The final Frequency North reading of the 2010-2011 season will be taking place at The College of Saint Rose on Thursday, March 31 at 7:30pm featuring two champion slam poets. Here is the information from series host and creator Dan Nester.
Frequency North: The Visiting Writers Reading Series at The College of Saint Rose finishes out its 2010-2011 season with two champion slam/performance poets on Thursday, March 31, 7:30pm with Eboni Hogan + Jeanann Verlee
Location: Standish Rooms, second floor of the Events and Activities Center, Standish Rooms, which are on the second floor of the Events and Activities Center, 420 Western Avenue, Albany, NY.
A 24-year-old poet, actress and Bronx native, Eboni Hogan has performed in over 30 U.S. cities and facilitated workshops from refugee camps to prestigious universities. She is the reigning Women of the World Slam Champion, the 2008 Urbana Grand Slam Champion and a two-time representative of the Nuyorican Slam Team. She studied theater at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and in 2006 took part in a five-month artist residency as a part of NYU's Hip Hop Theater Initiative in Ghana, West Africa. Her work is published in two anthologies and her first book, Grits.
Jeanann Verlee is a former punk rocker who collects tattoos and winks at boys. She is author of Racing Hummingbirds, recipient of the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in Poetry. Other publication credits include, The New York Quarterly, FRiGG, PANK, and Not A Muse. She curates the Urbana Poetry Slam Series at Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, has represented NYC six times at National Poetry Slam competitions, and has toured the U.S. performing and conducting workshops. She shares an apartment with her dog and a pair of origami lovebirds. She believes in you.
The events this season are funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Daniel Nester will be hosting the next edition of the Frequency North reading series this coming Thursday at The College of Saint Rose with poets Aaron Belz and Melissa Broder. Below is more information from Nester himself about the event:
“FREQUENCY NORTH” WRITERS SERIES DISHES UP EVENING OF FUNNY WITH POETS AARON BELZ AND MELISSA BRODER
The 2010-11 season of “Frequency North,” the visiting writers reading series at The College of Saint Rose, offers up an evening of humorous poetry with two extremely funny poets: Aaron Belz and Melissa Broder.
Belz and Broder will read Thursday, February 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Standish Rooms, Saint Rose Events and Athletics Center (2nd floor), 420 Western Ave., Albany. The program is free and open to the public. Copies of the writers’ latest works will be available for purchase and signing.
“Frequency North” is sponsored by The College of Saint Rose School of Arts and Humanities and funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Belz’s (http://belz.net) second full-length book, Lovely, Raspberry, was published by Persea Books in June 2010. Founder and former curator of Observable Readings in St. Louis, he has given readings of his poetry all over the country as well as in numerous stand-up comedy venues in the Los Angeles area. His work has appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Painted Bride Quarterly, Black Clock and other publications. Belz also authored The Bird Hoverer and is an English professor at Providence Christian College in Ontario, Calif.
Broder (www.melissabroder.com) authored When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother (Ampersand Books, 2010). She is chief editor of La Petite Zine and curates the Polestar Poetry Series. By day, she is a publicity manager at Penguin. She won the 2009 Stark Prize for Poetry and the 2008 Jerome Lowell Dejur Award. Her poems appear, or are forthcoming, in many journals, including Opium, Shampoo, PANK, Five Dials, The Del Sol Review, Word for/Word, Miracle Monocle and Swink. Broder lives in Brooklyn.
“Frequency North” is the brainchild of Daniel Nester, an assistant professor of English at Saint Rose. In creating the series in 2006, he purposely designed it to be “aggressively eclectic.” In addition to teaching, Nester is author of How to Be Inappropriate (Soft Skull Press, 2009), God Save My Queen (2003) and God Save My Queen II (2004).
The remaining “Frequency North” schedule follows. For more information, visit the series’ website at www.FrequencyNorth.com:
• Thursday, March 31, 2011, 7:30 p.m. – Eboni Hogan and Jeanann Verlee Standish Rooms, Events and Athletics Center (Second Floor), 420 Western Ave., Albany
Our good friend Daniel Nester sent along the following info about the upcoming Frequency North reading.
Thursday, November 11, 7:30pm Alexander Chee + Kathleen Rooney Location: Standish Rooms, second floor of the Events and Activities Center, Standish Rooms, which are on the second floor of the Events and Activities Center, 420 Western Avenue, Albany, NY.
