***We are the first WEDNESDAY this month***
Featured readers: Bibbe Hansen, Jee Leong Koh, and Rik Letendre
A monthly series at Hudson’s historic Park Theater. First Thursday (except July!) 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 (except this July!) 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.
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. Find an interview with Bibbe in the great weather for MEDIA anthology A Shape Produced by a Curve.
Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the Year by UK’s Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the USA. His hybrid work of fiction, Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an insignificant Japanese poet, won the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. Originally from Singapore, Jee lives in New York City, where he heads the literary organization Singapore Unbound, the press Gaudy Boy, and the journal SUSPECT.
Richard Victor Letendre: Rik was a young punk, artist, musician, and writer in the late 70’s - 80’s NYC. Along with many other endevours, he’s been the founding member of the No Wave group Circle X, co-editor of the artists book Anti-Utopia, and author of the collection of short fiction, Nineteen Stories. A bon vivant to the limit of patience, Rik wears soft slippers and wields a societal stiletto. A second short story collection is presently in the hands of his editor.