 Rhodora Penaranda will read her original work at the next Poetry on the Loose event. The program will begin at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 1 at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 6 Orchard Street (at Main) in Middletown. Her presentation will be followed by an open reading during which anyone may participate.
Penaranda has written short stories as well, but finds what she calls the “pithy intensity of poetry” more suitable to her nature. Her work has been collected in the volumes Touchstone and Unmasking Medusa. Originally from the Philippines, Penaranda was at first under the impression, as she says, that she wanted to be “a woman of the material world.” She worked in retail, then in journalism and public relations before deciding she had to “commit to art, or perish.” Of her writing, Penaranda says, “Coming home to poetry and finding the art and language of others are a way of coming home to myself and making something of my past, maybe even transforming it. I’ve come close to closing the book on myself; art is my way of opening it again, to be daring, inventive; to find that love again as a self-expressing creature in this world we live in.” The October 6 Poetry on the Loose reading will feature Sally Rhoades. The Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance series is supported this year with funding from Orange Arts/Orange County Tourism and the County of Orange. Labels: open mic, poetry events
 Phillip Levine (Chronogram Poetry Editor) has sent in the lineup of featured poets and performers for September 2007 at the Colony Café Monday Night Open Mic in Woodstock. There is an open mic for poetry, prose, and performance in addition to the “special guests”. Start time of the Monday Night Open Mic is 7:00PM. Features read for approximately 20 - 25mins each, beginning around 8:00PM.
Monday, September 3rd, 2007 - Max Schwartz (poet, photographer) Monday, September 10th, 2007 - Donald Lev (poet) and Richard Boes (from The Last Dead Soldier Left Alive) Donald Lev was born in New York City in 1936. He attended Hunter College, worked in the wire rooms of the Daily News and New York Times, and then drove a taxi cab for 20 years (with a 6-year hiatus in which he ran messages for, and contributed poetry to, The Village Voice and operated the Home Planet Bookshop on the Lower East Side). His earliest poems appeared in print in 1958 and he started his first small press magazine, HYN Anthology, in 1969. The most recent of the fourteen collections of his poetry is Grief, a chapbook published in 2006 by Bard Press/Ten Penny Players in Staten Island. A volume of his Selected Poems will be brought out soon by Red Hill Outloudbooks in Claryville, NY. His brief underground film-acting career pinnacled with his portrayal (he wrote his own lines) of "The Poet" in Robert Downey Sr.'s 1969 classic Putney Swope. He and his reclusive cat Kit Smart live in High Falls, NY, where he spends most of his time publishing the literary tabloid Home Planet News, which he and his late wife Enid Dame founded in 1979. "Richard Boes has written a ripped-from-the-heart memoir of the years of struggle, substance abuse, and failed relationships that followed his combat experience. It’s painful, yet richly rewarding. Imagine sitting down in a pub next to a slightly scary-looking fellow who buys you a round and then begins to talk, his words spilling out in a heated rush, things bottled up within him all flooding to the surface. And although some of what he is saying is hard to hear, it’s made compelling by his wry, ironic perspective and stream-of-consciousness style, which is akin to that of Henry Miller or Jack Kerouac. At closing time, you’d be inviting him home for a nightcap to hear the rest—even if it disturbed your sleep for weeks to come." - Anne Pyburn (Chronogram, June 2007) Monday, September 17th, 2007 - Post Traumatic Press 2007 (profits to Veterans for Peace) with Dayl Wise (editor) War Vets Poetry Anthology followed by Leslie Halpert, Singer/Songwriter, at 10:00PM Readings from the new book, Post Traumatic Press 2007. This book tells the stories of veterans with direct experience of the military. For some, the intense experience of war can only be expressed in poetry, while others are driven by the need to say something openly political. The book includes veterans from World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, peace time