The 29th Annual “Day of Poet” Poetry Contest and Open Mic will take place Saturday, November 25, 2016 at the William K. Sanford Library.
The 28th Annual “Day of Poet” Poetry Contest and Open Mic will take place Saturday, November 26, 2016 at the William K. Sanford Library.
The 27th Annual “Day of Poet” Poetry Contest & Open Mic is Saturday, November 28 at the William K. Sanford Library with a top prize of $200.
Here is Throwback Thursday (#tbt) Audio of poet Miriam Axel-Lute reading at the “Poetry at the UAG” series on Friday, January 23, 2009.
This was the second reading from the Pine Hills Review, the literary magazine of The College of St. Rose’s MFA in Creative Writing Program.
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.
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.
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
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
After the success of the expanded 2005 Albany Word Fest, we continued the two-day poetry festival in 2006 as we held events at the UAG Gallery, Tess’ Lark Tavern, and
So we gathered once again, this time on the Ides of March, at the Social Justice Center not to stab Caesar but to read poetry. It looked like a short night but as the evening progressed more readers showed up. Tonight when I invoked the Muse it was …
At some of the previous Slams here at Valentines, notably #9, the scores were so uniformly high, no matter what was performed, that it was like the judges were all clones, or smoking on the same crack pipe.
