the Poetry Motel Foundation presents
Third Thursday Poetry Night
@
the Social Justice Center
33 Central Ave., Albany, NY
Thursday, September 18, 2025
7:00 sign up for the open mic; 7:30 start
open mic before & after the featured reader.
Featured Poet: Karen Elizabeth Sharpe
$5.00 suggested donation, more if you got it, less if you can’t.
Your Autumnal Host: Dan Wilcox
Karen Elizabeth Sharpe is from Rutland, Massachusetts, where she lives with her partner and two pandemic rescue dogs. Karen is the author of Prayer Can Be Anything, (Finishing Line Press) and This Late Afternoon (Dunn & Co.) and is a member of the National Baseball Poetry Festival executive committee. Her poems have or will soon appear in SWWIM, Whale Road Review, The MacGuffin, The Comstock Review, Split Rock Review, Mom Egg Review, and Halfway Down the Stairs, among others.
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Coming up:
October 16: Lance LeGrys
November 20: Sarah Michelle Sherman
December 18: Anna Boughtwood
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