and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Contributors: Camillo “Mac” Bica, Richard Boes, Thomas Brinson, Michael Embrich, Michael Gillen, Marc Levy, Bob Lusk, Gerald McCarthy, Jim Murphy, Fred Nagel, Ron Thompson, Robert “Tack” Trostle, Jose Vasquez, Jay Wenk, Dan Wilcox, Sam Weinreb and Larry Winters. Some of these US veterans are seasoned writers, who have been published before. For others, this is their first time writing, their first time out crossing that line in public. Reading their own work are Richard Boes, Thomas Brinson, Marc Levy, Bob Lusk, Jim Murphy, Jay Wenk, Dan Wilcox, Larry Winters and Dayl Wise. Monday, September 24th, 2007 - Steve Cleaver (poet) and Brett Bevell (poet, from his new book My America Needs A Woman President, Monkfish Publishing) The Colony Café is located at 22 Rock City Road in Woodstock, NY and has full bar and cafe menu. Admission for the open mic is $4.00. For further information about the Monday Night Open Mic or possible bookings contact Phillip Levine at pprod@mindspring.com. Labels: open mic, poetry events
 Writing from Art and Architecture
Cosponsored by the Hudson Valley Writers Guild and and the Historic Albany Foundation
Saturday, September 8, 2007, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM at Albany City Hall, Eagle Street, NY
The tour, which will take place from 10:00-11:00 a.m. (approximately) is free. The public is invited to attend the tour, independent of the writing workshop. Writing workshop - $10 for members of the HVWG or of the Historic Albany Foundation, $12 for non members. Reservations are recommended. To register email cphilo@nycap.rr.com or call 518-459-3255. This event will include a tour of the art and history of the building, completed in 1883, one of the most Romanesque designs of renowned architect Henry Hobson Richardson. The tour will be conducted by John J. McEneny, Member of the NYS Assembly for the 104th District. A former Albany County Historian, Jack McEneny is a well-known teacher and speaker on local history, ethnicity and related fields. Albany poet and photographer, Dan Wilcox, will conduct the writing workshop. The workshop will include discussion on different approaches to writing about history, art and architecture, writing exercises, and sharing of work. Novice writers as well as those who are published authors are welcome. This program is funded with an Albany City Arts Grant. Poetry and Performance with Elizabeth McKim and Steve Clorfeine
Hosted by the Hudson Valley Writers Guild and New York Expressive Arts
Saturday, September 15, 2007, 7:00 PM at 4 Central Ave., Albany, NY An engaging poet-performer and teacher, Elizabeth Gordon McKim works out of the oral tradition of song, story, and poem. For many years she has performed her poetry with Swiss musician Paolo Knill and she has worked with dancers, poets, visual artists, musicians and teachers in the U.S., Europe, Indonesia and Israel. She has written five books of poetry, the latest entitled "The Red Thread" (Leapfrog Press, 2003). McKim has worked with countless children and teachers, and expressive arts practitioners throughout the U.S. and internationally. She is a national faculty member at Lesley University in the Department of Creative Arts in Learning and Poet Laureate of the European Graduate School. "McKim's poems offer you immediate pleasure. Carry them home and take them into you." — Marge Piercy Steve Clorfeine has been writing, performing and directing theater pieces since 1975. His productions have been presented in theatres, public schools, libraries, senior centers and art centers throughout the United States and Western Europe. Steve is on the theater faculty of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. His latest collection of poems is "Field Road Sky" (2006). "Clorfeine's day to day experiences read like a series of prose haikus...there is a clarity in his writing...a habit of seeing the ordinary and the extraordinary, the marvelous in the mundane." —Woodstock Times For more information: Contact denie@newyorkexpressivearts.com or call the studio at (518) 434-2412. You can also contact the Hudson Valley Writers Guild at (518) 449-8069. Labels: poetry events, workshops
 “Frequency North,” the visiting writers reading series at The College of Saint Rose, returns for its third season with another aggressively eclectic mix of award-winning poets, authors, essayists, and one comedian/playwright/actor/bartender.
