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Albany Poets

Poetry Lives in Albany

About Me

Albany Poets is a group dedicated to the advancement of poetry in the Albany area. We organize and help others to promote numerous poetry readings, events, and open mics throughout the area.
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The Albany Poets website, www.albanypoets.com , is getting a makeover. Be sure to check out the site in August for the debut of the all-new site with new features, new poets, new events, and more.
We are always on the lookout for new poets to feature on the site. If you are interested in submitting your work to Albany Poets, send an email to [email protected] with up to five poems and a brief introduction. For full details on submitting, go to www.albanypoets.com.
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Member Since: 1/26/2006
Band Website: albanypoets.com
Band Members: Mary Grace Albanese , John Allen , Marcus Anderson , Celia Bland , Dain Brammage , Danielle Brignola , Therese Broderick , Debora Bump , Alan Catlin , Teresa Marta Costa , Jim Cuozzo , Kristen Day , Scott Donnelly , R.M. Engelhardt , The Poet Essence , A.C. Everson , Thom Francis , Sara Germano , Emily Gonzalez , Carol Graser , Jil Hanifan , D. Alexander Holiday , Tess Lecuyer , Leo , Bone Leonard , Don Levy , Josh McIntyre , Mojavi , Marty Mulenex , Joseph Mulligan , Tom Nattell , Lisa Nolan , Mary Panza , Nicole Peyrafitte , Cheryl A. Rice , Michael Rivet , James Schlett , Bob Sharkey , J. Eric Smith , Amanda Stahl , Matina L. Stamatakis , K.A. Thayer , Rich Tomasulo , Dan Wilcox , Hollice Danielle Wiles
Influences: John Ashbery , Jimmy Santiago Baca , Amiri Baraka , John Beecher , Gwendolyn Bennett , John Berryman , Elizabeth Bishop , Paul Blackburn , Robert Bly , Louise Bogan , Arna Bontemps , Kay Boyle , William Bronk , Gwendolyn Brooks , Sterling A. Brown , Charles Bukowski , Gladys May Casley-Hayford (Aquah LaLuah), Ana Castillo , Marilyn Chin, Sandra Cisneros , Lucille Clifton , Gregory Corso , Jayne Cortez , Hart Crane , Robert Creeley , Harry Crosby , Countee Cullen , E. E. Cummings , Joy Davidman , James Dickey , Emily Dickinson , Hilda Doolittle , Mark Doty , Rita Dove , Henry Dumas , Paul Laurence Dunbar , Alice Dunbar-Nelson , Robert Duncan , T. S. Eliot , Anita Endrezze, Louise Erdrich , Martìn Espada , William Everson , Kenneth Fearing , Carolyn Forché , Sesshu Foster, Charles Henri Ford , Joseph Freeman, Robert Frost , Sol Funaroff, Allen Ginsberg , Louise Glück , Judy Grahn , Angelina Weld Grimké, Michael S. Harper , Robert Hass , Jessica Hagedorn , Sadakichi Hartmann , Robert Hayden , Anthony Hecht , Garrett Hongo , Susan Howe , Langston Hughes , Lawson Fusao Inada , Laura (Riding) Jackson , Randall Jarrell , Robinson Jeffers , V. J. Jerome , Georgia Douglas Johnson , James Weldon Johnson , Joseph Kalar, Bob Kaufman , Weldon Kees , Galway Kinnell , Etheridge Knight , Yusef Komunyakaa , Aaron Kramer, Maxine Kumin , Stanley Kunitz , Denise Levertov , Philip Levine , Vachel Lindsay , Audre Lorde , Adrian C. Louis , Amy Lowell , Robert Lowell , Mina Loy , Archibald MacLeish , Edwin Markham , Edgar Lee Masters , Thomas McGrath , Claude McKay , James Merrill , W. S. Merwin , Edna St. Vincent Millay , N. Scott Momaday , Marianne Moore , Thylias Moss , Harryette Mullen , Lorine Niedecker , Frank O'Hara , Sharon Olds , Mary Oliver , Tillie Olsen , Charles Olson , George Oppen , Michael Palmer , Dorothy Parker , Robert Pinsky , Sylvia Plath , Ezra Pound , Carl Rakosi , Dudley Randall , John Crowe Ransom , Ishmael Reed , Kenneth Rexroth , Charles Reznikoff , Adrienne Rich , Lola Ridge , Edwin Arlington Robinson , Carolyn M. Rodgers, Theodore Roethke , Edwin Rolfe, Wendy Rose , Muriel Rukeyser , Carl Sandburg , Anne Sexton , Ron Silliman , Patricia Smith , Welton Smith, Gary Snyder , Herman Spector, Anne Spencer , William Stafford , Gertrude Stein , Wallace Stevens , Ruth Stone , Mark Strand , Genevieve Taggard , Allen Tate , Melvin B. Tolson , Jean Toomer , Lucia Trent, Mona Van Duyn , Paul Violi, Margaret Walker , Robert Penn Warren , John Wheelwright, Walt Whitman , Richard Wilbur , William Carlos Williams , Yvor Winters , C.D. Wright , Charles Wright , James Wright , Richard Wright , Ray A. Young Bear, Louis Zukofsky ...just to name a few.
Type of Label: Indie

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Check out this event: 2008 Albany Word Fest

Hosted By: Albany Poets When: Friday Apr 18, 2008 at 5:00 PMWhere: Tess’ Lark Tavern / UAG GalleryLark StreetAlbany, New York|33 12210United StatesDescription:Albany Poets Click Here To View Ev...
Posted by Albany Poets on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:50:00 PST