A Galère of Poetic Autopsies
Featuring Slink G Moss, Alyson Pou, and Mary McLaughlin Slechta
A monthly series at Hudson’s historic Park Theater. First Thursday of each month.
Together with co-curator John K Lawson, we are excited to take over the reins from the series founder Peter Jacob Streitz.
galère: [French (galƐr) noun. A group of people having a common interest, esp. a coterie of undesirable people.]
A Galère of Poetic Autopsies is held the first Thursday of each month at Hudson’s historic Park Theater. Expect the unexpected as poets, writers, and other creatives from the Hudson area and beyond reveal the inspiration and shadows behind their work.
Hosted by Jane Ormerod and John K Lawson
$10 suggested donation to be shared among performers. RSVP to Park Theater not essential but appreciated.
Slink G Moss is an artist, songwriter and poet living in Copake, NY since 2014. Moss grew up in Chicago where he started Dambuilders and the Farmers influential rock bands. Moss attended the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 where he earned a BFA in design, painting and filmmaking. In 1997, he moved to NYC where he made films and formed the Slink Moss Orchestra. In 2001, he began spending weekends and holidays in Hudson, NY. Moss began recording as Slink Moss Explosion in 2004. Those recordings were later released by HiStyle Records as “Floating Ghost Hotel.” Moss has compiled several booklets of poems including Microscopic Frog and Quantum Parsley Revisited. He currently exhibits drawings with Lightforms and Circle 46 Gallery in Hudson and plays music in several groups such as Weeeds and Unfinish’d Bizness. Moss also writes children’s songs as Slinky Armadillo.
Alyson Pou is a multi-disciplinary artist and has exhibited at numerous museums, galleries, art centers and colleges around the country. Her installations and performances, deeply rooted in story telling and women’s history, make use of movement, text and objects to create an immersive visual and theatrical experience.
She is currently working on a radio play series entitled Galileo’s Finger and the Missing Lenticular Glass. Awards include: the New York Dance and Performance Award (aka The Bessie Award) in the category of Choreographer/Creator, the Henderson Award for Poetry, American Antiquarian Society research Fellowship. Her work has been presented in New York City by The New Museum, The Bronx Museum, Artists Space, Performance Space 122, Danspace Project at St. Marks, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. Grants include the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Matters, Inc., NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, with commissions from Deutsche Bank and the Atlanta Arts Festival. website
Mary McLaughlin Slechta is the 2021 recipient of the Kimbilio National Fiction Prize. The winning collection, Mulberry Street Stories, was published by Four Way Books September 2023. She has previously a poetry collection, Wreckage on a Watery Moon (FootHills) and two illustrated chapbooks with artist Rita Kelley (Feral Press). A Kimbilio fellow and editor for great weather for MEDIA, she lives in Syracuse, New York with family.