From the time-honored village of Ballston Spa, NY, Brian Dorn has been publishing rhyming-poetry on the internet for several years. A graduate of The University of Albany and SUNY Adirondack, Brian has effectively leveraged cyberspace to circulate his clever wordplay throughout an increasingly paperless world. Thanks to the web, Brian Dorn’s poetry has reached an audience far beyond upstate NY. Brian has authored hundreds of poems, many of which can be found in his two-volume collection, From My Poems To Yours.
On Monday, we start another great week packed with open mics, slams, and featured readings with Poets Speak Loud featuring Brian Dorn kicking things off.
The feature at Live From The Living Room, Ken Denberg, jumped right in to read from his new manuscript of poems before he could get a proper introduction.
The July edition of the Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic in Saratoga featured Avery and host Carol Graser welcomed over a dozen area poets to the historic stage.
We return to McGeary’s on Monday, July 29 for another edition of Poets Speak Loud with this month’s featured poet Brian Dorn. Brian is a great new face on the scene
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.
Harmony Cafe is a weekly reading and open mic, quintessentially Woodstock. It was good to make the trip, hang out with old friends and poets.
A day of parades, the Pride Parade in Albany, & the Flag Day Parade in Troy where this reading happened in spite of it all. Nancy Klepsch & me, DWx,
What a great way to kick off the summer season with NGS #46 Tuesday night at Valentine’s. We had a full room of poets, performers, and an audience ready to soak
Poets Speak Loud!, May 27 This series is held on the last Monday of the month & so each year it falls on Memorial Day in May. Today we gathered
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
Now that the Slam team has been selected, nominated, whatever, this was a wide-open slam for anyone to give it a shot & it was refreshing to not see all
This is just an open mic, no featured reader, held most months of the year at the Arts Center of the Capital Region on River St. in Troy, NY for
