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Live from the Living Room!, August 14 23 Aug 2013 | 07:55 am
Our usual host, Don Levy, had called me earlier in the day to ask me to fill in for him tonight, so I tried to get there early, looked for a parking spot close by. Alas, there was a food festival with...
WordXWord -- Poetry sCrawl, August 12 22 Aug 2013 | 04:53 am
WordXWord was a week-long festival of spoken word, poetry & storytelling in Pittsfield, MA. The folks organizing it reached out to AlbanyPoets for folks to come over & read & Kevin Peterson & I steppe...
Poets of the Earth, Water, Tree & Sky, August 9 20 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
This was the 5th Annual "Poets at the Arboretum" invitational in which poets who have read here before are invited back as a cluster-fuck, I mean group feature -- there were 11 of us! & a few open mic...
Caffè Lena Open Mic, August 7 14 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm
I was surprised to find Saratoga Springs not nearly as crowded as it usually is in August, although there was the usual blue-blazer-white-shoes crowd in Sperry's. After dinner over to Phila St. for th...
Nitty Gritty Slam #51, August 6 13 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm
The crowd at Valentines tonight was such that the Slam & open mic had to be moved upstairs, to the bigger room. Tonight, the open mic host was Avery & the Slam host Kevin Peterson, who also did duty o...
Poets Speak Loud, July 29 10 Aug 2013 | 06:32 pm
Back in McGeary's once again, our host(s) tonight, Mary Panza & Molly (little does little Molly, the daughter of Thom Francis & Carissa, know the seas her canoe is being sent out upon this night), wit...
Untitled 6 Aug 2013 | 08:08 am
HIROSHIMA by Tom Nattell Hiroshima, 300,000 in city, air burst, sun melt, fire burning, consuming, casting forth dust of death, blackening the sky with clouds of broken molecules smashed from live.....
Poets in the Park 2013 6 Aug 2013 | 07:23 am
This Summer tradition has been going on since 1990 at the Robert Burns Statue (& it started even earlier elsewhere in the City), the brain-child of poet & activist Tom Nattell, & since 2005 coordinate...
Third Thursday Poetry Night, July 18 29 Jul 2013 | 04:50 am
A hot night in the storefront of the Social Justice Center with the little air-conditioning quickly overwhelmed by the vast crowd -- actually, not by the numbers but the intensity of the words. Our fe...
Poets of Earth, Water, Tree & Sky, July 12 24 Jul 2013 | 08:43 am
This congenial reading series is hosted by Alan Casline, who announced today's theme was "water" (I had to go pee) in honor of the featured poet, watershed protector Stephen Lewandowski. But first th...