POETRY THIS WEEK
Monday, Mar 8
Professor Java's
Monday Night Open Mic
Muddy Cup Open Mic
Tuesday, Mar 9
Poetry Off The Hook
Emack & Bolio's
Wednesday, Mar 10
Live From The Living Room
Flavour Cafe Open Mic
Thursday, Mar 11
Bohemian Book Bin
Every Other Thurs Poets
Rockhill Bakehouse
Friday, Mar 12
World Poetry Cafe
Wize Wordz
Saturday, Mar 13
Woodstock Poetry Society

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Albany Poets Podcast
NEW: Podcast #32 - Poets Speak Loud - February 23, 2009
Albany Poets TV
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NEW: Albany Word Fest - April 17-18, 2009
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OTHER:TEN
Issue ten of Albany Poets' art/lit magazine OTHER: is now available.
Online Open Mic
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Upstate Poetry Workshops
Check out our ever-growing list of poetry workshops that are all around upstate New York.
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THERESE BRODERICK
Therese L. Broderick teaches a weekly writing class to men in recovery. She has won local and national poetry awards and has been published locally and nationally. She lives in Albany with her husband and daughter.
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POEMS
PROPER NAME
Don't think that I was named for the ecstasy of Avila. My mother baptized me only for the roses of Lisieux--a peasant's modesty, not a noble's passion.
But so many of you have confused me
with that other Teresa
that I have long been possessed
by what I am not--quite mad
with denial.
A wrathful angel, I brandish swords
at the gates of my name--
above two letters "e,"
two accents "grave" and "aigu."
Along with a flower's perfume, O Mother, its thorns.
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