Reminder: Third Thursday Poetry Night, June 18: Natalya Sukhonos
Dan Wilcox
the Poetry Motel Foundation presents
Third Thursday Poetry Night
@
the Social Justice Center
33 Central Ave., Albany, NY
Thursday, June 18, 2026
7:00 sign up for the open mic; 7:30 start
open mic before & after the featured reader.
Featured Poet: Natalya Sukhonos
$5.00 suggested donation, more if you got it, less if you can’t.
Your Solstice Host: Dan Wilcox
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.
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Coming up:
July 16: Kate McNairy
August 20: Jason O’Toole
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