 English poet, painter, scholar and publisher Allen Fisher will be in Albany on Friday, October 12, 2007 for two events.
12:35PM: Lecture
HU 354, Humanities Building, University at Albany
Sponsored by the Department of English, The University at Albany “CONFIDENCE IN LACK”
Allen Fisher's talk will address and skirt around the problems for poetics (and thus poets) with logical thought and ideas of coherence. The thesis is to celebrate a confidence in lack, a celebration of decoherence and the potentials of neg-entropy. 7:00PM: Poetry Reading
Upstate Artists Guild Gallery, 247 Lark Street, Albany NY 12210
Sponsored by Jaw-Bone Reading Series, Albany Poets, and the New York State Writers Institute. Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, lives in Hereford, Crewe and ‘in transit’, works at the Manchester Metropolitan University, Cheshire, where he is Head of Contemporary Arts. He has exhibited in many shows including London 2003, Hereford 1994 and York 1993. Examples are in the Tate, the Living Museum, Iceland and various private collections. His last four books were Place, Entanglement, Gravity and Singularity Stereo. The third and final volume of the poet’s twenty-three year project Gravity as a consequence of shape will be published later this year by Salt Publishing under the title Leans. Labels: Albany Poets, Allen Fisher, Pierre Joris, poetry events
 Did you know that there are many poets that are not only on the Albany Poets website, but also on the social networking powerhouse, MySpace? Here are some of the area poets and spoken word artists that can be found on MySpace.
Marcus Andserson and Leo (Inkog and Mr. Gone), Marcus Anderson, Shaun Baxter, Dain Brammage, R.M. Engelhardt, The Poet Essence, A.C. Everson, Thom Francis, Pierre Joris, Margot Malia, Mojavi, Noah Nattell, Daniel Nester, Nicole Peyrafitte, Cheryl A. Rice, James Schlett, Alifair Skebe, K.J. Spencer, Stacey Stump, Dan Wilcox, and Hollice Danielle Wiles. Of course you can start out with Albany Poets own page and go from there. For more links to poets and other resources be sure to check out our links page. If you would like to be added to the links page, send us a brief email to info@albanypoets.com and let us know about yourself and your website. Labels: Albany Poets, MySpace, poets
 Since Dan began his blog where he features his thoughts on the open mics and poetry readings that he goes out to, many people have mentioned his "reviews" while on stage. With that in mind, we thought we would start a new feature here on the Albany Poets Blog where we would round-up the previous weeks commentaries on Dan's blog.
LarkFEST 2007, Saturday, September 15 I'm not a big fan of these festivals, especially for poetry -- over-priced vendors, the same hot dogs & pizza & lemonade everywhere (I did find some decent clam chowder, overpriced, of course), crowds, wobbly port-a-johns, sanitized bands, cute honeys (oh, wait, that's a good thing). But Albany Poets did the best it could under the circumstances, & I think having poets do short, zingy sets between bands was a good idea. Poetry and Performance, September 15 This was a reading/performance, organized by Denie Whalen of New York Expressive Arts & co-sponsored by the Hudson Valley Writers Guild. The performers were Elizabeth Gordon McKim & Steve Clorfeine. They had conducted a workshop for New York Expressive Arts earlier in the day & their performance was in the Nia-Yoga space on the main floor of 4 Central Ave. It was perfect venue for these performers, an open space with the city through floor-length windows on one side, mirrors on the other, & a bank of plants & ceramics behind them. Colony Cafe, September 17 I was proud to be a participant in this reading bringing together writer-veterans who are included in Post Traumatic Press 2007: poems by veterans. I have a great deal of affection for Dayl Wise, the editor, & his co-conspirator/copy-editor/wife Alison Koffler (both read at Poets in the Park this year), & for the other veterans/activists/writers included in the anthology. Zounds!, September 19 At the NightSky Cafe in Schenectady, with our host, Shaun Baxter (substituting for the substitute host, Liz King, who had been scheduled to host for Shaun Baxter -- or something to that effect). And the scheduled featured poet, the whirling dervish of mid-Hudson Valley (& beyond) poetry, Robert Milby was stuck somewhere else with car trouble. Be sure to check out Dan's blog often for more commentary on the poetry scene and also for his own poems that he frequently posts, which are always a great treat. Labels: Dan Wilcox, open mic, poets
 FootHills Publishing is pleased to announce the release of The Wild Twist of Their Stems a collection of poems by Carol Graser.
