Forum Follows Function

In this weeks edition of Metroland, there is an article about the local small press  poetry scene.  Thom Francis, Mary Panza, Dan Wilcox, Chris Rizzo, Rachel Zitomer, Matthew Klane and many others were interviewed for this article discussing the current Albany scene, its history, and where it may be going from here.  The article also talks about the recent small press book fair at the UAG Gallery.

Albany Poets (albanypoets.com) is as much an organizational body, networking apparatus, and community of friends as it is a poetry press. “The important thing is that we provide a microphone and a Web site because it is your right to express yourself,” Panza says. “We want to give you the forum to do that.”

Click the link below to read the entire article on the Metroland site or go out and pick up a copy for yourself.

Forum Follows Function - Metroland Online - Feature

Small Press reading at UAG This Saturday

The folks that brought you the very successful small press fair at the UAG Gallery (247 Lark Street, Albany) for First Friday a couple of weeks ago are coming back for a special poetry reading this coming Saturday at the UAG.

From 2:00PM – 5:00PM poets and representatives from Albany Poets, Flim Forum Press, Fence Books, A.P.D. Press, and Anchorite Press will be reading their work and talking about small press in Albany.  Some of the poets scheduled to read are Eric Gelsinger, Rebecca Wolff, Anthony Bernini, Colie Collen, Pierre Joris, Thom Francis, and R.M. Engelhardt.

Be sure to check this event out on Saturday afternoon and support local small presses by purchasing their books.

Small Press Poetry at UAG

First Friday, January 2nd, 5-9pm at the UAG Gallery, 247 Lark Street.

The Upstate Artists Guild (UAG) Gallery, as part of their January “New Beginnings” show, will be hosting a Publisher’s Open House for many of the poetry small presses producing books in Albany, NY.

Across poetics, aesthetics, and institutional status, contributing presses will include: Flim Forum Press, Fence Books, A.P.D. Press, Anchorite Press, and Albany Poets.

This will be an opportunity for interested gallery-goers to engage with some of the independent, underground, and/or experimental writing and publishing happening here in Albany today.

The show opens on First Friday, January 2nd, and will last throughout the month. Free to the public. For more information, call (518) 426-350, or email: klane@flimforum.com.

New from A.P.D. : "To the Husband I Have Not Yet Met" by Mary Kathryn Jablonski

A.P.D. Announces the Publication of "To the Husband I Have Not Yet Met" Poems by Mary Kathryn Jablonski

A.P.D. is proud to announce the publication of "To the Husband I Have Not Yet Met," by Saratoga Springs, NY, poet Mary Kathryn Jablonski. The 28-page chapbook contains 17 poems with a woodcut by Allen Grindle illustrating the cover. Woven with threads of humor, the poems explore memory, longing and the power of imagination.
Mary Kathryn Jablonski is a visual artist and poet who is assistant director of the Schick Art Gallery at Skidmore College. In past lives she has worked as a graphic artist, caterer, photo shoot stylist, barista, window display designer, and mannequin dresser, among other things. Jablonski was director of the Saratoga Poetry Zone from 2000 to 2005. She also initiated and curated a program of literary readings to complement exhibits at the Arts Center Gallery in downtown Saratoga Springs where she was gallery director from 1999-2002. She has read her poems throughout the Capital District, including at historic Caffe Lena. In 2007 she was awarded a NYSCA grant to create a new series of artworks and poems and interview artist/writers on the Internet.

A.P.D., under the direction of Albany poet and photographer Dan Wilcox, has been publishing the works of local and regional poets since 1989. Among the works published by A.P.D. are "Distant Kinships" by Anthony Bernini, "Suddenly Sapphires" by Dina Pearlman, and "Three Sides to the Looking Glass" by Rachel Zitomer.

To the Husband I Have Not Yet Met, poems by Mary Kathryn Jablonski (ISBN-13: 978-0-9714631-7-2; ISBN-10: 0-9714631-7-4) is available from local and regional booksellers, or directly from the publisher, $8.00 + $2.00 shipping cost.

For more information, please contact Dan Wilcox at 518-482-0262; email: apdbooks@earthlink.net.