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[Self-]Listings / June
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Some special events this month:
01-03 Fri-Sun 6 p.m.-1 a.m. Sixth Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts at Theater for the New City, Some two dozen performers presenting a wide range of work, including music, theatre, dance, comedy and spoken word. 155 1st Ave at 10th St. (212) 254-1109.
02 Sat 2 p.m. Free. Beowulf: Bertha Rogers reads from and discusses her new, illustrated translation. [See Review, this issue. Ed.] Jefferson Market Branch of the NY Public Library, 425 Ave/Americas at 10th St. Also opening: Rogers's interdisciplinary Beowulf art exhibit at the branch. Library hours: Mon&Wed,12-8; Tues&Fri 12 -6; Sat&Sun, 10-5. Info: Michael Bryant (212) 243-4334.
05 Tues 7:00 p.m. $6 Benefit performance of "Kid Lucky" with Paul Skiff, internationally known spoken word artist and co-producer of the seminal recording, "Nuyorican Symphony." Video by David Bryant. Proceeds benefit Tribes Magazine. Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 E 3rd St (Av B/C).
08 Fri 8:00 p.m. $15 Opera: Nosferatu. Music by Alva Henderson, Libretto by Dana Gioia. West Chester University, Asplundh Concert Hall, West Chester, PA. (610) 436-2266. poetry@wcupa.edu. ($10 Seniors/$5 Students).
09 9:30 p.m. $7 The Animated neck & stars: puppetry and music, including, "Pong Live", by Tom Devaney and Edwin Torres. Music by Krakatoa & The Fourth Dimension. 114 Forest St, Bushwick, Bklyn. (L train to Morgan, BQE to Flushing Exit.) (718) 855-4969.
11 6:30 p.m. Sixth Annual Poets House Brooklyn Bridge Poetry Walk: Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell, Tracie Morris, Naomi Shihab Nye. Host: Bob Holman. http://poetshouse.org/joinbridge.htm (212) 431-7920.
15 Fri 6:30 p.m. Free. 'Only the Dead' (...have seen the end of war. -- Plato). Big City LitTM records its June poetry feature, whose contributors include Yusef Komunyakaa, W.D. Ehrhart, Marc Levy, Richard Levine, Ron Price, Tom Catterson, Linh Dinh, and many others. Jazz violinist and vet, Billy Bang, Walker, Vito Ricci and others make music. Photos by Allen Baillie; sculpture by Darlene Nguyen. Housing Works Used Books & Café, 126 Crosby (BDF to B'way/Lafayette) (212) 334-3324. Musical improvisation and poetry open mic precede event. Info: (212) 864-2823 and www.nycBigCityLit.com.
16 Sat (Evening) Bluestocking's 2nd Anniversary Birthday Party.
This women's bookstore and café runs one of the liveliest, most diversified event schedules in the city. 172 Allen St (at Stanton/ F train to 2nd Av) (212) 777-6028 www.bluestockings.com (info@)
[Order: NYC regular series, NYC single events; Upstream regular series, single events. Ed.]
NYC Regular Series:
ABC-NoRio
Sundays at 3 p.m. $3
156 Rivington St
Feature + Open
Hosts: J. D. Rage, Bob Hart, Carl Herr, Peter Kerns and Bruce Weber
Info: (718) 638-7039 / www.abcnorio.org
Albany & Upstate
[See "Upstream"]
Aviatrix Reading Series
Flying Bridge Community Arts Ctr
522 Court St
Brooklyn
(F train to Smith/9th St)
June 07 7:30 p.m. Jackie Sheeler
Back Fence
Sundays at 3:15 p.m. One drink min.
155 Bleecker St (at Sullivan)
(212) 475-9221
Feature(s) + open.
Host: Brigid Murnaghan
03 Poet Peter Chelnik with Bob Feldman (tenor sax): "East Coast Beatific Poetry Jazz Delight" / Ray Garguliki
17 Jonathan Clark / Pat Morimanda
24 Poet to Poet
Baggot Inn, Unnamable Poetry Reading [See Series on Series, January 2001 issue. Ed.]
Saturdays at 3 p.m. unless o/w noted. $5 ($2 discount on first drink.) Free for listeners.
85 W 3rd St (Sullivan/Thompson)
(212) 477-0622
Info: (718) 499-4517
(http://www.baggotinn.com)
Feature(s) + open.
