Poetic License – Albany Featured Reading & Open Mic
Join us as we feature Megeen Mulholland, Charlie Rossiter, Jennifee, Jill Crammond, Cheryl Rice, Barbara Ungar, and Brian Liston whose work inspired the visual art hanging on the gallery walls.
Join us as we feature Megeen Mulholland, Charlie Rossiter, Jennifee, Jill Crammond, Cheryl Rice, Barbara Ungar, and Brian Liston whose work inspired the visual art hanging on the gallery walls.
HVWG and Upstate Artists Guild present the opening of Poetic License – Albany celebrating the collaboration of visual art & the written word.
Third Thursday in the Summer — had to crank up the sound system a bit because the door was open letting in the sounds of The Street.
When the first Word Fest happened in 2001 it was an open mic. Since then Word Fest has grown & changed, but the one constant is the annual Word Fest Open Mic.
The kick-off, the 1st round, the ceremonial 1st pitch, the launch of Up the River, the opening lines of Word Fest in the backroom of McGeary’s.
Word Fest week is here! We have a week’s worth of poetry & spoken word events lined up. Plus, there are open mics & reading taking place all over the area.
We are now within two weeks until the 2014 Albany Word Fest, our celebration of National Poetry Month and the poetry and spoken word of upstate NY.
The annual, pre-Xmas, visit from Sanity Clause, a yearly opportunity for the old fellow to have the badly-behaved good poets of Albany sit on his welcoming lap.
Dan Wilcox looks back at the 2013 Poets in the Park season featuring Dennis Sullivan, Elizabeth Gordon, Melissa Tuckey, Tomas Urayoán Noel, and Jill Crammond.
On Monday, we start another great week packed with open mics, slams, and featured readings with Poets Speak Loud featuring Brian Dorn kicking things off.
The busiest man in the local poetry business, Dan Wilcox, just released information on the Poets In The Park series for this year. The Poets In The Park reading series, originally hosted and organized by Tom Nattell, has been bringing some of the best local and visiting poets and spoken word artists to the people …
The house was packed for today’s featured poet, Jill Crammond, with a long list of open mic poets, introduced by Edie Abrams. I’d gotten there early before the doors were even open, with a carload of Albany poets, including the perfectly coiffed featured poet, so I ended up at the top of the sign-up sheet. …
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.