episode #10 · July 24, 2026

Albany’s Underground Poetry Scene

A conversation with Samuel Maurice

1 hr 43 min runtime Albany, NY documentary conversation
albany poetry open mic beat poetry art and politics
Albany’s Underground Poetry Scene. Samuel Maurice on Weirdinary Podcast.

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Poetry, politics, and the mundane.

Beat poet Samuel Maurice has co-edited Albany’s underground press Dead Man’s Press Ink and co-hosts the city’s Invocation open mic.

Over coffee at the Moon and River Cafe in Albany, he and BradQuan course through art, politics, and humanity, and what poetry is for when the world feels mundane.

Weirdinary is a documentary conversation podcast from Albany, NY, hosted by writer and journalist BradQuan Copeland. It explores the psycho-philosophical inner worlds of everyday people in order to better understand ourselves.

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