Yes! w/ Maryam Parhizkar, E. Tracy Grinnell, + The Albany Drivers

Yes! returns, end-of-March, to present poets Maryam Parhizkar and E. Tracy Grinnell. We'll also feature music from The Albany Drivers!

Note the 8pm start time. $5 suggested donation.

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Maryam Parhizkar writes, researches and works via her musical training, and is completing her MA concentration in American Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. She is co-managing editor of Litmus Press and the author of a chapbook, Pull: a ballad (The Operating System, 2014). A chapbook-length essay on Sun Ra, Clarice Lispector, reckoning and resonance is forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs this year.

E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of Helen: A Fugue (Belladonna Elder Series #1, 2008), Some Clear Souvenir (O Books, 2006), and Music or Forgetting (O Books, 2001), as well as the limited edition chapbooks Mirrorly, A Window (flynpyntar press, 2009), Leukadia (Trafficker Press, 2008), Hell and Lower Evil (Lyre Lyre Pants on Fire, 2008), Humoresque (Blood Pudding/Dusie #3, 2008) Quadriga, a collaboration with Paul Foster Johnson (gong chapbooks, 2006), Of the Frame (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2004), and Harmonics (Melodeon Poetry Systems, 2000). She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the founding editor and director of Litmus Press.

The Albany Drivers are Evan Chen (guitar and vocals), Naoto Kojima (bass and guitar), Yoshiko Itosaka (keyboard), and Jake Moskal (drums).

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Albany Center Gallery is a community-based and community supported non-profit art space dedicated to exhibiting skillful contemporary art of the Mohawk Hudson region, and building a strong, knowledgeable audience for the visual arts.

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The Yes! Poetry & Performance Series is thankful for the support of The Hudson Valley Writer's Guild. The HVWG supports the efforts of writers in all genres by sponsoring readings, workshops and contests and providing a number of valuable resources for the entire literary community. Though their headquarters is in Troy, New York, they serve Albany and Schenectady, as well, along with outlying suburbs and towns in New York’s Capital Region.