Nitty Gritty Slam #61*, January 7
The first slam of 2014 and one of the last to take place at our current home. Dan Wilcox was there, competed, and took a lot of notes.
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L-Majesty
Nitty Gritty Slam #59 – Dead Poet Slam
On Tuesday, December 3 we start the next phase of Season Three with Nitty Gritty Slam #59 at Valentines with the special Dead Poet Slam.
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Nitty Gritty Slam #52 – The Season Two Night of Champions
Nitty Gritty Slam is marking the end of its second year on Aug 20 with The Night of Champions where we invite all of the winners from Season Two to compete.
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WordFest 2013, Day 6: Open Mic, April 19
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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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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Nitty Gritty Slam #41 – The 2nd Team NGS Semi-Final at Valentine’s on Tuesday, April 2
Things are really heating up as we get closer to selecting the team to represent Albany and NGS at the National Poetry Slam in Boston. This 41st edition of Albany’s poetry slam series will be another special slam for the top nine points leaders battling it out in the second semi-final to be part of Team NGS
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Poetyc Visionz Presents The Real Reality Album Release Party This Friday at The Book Club
Poetyc Visionz might as well move into the Book Club (153 South Pearl Street, Albany), because he has a busy couple of nights ahead of him at the downtown venue. Tonight he is hosting his weekly “Safe Haven” poetry open mic. The Safe Haven is one of the hottest mics happening right now in Albany and
Nitty Gritty Slam #39 – Dead Poets, March 4
It was with fear & trepidation that I went to this Slam, nervous that someone would read one of my poems, that I had missed the obituary, but then, even dead, no one would probably read my poems, & no one did, not even me. Kevin Peterson, getting used to being the MC at poetry
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Poets Speak Loud!, August 27
Vodka Mary Panza was back as our host with that hot blue flame & during her pointedly personal introductions one spoke up at our peril. Thus, it was an energetic open mic, with the featured poet, L-Majesty quivering in the wings (if ther…
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Poets Speak Loud Featuring L-Majesty
It’s the end of summer, the college students are back in the neighborhoods, the kids are getting ready to go back to school, and the sun is setting earlier and earlier. What better way to deal with all of that than a night of great poetry and good friends. Join us this coming Monday, when we
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Upcoming Poetry Events – Week of August 26, 2012
We are at the end of another great week of POETRY and spoken word here in Albany this week. On Tuesday, we crowned local POET and MC, ILLiptical as the Nitty Gritty Slam Season One Champion. We also announced the Season Two schedule for NGS to get everyone ready for the next series of slam
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L-Majesty – August 2012 Featured Poet
We return to McGeary’s on Monday, August 27 for another edition of Poets Speak Loud with this month’s featured poet L-Majesty. Luis Pabon has read at many of the local poetry open mics over the years, most recently at Nitty Gritty Slam #22, and if you were at the 2012 Albany Word Fest open mic,
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