News Release: Third Thursday Poetry Night, July 16: Kate McNairy
Dan Wilcox
The Poetry Motel Foundation
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Kate McNairy will read
at the Social Justice Center
Thursday, July 16, 7:30PM
Poet Kate McNairy will read from her work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY on Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 7:30PM, with an open mic for community writers.
Kate McNairy’s most recent chapbook When the Cats Yawn has been called “quiet
fireworks…expands ineffably and lingers long afterwards.” As a minimalist poet, she
finds our beautiful, terrible world fascinating.
July marks 20 years that the Third Thursday Poetry Night has been at the Social Justice Center with a monthly reading by a local or regional poet/writer & 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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