Hollow Arboretum Reading, May 25
This venue in Slingerlands, NY has been added to the list of area places where poetry happens on an ongoing basis. This night’s reading was by Helen Ruggieri, with an open mic for local poets. Our host was Rootdrinker Institute director, Alan Casline…
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Poets Speak Loud!, May 21
&, man, did we ever have to this night, out in the dining area of McGeary’s rather than in our clubhouse backroom. We also shared the stage with the wonderful Ramblin’ Jug-Stompers, but that was a good thing. They are a blue-grass, old-time, blue…
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