News Release: Third Thursday Poetry Night, June 18: Natalya Sukhonos
Dan Wilcox
The Poetry Motel Foundation
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Natalya Sukhonos will read
at the Social Justice Center
Thursday, June 18, 7:30PM
Poet Natalya Sukhonos will read from her work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY on Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 7:30PM, with an open mic for community writers.
A native of Odesa, Ukraine, Natalya Sukhonos is multilingual, speaking seven languages. She holds a PhD from Harvard University. Natalya was a finalist for the June 2025 reading period of the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series. Her book Parachute came out in 2016 and A Stranger Home in 2020. Natalya loves to experiment with poetic forms, space on the page & multilingual writing. Sunlight Trapped in Stone (Green Writers Press, 2026) is her third book.
A reading by a local or regional poet/writer has been held since July 2006 each third Thursday at the Social Justice Center. The event includes an open mic for audience members to read. Sign-up starts at 7:00PM, with the reading beginning at 7:30. The host of the readings is Albany poet and photographer Dan Wilcox. The suggested donation is $5.00, which helps support this and other poetry programs of the Poetry Motel Foundation, and the work of the Social Justice Center.
For more information about this event contact Dan Wilcox, 518-482-0262; e-mail: dwl...@gmail.com
The Social Justice Center, founded in 1981, is a non-profit organization working for progressive social change through education, community building and collective action. The center advances the struggles against racism and for peace and justice. For further information about the SJC call 518-434-4037.
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