Next Tuesday, May 7, everyone will want to be at Valentine’s for the Season Two Grand Slam. The 44th edition of Nitty Gritty Slam will feature 10 poets who have
It was the WordFest edition of the regular Nitty Gritty Slam, a special Haiku slam, & perhaps one could also say the “Jackie Robinson Slam” (42 being his number). My
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
Poetyc Visionz might as well move into the Book Club (153 South Pearl Street, Albany), because he has a busy couple of nights ahead of him at the downtown venue. Tonight
We don’t always have featured poets at Nitty Gritty Slam, but when we do, we like to bring in some of the most dynamic and powerful performers that we can
What started out as a very slow night at Valentine’s ended up being a great evening of poetry and spoken word at NGS #36. It was an unusual 5th Tuesday
This is a new open mic series in town that I’ve been meaning to get to, but it’s on Thursdays & I miss at least one a month due to my own venue on the third Thursday & somehow other Thursdays get away from me as well. Finally, I got there this…
We are back at Valentine’s this coming Tuesday, February 5 with the 37th edition of Nitty Gritty Slam! This time around we are back in our 1st and 3rd Tuesday
We are back at Valentine’s on Tuesday, January 29 for a special, fifth Tuesday edition of Nitty Gritty Slam. Earlier this season Kevin Peterson and Poetyc Visionz advanced to the
Happy New Year! The first slam, actually the first POETRY event of 2013 in the area happened on January 1 at Valentine’s. Some of us came from the incredible annual
Last week at Valentine’s we had a another packed house for poetry and spoken word (and of course our featured poet Influence all the way from Connecticut).  This was also the
We had 16 poets get on stage and share their work throughout the evening at Nitty Gritty Slam #31 on Tuesday, November 20 at Valentines between the open mic and
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.
