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NYS Writers Institute
Mar 24, 20235 min read
Poetry Friday: Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Today marks the birthday of poet, playwright, publisher, and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died in 2021 at the age of 101 at his...
NYS Writers Institute
Jan 6, 20232 min read
Event: Saratoga Springs honors Joseph Bruchac as the city's first poet laureate
“Stories have always been at the heart of all our Native cultures... Our stories remember when people forget.” -Joseph Bruchac...
NYS Writers Institute
May 31, 20224 min read
Event: Happy Birthday Walt Whitman!
Join us at the annual reading of “Song of Myself” in Albany's Washington Park at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 31. Poets and community folk will...
NYS Writers Institute
May 27, 20223 min read
Poetry Friday: "Fish Carcass" by Vi Khi Nao
A poem for Friday and a Q&A with the poet/writer Vi Khi Nao Fish Carcass Vi Khi Nao fish carcass say hello to pork rind + arborio rice...
NYS Writers Institute
May 24, 20221 min read
Poetry Contest: Hudson Valley Writers Guild
From our friends at the Hudson Valley Writers Guild... This year’s contest is for poetry. Winners will be awarded cash prizes and invited...
NYS Writers Institute
Dec 10, 20213 min read
Trolley Poetry Friday: A pair of poems
See the breaking news from the Times Union? "Facing a disturbing spike in COVID-19 positivity and the arrival of the omicron variant,...
NYS Writers Institute
Jun 25, 20212 min read
#PoetryFriday: "Poets in the Park" in Albany
In a sign that we're returning to a somewhat familiar post-pandemic life, our friend Dan Wilcox's Poets in the Park is back on our summer...
NYS Writers Institute
Feb 12, 20213 min read
Poetry Friday: A pair of poems by Maria Lisella
For today's Poetry Friday post, we're sharing poems by Maria Lisella A travel writer by profession, Maria curates the Italian American...
NYS Writers Institute
Feb 10, 20212 min read
Poet Natalie Diaz, interviewed by Joshua Bartlett
"What is the United States if not a clot of clouds? If not spilled milk? Or blood? If not the place we once were in the millions? America...
NYS Writers Institute
Jan 29, 20212 min read
What poem comes to mind on this cold winter's day?
Today's weather, brought to you by the NYS Writers Institute: It's quite cold outside. In other news, NPR is reporting Amanda Gorman will...
NYS Writers Institute
Jan 20, 20214 min read
The inaugural poem: “The Hill We Climb”
Amanda Gorman, 22, America’s first-ever Youth Poet Laureate, gave a powerful reading of her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the 2021...
NYS Writers Institute
Jan 15, 20211 min read
Poetry Friday: "on most days"
For today's Poetry Friday post, we're sharing a poem by Joan McNerney. Joan was profiled in a recent edition of Lucent Dreaming. She was...
NYS Writers Institute
Jan 6, 20212 min read
Video interview: Poet, poetry translator, and essayist Pierre Joris
"I went to see Robert Kelly, the great poet in residence [at Bard College], and asked him, 'I want to write in American, it's my fourth...
NYS Writers Institute
Oct 9, 20203 min read
Congratulations to our friend, Louise Glück, on her Nobel Prize
NYS Summer Writers Institute "Regular" Wins Nobel Prize in Literature "... for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty...
NYS Writers Institute
Oct 2, 20201 min read
Poetry Friday: "Everything is Going to be All Right"
Irish poet Derek Mahon, a NYS Writers Institute guest in the spring of 1995, died Thursday night. His poem, "Everything is Going to be...
NYS Writers Institute
Sep 4, 20202 min read
Poetry Friday: A poem for the quarantine-affected birds
If you happen to be one of the lucky and rare souls near a beach on this Labor Day long weekend, I wonder if your sea gulls are still...
NYS Writers Institute
Aug 28, 20202 min read
Poetry Friday: A poem titled "Mask"
Mask By Cheryl A. Rice Cowboy, Ninja, Terrorist - you can play any role you like in your fashion mask of choice. The interwebs are...
NYS Writers Institute
Aug 26, 20208 min read
Q&A with Wendy Roberts, a literary historian who made history
When Wendy Roberts published her new book in July, she accomplished a distinctive feat: Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American...
NYS Writers Institute
Aug 21, 20203 min read
Poetry Friday: "A Trip to the Post Office"
Trip to the Post Office, March 17, 2020 By Phyllis Hillinger Loose money ready in pocket, flat rate box pre-addressed, I wait for cars to...
NYS Writers Institute
Aug 14, 20203 min read
Melissa Hurt shares some good news and a poem
Writer, local businesswoman, adjunct professor, and mom. Melissa Hurt wears many hats. We can add poet and children's book author to the...
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