Memorial Day Open Stage at Caffe Lena

Forgot to add this to the list of upcoming poetry events.  Sunday, May 24 is Open Stage day at Caffe Lena in Saratoga.  Here is all the info:

This Sunday, May 24, 7:30 PM, is Caffe Lena's 5th annual Memorial Day Open Stage. The Saratoga Peace Alliance is co-sponsoring the event along with the Adirondack Chapter of Veterans for Peace. Join us for poetry, song, storytelling and reflection, patriotic or otherwise!   Performer sign-up goes from 7- 7:30. Caffe Lena is located at 47 Phila St. in Saratoga Springs.

Upcoming Poetry Events and Open Mics

We have some annoucenments for poetry events and open mics that are coming up.  Be sure to check these out, there is a lot of poetry going on in the area. 

And just a reminder, in observance of Memorial Day on Monday, May 25, we will not be having the Poets Speak Loud poetry reading / open mic.  We will return on Monday, June 29 at the Lark Tavern.

Third Thursday Poetry Night, Thursday, May 21

The Poetry Motel Foundation presents Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center (33 Central Ave., Albany, NY).

Thursday, May 21.  7:00 sign up; 7:30 start.

Featured Poet: Rebecca Schumejda

Rebecca Schumejda’s newest collection of poems “Falling Forward” was published by sunnyoutside in February. Currently, she is working on a collection of poems exploring the pool hall subulture. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and daughter & works as a teacher at an alternative high school.

-- with open mic for community poets before & after the feature: $3.00 donation, suggested; more if you got it, less if you can’t.  Your busy host: Dan Wilcox.

Beat Poetry Night at Inquiring Minds, Sunday, May 24

BEAT POETRY NIGHT with Donald Lev, Teresa Marta Costa & Michael Platsky on Sunday, May 24 at 5 pm

Local Beat poets Teresa Marta Costa and Michael Platsky will join Donald Lev for a booksigning and reading to celebrate his recent collection, The Darkness Above. All three presenters are veteran poets who have been working in the Beat tradition for decades. Books, cds and chapbooks will be available at a discount, and refreshments will be served.

Inquiring Minds Bookstore, 6 Church Street, New Paltz, NY 12561 (845) 255-8300

Sunday Four Poetry Open Mic, Sunday, May 24

Sunday Four Poetry Open Mic (every 4th Sunday), May 24, 3PM at the Old Songs Community Arts Center, 37 S. Main Street, Voorheesville, NY

Hosts:  Dennis Sullivan, Edie Abrams, Michael Burke. 
Featured poet:  Dan Wilcox with Open Mic

For information contact: dsullivan6@nycap.rr.com

VOX, Friday, May 29

V Ω X ! @ The Fuze Box
Albany, NY's Open Mic For Poets, Poetry and the Word
8pm signup, 8:30PM Start time.  $4.00 Donation Requested.

With this Month’s Feature: MURROW (Thom Francis and Keith Spencer)

Hosted by R.M.Engelhardt w/Bruce Richardson & James Washburn- Dr.Sax

Last Friday of every month at the FUZE BOX, 12 Central Avenue, Albany,NY.  More info at www.myspace.com/theblackdooralbany

Reading for Will Christman, Monday, June 1

Rootdrinker Presents Reading for Will Christman on Monday June 1, 2009,  8 pm at Smith's Tavern, 112 Maple Ave., Voorheesville, N.Y.

With Poets from Near and Far : Dennis Sullivan, Therese Broderick, Michael Czarnacki, Tom Corrado, Alan Casline, John Roche, Mimi Moriarity, Susan Deer Cloud, Tim Lake, Paulette Swartzfager, Mike Burke, Walt Franklin & more

OPEN MIC FORMAT: All who want to read bring your poetry.  Reading in honor of famous local poet William Weaver Christman (1865– 1937)

Donald Lev and Frank Boyer Reading in Woodstock, May 9

Phillip Levine sent along the following announcement for this weekend’s Woodstock Poetry Society reading with Frank Boyer and Donald Lev.  If you are in the Woodstock area on Saturday afternoon, this would be a great reading to check out.

Poets Frank Boyer and Donald Lev will be the featured readers when the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival returns to the Woodstock Town Hall, 76 Tinker Street, on Saturday, May 9th at 2pm. Note: WPS&F meetings are held the 2nd Saturday of every month at the Woodstock Town Hall, except during the winter months when we meet at the Woodstock Community Center (56 Rock City Road).  The readings will be hosted by Woodstock area poet Phillip Levine. All meetings are free, open to the public, and include an open mike.

Frank Boyer was born and raised in the Middle West. Throughout the 1980's, he was based in New York City, where he was active in the performance art scene and also wrote and performed poetry. He has lived upstate since 1992, and is the single parent of a teen-age son. He is glad to read and to hear poetry whenever he can.

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. Among his honors have been a Madeline Sadin Award from New York Quarterly in 1973 and a Life Time Achievement Award from the Catskill Reading Society/Outloudbooks in 2003. Outloudbooks has just brought out his The Darkness Above: Selected Poems 1968-2002 a sampling from the first four decades of his writing. 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.

Here's our upcoming 2009 schedule of featured readers:
Jun 13 - Judith Saunders; William Seaton
Jul 11 - Marnie Andrews; Raphael Kosek
Aug 8 - Susan Lewis; India Radfar
Sep 12 – Cornelius Eady; Gioia Timpanelli
Oct 10 – Patti Martin; Susan Hoover, Victoria Sullivan
Nov 14 – George Wallace; TBA
Dec 12 – Open Mike & Annual Business & Planning Meeting

3 Guys From Albany On Tour

Got this from Dan Wilcox about the upcoming 3 Guys From Albany tour and information on how you can watch it live on your computer.  Ah, the combination of poetry and technology is fantastic!

As part of our Colorado/Wyoming tour to get to Albany Wyoming as 3 Guys from Albany--our 12th of 18 U.S. albanys--This Sunday, May 3, we will be on a colorado tv show that also streams live to the world via yr computer.

If you've never heard us....or haven't heard us in a while...or seen us...

We go live on CCTV 54 Sunday at 7 pm Mountain Daylight Time.  The show will be streamed live on the internet. That means anyone anywhere can view it

Sunday's Show LIVE at http://cctv54.org

NOTE that's 7 MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT TIME

Our complete itinerary, in case you are in the area:
May 3 – Louisville, CO – Appearance on the Poets Co-op, CCTV 54, 7:00PM
May 4 – Albany, WY –   (somewhere, sometime)
May 5 – Cheyenne WY – The Albany Restaurant, Bar and Liquormat, 1506 Capitol Ave., 7:30 PM
May 6 – Denver, CO – Glovinsky Gallery, 800 W. 8th Ave., 7:00 PM, free (for information:  303-587-4237)
May 7 – Loveland, CO – Loveland Museum, 503 N. Lincoln Ave., 7:00 PM, donation (for information:  970-962-2410)

See us in an Albany near you.