Alexander Chee was born in Rhode Island, and raised in South Korea, Guam and Maine. He is a recipient of the 2003 Whiting Writers’ Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in Fiction, a 2010 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ledig House, the Hermitage and the VCCA. His second novel, The Queen of the Night, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in fall of 2011. His first novel, Edinburgh (Picador, 2002), is a winner of the Michener Copernicus Prize, the AAWW Lit Award and the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize, and was a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year. In 2003, Out Magazine honored him as one of their 100 Most Influential People of the Year. His essays and stories have appeared in Granta.com, Out, The Morning News, The Man I Might Become, Loss Within Loss, Boys Like Us and Mentors, Muses and Monsters. He has taught writing at Wesleyan, The New School and Amherst College. Website: http://www.alexanderchee.net
Kathleen Rooney is a poet and a writer. Her latest work is the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs (Counterpoint Press), which has been described as “smart and subtly honed” (Publisher’s Weekly) and “captures the poignancy and absurdity of life at the turn of the twenty-first century” (Booklist). With Abby Beckel, she is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press. With Elisa Gabbert, she is the author of That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths, 2008). With her husband, the writer Martin Seay, she lives in Chicago. Website: http://www.kaltheenrooney.com
On Thursday, April 15, the day before the 2010 Albany Word Fest, Dan Nester is hosting some big name poets at St. Rose for Frequency North. Here is the info:
Frequency North: Writebloody Publishing Poetry Showcase with Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Derrick Brown, and “Mighty” Mike McGee
With incendiary writers, a grassroots DIY ethos, and a unique books that use modern painters, photographers and rock album designers for all our book cover art, it’s no surprise that Filter Magazine says that Writebloody Publishing (writebloody.com) is “quickly becoming the number one indie press on the market.” Join us this evening for a showcase of two of Writebloody’s authors, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (another return visitor to the series, having read in the 2007-2008 series), “Mighty” Mike McGee, and press founder Derrick Brown.
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is the author of the nonfiction book, Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam (Soft Skull Press, 2008), as well as the author of five books of poetry, most recently Everything is Everything (Write Bloody Press, 2010). When not on tour, she can be found loitering at NYC’s Bowery Poetry Club, where she helps run the Tuesday night poetry slam series, NYC-Urbana, and dates the surly barkeep, poet Shappy Seasholtz. Her website is at http://www.aptowicz.com.
Derrick Brown, a former paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne, gondolier, magician, and fired weatherman, now travels the world and performs his written work. From Nashville, he is dedicated to bringing American poetry into rock and roll status. He has consistently been the opening act for indie rock act Cold War Kids and has been booked with The White Stripes and performed with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. His work has been featured in books with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins, Viggo Mortensen, Jeff Buckley and Jim Carroll. As one of the most original and well-traveled writer/performers in the country, Derrick Brown has gained a cult following for his poetry performances all over the U.S. and through Europe. To date, Brown has performed at over 1200 venues and universities internationally including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, La Sorbonne in Paris and The Nuyorican Poets Café in NYC. Known for a moving show that incorporates spoken word, minimalist music, and even sound fx, Brown is unique for being an outstanding performer but is foremost a page poet. He has won the California Independent Book Critics’ Award in 2004, and his performance poetry has won six first-place poetry slam finishes in Venice Beach, England, and Germany. His website is at http://www.brownpoetry.com.
“Mighty” Mike McGee is an international spoken word artist, writer, performer, speaker, slam poet and comic. He has performed in thousands of venues all over North America, and was one of the first Americans ever to perform poetry at the University la Sorbonne in Paris, France. McGee began performing comedy and poetry to audiences at home in San Jose, California in 1998. As a Poetry Slam competitor in the U.S., Mike has competed at the National Poetry Slam on team San José several times. In 2003, McGee won the coveted National Poetry Slam Individual Grand Championship, besting over 300 nationally ranked poetry slammers. He has since toured over 300,000 miles throughout the United States and Canada where fellow National Poetry Slam Indy Champ, Shane Koyczan and beat-boxer poet extraordinaire C.R. Avery (of Vancouver, B.C.) joined him to form the group Tons of Fun University in 2004. They have since headlined music festivals across Canada, bringing their unique blend of poetry-laden “talk rock” to massive audiences all over the great north. In 2006, McGee became the first person to win two separate individual titles by being crowned the 2006 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion, besting over 70 of the world’s best ranked slam poets. His “stand-up poetry” has been written about in Writer’s Digest magazine, and been featured on NPR, HBO and CBC. Mike McGee books internationally and is on tour damn-near 300 days a year. His website is at http://www.mikemcgee.net.