Curators: Steve Bennett / David Mark Speer
[The series may be unnamable, but there's no end to the ingenuity its curators bring to naming the weekly sessions. Ed.]
<Series is on summer break.>
Bluestockings Women's Bookstore and Café
172 Allen St (at Stanton/ F train to 2nd Av)
Events begin at 7 p.m. and are free unless o/w noted.
(212) 777-6028 / fax: 777-6042
www.bluestockings.com (info@)
Contact: Mick Walsh
June 02 Sat The Radical Women read from Radical Women Manifesto a how-to guide to running a bare-bones organization.
03 Sun 4:00 p.m. Quebec feminist and lesbian author Nicole Brossard reads from her novels Mauve Desert and Under Tongue.
04 Mon Queer slam champion Alix Olson performs her politically charged poetry
05 Tues Amnesty International
06 Wed Book Reading. Lavon Morris-Grant, Whom Shall I Fear: A Spiritual Journey of a Battered Woman and Curie Nova, The Sight of the Lord.
07 Thurs Poets Melissa Kirsch / T'ai Freedom Ford.
08 Fri Young Adult Reading with author Patty McCormick (Cut).
12 Tues Vocalist Val Trout
14 Thurs Barbara Kahn, one-woman play, "Cyma's Story" (Jewish lesbian experience in Wyoming).
15 Fri Blue Action Monthly series and discussion
16 Sat 11:30-2:00 p.m. Lower East Side Girls Club
16 Sat (Time TBA) Bluestocking's 2nd Anniversary Birthday Party.
17 Sun Film Screening: A Clear Road to Birth produced and edited by Judy Seaman. A documentary about women who give birth with no medical assistance at all.
19 Tues $3 FilmOn Dream Girls: Documentary treats the contradictions in gender and sexual identity experienced by Japanese women by examining the Takaruzake Revue theatre company.
20 Wed Music: Muriel Vergnaud, flutist/composer and cellist Julia Biber.
21 Thurs Katha Pollitt, award-winning writer for The Nation reads from her new book Subject to Debate.
22 Fri Readings by various New York queer zine authors/editors
23 Sat Poet Thea Hillman reads from Depending on the Light
26 Tues Women's Open Mic Poetry, hosted by Vittoria repetto. 8-minute limit, sign-up 7 p.m. Features: Sue Scheid and poet Karen Hurley.
27 Wed Acoustic singer/songwriters. Sign-up 6:45 p.m. Features: Len Shankman / Cheryl Skye
28 Thurs Esther Newton reads from her new novel, Margaret Mead Made Me Gay.
29 Fri Open book discussion: Zadie Smith's White Teeth
30 Sat Lousie A. Blum, You’re Not From Around Here, Are You? and Nancy Abrams, The Other Mother: A Lesbian’s Fight For Her Daughter. Book-signing follows.
Caffè Taci
2841 Broadway (110th Street)
Venue for most BigCity LitTM mid-monthly recording sessions. Spacious, high-ceilinged Tuscan ambience, succulent food, live opera on weekends. Info: (212) 864-2823.
CBGB's Gallery
303 Bowery
982-4052
CCS Reading Series
Sundays at 3:00 p.m.
$7.00 suggested, $5.00 students, seniors.
Civic Center Synagogue, 49 White Street, NYC.
3 blocks below Canal, between Church / B'way.
Founding Executive Director: Martha Rhodes
Director: Soraya Shalforoosh
Program Assistants: Patrick Donnelly / Cathy McArthur
<Series is on Summer break.>
Center for Book Arts, Phoenix Reading Series
Thursdays at 7 p.m. unless o/w noted. $3 contribution.
28 W 27th St 3rd Floor
Info: (212) 264-4792 (mvidibor@home.com)
Feature(s) + open.
Curators: Marlene Vidibor and Michael Graves
June03 $5 Benefit for the Center for Book Arts. Several CBA poets read from their recent work. Limited edition broadsides designed and letterpress-printed at CBA, will be sold to benefit The Center. www.centerforbookarts.org
Cooper Union
51 Astor Place
Cornelia Street Café [See Series on Series, February 2001 issue. Ed.]
Sundays, Wednesdays, Fridays at 6 p.m. unless o/w noted. $6 (first drink free)
29 Cornelia St (Bleecker/W 4th)
(212) 989-9319 (www.corneliastreetcafe.com)
Features only except Fridays.
