Our host, R.M. Engelhardt started off the open mic with a reading from the poetry of singer Nick Cave, from his book King Ink. Then on to the rest of us open mic poets.I was first up with recent pieces, the salacious “Hemingway” & the cosmic “The …
Saint Poem Reading, July 16 Read More »
This was a booking I’ve wanted to do for years, at least since Don Levy once complained to me that he got an email from someone thinking he was Donald Lev. What genius, I thought, to have on the same program sometime the poets Donald Lev & Don Lev…
Poets in the Park, July 14 Read More »
This series of relaxed readings in Slingerlands as been gradually attracting more attention in a rare Friday slot for poetry. Our host, Alan Casline, the director of Rootdrinker Institute (which along with the Delmar Writers Group is a co-sponsor) &am…
Poetry Reading at Pine Hollow Arboretum, July 13 Read More »
This coming week it looks like the new open mic series at Ben & Jerry’s on Lark St. will be kicking off after reschuling last month. This reading will be a one-two punch of poetry and music with the St. Poem Series at the UAG right across the street. Then on Tuesday night Team Nitty Gritty
Upcoming Poetry Events – Week of July 15, 2012 Read More »
This coming Thursday, July 19, at the Social Justice Center, Dan Wilcox and the Poetry Motel Foundation will be presenting the Third Thursday Poetry Night. This month the featured poet is Urban Guerilla Theatre president, local spoken word artist, and Team Nitty Gritty slam coach, Mojavi. K. Mojavi Wright has been actively writing poetry since the age of 7. it was
Third Thursday Poetry Night Featuring Mojavi Read More »
The first of this year’s series (which has been happening in Washington Park in Albany, NY since 1989) began with 2 very different poets, Adrianna Delgado & Howard Kogan. It was a lovely summer evening under the trees around the Robert Burns statu…
Poets in the Park, July 7 Read More »
Or more accurately, half of Love Jones, since I bailed out at the break (end of a long night), at Rudy’s Restaurant in Rensselaer, presented by The Collective. Bless served as host with the lovely Shelly doing trivia contests between the performers. …
Love Jones, July 6 Read More »
What an incredible night of poetry in the not too hot and suprisingly haze-free second floor of Valentine’s. We even had almost enough seating for everyone who came in for the show. Not only were there chairs everywhere, we also had more laptops and technology involved than usual as we broadcast the slam live on
NGS #21 Results – A Hot Night in the ALB Read More »
Tonight Nitty Gritty Slam, Albany poets entry to the world of Slam, had its 21st event, now legal to drink (& we did) — upstairs at Valentines while a band set up downstairs. Someone somehow scrounged up a bunch of chairs & benches so most of…
Nitty Gritty Slam #21, July 3 Read More »
Tiffany JonesThis event was at Tierra Coffee Roasters in Albany, right where I started the Third Thursday readings at the former Cafe Web, lo on these many years ago. This was a reading by writers of both poetry & prose (& polemics, as befits …
Inaugural Reading of the New Surrealist Institute, June 29 Read More »
I can’t be in 2 places at once, but I tried to be at 2 different readings on both ends of the evening. Conflicts happen because we have here in the Capital District of New York State a very diverse, active local arts scene, & probably more poetry …
Jon Sands Reading & …, June 25 Read More »
Sadly our featured poet, Anna Eyre, at the last minute could not make it tonight, but that only meant that the “one-poem rule” became a license for 2 poems for the open mic poets. But before that, the invoking of the Muse, tonight the painte…
Third Thursday Poetry Night, June 21 Read More »
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.
