Frequency North: The Visiting Writers Reading Series at The College of Saint Rose

Frequency North, the Visiting Writers Reading Series at the College of Saint Rose, calls itself "aggressively eclectic." Events at Frequency North feature fiction writers, memoirists, graphic novelists, poets, slam performers, singer-songwriters, even game shows.

Next Readings

November 19
Darcey Steinke 
7:30pm
Saint Joseph Auditorium, 985 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY

Frequency North is proud to welcome back Darcey Steinke, who will also visit freshmen in the Exploratory Program in the afternoon.

Darcey Steinke’s most recent book is Easter Everywhere: A Memoir, which recounts her lifelong struggle to find religion, from her early life as daughter of a Lutheran minister and a former Miss Albany. Entertainment Weekly said the book “unflinchingly recounts years of disillusionment in her stumble back toward faith.” Steinke is also the author of four critically acclaimed novels, most recently Milk.

February 20, 2010
Capital Lit: CLMP’s First-Ever Albany Lit Mag & Small Press Fair
12pm-6pm
Saint Joseph Auditorium, 985 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY

Attention Albany Lit Lovers! Start 2010 off right with all the literary magazines and books you can carry off from CAPITAL LIT, CLMP’s first-ever Albany Lit Mag & Small Press Fair. Hundreds of regional and national independent literary publishers will converge to sell their journals for only $2 an issue and books for $4 each.

Many publishers will attend in person to meet Albany’s eager readers, so don’t miss this opportunity to discover literature you are unlikely to find in a single store, and meet the publishers and editors who do the real work of keeping American Literature vibrant and vital. The all-day festival also includes a panel discussion on publishing, readings by some of the region's most notable authors, capped off by the Albany debut of Karaoke + Poetry = Fun!

This program made possible in part through support from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

March 18, 2010
Jericho Brown and Ernest Hilbert
7:30pm
Events and Athletics Center, Second Floor, 420 Western Avenue, Albany

Jericho Brown’s first book, Please, is a collection of poetry largely centered around and inspired by the music of such varied artists as Marvin Gaye, Pink Floyd, Diana Ross. Mark Doty calls it a “stunning debut.” He is the recipient of a Bunting Fellowship from Harvard University .

Ernest Hilbert is the editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review and host of the popular blog and video show E-Verse Radio. His first collection is Sixty Sonnets, which name-checks everything from Zippos to Star Wars figures to Plato and Thomas Eakins. Franz Wright calls it a “touching and intelligent book.”

April 15
Writebloody Publishing Poetry Showcase with Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Derrick Brown, and “Mighty” Mike McGee
7:30pm
Saint Joseph Auditorium, 985 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY

Join us for a showcase of Writebloody, whose incendiary writers, DIY ethos, and books designed by painters, photographers and rock album designers led Filter Magazine to describe it as “quickly becoming the number one indie press on the market.” 

Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is the author of the nonfiction book, Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, as well as five books of poetry, most recently Everything is Everything. She is founder of the NYC-Urbana slam team.

Founder and publisher of Writebloody, Derrick Brown, a former paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne, gondolier, magician, and fired weatherman, has performed internationally and opened for bands Cold War Kids, The White Stripes, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. His moving show incorporates spoken word, minimalist music, and sound effects.

“Mighty” Mike McGee is spoken word artist/writer/performer/speaker/slam poet/ comic who has performed all over North America. Winner of Individual World Poetry Slam and National Poetry Slam Individual Grand Championships. his “stand-up poetry” has been written about in Writer’s Digest, and featured on NPR, HBO and CBC.

Past Visitors to Frequency North

Thursday, October 8, 2009
Jessica Anthony and Peter Conners
7:30pm
Saint Joseph Auditorium, 985 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY

Jessica Anthony is author of the novel The Convalescent, winner of the first McSweeney’s Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, and called a “compulsively readable debut novel” in a starred Publishers Weekly review and a Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" pick.

Peter Conners is author of the memoir Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead, told against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late '80s to mid-'90s. It has been called “insightful and entertaining” (Kirkus) and “earnest and often hilarious” (Publishers Weekly).

2008-2009 season
Marilin Nelson
Deborah Ager
Taylor Mali
Alice Fulton
David Rees
Rachel Shukert

2007-2008 season
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
Shappy Seasholtz
Darcey Steinke
Gregory Pardlo
Wayne Koestenbaum
Nalini Jones
David Lehman

2006-2007 season
Patricia Smith
Janice Erlbaum
Jordan Davis
Jason Spiro
Tara Emelye of The Reverse
Drew Gardner
Joanna Fuhrman
Hal Niedzviecki
Nelly Reifler

2005-2006 season
Jenny Boully
Regie Cabico
Sparrow
Matt Madden