Elizabeth K Gordon (aka elizag) is a writer who was born in Queens, NY and grew up upstate and then in Broward County Florida. Her non-fiction narrative Triplet Boys, their Teen Parents and Two White Women who Tagged Along (CDD Books 2007) won an Indie Book Award. Read more – https://hvwg.org/poets/elizag/
Another great night for poetry and spoken word at Valentine’s on Tuesday, May 15 as we huddled together for the 18th edition of Nitty Gritty Slam. We had a few
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, …
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…
We kicked off the month of May with Nitty Gritty Slam #17 at Valentine’s and in the process crowned a new champ. We also had some new faces step up and take
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…
We have a lot going on this week in Poetryland. Here is a quick rundown of what is going on so you can make plans for some great poetry and
The next Poets Speak Loud open mic for poetry and spoken word will be taking place next Monday night at McGeary’s. This month’s featured poet is Elizag, a familiar face
This was a night of pseudonyms as there were more folks on stage with alternate names than their given names. Actually there were a couple of poets who had a
It was such a slow crowd growing — who knew if we’d have enough for the Slam, let alone judges (always a problem), but the folks kept on coming in (while even Mojavi the open mic host was late). But AlbanyPoets Thom (el presidente) Francis took over …
We had a great time at Valentine’s last week when NGS #14 rolled into our favorite slam venue. The night started out slow, but as soon as we started the
Starting only about a half hour late, el presidente, Thom Francis began the open mic with his poem of being “… in your cold embrace …” “Shackle” followed by Prof. Daniel Nester’s long piece about being run over by a lawnmower when he was 19 & s…
How does an Albany-based slam poet fare against the nation? Elizag, one of the Nitty Gritty Slam’s stars, participated as a storm poet at the Women of the World Poetry