Curator: Angelo Verga
Friday night open (Pink Pony West) curators: Maggie Balistreri and Jackie Sheeler
(Feature at 7:45.) Info: www.poetz.com
June03 JULIO MARZAN, DOUG DORPH, ANNIE CHU
06 CHRIS BRANDT, BILL HUHN, TAYLOR MALI
10 SUZANNE FRISCHKORN, ANGELO VERGA, HUGH SEIDMAN, TERESE SVOBODA
13 STELLA PADNOS PRESENTS "YOUNGER" POETS
17 KAREN ZUSMAN, NANCY MERCADO, KIM WHITE
20 PRUDENCE HOLMES, JENNY BADMAN, plus OPEN
21 DANNY SHOT'S LONG SHOT MAGAZINE RELEASE PARTY
24 RACHEL LEVITSKY, BRENDAN LORBER, MAUREEN OWEN
27 ERIC GAMALINDA, MICHAEL BURKARD, SUZANNE WISE
Pink Pony at Cornelia (Fridays)
June 01 - Sarah Cortez (How to Undress a Cop)
08 Meagan Brothers, poet/comic
15 Vincent Toro & Juxtapose
22 Thea Hillman, poet, novelist and slam champ from San Francisco
29 Ken Thompson, music
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St
(212) 219-2166
Ear Inn
Saturdays at 3 p.m. unless o/w noted. Free.
326 Spring St (west of Greenwich)
Info: Michael Broder (212) 246-5074
Exoterica [See Series Review, March 2001 issue.]
The Society for Ethical Culture
4450 Fieldston Rd (Riverdale, Bronx)
3 p.m. Feature(s) + open.
Director: Rick Pernod
Info: (718) 549-5192 (wubbies@earthlink.net)
Calendar of events: http://members.aol.com/exoterica
June 03 Sun 11 a.m. "A Conversation Between Poetry and Music," Barry Wallenstein and jazz great John Hicks celebrate the release of their latest CD collaboration, "A Measure of Conduct." Info: (718) 548-4445
Fourteenth (14th) Street Y [See Series on Series, December 2000 issue. Ed.]
344 E 14th St (1st Ave)
(212) 780-0800 x 255
Director: Wendy Sabin-Laker
Poet-in-Residence: Veronica Golos
June 07, 7 p.m, $7 Open As You Make It!
A Gathering of the Tribes
(See "Tribes")
Housing Works Used Books & Café
126 Crosby St (B'way/Lafayette, Houston/Prince)
(212) 334-3324
www.housingworksubc.com
June 13 7:00 Gerard Nicosia: Vietnam War author.
15 Fri 6:30 p.m. Free. 'Only the Dead' (...have seen the end of war. -- Plato). Big City LitTM records its June poetry feature, whose contributors include Yusef Komunyakaa, W.D. Ehrhart, Marc Levy, Richard Levine, Ron Price, Tom Catterson, Linh Dinh, and many others. Jazz violinist and vet, Billy Bang, Walker, Vito Ricci and others make music. Photos by Allen Baillie; sculpture by Darlene Nguyen. Housing Works Used Books & Café, 126 Crosby (BDF to B'way/Lafayette) (212) 334-3324. Musical improvisation and poetry open mic precede event. Info: (212) 864-2823 and www.nycBigCityLit.com.
Hunter College
68th St / Lexington Av
8th Floor Faculty Lounge
(212) 772-5164
Host: Elena Georgiou
KGB Bar ['Degrees of Apprenticeship' MFA series poets (Brooklyn College) recorded live 12/18. See Audio/CD. Ed.]
Mondays at 7:30 p.m., unless o/w noted. Free.
85 E 4th St (212) 505-3360
Features only.
Curators: Star Black and David Lehman
05 Tues 7:00 Free. Melanie Rae Thon, Granta magazine. Info: (212) 734-5134; rmorse@morse-partners.com.
The Kitchen 519 W 19th St
Info: (212) 255-5793, ext. 11
Various theatrical performances and readings. Call for schedule.
[See review of Edwin Torres's Gecko Suite in March 2001 issue. Ed.]
The Knitting Factory
Saturdays at 6 p.m. unless o/w noted. $5
74 Leonard St (IRT 1 or 9 to Franklin St)
Feature(s) + open.
