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First of all, we want to thank everyone involved in WORD FEST 2008. The audiences were great, the performances were stellar and the UAG was once again so generous in lending their time and space to us. Now here is what Albany Poets is asking from you: We need contributors, editors, artists, photographers, and especially volunteers to help out with OTHER:. We want to take it to the next step and

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Every Monday Night "Forever". All events include an open mic of poetry/prose/performance hosted by Phillip Levine (Chronogram Poetry Editor).Doors Open at 7pm, start time is 7:30pm. Features read for approximately 20-25mins each, beginning around 8pm. Open mic before & after the featured readers. Upcoming "Special Guests": Monday, June 2nd, 2008:Northeast Center for Special Care - Resident Poets

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Where: 'Over The Rainbow', 35 Hudson Ave, Nyack, NY (corner of South Broadway)When:  Monday May 12th, 7:00 – 9:00PM Come join us. Open mic, before and after features.  Sign up for open mic before or during reading. We also want to hear your voices!Post Traumatic Press 2007 is a …      …searing raw-whisky anthology by military veterans from World War II to Iraq.  New recruits like Jim Murphy who

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Looks like a very interesting pair of readings will be taking place on May 8th at 7:30pm in Nyack. Take a gander at the bio of Afaa Michael Weaver (http://www.afaamweaver.com/). Catherine Doty & Afaa Michael Weaver Riverspace 119 Main St., Nyack, NY 845-348-0741; info@riverspace.org

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So far this years Albany Word Fest (This Weekend! April 18-19) is looking like it will be the biggest and best yet! Four days until the 2008 Albany Word Fest and there is still time to sign up online for the Friday Night Open Mic at the UAG Gallery.  So far there are 75 poets signed up for the open mic with the online signup closing tomorrow evening.  Poets who do not sign up online will be

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Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival as part of the Woodstock Arts Consortium is sponsoring the following poetry event as part of the Woodstock Arts Week. For a full listing of Arts Week events, see: www.woodstockartsconsortium.org. Poets Gretchen Primack and Allen C. Fischer will be the featured readers when the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival meets at the Woodstock Town Hall, 76 Tinker

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Live From The Living Room, a featured reading series with an open mic afterwards is held on the second Wednesday of every month at the Capital District Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY.  The next reading is April 9th with local poet/dancer Sally Rhodes    Sally is a local poet who has, from time to time, incorporated dance into her public featured readings. Sign up

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Musician and multi-tasker Michael Eck is the featured artist for Upstate Artists Guild’s third national exhibit, “WTF? What The Folk” Michael Eck’s visual representations of seminal American folk, blues and jazz musicians have been featured nationally at venues such as The Lisle Station Museum (Illinois), The Outsiders Art (Connecticut), Inside/Out Gallery (Minnesota), Fairleigh Dickinson

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Two Caffe Lena posts in one day... The first Wednesday of every month Caffe Lena presentsCAFFE LENA POETRY OPEN MIC on Wednesday, April 2.  Doors open at 7:00PM, reading starts at 7:30. $3.00 admission.  This months featured poets are contributors from Caffe Lena's first poetry publication, EVERY DROP OF WATER: VOICES FROM CAFFE LENA POETRY STAGE with short readings from A.C. Everson, Barbara

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On Sunday, April 6th, 2:00PM at Caffe Lena (47 Phila Street, Saratoga Springs, NY), in celebration of National Poetry Month, Caffè Lena offers a program of poetry written by and about women. Five award-winning poets will read their works: Barbara Ungar, Nancy White, Elaine Handley, Marilyn McCabe and Mary Sanders Shartle. In addition, Handley, McCabe and Shartle will be joined by Lauren Vanko

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It is that time of year again...Albany Word Fest!  In celebration of National Poetry Month, Albany Poets is proud to present the 2008 Albany Word Fest featuring the poetry, spoken word, and music of upstate New York.  This year’s event will take place on Friday, April 18 and Saturday, April 19, 2008. The 2008 Albany Word Fest will start off on Friday night with a cocktail party at Tess’ Lark

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On Thursday, April 3, 6:45 - 8:45 pm at the Bethlehem Public Library (451 Delaware Ave, Delmar ) Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, Veterans For Peace & Post Traumatic Press presents a reading from the anthology "Post Traumatic Press 2007: poems by veterans", edited by Dayl Wise. The featured readers will  include Dayl Wise, Jim Murphy, Thomas Brinson and Dan Wilcox.  "Post Traumatic Press 2007:

