Next Up to The Mic – Tom Bonville, Elaine Kenyon, & Brian Liston at the Honest Weight Food Co-op

This week, Thom Francis welcomes three poets – Tom Bonville, Elaine Kenyon, and Brian Liston – who all took part in the Poetic License poetry reading and open mic at the Honest Weight Food Co-op on December 5, 2023.

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The 2023 edition of Poetic License moved from the Fish Market in Troy to the Honest Weight Food Co-op in December. On December 5, Dan Wilcox hosted a poetry reading to celebrate the collaboration of art and poetry with some of the writers whose work was selected for the exhibit. Local poets Tom Bonville, Elaine Kenyon, and Brian Liston were among those who stepped up to the mic that night.

Poetic License is a joint project of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild and Upstate Artists Guild that brings together regional poets and visual artists. For 2023, the exhibit was on display at the Fish Market in Troy and the Honest Weight Food Co-op in Albany.

The 2026 edition of Poetic License opens this Friday at the Co-op, with events happening throughout the months of November and December.