A Galère of Poetic Autopsies
Expect the unexpected as poets, writers, and other creatives from the Hudson area and beyond reveal the inspiration and shadows behind their work.
Featured performers: Matthew Hupert, George Wallace, Debra Wanner.
Hosted by John K Lawson and Jane Ormerod.
Doors at 6:00 pm, show at 7:00 pm.
$10 suggested donation to be shared among performers.
Matthew Hupert is a writer and multi-media artist from New York City. Matthew hosts several poetry reading series, including the annual showcase for New York voices, Night in the Naked City, and the monthly series NeuroNautic Institute Presents. He is a recipient of the 2020 New York Acker Award for Show Organizer and Host. He has two full-length poetry collections, Ism is a Retrovirus and Secular Pantheism, and is also the author of several chapbooks.
George Wallace is Writer in Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace and is the author of over forty books and five spoken word albums. He is winner of the Orpheus Prize (Bulgaria); Alexander Prize and Aristotle Medal (Greece); Silk Road Prize, Poet of the Year (China); Naim Frasheri Laureateship (Macedonia); Corona d’Oro (Albania); Naji Naaman Literary Prize (Lebanon). He is a National Beat/Next Generation Beat Poet and a 2024 Honorary Doctorate, CiESART/Royal Academy in Spain.
Debra Wanner creates interdisciplinary, inquisitive, imagistic works about notions of being. Debra has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts as a member of Interaction Arts, an artist’s collective. One audience member said of her work, “I felt nauseous, sad, exhilarated, comforted, and impassioned. I believed everything you told me – even your lies.”