"As a longtime home schooling parent of three, this work is inspired and informed by the many mothers I've spent afternoons with, talking about and observing the incredible strength and creativity it takes to remain allies to our children. These are ecphrastic poems; attempts to describe the absolute artistry of raising children well. This collection is also a rough chronicle of the birth of my fourth child, from just before pregnancy, through birth and toddlerhood and, finally, to a young boy protesting the invasion of Iraq. " Carol Graser is an alumnus of Binghamton University where she studied under Milton Kessler. Her poetry has appeared in many literary, parenting and locals arts publications. She organizes and hosts a monthly poetry reading series at Saratoga Springs' historic Caffe Lena. Begun in 2003, these popular readings have featured an exciting range of poets from across the country. She performs her work at many poetry venues around the state as well as at anti-war rallies and other community events. Originally from Plattsburgh, NY, she now lives with her family at the southern end of the Adirondacks in Galway. THE WILD TWIST OF THEIR STEMS Like two fresh Buddhas they sit
on the top bunk, conspiring play
two Believers
two Thin Air Breathers
scalps closer to roof tops
than mine ever is She bubbles in like a bent-leg dancer
a flesh splasher
I'm the never-let-you-go catcher
but I always let her go He's the larger and climbs on his own
down to the rough rug, plant of our feet
He's the bold spirited leaper I apprenticed with I live like a gardener
doggedly tending the wild twist of their stems
fending off what I can of disease
It is impossible work
rooted where they are
and though their beauty demands
more strength than I lately possess
still I persist
in refusing to abandon the effort The Wild Twist of Their Stems is a 68 page hand-sewn book with spine - $14.00
For more information, a picture of the book or to order on-line go to: http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2007/id177.htm To order through mail send total price plus $1.75 Shipping and Handling ($2.25 in Canada; $3.25 other countries) for each address sent to. NYS Residents please add $1.12 Sales Tax per book. Send orders to: FootHills Publishing, PO Box 68, Kanona, NY 14856. Labels: books, Carol Graser
 Poets and those who appreciate the art we out supporting poetry and spoken word at the California Poetry Festival recently with former US poet laureate Robert Hass, Victoria Chang, and Diem Jones.
Over 100 people filled the seats on Saturday morning at History Park to listen to the poets discuss, among other topics, how poetry has changed in the eyes of popular culture. Poetry is losing the culture war, appealing more to niche audiences while movies, music and television lure the masses. Gone are the days, said Kevin Arnold, president of the Poetry Center, when wordsmiths like Edwin Markham were "like rock stars." Check out the entire article at the San Jose Mercury News website. Labels: poetry events
 One of the Three Guys From Albany, Charles Rossiter, has a brand new book of poetry from FootHills Publishing. Here is the info from the press release:
FootHills Publishing is pleased to announce the release of The Night We Danced With the Raelettes Occurrences In and Around College Park Maryland in the 1960s For the Most Part To the Best of My Recollection, a collection of poems by Charles Rossiter. It's all here: leaving home for the first time, hanging out with guys from the dorm; road trips; summer jobs as diverse and improbable as delivering yeast for Budweiser, supervising a pick-your-own strawberry patch, and sweating it out in the coal fields of Bethlehem Steel. There are also musings about life, literature, friendship, and the bliss and pain that comes with searching for, finding, and losing love.
"Charlie Rossiter's book takes us a high-speed journey into memory and the past. It makes the 60's come alive again. More importantly, it makes us laugh and cry. Tender, funny, evocative, this book is one not to be missed."
- Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Founder & Executive Director, Poetry Center, Passaic Co. CC, Paterson, NJ and editor, Paterson Literary Review. Charlie Rossiter, NEA Fellowship recipient and three time Pushcart Prize nominee, hosts the audio website poetrypoetry.com. A widely published poet, his work has been featured on NPR and numerous statewide public radio networks. During the `90s he hosted the Poetry Motel TV program, still seen on cable stations in some parts of the Northeast. His chapbook, What Men Talk About, won the first Red Wheel Barrow Prize from Pudding House Press. Other publications include CR's Greatest Hits: 1975-2001 and Around the House also from Pudding House Press. He recently performed at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in NJ, and was among a handful of poets selected to perform at the 2005 Chicago Blues Festival. An expanded 2nd edition of Back Beat, his co-authored book of memoir and poetry was published by Fractal Edge Press (2006). He is profiled in Contemporary Authors. Some of the
poems in this collection formed the basis of The Night We Danced With the Raelettes, a one-person play produced at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago. The Night We Danced With the Raelettes is a 60 page hand-sewn book with spine and is available for $14.00 For more information, a picture of the book or to order on-line go to: http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2007/id176.htm. To order through mail send total price plus $1.75 Shipping and Handling ($2.25 in Canada; $3.25 other countries) for each address sent to. (NYS Residents please add $1.12 Sales Tax per book) Send orders to: FootHills Publishing, PO Box 68 , Kanona, NY 14856 Labels: books, Three Guys From Albany
 Two Hudson Valley poets with their own distinctive voices, Ken Holland and Mary Panza, will be the featured readers when Poetry at the Hudson meets at the Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, on Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 2 p.m. An open mike will be part of the event.
Ken, who lives in East Fishkill, has had fiction and poetry published in a dozen-plus literary journals, including the Portland Review, the Laurel Review, Poem, American Poets & Poetry, and Lullwater Review. He has poetry forthcoming in Blue Unicorn. The story published in the Laurel Review was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Ken placed second in this year's Vanguard Voices Poetry Competition, judged by Eamon Grennan, and he is the recipient of a New York State Arts Council writing fellowship based on a fiction competition in which he placed first. He works for one of the major publishing houses in New York City and has been making that long commute for the last twenty-five years. Mary, a mainstay of Albany poetry since 1988, is the vice president of Albany Poets, a non-for-profit dedicated to bringing poetry and spoken word to the Capital Region and beyond. She originated and hosted the poetry open mike at Border's; is the host of the Albany Poets' monthly poetry open mike, "Poets Speak Loud," at the Lark Tavern; has been the host of the singer/songwriter stage at the annual LarkFEST street fair since 2004; and is the poetry editor for Chronogram: Capital Region Edition. Mary has been published in countless underground zines over the last nineteen years. The readings will be hosted by area poet Bob Wright. There is a suggested donation of $3. To reach the Cultural Center, proceed on NY 385 into the village of Athens and turn west onto Second Street; it is the second building on the right. For additional information, call 518-444-4561. Labels: Mary Panza, open mic, poetry events
 Palm Beach Poetry Festival, in partnership with Old School Square Cultural Arts Center in the heart of Delray Beach, Florida, is proud to present the fourth annual festival featuring six days of readings, lectures and workshops. From January 21 - 26, 2008 at the Old School Square Cultural Arts Center, a national historic site blocks from the beach at 51 North Swinton Avenue in Delray Beach, Florida
The lineup for 2008 includes Kim Addonizio, Claudia Emerson, Major Jackson, Thomas Lux, Campbell McGrath, Malena Mörling, Sharon Olds, and C.K. Williams. We will also welcome Florida poets Lola Haskins and Spencer Reece for a special reading. Roger Bonair-Agard and Marty McConnell will grace the stage for performances at our annual late-night Coffee House event. To register for the workshops and other events during this years festival, go to www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org and click APPLY. The deadline to apply is October 31, 2007. Labels: poetry events, workshops
 The Poetry Motel Foundation presents Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY on Thursday, September 20, 2007 (7:00 sign up; 7:30 start). This month’s featured poet is Miriam Herrera with open mic for poets before and after the feature. There is a $3.00 suggested donation. Your “persistent” host is Dan Wilcox.
