What a great show we have lined up to kick off July at Nitty Gritty Slam. We are very happy to announce the return of The Poet Essence to our Valentine’s stage as our featured performer at NGS #48 on Tuesday, July 2. Essence is one of the most dynamic poets we have right here […]
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Just because we are preparing for the National Poetry Slam in August, that does not mean that we are taking a rest from turning up the summertime heat at Valentine’s. We are back on Tuesday, June 18 for the 47th edition of Nitty Gritty Slam! At the last slam, we saw two members of Team
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What a great way to kick off the summer season with NGS #46 Tuesday night at Valentine’s. We had a full room of poets, performers, and an audience ready to soak it all up. Taking over the hosting duties for the first part of the show once again was Team Nitty Gritty captain and Albany Poets
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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
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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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