NYS Poet Alicia Ostriker talks with NYS Writers Institute Director Paul Grondahl about poetry in the age of coronavirus and her own quarantine routine. She a...

We caught up with UAlbany alumnus and poet and educator D. Colin and her partner, photographer Robert Cooper, who are hunkered down in their apartment in Lan...

Poetry for social change with Mark Nowak: RISSEing and Reframing By Cassandra Andrusz-Ho Ching Mark Nowak is a writer and founding director of the Worker Wri...

We caught up with Nikki Giovanni, activist, mother, professor, firebrand, healer and sage, and one of the leading poets of her generation. Nikki is "social c...

Enjoy The Conversation with Judith Johnson and Writers Institute director Paul Grondahl. Acclaimed poet and emerita UAlbany English professor Judith Johnson ...

By Cassandra Andrusz-Ho Ching and Avery Smith Local activist, singer and songwriter Taina Asili (third from left) visited the NYS Writers Institute in Spring...

We chatted with UAlbany's Sarah Giragosian, winner of the American Poetry Journal Book Prize for her poetry collection, Queer Fish (2017). Sarah is a faculty...

We paid a virtual visit to poet and musician Joy Harjo, who was named the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States in 2019. She is self-isolating at her home ...

Poets Gary Maggio & Melissa Hurt read their coronavirus poems and discuss participating in a poetry workshop co-sponsored by the Writers Institute Nothing ca...

Have you gone shopping for hand sanitizer lately? All gone. But who needs Purell when you have poet and activist Mahogany L. Browne's recipe for her spray bo...

Before being named director of the NYS Writers Institute in 2017, Paul Grondahl worked as a reporter at the Albany Times Union where he wrote thousands of st...

St. Patrick's Day was a subdued event this year. Social distancing meant no parades, parties, celebrations. Not even a book reading. Speaking of books: What ...

Here’s a poem from the late New York State Poet Audre Lorde, "A Litany for Survival,” which characterizes life as a state of permanent fear of personal extin...

Welcome to the Virtual Writers Institute at the University at Albany! We look forward to staying connected with you during these strange days of closures, ca...