KIVA AT CHACO CANYON The kiva meditates on herself
On the roundness of the soul
On the eagle's circular vision. Lie on your back, little girl—
Notice the sky! It's contained
In its own infinite funnel. I know this kiva. We are old friends—
The mother we never had.
I recognize her! It's she
Who forces one toward the middle. In the kiva there is only middle. Looking out through her bald blue eye
It's me:
Looking in, looking out. Her poetry has been published in New Millenium Writings, ArtLife, Blue Mesa Review, New Zoo Poetry Review, Nimrod: International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Black Maria, ECOS, and other journals. She is an active member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers in Lake Tahoe, CA; a member of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild, the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Society of America, and the National Council of La Raza. For more on Miriam, check out her blog: http://miriamherrerapoems.googlepages.com/ Labels: HVWG, open mic, poetry events
 Albany Public Library and the NYCLU Celebrate Your Right to Read! Banned Books Week is September 29 to October 6
On Saturday, October 6, at 2:00 pm, Albany Public Library, in partnership with the New York State Civil Liberties Union, Capital Region Chapter, celebrates America's freedom to read! Local actors and community leaders will read from books that have been banned or challenged in America. Local poets also will be reading selections from their own works and NYCLU members will discuss current challenges to intellectual freedom and free speech. The readings will take place in the large auditorium of the Main Library. Now in it's 26th year, Banned Books Week calls Americans' attention to the fragile nature of the First Amendment, which is under constant onslaught by censors and those who would control what citizens read and think. Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the American Libraries Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Association of American Publishers. It is endorsed by the Center for the Book, a program of the Library of Congress. For more information on Banned Books Week go to the ALA website. Labels: books, library
 Albany Poets will be back at LarkFEST this Saturday on the Hometown Stage and in our very own Poetry Tent on the corner of Lark and Chestnut. The poetry starts at noon in the poetry tent with Chris Brabham and continues throughout the day.
Be sure to come by and pick up your copy of OTHER:EIGHT. Here is the schedule for the Hometown Stage and the Poetry Tent 11:30 – Last Conspirators
12:00 – Chris Brabham (in the Poetry Tent)
12:10 – Hannah Imbesi
12:30 – Erik Sweet (in the Poetry Tent)
12:40 – Albany Poets Dain Brammage, Mary Panza, and Thom Francis with John Weiler, K.J. Spencer, and more
1:10 – Carol Graser (in the Poetry Tent)
1:20 – Gay Tastee
1:45 – John Raymond (in the Poetry Tent)
1:55 – Ramblin’ Jug Stompers
2:20 – Shaun Baxter (in the Poetry Tent)
2:30 – Jim Gaudet
3:00 – Debra Bump w/John Weiler (in the Poetry Tent)
3:10 – Palatypus
3:50 – Mother Judge and Mitch Elrod
4:25 – Ben Karis
5:00 – Black Fuel Labels: Albany Poets, LarkFEST, poetry events
 After LarkFEST this Saturday, September 15, the Hudson Valley Writers Guild and New York Expressive Arts are hosting a special poetry and performance event with visiting poets Elizabeth McKim and Steve Cloreine starting at 7:00PM at 4 Central Ave., in Albany.
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 There is a $3.00 suggested donation for this event. For more information contact Denie Whalen at denwhale@newyorkexpressivearts.com or 518-434-2412 or the Hudson Valley Writers Guild at hvwginfo@gmail.com or 518-449-8069. Labels: HVWG, LarkFEST, poetry events
 Live From The Living Room, a featured reading series with an open mic afterwards is held on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at the Capital District Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY. The next reading is September 12th with Pierre Joris.
