Margot Malia Lynch Featuring at Fuze Box, Sept 25

Singer/Songwriter/Poet/Artist Margot Malia Lynch (who will be also performing on the Hometown Stage at LARKfest on Saturday, September 19 with Daniel Nester and Murrow) is the featured poet this month at the Fuze Box for VoX, hosted by R.M. Engelhardt.

Here is all of the information for vOx from the host himself:

V Ω X ! @ The Fuze Box

FRIDAY, September 25th, 2009

Albany, NY's Open Mic For Poets
POETRY & THE WORD

*8pm Start time*

$4.00 Donation Requested

With this Month’s Featured Poet~
~Margot Malia Lynch~

Hosted by R.M.Engelhardt

Always Held On The Last Friday of Each Month.

Join “THE VERSUS PROJECT”
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56748704806

And Never Bury Poetry

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FUZE BOX:
12 Central Avenue
Albany,NY
(518) 432-8866
INFO: www.rmengelhardt.com

Poetry Reading Will Explore ‘Grief and Gratitude’, Sept 16

Sounds like this is going to be a good reading over in Troy on Wednesday.  Here is the information from the good people at the Arts Center:

Poetry reading will explore ‘grief and gratitude’

Area writers included in acclaimed anthology to read at The Arts Center

Beloved on the Earth (Holy Cow! Press) is an engaging anthology of 150 poems that brings together a range of responses to the experiences of death, mourning, and gratitude for lost loved ones, composed by a variety of poets, both emerging and well-known.

TROY—Acclaimed poet, storyteller and scholar Joseph Bruchac of Greenfield Center will be among the featured writers in a September 16 "anthology reading" at The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River St. in downtown Troy.

Bruchac will be joined by poets Judith E. Prest of Duanesburg and Kenneth Salzmann of Woodstock in reading from the best-selling poetry anthology BELOVED ON THE EARTH: 150 POEMS OF GRIEF AND GRATITUDE.

The program will also include video recorded contributions and "proxy" readings of poems from more than a dozen far-flung contributors to the anthology.

A book signing will follow the reading, which begins at 7 p.m.

Released in June by the Minnesota-based Holy Cow! Press, BELOVED ON THE EARTH has been a frequent "hot new release" on Amazon's list of poetry anthologies and has appeared several times on the Poetry Foundation's Best Seller List (Nielsen BookScan).

The collection includes poems by dozens of emerging and acclaimed poets, including numerous Pulitzer Prize-winners, past and current poets laureate and other notables.

It has received praise from  Rabbi Lawrence Kushner ("An anthology filled with healing and hope.") and Dr. Bernie Seigel (“Death is an inevitable event and we are poorly prepared for the loss of a loved one. The answer lies within this book’s poems. . . “).

Michele Fedderly, executive director of Hospice Minnesota, also praised the anthology, saying, "This would be an excellent resource for families and staff offering a way to be open to healing and grace."

In literary circles, a Minnesota Star-Tribune book reviewer said, “This is a collection of poems that help give meaning to our grief and remind us that we are not alone.”

Elsewhere, critic Vince Corvaia termed it “the best book of poems I have reviewed so far this year.”

The collection is edited by poet Deborah Cooper, memoirist Mara Hart and poet and mystery writer Pamela Mittlefehldt  along with Jim Perlman, founding editor and publisher of Holy Cow! Press, which has been hailed by critic Lewis Hyde as “one of the best small presses in the nation.”

For more information about the Sept. 16 reading in Troy, contact The Arts Center at 518-273-0552 or visit www.artscenteronline.org

Java Poets Collective Reading, Oct 4

Definitely a reading to check out at Professor Java’s in Colonie coming on October 4.

In spring 2006, the NYS Writers Institute offered a poetry workshop conducted by Cara Benson. The group has continued to meet independently forming the Java Poets Collective.  The group is publishing Java Wednesdays, a chapbook of their work and will launch its release with this reading.

Readers include:  Deb Adler, Maria DeLucia-Evans, Gwen Gould, Scott Hicks, Nick Kling, Cecele Kraus, Suzanne Meyers, Terry Royne, Jan Marin Tramontano, Amy White, and Cara Benson.

Java Poets Collective Reading
Sunday, October 4, 2-4pm
Professor Java's Coffee Sanctuary
217 Wolf Road, Albany

Yes, Reading!, Fall 2009

Very busy week of poetry ahead of us here in Albany.  Yes, Reading! is starting its Fall 2009 season this coming Friday, September 11. 

Dear friends of YES, READING! :

Our first event will take place on September 11 at the Social Justice Center (33 Central Avenue in Albany), and will feature visiting poets Paige Ackerson-Kiely and Kate Greenstreet.

The reading will begin at 7 o'clock, but please come 15 minutes early to hang out and graze on some goodies.

For more information about the readers, including short poems, please visit our new website: www.yesreading.wordpress.com, which will be updated every two weeks with new information about the next Yes! event.

Here is the schedule for Fall 2009:

• September 11: Paige Ackerson-Kiely & Kate Greenstreet
• September 25: Natalie Knight & Christophe Casamassima
• October 9: Jono Tosch & Jessica Fjeld
• October 10: Science Fiction Marathon Reading, with Adam Golaski, Greg Purcell, Josh Potter, and other readers TBA, location TBA
• October 23: James Belflower & Christian Peet w/ Elena Georgiou
• November 7 (Saturday): Chris Tonelli & Janaka Stucky
• November 20: Jonas Williams & Matvei Yankelovich

Poetry at The UAG Begins Friday, September 11

That’s right, for our third year, Albany Poets is bringing poetry back to the UAG Gallery on the second Friday of the month.

ALBANY POETS PRESENTS SECOND FRIDAY OPEN MIC @ THE UAG GALLERY!

Albany Poets is proud to present a NO GIMMICKS OPEN MIC every second Friday at the UAG Gallery, 247 Lark Street in Albany.

You are the feature.  You set the tone.  Anything goes! 

The series dates are:
Friday September 11th
Friday October 9th
Friday November 13th
Friday December 11th
7pm sign-up, we will start around 7:45.
Hosted by Thom, Mary and Keith