This event is free and open to the public at the College of St. Rose, St. Joseph Auditorium on Thursday, April 15 starting at 7:30PM.
This weekend Albany will be rocking with poetry! Here is the info from Daniel Nester about a great day of poetry, literature, small press, karaoke, and of course…fun!
Attention Albany Lit Lovers! Start 2010 off right with all the literary magazines and books you can carry off from CAPITAL LIT, CLMP’s first-ever Albany Lit Mag & Small Press Fair.
Hundreds of regional and national independent literary publishers will converge to sell their journals for only $2 an issue and books for $4 each. Many publishers will attend in person to meet Albany’s eager readers, so don’t miss this opportunity to discover literature you are unlikely to find in a single store, and meet the publishers and editors who do the real work of keeping American Literature vibrant and vital.
An offering of Frequency North, the aggressively eclectic visiting writers reading series at Saint Rose, and the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, CAPITAL LIT will bring to Albany hundreds of regional and national independent literary publishers who will sell their journals for only $2 an issue and books for $4 each. The all-day festival includes a panel discussion on publishing, readings by some of the region’s most notable authors and the Albany debut of Karaoke + Poetry = Fun!
Schedule
12-6 Book fair, Saint Joseph Auditorium 1pm Potlach with Colie Collen 2pm Indie Publishing Discussion 5pm Reading and discussion with Shane Jones, Tobias Seamon and Barbara Louise Ungar
Shane Jones is a graduate of The University at Buffalo, and currently resides in Albany, New York. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals, including: New York Tyrant, Unsaid, Typo, and Caketrain. His first novel, Light Boxes, will be published by Penguin Books in June, 2010. Director Spike Jonze (Where The Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich) purchased the film option for Light Boxes in July 2009.
Tobias Seamon is author of the novel The Magician's Study and a poetry chapbook Loosestrife Along the River Styx. He also wrote and directed the short mockumentary "Amerikan Partizan," which premiered at the 2007 Edwood Filmfest. A collection of stories The Emperor's Toy Chest and a novella The Fair Grounds are both forthcoming from the UK-based press PS Publishing. A contributor with the online magazine The Morning News, he lives in Albany.
Barbara Louise Ungar's newest book, The Origin of the Milky Way, published last year, won the Gival Press Prize for Poetry. Barbara Louise Ungar is the author of Thrift. Her poems have appeared in Salmagundi, The Minnesota Review, The Literary Review among others. She is an Associate Professor of English at The College of Saint Rose.
7pm Karaoke + Poetry = Fun at Valentine's 17 New Scotland Avenue Featuring Eric Auld, Cara Benson, R.M. Englehardt, Geof Huth, Murrow, Tara Needham, Mary Panza, Tobias Seamon, Alifair Skebe, Dan Wilcox Come and sign up to read and sing!
Here is some information on slam poet and teacher Taylor Mali coming into town for a reading at the Frequency North series at St. Rose.
Frequency North, the aggressively eclectic visiting writers reading series at The College of Saint Rose, rolls on with slam poet Taylor Mali, a former teacher who uses his artistry with words to turn people to the teaching profession.
Mali will read at Saint Rose Thursday, February 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the College’s Saint Joseph Hall Auditorium, 985 Madison Ave., Albany. Copies of Mali’s latest work will be available for purchase and signing. Frequency North is sponsored by The College of Saint Rose School of Arts and Humanities and is free and open to the public.
Mali is a former teacher who now makes his living as a professional poet. Through poetry, passion and perseverance, he wants to turn 1,000 people to the teaching profession. He is considered the most successful poetry slam strategist of all time, having led six of his eight national poetry slam teams to the finals stage and winning the championship itself a record four times before anyone had even tied him at three. The New York City native was one of the original poets to appear on the HBO original series “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry.” Mali also was the “golden-tongued, Armani clad villain” of Paul Devlin’s 1997 documentary film SlamNation, which chronicled the National Poetry Slam Championship of 1996, the year of Mali’s first national team championship.
Mali is a vocal advocate of teachers, having performed and lectured for education professionals all over the world. Mali received a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in 2001 to develop “Teacher! Teacher!” a one-man show about poetry, teaching and math that won the jury prize for best solo performance at the 2001 U. S. Comedy Arts Festival.
