the Poetry Motel Foundation presents
Third Thursday Poetry Night
@
the Social Justice Center
33 Central Ave., Albany, NY
Thursday, May 21, 2026
7:00 sign up for the open mic; 7:30 start
open mic before & after the featured reader.
Featured Poet: Eric Wasileski
$5.00 suggested donation, more if you got it, less if you can’t.
Your May Day Host: Dan Wilcox
Eric Wasileski is a poet, pacifist, preacher, papa, veteran and person of conscience. He is a Persian Gulf Veteran & is the founding President of Daniel Shays Chapter 186, Berkshires, Veterans For Peace. He facilitates for Warrior Writers, his writing has been included in numerous anthologies; he will be reading from his manuscript, Consoling the Weeping Willow, and his first collection, Live Free (or die) (Human Error publishing).
●
Coming up:
June 18: Natalya Sukhonos
July 16: Kate McNairy
August 20: Jason O’Toole
####