Monthly poetry and art performance series in Troy, NY. Local, regional, and national poets and performers in a curated series by Hajar Hussaini, Matthew Klane, and Amie Zimmerman.
Miriam Atkin is a poet based in the Catskill Mountains. Her creative practice has been largely concerned with the possibilities of poetry as a medium in conversation with avant-garde film, music and dance. In 2016 she co-founded Pinsapo, an international publishing collective. She teaches writing around the Hudson Valley region, at Bard College and the Otisville Correctional Facility. Her radio show, “Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills” airs monthly on WGXC 90.7. Her latest book is Inclination Drawing, published by Beautiful Days Press.
Tyler Barton is a literary advocate and author of Eternal Night at the Nature Museum and The Quiet Part Loud. His fiction, poetry, interviews, and criticism have appeared in Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, Diagram, FENCE and elsewhere. He leads writing workshops with the incarcerated elderly and holds the position of Artistic Director of Writers & Books in Rochester, NY. His work can be found at tsbarton.com.
Alex Chang is an electric acoustic harpist and composer. She is part of the Rock City Falls Trio, a cross-genre ensemble that often works interdisciplinarily through collaborative improvisation. She completed a Jazz and Sonic Arts Music residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and premiered a new work Sharing a Woven Melody at the 2024 Gather Listen Hear Summer Arts Festival’s Jazz and Sonic Arts Concert. She is also the co-director of the non profit Improv Spaces with percussionist Adam Forman and the Improv Spaces Music Festival. @alexachang2000
Betsy Fagin is the author of Fires Seen From Space (Winter Editions), All is Not Yet Lost (Belladonna), and Names Disguised (Make Now Books). Self-driving, chosen by Kazim Ali as winner of the 2024 Autumn House Poetry Prize, is forthcoming in 2025. She works as alibrarian and a meditation teacher in New York City, helping people navigate complexity.