The 2007-08 series kicks off Thursday, October 4, with David Lehman, acclaimed author of several collections of poems and series editor of The Best American Poetry. Author Nalini Jones and essayist Wayne Koestenbaum follow in November. Spring will bring readings by poet Gregory Pardlo, the first writer of color to win the American Poetry Review/Honickman Prize; author Darcey Steinke; Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, founder and host of a three-time National Poetry Slam Championship venue in New York; and Shappy Seasholtz, slam poet, playwright, comedian, actor and head bartender at New York’s Bowery Poetry Club. Frequency North is sponsored by the The College of Saint Rose School of Arts and Humanities and the English, Spectrum and Identity student organizations. All readings begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public. For more information, visit the series’ website at FrequencyNorth.com or contact Daniel Nester, Assistant Professor of English and series curator, at 518-454-2812 or email nesterd@strose.edu. Labels: Frequency North, poetry events, poets
 Poets George Nicholson and Will Nixon will be the featured readers when the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival meets at the Woodstock Town Hall, 76 Tinker Street, on Saturday, September 8th, 2007 at 2:00pm.
The readings will be hosted by Woodstock area poet Phillip Levine. All meetings are free and open to the public. For information about the group, and its activities, visit http://www.woodstockpoetry.com. George J. Nicholson is a local Woodstock poet and visual artist working in various media. He has been writing poetry since 1975, when a series of eight poems spontaneously flowed upon his first exposure to Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. George is an active performer within the Hudson Valley poetry scene. George’s poetry is steeped in the nuances of feeling and his passionate search for meaning. Symbol, archetype, and the dynamics of transformation as reflected in nature, human relationship, and the questing human soul comprise the core themes of his work. His deep personal affinity to ancient Greece is also interwoven throughout much of what he has written. George is a firm believer in a greater intelligence “behind the scenes” and considers himself to be at his most creative when he is acting as a “stenographer to the unconscious.” Among his most salient influences are the mystic, poet saints of India: Tukaram Maharaj, Alama Prabhu, Mirabai, and others. He has also drawn inspiration from Basho, Dante, Eliot, and the poets of ancient Greece, many of them anonymous. George has self-published the chapbook First Light. He is currently completing work on Ancient Heart: Dialogues with Stone, inspired by the ancient marble sculptures housed in the Athen's museum, and Voice Within the Silences, a cross section of his work that spans 30 years. George's poetry has appeared regularly in Journeys, a Jungian inspired periodical and is included in the anthology, Vines of Victory (2001). Will Nixon has published two chapbooks, When I Had It Made (Pudding House) and The Fish Are Laughing (Pavement Saw) plus poems in many journals and magazines. He has finished a cyberpunk epic, Lyndon Baines Takes a Fare to the Palace of Wisdom, about a Gotham cabbie in 2063. Now he's working on a poetry manuscript inspired by the movie Night of the Living Dead and on another about living in Hoboken in the 80s, Love in the City of Grudges. He lives in Woodstock. Labels: poetry events, poets
 As announced last night at Poets Speak Loud at the Lark Tavern, we will be releasing the newest issue of OTHER: next Tuesday, September 4 at Valentines (17 New Scotland Ave., Albany) during our monthly open mic for poetry, music, and spoken word.
OTHER:EIGHT has poetry from Lilibet Ana, Farrah Nayka Ashline, Alan Catlin, Michael Conner, Ann E. Cotrupi, Brian Dorn, The Poet Essence, A.C. Everson, Melissa Foster, Matt Galletta, Jean Holland, Adam Kress, Ford McLain, Steven Minchin, Richard Morell, Sara Murphy, Natalie N. Narine, John Raymond, J. Eric Smith, and Melissa Stafford. Also in this issue is a short story from Shaun Baxter, an updated listing of all of the poetry readings and open mics in the area, and a preview of who will be performing at LarkFEST 2007 on September 15. To preview the poetry in this issue and to check out previous issues, go to www.albanypoets.com/other. We are now in the process of getting them out to coffee shops, bookstores, and any other location that is willing to carry it. If you know of a place that would be interested in carrying OTHER:, or if you would like to volunteer to distribute OTHER: throughout the area, send an email to info@albanypoets.com and let us know. The No Gimmick Open Mic at Valentines is held on the first Tuesday of each month with sign up starting 7:00PM and the open mic beginning at 8:00PM. Labels: Albany Poets, OTHER, poetry events
 Way back in 1993, MTV (which, at that time, was a television channel that aired programs that featured music) had a series called Unplugged, where some of the biggest names in music would play in a small studio with acoustic instruments. On one episode of the show poetry and spoken word took the stage and gave the mainstream audience of the time a taste of what was going on in the cafes and bars of the time all around the country.
