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.
This year with the series a full week of readings and open mics this regular monthly poetry event was a fully official part of Word Fest.
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.
Dan WIlcox was back in Albany, at McGeary’s, for the open mic. It was supposed to be a “roast” of Mary Panza, but that was postponed until the Fall.
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.
Back at the Garden Room of the Pride Center for this intimate, warm open reading (there is no mic nor no need for one), with our host Don Levy.
Dan Wilcox made it back from Cape Cod just in time to be part of the August edition of Poets Speak Loud with featured poet Bertha Rogers.
This was the 5th Annual “Poets at the Arboretum” invitational in which poets who have read here before are invited back as a group feature.
A hot night in the Social Justice Center with the little air-conditioning quickly overwhelmed by the vast crowd with featured poet, Bob Elmendorf,
This edition of the Third Thursday Poetry Night was on the eve of the Summer Solstice, with a full complement of regular community open mic poets & our feature Glenn Werner.
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
