Poetry Reading

Trailer Park Quarterly, Hobo Camp Review, and the Hudson Valley Writers Guild combine forces to present an amazing afternoon of poetry and spoken word in the Collar City featuring Steven Minchin, Melissa Anderson, Bunkong Tuon, Tony Gloeggler, Erin Lynn, and James H Duncan.

About the Poets:

A somewhat self taught Poet, Painter, Photographer and Performance Artist Steven Minchin has been creating in the material world for over 3 decades. His work addresses, exalts and exploits madness with forays into the unseen, escape, and the little moments we all share that are trap doors to greater things. Shackled by Abstract Expressionism, The New York School, Dada and its post-modern descendants Steven creates with a release to chance and a hope that through your eyes and his works you can escape into something that teases a greater you.

Melissa Anderson is a writer, artist, and craftsman. Now a furniture maker by trade, she has worked variously in theater, the fine arts, and leather production, all of which influence her poetry. Like the constellations, she sees poems as navigational, both records Of the past and maps forward to the future. Her poetry explores the beauty in the banal and how the things we make help define who we are and the places we call home. She has been published in Cathexis Northwest Press and performs as a member of Slam Euphoria. Dogstar Poems, from Main Street Rag, is her first published collection.

Bunking Tuon is a Cambodian-American writer, Pushcart Prize–winning poet, and professor who teaches at Union College. He lives with his wife and children in Upstate New York.

Tony Gloeggler is a life-long resident of NYC and managed group homes for the mentally challenged for over 40 years. Poems have been published in Rattle, New Ohio Review, Vox Populi, Gargoyle, BODY. His most recent book, What Kind Of Man with NYQ Books, was a finalist for the 2021 Paterson Poetry Prize. Here on Earth will be published by NYQ Books in 2024.

Erin Lynn holds a PhD in Poetry from The University of Connecticut, an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University, and an MA in Irish Literature from Queen’s University, Belfast. Her poetry has appeared in publications such as Narrative, The Nashville Review, and Lunch Ticket. She won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize for her 2023 chapbook, Forgive Our Kind, with Cordella Press. She co-curates Poor Mouth Poetry in the Bronx and is Assistant Professor of First Year Writing at St. John’s University. Erin lives in Astoria, New York with her family.

James Duncan is the editor of Hobo Camp Review, a former editor with Writers Digest, and the author of Vacancy, Both Ways Home, and We Are All Terminal But This Exit Is Mine, among other books of poetry and fiction. He also reviews independent bookstores on his blog The Bookshop Hunter, and resides in Albany, NY.