Fast forward to 2007 and poetry is returning to the MTV family of fine networks on mtvU, their 24-hour channel that is broadcast to more than 750 college and university campuses across the United States. There are two new "landmark initiatives" underway to get young people more involved in reading and writing poetry. Here is the text from the CNN/Money website with the story: "This semester, mtvU introduces two new landmark initiatives to help inspire the next generation of great poets and poetry readers. First, the network is honored to name John Ashbery - one of the most vital and acclaimed American poets of the 20th century - as the first-ever mtvU Poet Laureate. Throughout the fall and spring semesters, mtvU will place poetry from Mr. Ashbery's storied career, along with new poems, front and center on the channel, exposing his work to millions of students who may not already know it. The first in a series of eighteen promo spots, with excerpts from standout books including "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," "Where Shall I Wander?" and "Can You Hear, Bird?" begins airing on mtvU today. Each spot directs viewers to mtvU.com, where they can read more of Mr. Ashbery's work and share it with their friends. Today mtvU also unveils a first-of-its-kind opportunity for a top college poet to be published by HarperCollins as part of the prestigious National Poetry Series (NPS). For nearly 30 years the NPS has held an annual competition to find and expose the best emerging and standout poets in the country, and next year, for the first time, one of the series' five published titles will be designated as a book-length manuscript composed by a college student. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa will judge submissions for the National Poetry Series mtvU Prize, and the winning student will interview Mr. Komunyakaa for an episode of mtvU's series "My Shot With..." Submissions will be accepted beginning later this fall, and the winning manuscript will be published in 2008 as part of the NPS' 30th anniversary series. mtvU is committing the equivalent of at least $750,000 of airtime to showcasing Mr. Ashbery's poetry and promoting the National Poetry Series mtvU prize during the 07-08 school year." To read the rest of the article and to find out what else is happening this semsester on mtvU, click here to head over to CNN/Money. Labels: poets, spoken word, television
 James Kilpatrick has an opinion piece up on Yahoo! News talking about the newest US Poet Laureate Charles Simic. Kilpatrick touches on the fact that he had never heard of Simic or his poetry until last month, even as a poet and poetry lover himself.
"The United States has a new poet laureate. He is Charles Simic of New Hampshire. In the small world of poetry, his name is known quite well. Born in Yugoslavia in 1938, he immigrated to the United States in the 1950s. After a brief period in Chicago, he settled in New England. He has written 18 books of poetry and half a shelf of other works. He won the Pulitzer for poetry in 1990. This year he won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens award for poetry. Until he became our poet laureate earlier this month, I had never heard of the gentleman. And I have loved poetry, and written bad verse, since I first met Mary and her little lamb 80-odd years ago..." For those who do not know who he is, Charles Simic has been regarded as one of America's finest poets who has the ability to write about the deeper meaning in the ordinary aspects of life. He is the author of 18 books of poetry. He is also an essayist, translator, editor and professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at the University of New Hampshire Some of his books of poetry include Night Picnic: Poems (2001), Jackstraws (1999), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Walking the Black Cat (1996), a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry; A Wedding in Hell (1994); Hotel Insomnia (1992); and Selected Poems: 1963-1983. Click here to read more about Charles Simic Labels: books, poets
 Here is what is going on at the Albany Public Library in September. These events take place at the main branch of the library, located at 161 Washington Avenue, Albany.
