The 2012 Word Fest is getting bigger, better, and more exciting as we get closer to the big event in April. This week Matthew Klane and the good folks over
Urban Guerilla Theatre is back at The Linda this coming Friday, March 16, celebrating all things woman with HERSTORY..A Celebration of Women Through Verse, Performance and Song. This month UGT
The next installment of Nitty Gritty Slam is tomorrow night at Valentines. We are back downstairs for the festivities and ready to rock! Who will come out on top at
It has taken a while but I’m losing my nostalgia for the Lark Tavern, the grieving process is coming to an end, with the success & vibrancy of this series at McGeary’s. Perhaps it is the cozy back room where poets listen to poets, where the shocke…
Tonight, much to the chagrin of the official Slam bartender Kim, we were upstairs at Valentines to make room for a band in the usual poets’ spot. We were just as funky & even louder to carry our voices over the sound of electric guitars & drum…
We were upstairs for this edition of the Nitty Gritty Slam, battling the band downstairs. The voices of the poets rose above it all and we were treated to some
Back at the Social Justice Center, a wonderful night of the voices of “regulars” & new voices too. We began the reading invoking the night’s muse, poet Bob Kaufman with a couple of his poems. Tonight’s featured poet is frequently first on the sign…
The Arts Center of the Capital Region and the Hudson Valley Writer’s Guild are joining forces to present Write Here!. Taking place on Saturday, March 10 from 9am – 5:15pm
Last night at Valentines, we saw three new slam poets take the stage for the 11th installment of the Nitty Gritty Slam. We also had a surprise sacrificial poet in
After the Yes! Reading I raced (not quite) up Central Ave. to WAMC’s Linda Auditorium for the monthly gathering of UGT. I thought I’d be late, but Mojavi had just taken the stage & was talking about getting smacked as a kid by his mother in the supermarket. He must’ve been soooo cute!
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.
A couple of weeks ago Mojavi said that this was going to happen. He said that we would be seeing a new face take first place and he was right.
