Talking With Poets: Howard Kogan & Malcolm Willison at McGeary’s

Thom Francis introduces us to Howard Kogan & Malcolm Willison shared their poems at the “Up The River, Issue Three” reading on April 12, 2015 McGeary’s in Albany, NY.

Back in the 2010s, after many years of publishing poets and writers on its website, Albany Poets branched out into print. Up The River was a journal of poetry, art & photography celebrating the best in the arts from around the world. Edited by Mary Panza, Carissa Haberland, and Kevin Peterson, Up The River showcased original work from both new and established poets, artists, and photographers.

To celebrate the third issue of the series, poets who were included in that edition were invited to take part in a special reading at McGeary’s in Albany. Two of the poets who took the stage that April 2015 afternoon were Howard Kogan and Malcolm Willison.

Howard J. Kogan is a psychotherapist and poet. His poems have appeared in Still Crazy, Occupoetry, Poetry Ark, Writer’s Haven, Farming Magazine, Literary Gazette, Pathways, and Up the River.

Malcolm Willison is a manuscript editor and teacher who has been writing and publishing poetry for quite a long time in and sometimes about New Orleans, Key West, New York City, upstate New York, and other places around the world.

You can access all eight issues of Up The River by going to uptheriverjournal.com.