Friday, September 7 - 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
Reverse Business Fair: Held by the National Association of Minority Contractors. Sunday, September 9 - 2:00 pm
Sunday Cinema: Hot Fuzz Wednesday, September 12 - 7:00 pm
Silent Film Spectacular: The Mark of Zorro. Revisit this classic silent film with improvised music performed live by local musician Eric Halder. Friday, September 14 - 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
Garage Bands in the Garage: Free after-hours music series with Swamp Baby and Ashley Pond. All ages are welcome. Sunday, September 16 - 2:00 pm
US – China Peoples Friendships Association: Bob Winchester will discuss his family's Chinese art collection comprised of more than 200 scrolls, prints and paintings done on silk and rice paper. Sunday, September 23 - 2:00 pm
Legends and Legacies: "Ebony Symphony" Donald Hyman presents two African American composers. Wednesday, September 26 - 7:00 pm
Reinventing Yourself in Retirement: Exploring Career and Life Options Workshop. To register or for more information contact the Main Library Reference Department at 427- 4303. Tuesday, September 18 - 7:00 pm
Spelling Bee: Feeling a little nostalgic for school days this September? Join the Readers’ Services Department for a spelling bee! We’ll be hosting a spelling bee for fun and prizes. So dust off your dictionary and thumb through your thesaurus and feel like a kid again. The Friends of APL Programs Tuesday, September 4 - 12:15 pm
Book Review: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb with reviewer Jonathan Skinner, PhD, Retired Biostatistian
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Tuesday, September 11 - 12:15 pm
Book Review: A Second Opinion: Rescuing America’s Healthcare by Arnold Relmen, MD with reviewer Richard Propp, MD, Chair, Capital District Alliance for Universal Healthcare Tuesday, September 18 - 12:15 pm
Book Review: Trout Fishing in the Catskills by Ed Van Put with reviewer John Rowan, author, fisherman and environmentalist Tuesday, September 25 - 12:15 pm
Book Review: Edith Wharton a new, definitive biography by Hermione Lee with reviewer Charlotte Goodman, PhD, Professor Emeritus of English, Skidmore College For more information you can call the Albany Public Library at 427-4303 or go to their website at http://www.albanypubliclibrary.org Labels: books, library, workshops
 Five books, including three works of fiction and two works of non-fiction, were announced as finalists for Schenectady County's popular One County One Book (OCOB) program at the Schenectady County Public Library on Wednesday, August 15. For the first time in the program's three-year history, non-fiction books placed in the final five.
The books are: Before You Know Kindness, a family saga about the aftermath of a gun fire accident; by Chris Bohjalian; Hiroshima, John Hershey's collection of first person accounts after the atomic bomb was dropped; The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini's epic tale of fathers and sons in Afghanistan that takes the reader from the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present; Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich, this premier reporter of the underside of Capitalism gives a first hand account of surviving at the poverty level; and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, a compelling and gritty story set amid life in a traveling circus during the Great Depression. "Ample quantities of all five books are available at the Central Library and all branches," said co-chair Carol Raphael who is an SCPL Trustee. "Individuals are encouraged to read all of the books prior to casting their
one vote for their favorite title." "The topical diversity and literary quality of these books is phenomenal," said 2008 OCOB co-chair and SCPL Trustee Carl Erikson. "The selection process was very inclusive, involving open nominations from the public, meeting established criteria and a review of all nominated books by a community-based selection committee." The established criteria included that the books lend themselves well to programs and discussion and are available in audio-book, large-print and paperback editions. A total of 130 individual book titles were nominated by the community this year. The previous two OCOB selections were Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird in 2006 and Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper in 2007. The final book will be decided by the community. Interested community members are encouraged to review the final five and cast their vote. Ballots are available at all Schenectady County Public Library locations, the Open Door Bookstore, The Whitney Book Corner, and on line at www.scpl.org. Further information, including detailed descriptions of all five books and information on casting a ballot online are available at www.scpl.org. Ballots must be cast by October 12, 2007. Labels: books
 On Sunday, September 9, starting at 3:00PM hosts Teresa Marta Costa and Olga Kronmeyer present The Alchemy Club’s book signing and reading at the Bohemian Book Bin with poetry by Ruth Green West, Mildred Barker, Marylin Barr, Gloria Bernstein, Barbara Boncek, Kathryn Cloonan, Heddy T. Czerm, Mary Durham, Peggy Friedman, Gen Gia, Werner Jatzke, Olga Kronmeyer, John Ogilvie, Shirley Powell, Alana Sherman, Gloria Wagenknecht, Jean Webster, and Inez George Gridley.
