A New Sense of Luxury
Book Launch and Reading with Shanekia McIntosh. Free.
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.
Amy Rigby in Concert
+ Eric Goulden (bass/guitar) + Sam Shepard (drums). $10-20 Suggested Donation.
That Time of Year
A quarterly-ish reading series around a theme. Tonight's theme: Wildcards! Free.
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.
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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.
Poetry State Forest at The Spotty Dog
A Reading Hosted by Philip Good Featuring Ellyn Gaydos, author of Pig Years. Free.
Also with…
Lemanja Brown, Russell Day, Katie Fowley, Annabel Lee, John Mason, Emma Parrish Post, Karen Schoemer, Sarah Steadman, and Katie Taylor.
A Reading
Hosted by Philip Good
Featuring Ellyn Gaydos, author of Pig Years (Knopf)
Plus Iemanja Brown, Russell Day, Katie Fowley, Annabel Lee, John Mason, Emma Parrish Post, Karen Schoemer, Sarah Steadman, and Katie Taylor
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Ellyn Gaydos’ first book, Pig Years, came out in 2022 and was a New Yorker best book of the year. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Paris Review and others. She lives in New York with her family and two cats and works on a vegetable farm.
Pig Years catapults American nature writing into the 21st century, and has been hailed by Lydia Davis and Aimee Nezhukumatathil as “engrossing” and “a marvel.” As a farmer in Upstate New York and Vermont, Ellyn Gaydos lives on the knife edge between loss and gain. Her debut memoir draws us into this precarious world, conjuring with stark simplicity the lifeblood of the farm: its livestock and crisp full moons, the sharp cold days lived near to the land. Joy and tragedy are frequent bedfellows. Fields go barren and animals meet their end too soon, but then their bodies become food in a time-old human ritual. Seasonal hands are ground down by the hard work, but new relationships are formed, love blossoms and Gaydos yearns to become a mother. As winter’s dark descends, Pig Years draws us into a violent and gorgeous world where pigs are star-bright symbols of hope and beauty surfaces in the furrows, the sow, even in the slaughter.
In hardy, lyrical prose that recalls the agrarian writing of Annie Dillard and Wendell Berry, Gaydos asks us to bear witness to the work that sustains us all and to reconsider what we know of survival and what saves us. Pig Years is a rapturous reckoning of love, labor and loss within a landscape given to flux.
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Poetry State Forest is located at the edge of the Rensselaer Plateau where two creeks meet. It preserves the legacy of renowned poet Bernadette Mayer through programming in her home and writing spaces including her poetry library and the surrounding landscape.
Philip Good, who helped Mayer lead writing workshops for decades, has continued the tradition with local writers who meet once a week to enjoy experimentation in poetry.
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Books and chapbooks available for purchase.
That Time of Year
A quarterly-ish reading series around a theme. Tonight's theme: Deep. Free.
DAWN LUNDY/MARTIN
is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of five books of poems: Instructions for The Lovers, Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE, A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering, and three limited edition chapbooks. Her nonfiction can be found in n+1, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Believer, and Best American Essays 2019 and 2021. Martin was the first person to hold the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair in English at the University of Pittsburgh where she co-founded and directed the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. She is currently working on memoir titled When a Person Goes Missing, forthcoming from Pantheon Books. She is Professor and Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.
ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS
works with poetry and prose as a writer, editor, translator, publisher, teacher, and designer. Her forthcoming novel, An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth, will be published in November 2024 by Soft Skull. Her most recent book is Participation (2022), a precarious novel about love & comradeship, the discomforts of desire, forms and functions of labor, and the embodied experience of reading and being read. Other books include the novel Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love, and poetry books They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This and You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent translation is of David Diop’s novel At Night All Blood Is Black (Frère d’âme), for which she and Diop received the 2021 International Booker Prize. She has also translated Albert Cossery’s The Jokers, Annie Ernaux’s The Possession, Bresson on Bresson, and (with Christine Schwartz-Harley) Marcelle Sauvageot’s Commentary. She is a student of plants and herbalism, a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and a co-founder of Bushel Collective, an experimental mixed-use storefront space in Delhi, NY. She is currently at work on a novel, a book of essay-poems, an experimental documentary, and a collaborative translation of Mihret Kebede’s #evolutionarypoems, forthcoming from Circumference Books.
MARIANNE SHANEEN
is a writer of fiction, essays, and poetry. She has been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, and the Tusen Takk Foundation (2021). She received her MFA in writing from the Bard Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Her fiction “The Mason Jar” was published in The Kenyon Review (Sept/Oct 2020), and her work has appeared in Bomb magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, the book Monstrous Adaptations (Manchester University Press), Vanitas, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Lucent Amnesis was published by Portable Press/Yo-Yo Labs. She has also worked in documentary video, and was awarded a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant for her poetic, playful, provocative video essay exploring fluid identity and trans-species possibility. Recently, Shaneen wrote a text and voiceover for the essay film Kansas Atlas by filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh which screened at the 2020 New York Film Festival and in numerous galleries. Shaneen has been commissioned to write for Henry Gallery in Washington, for the film and installation Bugs and Beasts Before the Law by collaborative duo Bambitchell (2021), as well as for solo shows by artists such as Suzanne Kite (2021), Miruna Dragan, Barbara Ess, and choreographer Rebecca Davis. Shaneen is currently finishing her first novel, Homing.
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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.