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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Editor Jill Crammond (left) with poetry co-conspirator Carolee Sherwood As I have been wont to say during April, “In Albany, every day is Poetry Month.” Especially today as the week-long WordFest 2013 starts, & this is my second poetry event of the day. It was the “book launch” for the new poetry journal Up the
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We are very proud to be kicking off the 2013 Albany Word Fest at McGeary’s (4 Clinton Square, Albany), the home of our monthly open mic, Poets Speak Loud, on Sunday, April 14 at 6:00pm. This event will be the official kick off party for the annual Word Fest plus the launch of Albany Poets’ brand new
We have another busy week of poetry here in the area kicking off National Poetry Month. Tomorrow night is Nitty Gritty Slam #41, the second Team NGS Semi-Final at Valentine’s in Albany and then we travel up to Saratoga Springs for the monthly Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic featuring Barbara Louise Ungar and Lee Slonimsky. This open mic, hosted
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National Poetry Month begins on Monday and once again Albany and the upstate New York area has a lot of poetry and spoken word lined up. And even better than that, all of this poetry is here all year long, not just one month in the spring. The week kicks off two of those year-round
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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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At Caffe Lena this Wednesday (March 6, 2013) Carol Graser will be hosting the monthly poetry open mic with two great poets featuring on the historic Saratoga Springs stage; Bob Sharkey and Tim Sneider. Here is some information on the reading and the featured poets from Carol: Caffè Lena Poetry Open Mic Wednesday, March 6 – 7pm sign up,
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This year is flying right along. We are already in March and looking ahead to the 2013 Albany Word Fest in April. We made the official announcement about the event earlier this week and have received a great response so far. This years Word Fest looks to be another great series of events as we are again hosting a full week celebration of
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We have another busy week of poetry here in the area next week. Tuesday is Nitty Gritty Slam #37 and then we travel up to Saratoga Springs for the monthly Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic featuring Matthew Klane and Joe Krausman. This open mic, hosted by Carol Graser, takes place on the first Wednesday of each and
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The first poetry event of 2013 in the area is NGS #34 tonight at Valentine’s but tomorrow night up in Saratoga is the second poetry event of the new year at Caffe Lena with two incredible poets; Tess Lecuyer and Cheryl Rice. Here is more information from host Carol Graser: Happy New Year! Isn’t one of your new
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Welcome to the holiday season in upstate New York. We survived Thanksgiving and the November edition of Poets Speak Loud this past Monday, now we look forward to another great week of poetry and spoken word kicking off the month of December. Things really heat up in the middle of the week with Nitty Gritty Slam on
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We have another one-two punch of poetry and spoken word coming up next week with Nitty Gritty Slam on Tuesday night (with featured poet Influence) in Albany and then the Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic in Saratoga Springs on Wednesday night. This month the featured poets are (myself) Thom Francis and Lynn Ciesielski. This is my second
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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.
