Reminder: Third Thursday Poetry Night October 16: Lance LeGrys
Dan Wilcox
the Poetry Motel Foundation presents
Third Thursday Poetry Night
@
the Social Justice Center
33 Central Ave., Albany, NY
Thursday, October 16, 2025
7:00 sign up for the open mic; 7:30 start
open mic before & after the featured reader.
Featured Poet: Lance LeGrys
$5.00 suggested donation, more if you got it, less if you can’t.
Your Halloween Host: Dan Wilcox
Lance LeGrys is the author of the poetry collection Views from an Outbuilding (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2019) and the chapbooks Pilate Suite (Bottlecap Press, 2024) and Stray Hunter’s Bullet (Broadstone Books, forthcoming). His work has appeared in many publications, including LIT Magazine, The West Trade Review, Wayfarer Magazine, America, Caveat Lector, and The Southern Humanities Review.
Crown Point
by Lance LeGrys
amidst the ruins of the fort
a pair of lovers
very young
flushed
like partridges from the tall grass
bowed in the wind off Lake Champlain
are reading informational plaques
with tousled hair
tattoos and nostril rings
and a certain gravity
becoming if
perhaps misplaced
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Coming up:
November 20: Sarah Michelle Sherman
December 18: Anna Boughtwood
January 15: S.L. Maurice
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