Lance Le Grys will read
at the Social Justice Center
Thursday, October 16, 7:30PM
Poet Lance Le Grys will read from his work at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 7:30PM, with an open mic for community poets.
Lance Le Grys 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.
A reading by a local or regional poet/writer has been held since July 2006 each third Thursday at the Social Justice Center. The event includes an open mic for audience members to read. Sign-up starts at 7:00PM, with the reading beginning at 7:30. The host of the readings is Albany poet and photographer Dan Wilcox. The suggested donation is $5.00, which helps support this and other poetry programs of the Poetry Motel Foundation, and the work of the Social Justice Center.
For more information about this event contact Dan Wilcox, 518-482-0262; e-mail: dwlcx46@gmail.com
The Social Justice Center, founded in 1981, is a non-profit organization working for progressive social change through education, community building and collective action. The center advances the struggles against racism and for peace and justice. For further information about the SJC call 518-434-4037.