Upcoming Poetry Events – Week of May 27, 2012
We have a lot of poetry events coming up next week. For a third week in a row, there are seven full days of open mics and readings going on […]
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Dan Wilcox
Third Thursday Poetry Night, May 17
A lovely evening, so nice that thousands of people were running through the streets of Albany in their underwear — actually, the annual Corporate Run. Our featured poet, Elizabeth Thomas, came all the way over from Connecticut, with another CT poet, …
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Local Poets from Finishing Line Press, May 16
This reading, hosted by Mimi Moriarty at the Pine Hollow Arboretum in Slingerlands, featured 5 poets published this year by Finishing Line Press.I am most familiar with Jan Tramontano’s Paternal Nocturne which she has been reading around at various ven…
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Nitty Gritty Slam #18, May 15
Dustin Walker readingThom Francis, el presidente, was a busy man tonight, hosting the open mic, keeping score & slamming. The open mic offered a great variety of poems & poets, starting with Leslie Michelle doing a poem by someone else, then D…
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Poetry + Prose Open Mic, May 13
Back on our regular day, the 2nd Sunday, at the Arts Center in Troy, me & Nancy Klepsch your hosts. It being Mothers’ Day there were some pieces on that theme, but in general a wide-ranging open mic like we are used to.No one signed up in the firs…
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Live from the Living Room, May 9
Tonight at the recently refurbished Pride Center there were some folding chairs for the poets, but still no comfy couches — still better than sitting on the radiator, as some did last month.Waiting for the feature to arrive, our host Don Levy started …
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Calling All Poets! — Robert Milby & Dan Wilcox, May 4
Calling All Poets! is a popular name for a reading series (there is one over in Connecticut with the same name), this one held the first Friday of each month at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY. I read there a few years ago & the folks wh…
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Caffè Lena Open Mic, May 2
Through one reason or another the last time I was at Caffe Lena for the open mic was in February — it was good to be back. Our host, Carol Graser, started us off with a reading of Muriel Rukeyser’s poem “Boy with His Hair Cut Short” then on to the op…
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Harry Staley/George Drew, May 2
This was a reading & book launch for Harry Staley’s long-awaited book, Truant Pastures, The Complete Poems of Harry C. Staley (SUNY Press). Harry is a UAlbany Professor Emeritus in English & a poet who has read in his heyday t…
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Dan Wilcox and Robert Milby Reading at Calling All Poets Tonight
Tonight Dan Wilcox and Robert Milby, two of the hardest working poets / organizers in the area, are going to be the featured readers at the Calling All Poets series at
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Poets Speak Loud!, April 30
So the center tables in the back room of McGeary’s has become the place where AlbanyPoets (or Albany poets) gather with our drinks & food as we wait for the open mic to begin. There is lots of room & even if you are a poetry virgin, if there i…
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Smith’s Tavern Poet Laureate Contest, April 22
Mark O’Brien & Dennis SullivanAnother annual poetry-rite-of-Spring & I just had to be there. This was the third year for this event, with 10 poets competing for the laurel crown. This is a very well organized & structured contest, run by …
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