Things like this do not happen very often, but there are three big poetry readings happening on Thursday, September 20 here in Albany. Dan Wilcox has Cara Benson as the featured poet at the Third Thursday Poetry Open Mic at the Social Justice Center. The NYS Writers Institute is having a reading with Alison Lurie, […]
Frequency North’s Eighth Season Kicks Off This Thursday, September 20 Read More »
or as we like to call it 2nd Sunday at 2, into our 3rd year! Me & Nancy Klepsch (your hosts) & the fine collection of writers who show up to read. Nancy started us off with a poem she had just written, “Welcome,” & what better plac…
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Once again we have a lot going in the upstate New York region. From poetry and spoken word to story telling and slam, we certainly do cover all the bases here in upstate NY. Here’s is a look at the week ahead… Monday, September 17 6:30pm – Ben & Jerry’s Open Mic Ben & Jerry’s,
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On Monday , September 24, Poets Speak Loud will present our Third Annual Celebrity Roast! Break out the presidential BBQ sauce because this year the poet on the spit is none other than our own Thom Francis. You read it right! We are not holding back on the man that makes it all look so
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We kicked off the second season of the Nitty Gritty Slam on Tuesday, September 4 with one of our smaller crowds. But we overcame and had a great night of poetry and spoken word with some new, dynamic voices on the mic. We started everything off with the open mic that saw a new poet,
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Back up to Saratoga Springs, this month with my friend Don Levy tagging along for the first time in many months. It was another full list of open mic poets & a similar program of the featured poets, the Nitty Gritty Slam team out of Albany, NY, fr…
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Last week was action packed with poetry and spoken word happening all over the area and this coming week is looking just as great starting with the return of the Poetry + Prose series at the Arts Center on Sunday afternoon and Kevin Peterson’s Professor Java’s Wide Open Mic on Monday evening. Sunday, September 9
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Vodka Mary Panza was back as our host with that hot blue flame & during her pointedly personal introductions one spoke up at our peril. Thus, it was an energetic open mic, with the featured poet, L-Majesty quivering in the wings (if ther…
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We made it to the end of our first year of poetry slams last Tuesday night at Valentine’s. Nitty Gritty Slam #24 celebrated a great year of poetry and spoken word. We congratulated and welcomed back Team Nitty Gritty, who were the first slam team ever from Albany to perform at the National Poetry Slam. And we crowned
NGS #24 Results – The Team is Back in Town and a King is Crowned Read More »
So with a little help from arithmetic one could determine that, if this event is held twice a month, #24 would mark the end of a year of slams, & indeed it was, & it also marked the (not quite triumphant, but undaunted) return of the Nitty Grit…
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at the Social Justice Center, with the tour bus circling the block looking for a parking space, we had enough poets to begin & few enough to read 2 poems each (if you wanted to). Our muse for the night, in honor of our featured poet, George Wallac…
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Tomorrow night, August 16, 2012 (7:00 sign up; 7:30 start), the Poetry Motel Foundation presents the Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY with an open mic before & after the featured performer . There is a $3.00 donation, suggested; more if you got it, less if you can’t. This great, long
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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.
