Celebrate great weather for MEDIA’s latest anthology A Shape Produced by a Curve with contributors and special guests at Hudson’s Union Street Brewing Co.
Downstairs Lounge.
Free entry, but please support the bar - they are fabulous! Drink and food menu.
Featured readers: billy cancel, Peter Carlaftes, Kat Georges, Bibbe Hansen, and Martina Salisbury.
With great weather for MEDIA editors David Lawton and Jane Ormerod.
And remember…poetry and prose submissions for our next anthology are open now until January 15, 2024.
billy cancel is a Brooklyn based poet, performer and collage artist. He is the author of two full-length collections BUTTERCUP TANTRUM MUTTON ENCORE (Broadstone Books, 2022) and MOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW (BlazeVOX Books, 2018.) His poetry has appeared in Boston Review, PEN America, Bombay Gin, and The Rialto. With Thursday Fernworthy (Lauds) he makes up the noise/pop band Tidal Channel who morph poetry sequences into full-blown sonic conceptual works and beyond.
Peter Carlaftes is the author of five books including the poetry collections Life in the Past Lane, Drunkyard Dog, and I Fold With the Hand I Was Dealt and two collections of plays: Teatrophy and Triumph for Rent. He is co-editor of the annual contemporary dada journal, Maintenant and editor of The Faking Of The President: Nineteen Stories of White House Noir. His poetry has recently appeared in NYC from the Inside, Love Love Magazine, Chorus: A Literary Mixtape, and many more. Co-director of Three Rooms Press, he lives in New York City.
Kat Georges is an author, poet, playwright, and graphic designer. Author of Awe and Other Words Like Wow, Our Lady of the Hunger, and Three Somebodies: Plays about Notorious Dissidents. She is co-editor of the annual contemporary dada journal, Maintenant. Her poems have recently appeared in NYC from the Inside, Arriving at a Shoreline (great weather for MEDIA), and Mas Tequila. She lives in New York City, where she is co-director of Three Rooms Press, a literary publisher driven by diversty, dada, punk, and passion.
Bibbe Hansen is an artist, writer and performer and, in her youth, was one of the youngest members of the Warhol Silver Factory. She is the daughter of Fluxus artist Al Hansen and the bohemian poet Audrey Ostlin Hansen, the mother of pop musician Beck, artist Channing Hansen, and poet Rain Whittaker. She lives in Hudson, New York, where she writes and creates art. She is working with her father’s archives, performs Fluxus performances, and lectures frequently on art and the creative process. She is represented by Gracie Mansion Gallery in New York City and recently completed the first draft of her memoirs. Her collection of “Factory Poems” is forthcoming from Waverly Press.
Martina Salisbury is an inaugural graduate of the School of Visual Arts’ MFA Design / Designer as Author program and has been working as a creative director and designer in New York City for the past two decades. Specialized in publications and productions for fashion brands, museums and cultural clients, Martina also creates independent design, editorial and curatorial projects involving photography, history and archives. She is the curator of an exhibition currently on view at Beattie-Powers Place in Catskill: “Gerard Malanga // Moments in Time :: 1965-2023.” Martina is also a visual artist and poet. Her work has recently appeared in Maintenant: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art; Love Love magazine; and the current great weather for MEDIA anthology, A Shape Produced by a Curve. She lives between Catskill and Brooklyn, New York.
David Lawton is the author of the poetry collection Sharp Blue Stream (Three Rooms Press) and chapbook Inspiritive (Moonstone Arts). David is a graduate of the theatre program at Boston University, where he was also a Guest Artist in the graduate play writing classes taught by Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. For ten years he was a background vocalist in the New York underground band Leisure Class. At the band’s de facto headquarters in the Chelsea Hotel, he befriended Beat godfather Herbert Huncke and San Francisco poet Marty Matz, and was inspired by their embodiment of the written word. Pixie Dust, the first collection of songs from his collaboration with poets Aimee Herman and Eric Alter called Hydrogen Junkbox, are just about to drop.
Jane Ormerod is an artist, writer, and the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press). Her paintings have recently been exhibited at Gallery 40 in Poughkeepsie, Super Secret Projects in Beacon, and at Open Studio Hudson. A founding editor of the independent press great weather for MEDIA, she is the recipient of a 2020 NYC Acker Award in publishing for her contribution to the avant-garde community. She lives and works in Hudson, NY.