The Bohemian Book Bin is located at 590 Rte. 9W Kings Mall, Kingston, NY. For more information, call 845-336-6450 Labels: books, poetry events
 Writers in Progress, the Valley's literary arts center, is pleased to offer a variety of weekly and one-day writing workshops this fall. Whether you are an experienced writer or just beginning, our workshops offer the inspiration, instruction on craft and professional editorial feedback to bring your projects to the next level. All workshops take place in our lovely Florence studio, include refreshments and are limited to 8 writing in your life this fall!
Weekly Workshops:
Writing From Life with Dori Ostermiller: This workshop will inspire you to make significant creative leaps in a supportive environment. Through exercises, group discussion and creative exploration, we will access life experience, generate fresh material and deepen our commitment to the writing life. Open to writers of all levels and genres. Professional manuscript critique included. Mondays, 6:00 - 9:00 pm12-week Fall Session begins September 17 ($450/ $405 WIP alums) The Craft of Fiction I & II, with Dori Ostermiller: Two10-week workshops designed to help fiction writers recharge and refine their craft. At each meeting, we'll engage in focused writing, explore an element of craft, and discuss members' work. COF I will cover narrative perspective, character development, dialogue, setting and plot. COF II will focus on the more subtle aspects of craft: voice, prose style, theme, mechanics and revision. Make substantial progress on your writing projects! Thursdays, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Craft of Fiction I starts September 27, 2007 ($425/$382 WIP alums)
Craft of Fiction II starts February 6, 2008 ($425/$382 WIP alums) Fall Poetry Workshop, with DM Gordon: This six-week workshop, open to poets of all levels, will give writers the opportunity to imagine, stretch, and generate new material for the first four weeks. Then, in the last two weeks, we'll come together for a thorough, supportive peer-editing workshop. Emphasis will be on the joy of writing and reading.
Thursdays, 6:30 - 9:30 pm
6-week Fall Session begins October 4 ($225/$202 WIP alums) One-day Workshops:
Creating Characters that Breathe, with Dori Ostermiller: Authentic characters that 'live and breathe' on the page are perhaps the most essential ingredients of good fiction. This fun, inspiring and supportive workshop will focus on the four fundamental methods of characterization. Come create someone new, or become more intimate with a character you've already met. Delicious lunch included.
