The summer is heating up and we are getting closer and closer to the National Poetry Slam coming up in August. In the meantime we are still doing our thing at Valentine’s every other week and this coming Tuesday, June 4 is no different when we return for the 46th edition of Nitty Gritty Slam! At […]
Nitty Gritty Slam #46 – Welcome to the Summer! Read More »
Now that the Slam team has been selected, nominated, whatever, this was a wide-open slam for anyone to give it a shot & it was refreshing to not see all the same faces. But 1st K.P. (Kevin Peterson) served as host for the open mic. First up with a love poem in rhyme (“High Wire”) was
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We are back at Valentine’s on Tuesday, May 21 with the 45th edition of Nitty Gritty Slam! Last week, at NGS #44, we had our Grand Slam and put together Team Nitty Gritty 2013 with Christopher The Poet, Daniella Watson, Algorhythm, Kevin Peterson, Poetyc Visionz, and ILLiptical. These incredible local poets will be representing Albany
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Albany Poets has teamed up with Brighter Choice Middle school to expand on a workshop that we hosted in February. The workshop pairs experienced, local spoken word artists Kevin Peterson and Thom Francis with students to give them the opportunity to learn how to create and perform their own poetry. On Friday, May 10th at
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Summer is on the way and the poetry is heating up here in Albany. We have an exciting week ahead of us with the 2013 Team Nitty Gritty Grand Slam taking place at Valentine’s on Tuesday night. Ten local poets (ILLiptical, Kevin Peterson, Avery, Poetyc Visionz, Algorhythm, Daniella Watson, Mojavi, Tasha Davis, Christopher The Poet, and Victorio Reyes) will be competing
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Next Tuesday, May 7, everyone will want to be at Valentine’s for the Season Two Grand Slam. The 44th edition of Nitty Gritty Slam will feature 10 poets who have competed all season and left it all on stage to make to this point. The winners of the Grand Slam will be the poets representing
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Way back in ancient times (i.e., 12 years ago) when Word Fest started, it was just a stumbing toddler in Thatcher Park in the Fall, a grand open mic of everyone & anyone who wanted to & could sign up, a poetic, shall we say, cluster fuck, the alcohol induced birth of the brain-child of
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They packed the house tonight at the Social Justice Center for the second standing-room-only event of WordFest. Of course it helped that there were 18 featured poets, students from the Poetry in Performance class at the College of St. Rose. But there were also 17 poets signed up for the open mic, loyal regulars, some
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The Grand Slam for Team NGS will be taking place on Tuesday, May 7, but before that we have to get all of the competitors lined up. On Tuesday, April 30 at Valentine’s, we will be hosting the Last Chance / Wild Card Slam with the top two poets of the night moving on to the Grand
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It was the WordFest edition of the regular Nitty Gritty Slam, a special Haiku slam, & perhaps one could also say the “Jackie Robinson Slam” (42 being his number). My kind of Slam — hard to make a Haiku last 3 minutes. But first the open mic, hosted by Christopher the Poet, as effervescent as
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One has to wonder “what the frack is going on?” but of course it is only WordFest 2013, with “Poets Against Fracking” at the UAG Gallery, day 2 of this week-long event sponsored by AlbanyPoets.com. Kevin Peterson was busy taking notes & V-P (“very pretty”) Mary Panza did the intros for this featured band of
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As the 2013 Albany Word Fest is starting to wind down we are getting ready for more poetry and spoken word coming up next week. But before that we still have three big events in the Word Fest. Tonight is the Word Fest Open Mic at the UAG Gallery starting at 7:00pm. The list already
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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.