Host: Yictove
June 02 - Pat Dasko
09 - Ice
16 - Jonathan Winell
23 - Eric Richmond
30 - Jeanette
Korova Milk Bar
(See "Milk Bar")
Libraries in The New York Public Library System
02 Sat 2 p.m. Free. Jefferson Market Branch. Beowulf: Bertha Rogers reads from and discusses her new, illustrated translation. [See Review, this issue. Ed.] 425 Ave/Americas at 10th St. Also opening: Rogers's interdisciplinary Beowulf art exhibit at the branch. Library hours: Mon&Wed,12-8; Tues&Fri 12 -6; Sat&Sun, 10-5. Info: Michael Bryant (212) 243-4334.
02 Sat 2:30 p.m. Poetry in the Branches Open. New Dorp Branch Library, 309 New Dorp Lane, Staten Island. Host: Maria Mazziotti Gillan. Info: (718) 351-2977.
09 Sat 2 p.m. Poetry in the Branches: Michael Warr / Naomi Shiba Nye. 96th St Branch, 112 E 96th. (212) 289-0908.
Makor [See Series Review, January 2001 issue. Ed.]
35 W 67th St (Lincoln Ctr)
(212) 601-1037 (www.makor.org)
Eve Grubin, Poetry Series Curator (eve.grubin@makor.org)
June 06 Wed 7:30 $8 The Road to Fez. Jointly sponsored with Sephardic House. Poet and fiction writer Ruth Knafo Setton, author of the new novel, The Road to Fez, and musician and composer Yoel Ben-Simhon, cross borders to explore desire and memory in Sephardic culture.
07 Thurs 7:30 p.m. $5 Word of Mouth Thursdays: Open mike night hosted by Alix Strauss. 5-7 minutes of fiction. Eight readers will take to the stage. Q&A will follow. Contact Elliott Rabin at 601-1030.
Multiple Sessions:
07 Thurs 7:00-8:30 p.m. Four Thursdays in June: 07, 14, 21, 28, four in July: 05, 12, 19, 26. Poetry Writing and Reading Workshop Instructor: Eve Grubin. $60 for four sessions; $120 for eight.
26 7:30 Free. Book Discussion Group: The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of 11th Japan, wrote the world's first novel, a lively and nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, a play of characters whose inner lives are as rich and changeable as those imagined by Proust.
Manitoba's
Proletkult Poetry Circus
Feature + open.
Events begin at 7 unless o/w noted. $5
Ave B/ 7th St
Info: (212) 459-2653 (magdalena@poetic.com)
Milk Bar (Korova Milk Bar)
200 Avenue A (at 12th St)
Events at 7:30 unless o/w noted. $2 (one drink min.)
Info: (718) 389-2666
Monthly reading
Moroccan Star
Sundays at 1 p.m. $3 min. + $3 contribution
205 Atlantic Ave (Brooklyn Heights)
Feature(s) + open.
Hosts: Evie Ivy and Tom Oleszczuk
Info: (718) 789-3943
Museums
Bronx Museum
1040 Grand Concourse (165th St)
(718) 681-6000
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Pkwy
June 02 Sat 5-11 p.m. Sarah Jones
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave (88th St)
(212) 423-3587
June 03 Sun $15 "The Brave New World" Mixed and new media work by poets Stephanie Strickland and Camille Utterbach. Host: Anna Rabinowitz (Commentary)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
(212) 570-3807
June 21 Thurs 7 p.m. $25 William Blake: Patti Smith, Oliver Ray. (570-3949)
Museum of The City of New York
09 Saturday 2-4:30 p.m. Reading for Bronx Accent by Lloyd Ultan & Barbara Unger readings by Ultan, Unger, Leonard Kriegel, Arlene Gross, and others. Bronx Accent is the winner of the 2000 New York Book Award for Borough History.
The New York Historical Society
2 W 77th St
www.nyhistory.org (212) 873-4300
June 06 6:30 Free. Rooftop Urban Storytellers. Co-sponsor Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage
New Millennium (Series for the)
The Lower East Side Ecology Center
East 7 th St (B/C)
(212) 260-6389
Open. Saturdays at 6 p.m. Free.
Musicians welcome.
Ninety-Second (92nd) Street Y [See Series Reviews, February 2001 issue. Ed.]