Saturday, August 25, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm ($120/$108 WIP alums) Performing Your Work for an Audience, With Mark Zeller: This popular all-day workshop will bring your writing to life through the spoken word, in a process that will surprise and inspire you. Drawn from his broad experience as an actor and theater director, Mark's exercises will allow you to subtly enhance the drama and energy of your prose, or clarify the meaning and spirit of your poetry as you learn to read effectively for an audience. Whether you have one reading in your future or many, this workshop will change the way you relate to your work! This is a brown bag workshop. Saturday, September 15, 9:30 - 5:00 with an hour for lunch ($120/$108 WIP alums) NEW: Writing Around the Corner - Setting Stories in Your Hometown, with Author Suzanne Strempek Shea: An enlightening, one-day workshop on working with familiar settings for your narratives. We'll explore some of the pros and cons of writing about the place - and people - you know best, whether you're a native or transplant. We'll also look at what other authors have done with setting: both in their own back yards and across the globe. This is a brown bag workshop. Saturday, October 27, 9:30 - 5:00 with an hour for lunch ($120/$108 WIP alums) NEW: Putting words in their mouths - making your fictional dialogue work, with Jacqueline Sheehan: Dialogue is essential to fiction, and successful dialogue should work on several levels-to bring your characters to life, create tension, reveal subtext, and move your narrative forward. In this one-day workshop, we'll play with a handful of techniques for making our fictional people talk so readers will listen. This is a brown-bag workshop. Saturday, November 3, 9:30 - 4:30 ($120/$108 WIP alums) For more information, contact dorio@writersinprogress.com, call (413) 582-0101, or visit www.writersinprogress.com. Labels: workshops
 From Confetti Stage:
"The 3rd Annual Short Play Festival boasts 6 plays written, directed, and performed by Capital Region artists. These plays were chosen from 27 submitted works most written right here in the Capital Region. The Albany area is thriving with talented, writers, directors, and actors. Confetti Stage prides itself on giving these artists the chance to showcase their work through its Short Play Festival. Tickets for the 3rd Annual Short Play Festival are $12 each night. The Festival runs September. 20 and 21 at 8pm each night. Performances are at The Linda, WAMC's Performing Arts Studio, 339 Central Ave, Albany. Tickets are on sale now through The Linda box office 518-465-5233, ext 4. or online at www.wamcarts.org/artsched.html. " For more information on this or other upcoming events, go to www.confettistage.com. Labels: arts events, theater
 On Saturday, August 25 at 8:00PM Poetry at UUCC, 320 Sawkill Road, Kingston. Wordsworth Poetry Coffeehouse features Leslie Gerber and Judith Saunders plus an open reading and refreshments. General Admission: $5, $2.50 for open readers. Hosted by Shirley Powell.
And on Wednesday, September 5 at the Muddy Cup, on Broadway, Kingston, Shirley Powell and Teresa Costa will be hosting a poetry reading with featured poet Phil Sullivan. Admission is based on donation. This poetry reading begins at 7:30PM. For more Hudson Valley poetry readings and events. Labels: open mic, poetry events
 Albany Poets returns to the Lark Tavern for our monthly open mic for poetry and spoken word, Poets Speak Loud, with featured poet K.J. Spencer on Monday, August 27.
K.J. Spencer has been a part of the poetry and music community for many years. He one of the founders of Think3, a journal from Troy. He is currently the host of the vOLUME:Music and Poetry series at Professor Java's in Colonie. POETS SPEAK LOUD takes place at Tess' Lark Tavern (453 Madison Ave., Albany) on the last Monday of each month and is hosted by Mary Panza. Sign up begins at 7:00PM, the featured poet goes on stage goes on stage at 7:30PM with the open mic following. For more poetry open mics and events in and around the Albany area, go to www.albanypoets.com/events. Labels: Albany Poets, open mic, poetry events
 There is a great article up now on the website for the Independent Weekly from Raleigh, North Carolina area about the growing poetry and spoken word scene in Durham.
"Connected to words like Siamese twins": That line from Dasan Ahanu's poem "Deep in Thought" epitomizes the rise of the Triangle's spoken-word community. Metaphors and similes dangle with cadence and intonation. The words—bled from poets who carry pens, pads and bags filled with homemade books and CDs in store-bought cases—entertain and inspire. These poets live in these words, and, symbiotically, those words live off of their poets. The article goes on to talk about why these young artists got involved in the community and what they are doing to keep the movement going, including hosting events and organizing teams for the National Poetry Slam. Read More >> Labels: poetry events, poetry slam, spoken word
 Albany Poets is returning to the Hometown Stage at LarkFEST on Saturday, September 1
5. We will be presenting poetry and spoken word from local poets and artists on the stage and in the poetry tent through out the day. More information on who will be performing at this years event will be announced in the coming weeks, so be sure to check www.albanypoets.com and www.larkstreet.org often for updates. Read More >> Labels: Albany Poets, LarkFEST, poetry events
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