Live From The Living Room With Daniel Nester

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 March 11th with Dan Nester.

Dan Nester is a journalist, essayist, poet, editor, and teacher. His first two books, God Save My Queen (Soft Skull Press, 2003) and God Save My Queen II (2004), are both collections on his obsession with the rock band Queen. His third book, The History of My World Tonight (BlazeVOX, 2006), is a collection of poems.

His next book, How to Be Inappropriate, a collection of humorous nonfiction, will be published by Soft Skull Press in 2009.

As a journalist and essayist, his work has appeared in a variety of places, such as Poets & Writers, The Morning News, The Daily Beast, Time Out New York, The Bloomsbury Review, and Bookslut.

His work has been anthologized in such collections as The Best American Poetry 2003, The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1, and Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, Isn't It Romantic? 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets, and Gamers: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasure of the Pixels.

He is an assistant professor of English at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY.

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.

Live From The Living Room, Feb 11 with Jan Marin Tramontano

Live From The Living Room, a featured reading series with an open mic after words 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 February 11th with  Jan Marin Tramontano.

Jan Marin Tramontano is a poet and fiction writer living in Albany. Most recently, her poems and stories have appeared in: Poets Canvas, Women's Synergy, Byline, Knock, Chronogram, Willow Tree Poems, American Intercultural Magazine, New Verse News, and Mom's Literary Magazine.

She has published two poetry chapbooks, Floating Islands and Woman Sitting in a Cafe, her father's memoir, I am a Fortunate Man, and has just completed her first novel. She is also an occasional contributor to the Times Union's Book Section. She is a member of the International Women's Writing Guild, Poets House. and the Hudson Valley Writers Guild.

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.

Live From The Living Room with Jim Masters

Live From The Living Room, a featured reading series with an open mic afterwards is held on the second Wednesday of every month at the Capital District Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY.  The next reading is  July 9th featuring local gay poet Jim Masters. 

Jim's bio:

I  was born in Kansas City, Missouri one year before the great stock
market crash of 1929. In the public schools of Kansas City I picked up the notion that poetry consisted of writing in correctly formed iambic
pentameter or some other such rhyme/rhythm scheme. A poem I submitted for a senior yearbook, and which I labored over to get the rhyme/rhythm scheme correct, was rejected; and it was politely suggested that I stick with prose, although it was hinted that that was not much better than my poetry.

The University of Kansas granted me A. B. and M. A. degrees, and the
University of Missouri at Kansas City granted me a Ph. D. I became a
Professor of Education at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana and taught not only in the Teacher Education program but also Integrated Liberal Studies, required of all freshmen, in which I attempted to help them improve in their prose (not poetical) writing. And one year I taught American History, in which I began at the present and moved backwards in time. I thought it interesting and I learned a lot; the students seemed to think it odd.

My wife labored with some success for more than 50 years to stir up my
interest in poetry, and during the last years of her life, when she was
blind, I read her favorite poems to her every day. They became my favorite poems, too, and I remain ever thankful that we had that experience together before her death. One poem by e. e. cummings I read at her funeral--"I thank you God for most this amazing day...."

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.

Sally Rhodes Live From The Living Room

Live From The Living Room, a featured reading series with an open mic afterwards is held on the second Wednesday of every month at the Capital District Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY.  The next reading is April 9th with local poet/dancer Sally Rhodes   

Sally is a local poet who has, from time to time, incorporated dance into her public featured readings.

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.

Chris Brabham Live From The Living Room

Live From The Living Room, a featured reading series with an open mic afterwards is held on the second Wednesday of every month at the Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY.  The next reading is March 12th with Chris Brabham.

Chris has read in many venues in the region including The Lark Tavern, The Night Sky Cafe, Washington Park and 2007 Larkfest.  He is also the winner of Albany Poet's first ever bad lyric reading competition with his rendition of the classic "Fishheads".

Sign up for the open mic is at 7:00pm with 7:30pm start time with host Don Levy.  There is a $2.00 suggested donation for this reading.  For more info call (518) 462-6138.  This is a straight-friendly reading.

John Raymond Reads Live From The Living Room

John Raymond is the featured poet this month at the Live From The Living Room reading and open mic at the Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Center.  Host Don Levy sent the following announcement along:

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 November 14th with John Raymond.  

John Raymond is a local rapscallion who is coming out of seclusion to take part in Albany's open mic poetry scene.  He enjoys music, backpacking, and smoked meats.

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.