Pierre's most recent books are Aljibar and Meditations on the Stations of Mansur Al-Hallaj. Amoung his publications are Permanent Dispora and The Rothenberg Varations and Poasis: Selected poems 1986-1999. He also has a CD called Routes from Ta'wil Productions. Sign up is at 7pm with 7:30 start time with host Don Levy and $2.00 suggested donation. For more info call (518) 462-6138. This is a straight-friendly reading. Labels: open mic, Pierre Joris, poetry events
If you're a big John Ashbery fan, you won't want to miss the celebration at Bard College September 14-16. Details in this Bard College press release: On September 14–16, to celebrate Ashbery's 80th birthday and his remarkable career as a poet, critic, editor, and translator, Bard will host "This Feeling of Exaltation," a weekend of poetry readings, panel discussions, and music at the College. Among those scheduled to participate are poets Charles Bernstein, Peter Gizzi, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Joan Retallack, Reginald Shepherd, Susan Stewart, and Cole Swensen; writer and editor Bradford Morrow; art critic Jed Perl; and literary critic and scholar Susan Stewart. Highlights of the three-day celebration include a concert by the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, on Friday, September 14. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Along with Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch, Ashbery is a central figure in what came to be known, in 1961, as the New York School of poets. His genre-breaking poetry and critical prose on the visual arts, music, film, literature, and culture have profoundly influenced artists, scholars, writers, and the public for decades. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize in Poetry, as well as MacArthur, Guggenheim, and Fulbright fellowships, Ashbery remains today—more than half a century since the publication of his first book in 1953—one of the most innovative and defining voices of our times. John Ashbery's recent books include A Worldly Country (2007), Where Shall I Wander (2005), Chinese Whispers (2002), Selected Prose (2004), and Other Traditions (the Norton Lecture at Harvard, 2000). He received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975). He was New York State Poet Laureate (2001–02), a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets (1988–99), and a MacArthur Fellow (1985–90). He received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets (2001), Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1997), Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America (1995), and Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for Poetry, Rome (1992), among other honors, and was made an officer of the Légion d'Honneur of the Republic of France by presidential decree (2002). He is currently Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
"This Feeling of Exaltation"
Bard College Celebrates John Ashbery on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday
September 14–16, 2007
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Friday, September 14
4:00–6:00 p.m. Poetry Reading
Charles Bernstein, Peter Gizzi, Reginald Shepherd, Susan Stewart, and Cole Swensen
Bradford Morrow, introduction
(This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc., with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.)
Theater Two, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
6:45 p.m. Preconcert Talk
Richard Wilson, American Symphony Orchestra Composer in Residence
Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
8:00 p.m. American Symphony Orchestra*
Leon Botstein, Conductor
Johannes Brahms (1833–97), Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (1880)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Op. 103 ("Egyptian") (1896)
Jacques Ibert (1890–1962), Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte (1932)
Antonín Dvorák (1841–1904), Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 ("From the New World") (1893)
Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. *Tickets are $20/$30/$35. Saturday, September 15
10:00 a.m.–noon John Ashbery: The Early Work
Charles Bernstein on Rivers and Mountains
Reginald Shepherd on Some Trees
Susan Stewart on Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Peter Gizzi, Moderator
László Z. Bitó '60 Auditorium, Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation 2:00–4:00 p.m. John Ashbery: The Later Work
Robert Kelly on Chinese Whispers
Joan Retallack on Girls on the Run
Cole Swensen on Hotel Lautréamont
Peter Gizzi, Moderator
László Z. Bitó '60 Auditorium, Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation 4:00 p.m. Reading by John Ashbery
Ann Lauterbach, introduction
László Z. Bitó '60 Auditorium, Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation Sunday, September 16
11:00 a.m. "Off-Center Intensity: Reflections on John Ashbery and the Visual Arts"
A Talk by Jed Perl
Reception to follow
Avery Arts Center Theater
*All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Programs are subject to change. Labels: poetry events, workshops
 Writing from Art and Architecture at Albany City Hall, Saturday, September 8
Guided Tour by Assemblyman John J. McEneny from 10 AM - 11 AM. The guided tour is free and may be taken without attending the writing workshop; reservations suggested. Writing from Art & Architecture Workshop with Dan Wilcox from 11:15 AM - 1 PM. Fee for the workshop: $10 for members of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild, or the Historic Albany Foundation. $12 for non-members. To register or for more information, send an email cphilo@nycap.rr.com, or call 518-459-3266 Sponsored by Hudson Valley Writers Guild and Historic Albany Foundation and funded with an Albany City Arts grant Painters, Poets, Politicians, Saturday, September 8 There will be a reading and reception for the new exhibit, "Painters, Poets, Politicians" on Saturday night at the new Bad as Art Gallery (316 Delaware Avenue)from 6:00 – 9:00PM. The evening will feature work by Marcus K. Anderson, R. M. Engelhardt, Sid Stein, Matthew Klane, Ford McLain, Ben Ellis, Rebecca Rentz, More information can be found at www.badasart.com. Goshen Writers' Group, Saturday, September 8
Poets! Goshen Writers' Group on the cusp of Autumn...