1395 Lexington Avenue
(212) 415-5500 (http://www.92ndStY.org)
June 19 Tues 8:00 The Pentagon Papers: Thirty Years Later
Nuyorican Poets Cafè
236 E 3rd St (B/C)
Wednesday/Friday Slams
The NY Open Center
83 Spring St
(www.opencenter.org)
The Orange Bear
47 Murray Street.
Poet to Poet
Sundays at 4 p.m. unless o/w noted $3 + $3 minimum
Info: 212.566.3705
MelindaLevokove@excite.com.
Phoenix Reading Series
(see Center for Book Arts)
Pink Pony West Reading Series
Fridays at 6 p.m. unless o/w noted.
Cornelia Street Café (address, admission as above)
Feature follows open at 7:45 p.m.
Hosts: Jackie Sheeler and Maggie Balisteri
Info: www.poetz.com
(See listings under 'Cornelia Street.')
Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church [See Series on Series, December 2000 issue. Ed.]
Events cost $7 unless o/w noted.
131 E 10th St (2nd Ave)
(212) 674-0910 (poproj@artomatic.com)
Readings: Monday (8 p.m. open, 7:30 sign-up), Wednesday and Friday (8:00 or 10:30).
Director: Ed Friedman / Program Coordinator: Tracy Blackmer
Details: (http://www.poetryproject.com)
June 01 Friday 10:30 p.m. "You Better Pay" - The Spring 2001 Workshop Reading featuring readers from the workshops of Larry Fagin, Prageeta Sharma, and Maureen Owen. Readers will include: Ruth Altmann, Lisa Attanasio, Hadara Bar-nadav, David Elsasser, Robert Elstein, George Green, Boni Joi Koelliker, Be LaRoe, Mindy Levokove, Amanda Lichtenberg, Marlene Lortev-Terwilliger, Lilla Lyon, Phyllis Middlebrooks, Jeanne Mischo, Susan Mills, Steffie Nelson, Rachael Nevins, Jason Notte, Kathleen O'Keefe, Karin Randolph, Evelyn Reilly, Goldalee Semel, Joanne Straley, Christina Strong, Melissa Tremblay, David Trinidad, Marcia Turk, and Bob Ward.
[Poetry Project will close this month, and resume workshops and events in September.]
Poets House
Seminar center and library co-founded in 1985 by Stanley Kunitz (U.S. Poet Laureate).
72 Spring St
Events are $7 / free for members unless o/w indicated.
(212) 431-7920
(www.poetshouse.org)
June 11 6:30 p.m. Sixth Annual Poets House Brooklyn Bridge Poetry Walk: Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell, Tracie Morris, Naomi Shihab Nye. Host: Bob Holman. http://poetshouse.org/joinbridge.htm (212) 431-7920.
13 Wed 6 p.m. Free Poems by Heart with Carol Conroy
Posman Books
Sunday afternoons at 3 p.m., unless o/w noted
One University Pl (NE corner, Washington Sq)
(212) 533-2665
Curator: Tom Padilla
[Posman held its last reading in April and has closed. We expect to carry at least one article shortly on this well-loved bookstore. Ed.]
Reading Between A & B
510 E 11th St
Unless o/w noted, free readings are Mondays at 8.
www.readAB.com
Curators: Meghan Cleary / Jonathan Thirkield
June 04 Frazier Russell / Jo Sarzotti / Elizabeth Tucker / Damian Van Denburgh
18 George Kalamaras / Griffin Hansbury / Toby Bochan / Octavio Gonzalez
Saturn Series at Revival Bar [See Series on Series, March 2001 issue. Ed.]
Mondays at 7:30 p.m., unless o/w noted. $3 donation.
129 E 15th St
Feature(s) + Open
Hosts: John Chism, Su Polo and William Duke (www.poetrycentral.com)
Taci (see Caffè Taci)
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
5 Union Square. Info: 212.691.6590; www.twc.org.
A Gathering of the Tribes
Sundays, 5-7 p.m., unless o/w noted.
285 E 3rd St (C/D)
(212) 674-3778 (info@tribes.org)
Fridays 7:30-9:30 $3 Stoop Poetry Workshop. Participants bring several copies of one poem. Sundays 5-7 p.m. $3 Feature(s) + open.
http://www.tribes.org
[Check web site for complete schedule. Ed.]
June 07 Thur 6-9 p.m. Opening reception for "Daisy and Manifestations": Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors by John Coppola. Exhibit closes June 30.
10 Sun Diep / Onome
15-17 Fri/Sat 10 p.m. (9 on Sun) $10 "The Body of Loretta", a 1-hour theater piece from "The Loretta Triology".