Taylor Mail at Frequency North Thursday, February 26, 2009, 7:30pm - 8:30pm Saint Joseph Auditorium, Albany, NY
The following is the announcement from our friend Daniel Nester about the new season of Frequency North at St. Rose:
Mark your calendars! David Rees of "Get Your War On" fame and Rachel Shukert, a Nerve/Salon/Heeb columnist, will come to The College of Saint Rose to kick off the 4th season of the Frequency North reading series!
The time: 7:30pm. The place: Events and Activities Center, 420 Western Avenue, Second Floor. Details and more information below; call me at 454-2812 or email me (Daniel Nester) at nesterd@strose.edu.
Frequency North,the visiting writers reading series at The College of Saint Rose, kicks off its fourth season on Thursday, September 25, with David Rees, creator of the Internet phenom Get Your War On,and playwright, writer and sometime performer Rachel Shukert.
David Rees was working a crummy magazine job when Operation: Enduring Freedom inspired him to create his cartoon "Get Your War On." The satire about the war on terrorism became an Internet phenomenon. "Get Your War On" now appears in every issue of Rolling Stone, and an animated version is featured on www.236.com. Get Your War On was published in book form in 2003 (Soft Skull Press), followed by Get Your War On II in 2004 (Riverhead Books). This fall, Soft Skull Press publishes Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of George Bush's War on Terror 2001-2008. Sales of the first two Get Your War On books have raised almost $100,000 for land mine removal in western Afghanistan. Rees also is the author of My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable (Riverhead Books, 2003), Adventures of Confessions of Saint Augustine Bear and My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable (Riverhead, 2004), which appeared as a regular feature in The Guardian of London. Rees lives in Beacon, Orange County.
Rachel Shukert is the author of Have You No Shame?: And Other Regrettable Stories (Random House/Villard), a memoir collection that chronicles, among other high jinks, the writer-performer-provocateur's experience growing up in Omaha, Neb., in that city's only Jewish elementary school. Her most recent theatre project, "Wasp Cove," is a "Dallas"/"Falcon Crest"-type soap opera, which she co-created and co-wrote with Julie Klausner. In it, Shukert plays the actress Pamela Ann Windchime, who plays the character of Donna Kettering. Her writing has appeared in Nerve, Babble, Salon, Heeb Magazine and McSweeney's, and anthologized in 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Shukert lives in New York City with her husband and her cat.
It is going to be a busy Thursday night for poetry in upstate New York. There is the Word Thursdays reading in Treadwell, the Bohemian Book Bin open mic in Kingston (featuring Marylin Barr and Dennis Bressack), the Rockhill Bakehouse open mic in Glens Falls, the Van Dyck open mic in Schenectady, and the second Frequency North reading of the season at St. Rose in Albany. Here is the annoucement from host Daniel Nester:
Come one, come all!
Thursday, November 8, 7:30pm: Wayne Koestenbaum and Nalini Jones
Neil Hellman Library, First Floor, 392 Western Ave., Albany free and open to the public. For more information, visit the series' website at http://www.FrequencyNorth.com.
Nalini Jones is the author of What You Call Winter: Stories (Knopf, 2007), which Publisher's Weekly calls an "auspicious debut." Her work has appeared in Ontario Review and Creative Nonfiction, among other publications. Jones is a Stanford Calderwood Fellow of the MacDowell Colony and worked for several years in music production, most notably for festivals in New York, Newport and New Orleans.
Wayne Koestenbaum's most recent books include Hotel Theory (Soft Skull Press, 2007), in which a meditative essay on hotel life runs alongside a dime-store novel account of Liberace and Lana Turner. Other essay collections include Jackie Under My Skin (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995), Cleavage: Essays on Sex, Stars, and Aesthetics (Ballantine Books, 2000) and Andy Warhol (Lipper/Viking, 2001). He has written several books of poetry, most recently Best Selling Jewish Porn Films (Turtle Point, 2006), as well as the novel Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes (Soft Skull, 2004). He writes frequently for such periodicals as The New York Times Magazine and the London Review of Books. Koestenbaum also is an art critic, participating in panels at the Whitney Museum of American Art and contributing regularly to Artforum.
Welcome back to the Dan Wilcox Open Mic Commentary Round-Up. This is the third edition of the round-up that brings all of Dan’s commentaries from his blog together in one place. This time around we have two open mics and the first Frequency North of the new season.
