With musical accompaniment and DJ set by Rager. A New Sense of Luxury (Eureka Press) is a sharp and thought-provoking exploration of mass consumption. Like holding a mirror to oneself, McIntosh forces the reader to confront the space they have in a world filled with corporate greed and digital escapism. SHANEKIA McINTOSH is an interdisciplinary artist rooted in poetry, performance, and installation. Her work explores memory and archives. Guided by an insatiable curiosity and interest in philosophy and history, McIntosh probes the stories we tell ourselves and interrogates who gets to tell them. Her work has been featured in the New Museum, Charim, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's TBA Festival, NY Live Arts, and many others. In 2021, she released her debut chapbook, Spiral as Ritual, published by Topos Press. A New Sense of Luxury will be released three years after McIntosh's revered chapbook Spiral As Ritual. While working on A New Sense of Luxury, McIntosh has produced several works that utilize existing signage as poetic interventions. Such works have been primarily produced in the Hudson Valley such as Hudson Amtrak Station in partnership with CREATE Council On The Arts (2024), Collarworks Gallery and the Albany Center Gallery at the Madison Theater and Palace Theater in Albany, NY (2021) as well as TAKK House in Troy, NY (2021) more recent interventions at the Catskill Community Theater (2023) and Gallery 495 (2023) in Catskill, NY simultaneously presenting the poem in two stanzas. Visit here for more information on McIntosh's public interventions.

GIDEON JACOBS writes fiction and nonfiction, contributing to The New Yorker, The New York Times, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, The LA Review of Books, and others. He is currently working on a novel about images. He has lectured at the Institute of Fine Arts, Jeu de Paume, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, the School of Visual Arts, the New School, and elsewhere. Other projects include: Murder Suey, a novella co-written exquisite-corpse-style with Brad Phillips for Autre Magazine; Landing Pages, a literary installation with Lexie Smith at LaGuardia Airport commissioned by the NY/NJ Port Authority; Confession, a telephone hotline designed with Gregor Hochmuth that allowed strangers to anonymously unburden themselves, exhibited at Deli Gallery; Etsy DeVos, custom throw pillows made with Chloe Wise featuring erotic poems about Donald Trump’s cabinet members. He lives and works in Queens, NY. RACHEL LYON is the author of Self-Portrait with Boy, a finalist for the Center for Fiction's 2018 First Novel Prize, and Fruit of the Dead, an Oprah Magazine best book of 2024 which the NY Times called “superb” and “refreshing.” Rachel’s short stories have appeared in One Story, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and other publications; she has taught creative writing most recently at Bennington College and the American University of Paris, where she was the 2024 Paris Writer in Residence. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, she lives with her family in Western Massachusetts. LYNNE TILLMAN's latest novel is Men and Apparitions. Her most recent book, MOTHERCARE, is an autobiographical essay on caregiving. Her essays and stories appear in Aperture, Bookforum, Frieze, N+1, Granta, Tank, and in art catalogs, artist books, and other magazines. Tillman has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Andy Warhol Foundation arts Writers Grant, and The Academy of Arts and Letters Katherine Anne Porter Prize for contributions to literature. She lives in New York with the bassist David Hofstra. Her new collection, Thrilled to Death, published this spring. __ Books are available for purchase and signing. Created and Hosted by Andrea Kleine. This event is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.