Poetry Night at Harmony Cafe, June 10
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.
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Upcoming Poetry Events – Week of June 16, 2013
There is a lot going on next week including new open mics and slams in Western Mass, storytelling at the Olde English, and the return of the Old School Slam at Valentine’s for Nitty Gritty Slam #47 as we are in full preparation mode heading to the National Poetry Slam. If you play your cards
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Poetry + Prose: 2nd Sunday @ 2, June 9
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, the hosts, readers & listeners. I was first up with a clutch of new poems, the first perhaps goes on, “Counting Moons” then “Delete this
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Poets in the Park 2013
The busiest man in the local poetry business, Dan Wilcox, just released information on the Poets In The Park series for this year. The Poets In The Park reading series, originally hosted and organized by Tom Nattell, has been bringing some of the best local and visiting poets and spoken word artists to the people
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SLAM! – Saratoga Literary Art and Music, June 8
As you can see, this was not a “Slam” but a S.L.A.M., but 3 of Albany’s finest poets performed in another of Saratoga’s problematic “Arts Festivals.” This was held on the patio of Sperry’s Restaurant on Caroline St. The problem here being Caroline St…
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Upcoming Poetry Events – Week of June 9, 2013
A lot going on this coming week in the Northeast poetry community. We are adding more and more to the calendar of events every week, so be sure you check back often to make sure that your area is covered. If we are missing anything, please let us know at the bottom of the page.
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Poets Speak Loud!, May 27
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 in spite of (or because of) the Holiday in the back room of McGeary’s, our busy, attentive waitress was Victoria (a real cutey) & our
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Sunday Four Poetry, May 26
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 even open, with a carload of Albany poets, including the perfectly coiffed featured poet, so I ended up at the top of the sign-up sheet.
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Third Thursday Poetry Night Featuring Glenn Werner
Dan Wilcox is one the busiest guys in the local poetry scene with all of the events that he hosts on top of all of the readings that he attends (and writes about). His flagship reading, The Third Thursday Poetry Night, returns to the Social Justice Center on June 20 with featured reader Glenn Werner.
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Nitty Gritty Slam #45, May 21
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 the same faces. But 1st K.P. (Kevin Peterson) served as host for the open mic. First up with a love poem in rhyme (“High Wire”) was
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Up The River, Issue One Update and Preview
First, we want to apologize for the delay in publishing and distributing the first issue of Up The River. Due to an unexpected health issue with one of our editors, the schedule was pushed back quite a bit. We are working feverishly on putting the finishing touches on the journal and hope to get it
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Upcoming Poetry Events – Week of May 26, 2013
We just told you about our fantastic new events calendar system on the site, but we still want to give your weekly run down of what is going in the area. We have another full week ahead of us with poetry, music, spoken word, and some storytelling. Here is what is coming up in Poetryland
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