Upcoming Poetry Events – Week of March 22, 2015
A big week of poetry starts on Sunday with three readings in the area & the words continue all week – it’s not even National Poetry Month yet!
Jacqueline Ahl
The Kingston Poetry Brothel: Where Words are the Wares
The Poetry Brothel, a uniquely immersive poetry experience that reinvents the brothel model by replacing the traditional “wares” with words.
Getting Closer… Two Weeks Until the 2013 Albany Word Fest
We are now within two weeks until the 2013 Albany Word Fest, our annual celebration of National Poetry Month and the poetry and spoken word of upstate New York. This year’s event will take place on Sunday, April 14 – Saturday, April 20, 2013 at seven different venues in and around Albany, NY. The week will …
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Upcoming Poetry Events – Week of October 14, 2012
The upcoming week is jammed packed with poetry events in all over upstate New York. No one can say that poetry is not living and breathing around here. Here’s is a look at the week ahead… Sunday, October 14 2:00pm – Poetry + Prose The Arts Center of The Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy, …
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Chronogram Open Word Reading Series Featuring Jacqueline Ahl
The COW has moved! Well not physically, even though the venue did change names, but the location stayed the same. The COW reading series has moved down the calendar to the third Saturday of the month. Instead of taking place on the scheduled Oct. 6, the next edition of the Chronogram Open Word will be on Saturday, …
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Upcoming Poetry Events – Week of September 30, 2012
We are gearing up for another big week of poetry and spoken word in the area by welcoming John Survivor Blake to the Nitty Gritty Slam on Tuesday evening as the featured poet at NGS #27. Then on Wednesday evening, Carol Graser has the legendary Emily XYZ as the featured poet at Caffe Lena. Here …
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COW (Chronogram Open Word) Featuring Bruce Weber, Joanne Pagano Weber, and Teresa Costa
A lot of poetry happening in the Hudson Valley this weekend as the COW series continues this coming Saturday at the brand new Outdated Cafe in Kingston. This is another great monthly poetry event hosted by Phillip Levine with featured performers and an open mic. COW (Chronogram Open Word): Poetry/Prose/Performance is (usually) hosted byChronogram’s poetry editor Phillip …
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Poetry at the Altamont Fair Today!
It is not very often that you can combine livestock, amusement rides, carnival games, fired food, and poetry, but up here in the capital region we try to fit poetry into everything that is going on. For the 26th year, local poets will be representing the art of spoken word with special readings throughout the afternoon. The long …
COW (Chronogram Open Word) Featuring Mayapple Writers’ Retreat Writers
The COW series continues this Saturday, August 4 (after a couple of recent cancellations) at Outdated – An Antique Cafe. This great poetry open mic series is usually hosted by Phillip Levine, but this time around there are going to be two sub-hosts (Bruce Weber and Joanne Pagano Weber) filling his shoes. This month the featured …
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Looking Back… 2005 Albany Word Fest: A New Beginning
After the 2003 Albany Word Fest, Albany Poets went through some major changes. One of those changes was moving the Word Fest from September to April. We began the new annual tradition by expanding it to two days, April 22 and 23, 2005, and having performances and events in four different locations (The Lark Tavern, …
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Newsletter released, October 15
Hudson Valley Writers Guild Newsletter, October 15 In This Issue Guild Announcements: Community of Writers Reading in Albany, Winners Announced for the Guild’s Short Fiction Contest, The Schenectady Community of Writers Event, HVWG website update and call for member profiles Member Announcements: M.E. Kemp, Barbara M. Traynor Area Announcements: Book Sale at East Line Books, …
