Word Fest 2019 — Readings Against the End of the World, April 12 – 13
Dan Wilcox spent a lot of time at the 2019 Word Fest Readings Against the End of the World open mic and took notes.
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Stephen A DiBiase Prize Winners and Finalists to Read at Colonie Town Library
Winning and final poems from the 2017 Stephen A DiBiase Poetry Prize contest will be read on Sunday, May 7 at the Colonie Town Library.
2nd Sunday @ 2 — Poetry + Prose, January 8
The first 2nd Sunday @ 2 reading of 2017 kicked off the new year with a great poetry open mic at The Arts Center in Troy.
Poets Speak Loud!, July 25
The last Monday in July and Dan Wilcox was in the back room of McGeary’s again for the open mic and featured poet, Josh Bauscher.
Last Two Days of the 2015 Albany Word Fest
The 2015 Albany Word Fest has been great and we have two more great events: the Word Fest Open Mic & 3rd Annual Word Fest Invitational Slam.
Poets Speak Loud!, March 31
Dan WIlcox was back in Albany, at McGeary’s, for the open mic. It was supposed to be a “roast” of Mary Panza, but that was postponed until the Fall.
Looking Back at the Top 10 Local Poetry Open Mics and Events of the Past
A lot of things have changed over the years in our poetry community, so we asked local poets their thoughts on poetry open mics and events of the past.
Third Thursday Poetry Night, June 20
This edition of the Third Thursday Poetry Night was on the eve of the Summer Solstice, with a full complement of regular community open mic poets & our feature Glenn Werner.
Getting Closer… Two Weeks Until the 2013 Albany Word Fest
We are now within two weeks until the 2013 Albany Word Fest, our annual celebration of National Poetry Month and the poetry and spoken word of upstate New York. This year’s event will take place on Sunday, April 14 – Saturday, April 20, 2013 at seven different venues in and around Albany, NY. The week will …
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Looking Back… 2009 Albany Word Fest: The First 12-Hour Open Mic
The first 12-Hour Word Fest Open Mic took place at the 2009 Albany Word Fest. In an effort to give everyone an opportunity to share their word at the annual event, we held the open mic portion from 7:00PM Friday, April 17 to 7:00AM on Saturday, April 18. We began the night without any chairs, …
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Looking Back… 2006 Albany Word Fest
After the success of the expanded 2005 Albany Word Fest, we continued the two-day poetry festival in 2006 as we held events at the UAG Gallery, Tess’ Lark Tavern, and Valentine’s to celebrate not only National Poetry Month, but the great poetry and spoken word community here in the upstate NY region. We kicked everything …
Looking Back… 2003 Albany Word Fest
For the 2003 Albany Word Fest we decided to move the event inside the walls of Valentine’s, which was at the time the home of the monthly open mic School of Night. This was the first time that the annual event took place in the city of Albany. In 2002 we had our first featured …