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Horowitz, Seaton, and Hirsch in one show at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY (@ Bleecker just north of Houston) on Sunday March 30 at 3:00PM. Mikhail Horowitz is a widely excoriated performance poet who has perpetrated his literary lampoons, impenetrable parodies and metaphysically unfit riffs at the Taos World Heavyweight Poetry  Championship, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, the

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In honor of National Poetry Month, the North Chatham Free Library is pleased to present Dr. Jeannine Johnson with a program entitled: "Why Read Poems? Why Do People Write Poems?" Jeannine Johnson graduated with a BA from Haverford College, and a PhD from Yale,  Dr.  Johnson went on to teach at Yale, Wake Forest, and Harvard.   Currently, she is  a visiting Assistant Professor in Writing and

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Shirley Powell (who was one of our features at the 2006 Albany Word Fest) will read her work at the next program in the Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series.  The event will be held at the Baby Grand Bookshop at 7 West Street in Warwick at 4:00 p.m. on April 5.  Following the featured poet, others are welcome to read original work on any theme.  Admission is free. A volume of Powell's

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This Friday poetry returns to the UAG Gallery with poets Jacqueline Jones LaMon and Carol Graser.  Jacqueline Jones LaMon is the Associate Director of the Indiana University Writers' Conference. A Chancellor's University Fellow and an associate poetry editor of the Indiana Review, she is in her third year of her MFA studies in poetry at Indiana University Bloomington. Her poetry has appeared/

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The next Poets Speak Loud will be on Monday, March 31 at Tess' Lark Tavern with featured poet John Raymond followed by an open mic for poetry and spoken word. John Raymond is a local rapscallion who is coming out of seclusion to take part in Albany's open mic poetry scene.  He enjoys music, backpacking, and smoked meats. We will also have the sign up sheet for the 2008 Albany Word Fest Friday

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Hudson Valley writers are invited to submit short works for possible use in collaborations with visual artists for "VisuaLit", an innovative, July 2008, exhibition at the Arts Society of Kingston. A writer may submit one to three works that are each no more than one page in length. Works may be on any subject and may include poetry, short fiction, drama, essays, or memoirs. Submitted works must

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Two widely regarded Hudson Valley poets, William Seaton and Susan Sindall, will be the featured poets when Poetry at the Hudson meets at the Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 2 p.m.  An open mike will be part of the occasion. Seaton, who for 14 years has produced the "Poetry on the Loose" reading/performance series in Middletown and now Warwick, has been

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Live From The Living Room, a featured reading series with an open mic afterwards is held on the second Wednesday of every month at the Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY.  The next reading is March 12th with Chris Brabham. Chris has read in many venues in the region including The Lark Tavern, The Night Sky Cafe, Washington Park and 2007 Larkfest.  He

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We usually do not post stories and articles that are of a political nature on the Albany Poets blog, but we thought that this was an important issue since it took place right in our backyard.  The following is the press release regarding a press conference marking the publication of the memoir of Yassin Aref, one of the two men convicted an FBI sting operation in Albany. Albany, New York. –– “My

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The first Wednesday of every month Caffe Lena presents Caffe Lena Poetry Open Mic on Wednesday March 5. Doors open at 7:00PM, reading starts at 7:30PM. This months featured poet is Jan Marin Tramontano. This reading is hosted by Carol Graser and there is a $3.00 admission.  This month has been sponsored by Coral Crosman Caffe Lena is located at 47 Phila St. Saratoga Springs. For more information

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Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival as part of the Woodstock Arts Consortium is sponsoring the following poetry event as part of the Woodstock "Second Saturdays" Art Events. For a full listing of "Second Saturday" events, go to their website at:  www.woodstockartsconsortium.org. Poets Barbara Louise Ungar, Sparrow, and Sylvia Mae Gorelick will be the featured readers when the Woodstock Poetry

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The Literary Gazette, published annually by The River Reporter, is seeking submissions for its 2008 edition, to be published in June. The theme is "nature" and poems, short shorts and short memoir/essay pieces will be considered on topics related to nature, wilderness, weather, the seasons, wildlife, trekking, landscape and human encounters with same. To be considered, entries must not exceed

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Well, it is a very special day here at Albany Poets as we are bringing back the Poetry Video of the Day.  As a welcome back we have a video of The Poet Essence recorded when the NWO Up Top Tour rolled into Albany in 2007.

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