17 Corree Spencer / Bob Slaymaker
24 TBA
The Underground Lounge
955 West End Ave (at 107th St)
Open mic, Mondays at 8, hosted by the Freestyle Family Orchestra.
www.freestylefamily.com
Unnamable
(See Baggot Inn)
Urbana
Sundays at 7 p.m., unless o/w noted. $5
CBGB's Gallery
313 Bowery (Bleecker) (www.cbgb.com/slamschedule.html)
The West End Bar
2911 Broadway (113/114th Sts)
(212) 662-8830
Open: First Sunday of the month, 8 p.m.
Universal Spectrum Series: hiphop / poetry/ folk vocals / jazz / storytelling
Host: Zander
Wordsmiths@Halcyon
227 Smith St., Brooklyn
Thursdays at 7:30. Free.
Sponsored by: Marisa Simon
Info: (718) 260-9299 wordsmiths@halcyonline.com.
NYC Single Events:
01-03 Fri-Sun 6 p.m.-1 a.m. Sixth Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts at Theater for the New City, Some two dozen performers presenting a wide range of work, including music, theatre, dance, comedy and spoken word. 155 1st Ave at 10th St. (212) 254-1109.
05 7:00 p.m. $6 Benefit performance of "Kid Lucky" with Paul Skiff, internationally known spoken word artist and co-producer of the seminal recording, Nuyorican Symphony. Video by David Bryant. Proceeds benefit Tribes Magazine. Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 E 3rd St (Av B/C).
08 Fri 8:00 p.m. $15 Opera: Nosferatu. Music by Alva Henderson, Libretto by Dana Gioia. West Chester University, Asplundh Concert Hall, West Chester, PA. (610) 436-2266. poetry@wcupa.edu. ($10 Seniors/$5 Students).
09 9:30 p.m. $7 The Animated neck & stars: puppetry and music, including, "Pong Live", by Tom Devaney and Edwin Torres. Music by Krakatoa & The Fourth Dimension. 114 Forest St, Bushwick, Bklyn. (L train to Morgan, BQE to Flushing Exit.) (718) 855-4969.
11 6:30 p.m. Sixth Annual Poets House Brooklyn Bridge Poetry Walk: Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell, Tracie Morris, Naomi Shihab Nye. Host: Bob Holman. http://poetshouse.org/joinbridge.htm (212) 431-7920.
Long Island
09 6:00 p.m. Free. Daniela Gioseffi. Canio's Book Store, 290 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY. Info: (631) 725-4926.
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Upstream
(Albany & Upstate)
(Questions re Albany: wilcox23@juno.com)
June 01 [Every Fri] - "Urban Guerilla Theater" open mic, 9PM, Mason Hall, 120 Madison Ave., Albany 07 [1st Monday] - Open Mic, 7:00 PM, Mocatopia Coffee House, Lark St., Albany
06 [Every Wed] - Open Mic for musicians & poets, 9PM, Lark Tavern, Madison Ave., Albany
06 [1st Wed] - Open Mic for musicians & poets, 7:00 PM, MotherEarth's Cafe, Quail & Western, Albany
13 [2nd Wed.] - "Alchemy of the Word" Open Mic & feature (Dan Wilcox), Lionheart, Lark St., Albany, 7:30PM 10 [2nd Thurs.] - "Soul Kitchen" Open mic at Clayton's Caribbean Restaurant, 244 Washington Ave., Albany, 8PM
10 [2nd Sun.] - Saratoga Poetry Zone, open mic, Saratoga Springs Public Library, Saratoga Springs, 3PM
16 Sat 8 p.m. $3 Charlie Rossiter / Michele Battiste / Sean Thomas Dougherty at Changing Spaces Gallery, 306 Hudson Ave (Lark/Dove) Albany
18 [3rd Tues.] - Open mic, Colonie Town Library, 629 Albany Shaker Rd., Loudonville, 7PM
23 [3rd Sat.] - Terry Provost Feature & open mic, "Pete's Poets" at Arthur's Market, 35 N. Ferry St., Schenectady, 7:30
26 [Last Tues.] - "School of Night" open mic, Valentine's, 17 New Scotland Ave., Albany, 8:00
27 [Last Wed.] - "High Drama Poetry Society" Open Mic, Fuze Box, 13 Central Ave., Albany, 7PM
Mid-Hudson
Lower Hudson
New Jersey
Connecticut