Here is a look at all of the spoken word and poetry events, open mics, readings, slams, and workshops coming up this week in the region.
Saturday night a team of poets from Albany, Brass Tacks, traveled south to Nyack for the 6th Annual Hud,SON! River Regional Poetry Slam.
The 28th Annual “Day of Poet” Poetry Contest and Open Mic will take place Saturday, November 26, 2016 at the William K. Sanford Library.
As I’ve said ad nauseam, “if your family & friends don’t come to your readings who will?” Samson Dikeman, did just that for his reading.
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.
The Nitty Gritty Slam is held on on each 1st & 3rd Tuesday at The Low Beat here in Albany and that means this week it falls into Word Fest.
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.
Word Fest week is here! We have a week’s worth of poetry & spoken word events lined up. Plus, there are open mics & reading taking place all over the area.
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.
It was a raucous Nitty Gritty Slam night with Eirean Bradley & Leah Noble Davidson as the features, as well as the customary open mic.
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
Albany Poets was/were the featured poets one of the events of this week-long arts festival in Pittsfield, MA, at the yBar on North Street . The (whole sick) crew consisted