One often wonders whether this open mic really happens or just exists in the fantasy of alcohol & memory. Once some years ago I read a poem here & a lady I had invited told me later that's when she fell in love with me. On some nights the-nameless-we just sat around & told outrageous stories & bought each other beers. On the Road is filled with such lies & similar fabrications. "October in the railroad earth..."
I've realized that "October is the Columbus-day month breeding racism & death in the continent..." so I have started including Tom Nattell's "Columbus Fantasies" in my readings. These were poems written in 1992 to commemorate the Indians discovering an Italian mercenary for Spain landing on their shore. After doing a new poem of my own, "Starting the Wine," I did #23.
This is the third year of this reading series at St. Rose, run by new poppa Daniel Nester. This year the readings have been moved from St. Joseph's Hall auditorium, with the big stage & curtains, to the Library. Same number of people showed up, just looked more crowded. I mean if the same 40 people showed up at the Knickerbocker Arena -- I mean Pepsi Arena -- whoops, no, Times-Union Center -- folks would say, "there was nobody there." Like skinny girls in tight pants.
As always, be sure to check out Dan’s blog often for these commentaries and poetry from Dan and other area poets.
Frequency North is kicking off its third season tonight at Saint Rose with poet, editor, and critic David Lehman.
Lehman will read at The College of Saint Rose Thursday, October 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the College's Neil Hellman Library, 392 Western Ave., Albany. Copies of Lehman's works will be available for purchase and signing.
Frequency North is sponsored by The College of Saint Rose School of Arts and Humanities and the English, Spectrum and Identity student organizations and is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact series coordinator Daniel Nester at 518-454-2812 or nesterd@strose.edu.
Lehman has authored several collections of poems, most recently When a Woman Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005) and Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man (with James Cummins, Soft Skull Press, 2005). His books of criticism include The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets (Anchor, 1999), which the New York Public Library named a "Book to Remember 1999." He is series editor of The Best American Poetry, which he initiated in 1988, and is general editor of the University of Michigan Press's Poets on Poetry Series. In addition, Lehman is editor of a new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry, a one-volume comprehensive anthology of poems from Anne Bradstreet to the present.
Lehman's honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award.
For more information and a complete schedule, visit the series' website at www.FrequencyNorth.com. All readings are free and open to the public.
“Frequency North,” the visiting writers reading series at The College of Saint Rose, returns for its third season with another aggressively eclectic mix of award-winning poets, authors, essayists, and one comedian/playwright/actor/bartender.
The 2007-08 series kicks off Thursday, October 4, with David Lehman, acclaimed author of several collections of poems and series editor of The Best American Poetry. Author Nalini Jones and essayist Wayne Koestenbaum follow in November. Spring will bring readings by poet Gregory Pardlo, the first writer of color to win the American Poetry Review/Honickman Prize; author Darcey Steinke; Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, founder and host of a three-time National Poetry Slam Championship venue in New York; and Shappy Seasholtz, slam poet, playwright, comedian, actor and head bartender at New York’s Bowery Poetry Club.
Frequency North is sponsored by the The College of Saint Rose School of Arts and Humanities and the English, Spectrum and Identity student organizations.
All readings begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public. For more information, visit the series’ website at FrequencyNorth.com or contact Daniel Nester, Assistant Professor of English and series curator, at 518-454-2812 or email nesterd@strose.edu.
Frequency North: The Visiting Writers Reading Series at The College of Saint Rose finishes out its 2010-2011 season with two champion slam/performance poets on Thursday, March 31, 7:30pm with Eboni Hogan + Jeanann Verlee
Our good friend Daniel Nester sent along the following info about the upcoming 
On Thursday, April 15, the day before the 
Here is some information on slam poet and teacher 
The following is the announcement from our friend Daniel Nester about the new season of Frequency North at St. Rose: 
It is going to be a busy Thursday night for poetry in upstate New York. There is the 
Welcome back to the Dan Wilcox Open Mic Commentary Round-Up. This is the third edition of the round-up that brings all of 
Frequency North is kicking off its third season tonight at Saint Rose with poet, editor, and critic David Lehman. 
“Frequency North,” the visiting writers reading series at The College of Saint Rose, returns for its third season with another aggressively eclectic mix of award-winning poets, authors, essayists, and one comedian/playwright/actor/bartender.