Last week was action packed with poetry and spoken word happening all over the area and this coming week is looking just as great. There are a lot of great events lined up with fantastic featured poets. Get out and support local arts this coming week. Sunday, November 11 2:00pm – Poetry + Prose The […]
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The next Live From The Living Room reading is taking place next Wednesday, November 14, at the Pride Center with featured poet Algorhythm. Since he began writing at the age of 13 Algorhythm has pursued and mastered every aspect of poetry, hip hop, and battling as well as truth and substance in the music he creates. Originally
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Back up to Saratoga Springs, this month with my friend Don Levy tagging along for the first time in many months. It was another full list of open mic poets & a similar program of the featured poets, the Nitty Gritty Slam team out of Albany, NY, fr…
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On Wednesday, September 5, just one day after we kick off the new season of the Nitty Gritty Slam, the team will be traveling up to the historic Caffe Lena for the monthly poetry open mic. Not only is this going to be a special event, highlighting the incredible talent from Albany’s poetry slam series,
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We made it to the end of our first year of poetry slams last Tuesday night at Valentine’s. Nitty Gritty Slam #24 celebrated a great year of poetry and spoken word. We congratulated and welcomed back Team Nitty Gritty, who were the first slam team ever from Albany to perform at the National Poetry Slam. And we crowned
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So with a little help from arithmetic one could determine that, if this event is held twice a month, #24 would mark the end of a year of slams, & indeed it was, & it also marked the (not quite triumphant, but undaunted) return of the Nitty Grit…
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The Nitty Gritty Slam is celebrating its one year anniversary at NGS #21 at Valentine’s on Tuesday, August 24 and we are inviting all of our previous winners to come back and compete at this special Night of Champions. In the past year we have had 12 seperate first place winners at Nitty Gritty Slam:
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We are gearing up for a big week for Albany poetry and spoken word as Team Nitty Gritty will be heading down to Charlotte, NC for the National Poetry Slam representing Albany and upstate New York for the first time ever. Thom Francis and Mojavi will be going with the team (Elizag, ILLiptical, D. Colin,
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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 …
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It was another hot night in Albany, but we were back downstairs, in cooler air, for another edition of the Nitty Gritty Slam at Valentine’s on July 17. This evening though seemed a little different with a much smaller crowd and a quieter atmosphere. But that did not stop the poetry. The open mic began, almost on
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On Tuesday, May 15, we storm back into Valentine’s for the 18th installment of the Nitty Gritty Slam. Can you believe that it has been 9 months since we started this thing? At NGS #17 we had new faces claim the top spots with Tenesha Smith, Kat SoPoetic, and Algorhythm. Who will return to defend their
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We kicked off the month of May with Nitty Gritty Slam #17 at Valentine’s and in the process crowned a new champ. We also had some new faces step up and take the other two top spots. But, before the slam, Mojavi hosted the open mic and welcomed some local poets who have yet to take part in the
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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.
