Nitty Gritty Slam is marking the end of its second year on Aug 20 with The Night of Champions where we invite all of the winners from Season Two to compete.
Things are really heating up as we get closer to selecting the team to represent Albany and NGS at the National Poetry Slam in Boston. This 41st edition of Albany’s
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
At the last slam, NGS #10,Ben Golden took the top prize after not even making it to the second round at NGS #9. In second place was Dan Wilcox, another
At some of the previous Slams here at Valentines, notably #9, the scores were so uniformly high, no matter what was performed, that it was like the judges were all clones, or smoking on the same crack pipe.
A couple of weeks ago Mojavi said that this was going to happen. He said that we would be seeing a new face take first place and he was right.
What a great way to kick off 2012! The poets gathered at Valentines this past Tuesday for the 9th edition of the Nitty Gritty Slam. After taking a little abuse
This was one of the last Albany Poets Presents open mics at Valentines before handing everything over to make room for the Nitty Gritty Slam. The open mic featured poetry
This week saw the return on slam to Albany as Albany Poets, Urban Guerilla Theatre, and the Frequency North Reading Series combined forces for the Nitty Gritty Slam. The first
Bless was the featured poet for the July edition of Poets Speak Loud. He performed a couple of his pieces and then handed the mic to a new poet to
