The Rensselaerville Library’s 11th Annual Celebration of National Poetry Month
Our friends at the Rensselaerville Library are holding their 11th annual celebration of National Poetry Month with some great events planned.
Mimi Moriarty
Albany Word Fest — Day 1, April 13
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.
Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic Featuring Slant of Light Contributors
The December edition of the Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic featuring poets from “Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley”.
Poets of Earth, Water, Tree, and Sky Featuring Marion Menna and Mimi Moriarty
Poetry returns to the Pine Hollow Arboretum tonight with Marion Menna and Mimi Moriarty for the Poets of Earth, Water, Tree and Sky open mic.
2013 Short Fiction Contest Winners
The Hudson Valley Writers Guild has announced the winners of its 2013 Short Fiction Competition with first prize going to Colleen Geraghty.
Stephen Ellis at Pine Hollow Arboretum Open Mic
On Friday, May 24, poetry and spoken word returns to the Pine Hollow Arboretum in Slingerlands with the second open mic and featured reading of the season. This month the featured poet is Stephen Ellis. Stephen Ellis, born 21 December 1948, in As Safirya, Syria, and in the interim, transmitted to the east coast of …
Judith Kerman at Pine Hollow Arboretum Open Mic
The schedule for the 2013 Pine Hollow Open Mic series is out (see below) and the first reading kicking off the series is Friday April 5 with featured reader Judith Kerman. Judith’s introduction: For me, poetry is at least partly a visual and musical art form. Or at least, it comes out of those parts …
HVWG 2013 Short Fiction Contest
It’s time for the annual Hudson Valley Writers Guild writing contest. Last year was the contest for poetry, this year they are looking for your short fiction with a great panel of judges looking over the work. Mimi Moriarty sent along the following guidelines, so get your words into the Guild. 2013 SHORT FICTION CONTEST GUIDELINES …
Poetry + Prose / 2nd Sunday @ 2, February 10
Nancy Klepsch was back as co-host with me, DWx, & a full list of open mic readers, some for the first time, some regulars. George Guarino started us off with a hypnotic reading of his piece “What If,” setting the tone for the afternoon. …
Poetry in Copake on Friday, September 21
Local area poets Cecele Kraus (Tuscaloosa Bypass), Mimi Moriarty (Sibling Reverie, War Psalm), Linda Sonia Miller (Something Worth Diving For), and Jan Tramontano (Paternal Nocturnewill) will be reading from chapbooks recently published by Finishing Line Press on Friday, September 21 at 7:00PM at the Roeliff Jansen Community Library (9091 Rte 22, Copake, NY 12516). These four …
Poetry at the Altamont Fair Today!
It is not very often that you can combine livestock, amusement rides, carnival games, fired food, and poetry, but up here in the capital region we try to fit poetry into everything that is going on. For the 26th year, local poets will be representing the art of spoken word with special readings throughout the afternoon. The long …
Caffè Lena Open Mic, August 1
Saratoga Springs in August means mortal combat over parking spaces, crowded bars. But I was able to negotiate both to get myself & my guest Ken Hada to the reading on time, after a convivial time at the Parting Glass with the other featured poet, …