Saturday, September 8 at 7:00PM at the home of Ted and Jane Gill (83 Lower Reservoir Rd., Goshen, NY). Bring poems, very short stories, storytelling skills, an acoustic instrument or two, snacks to share, and your magnanimous selves. For more information call 845-294-5010 Presence and Possibility, Sunday, September 9 Presence & Possibility, a dance workshop taught By Sally Rhoades at The Yoga Loft , 540 Delaware Ave, Albany, NY. Four sessions beginning on September 9 and continuing October 7, November 11 and December 9 all from 2:00 - 4:00 PM. "We will discover together our tasks as human beings to bring presence into our lives. The possibilities that exist without our bodies are nothing compared to the possibility within us. Class consists of a vigorous warm-up of the muscles, joints, connections and a concentration on the spine and its purpose to not only hold us up but allow us to move. Each class is tailored to the group. Wear comfortable clothing, bring a journal or a drawing pad and a desire to discover." Cost for this workshop is $15. For more information, please e-mail lucy1299@aol.com or call 518-456-4993. Labels: poetry events, workshops
 That headline does not have any hidden meanings, you read that right, Dain Brammage will be on The Edge.
This Sunday night, September 9, at 10:00PM Dain Brammage and Mary Panza will be on 104.9 FM, The Edge, with Ralph Renna on the Capital Underground show. Dain will be performing a couple of his poems in the studio during the show. Dain and Mary will also be talking about the upcoming LarkFEST event and more. For more information on Ralph Renna, Capital Underground, and to listen live on your computer on Sunday night, go to The Edge's website. Labels: Albany Poets, Dain Brammage, poets
 THIS JUST IN, The School of Night, "Albany, NY's Most Innovative Poetry Open Mic", is returning, but this time to a new building. Ballingers will be the latest venue to host the "long running" open mic series hosted by R.M. Engelhardt with the band "Love is the D3vil". The School of Night has previously been held at Valentines, Fuze Box, and most recently at Red Square.
This "New" School of Night will be held on the first Thursday of the month, starting this coming Thursday night, September 6. According to the news released by Engelhardt, the event will be followed by Ballingers weekly "Ladie's Night" dance party, ABSINTHE, featuring "Alt-Indie rock, 80's Old School Goth, Metal and New Wave". Professor Engelhardt will be ringing the sign up bell at 7:30pm, start time at 8:00pm. There is a $4.00 tuition donation requested. Ballingers is located at 42 Howard Street, Albany. For more information, go to www.ballingers.com or www.schoolofnight.com. Labels: open mic, poetry events, School of Night
Local poets Shaun Baxter, Debbie Bump (with John Weiler on guitar), Caffe Lena open mic host Carol Graser, John Raymond, and Erik Sweet will be performing their poetry and spoken word in the Poetry Tent throughout the day during LarkFEST on Saturday, September 15. Check back for information on more poets and artists that will be performing at this years event. Labels: Albany Poets, LarkFEST, poetry events, poets
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