Alan Casline has announced the Five Year Celebration Reading at Pine Hollow Arboretum on Friday, August 9 at 6:30 PM with a group reading by local poets .
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The house was packed for today’s featured poet, Jill Crammond, with a long list of open mic poets, introduced by Edie Abrams. I’d gotten there early before the doors were even open, with a carload of Albany poets, including the perfectly coiffed featured poet, so I ended up at the top of the sign-up sheet.
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On Friday, May 24, poetry and spoken word returns to the Pine Hollow Arboretum in Slingerlands with the second open mic and featured reading of the season. This month the featured poet is Stephen Ellis. Stephen Ellis, born 21 December 1948, in As Safirya, Syria, and in the interim, transmitted to the east coast of
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The schedule for the 2013 Pine Hollow Open Mic series is out (see below) and the first reading kicking off the series is Friday April 5 with featured reader Judith Kerman. Judith’s introduction: For me, poetry is at least partly a visual and musical art form. Or at least, it comes out of those parts
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Always high on my list of the monthly poetry events to join in, listen, read, with our host & my passenger, Don Levy. Tonight the open mic list included a covey of regulars, with a visitor from afar & a couple of shy listeners — as it should be. Tonight our featured poet was Alan
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One of the poetic treasures in our area, Bernadette Mayer, will be leading a workshop coming up on the what what to do after we have mastered the basics of our craft. Seating is very limited, only eight people can participate, so register today! Bernadette Mayer will lead a new workshop series focused on going beyond the
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Local poet, editor, and publisher Alan Casline recently received the 2012 Arthur Dare Willis Award at the Sunday Four Poetry Open Mic and next week he will be the featured poet at Don Levy‘s “Live From The Living Room” open mic at the Pride Center on Hudson Avenue on Wednesday, March 13. Alan Casline has been a
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Quite a full house of audience & open mic poets to hear the featured poet, Sylvia Barnard. But always, here, the open mic first. I was first on the list (surprise!) & did 2 recent poems I’ve been reading at open mics lately (don’t worry, there are few venues left to read them at so
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Gathered in the living room of the Pride Center we awaited the arrival of the featured poet, who didn’t show, but our host, Don Levy was patient & there were plenty of poets so we did a round-robin style of reading by those of us who were there. Alan Casline started the clockwise circle with
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I was surprised when I arrived at Caffè Lena to find a taller, more expansive Carol Graser, then realized that it was Alan Casline who was performing the duties, in his own inimitable way, as the substitute host for the night. He began, as Carol does, with an OPP (other person’s poem), this “The Meaning”
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Our good friend Dennis Sullivan, one of the hosts of the Sunday Four Poetry Open Mic in Voorheesville sent along this article on the recipient of the 2012 Arthur Dare Willis Award, Alan Casline. On Sunday December 30 at Old Songs Community Arts Center in Voorheesville, the hosts of Sunday Four Poetry Open Mic
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On Friday, November 9, 2012 Bob Sharkey will be the featured poet at the Pine Hollow Open Mic Series. This is one of the great poetry series that happen each month in the area, showcasing talented poets and writers of upstate New York. The event take place at the Pine Hollow Arboretum (16 Maple Ave., Slingerlands, NY) starting at
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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.
