Friday, 6/30, 5:30–7pm—Megan Fernandes & Christian Schlegal: Cat’s Meow: Free Poetry Event at Kitty’s Garden, Hudson, NY – RAIN OR SHINE!

Friday, 6/30, 5:30–7pm—Megan Fernandes & Christian
Schlegal: Cat’s Meow: Free Poetry Event at Kitty’s Garden- RAIN OR SHINE!
60 South Front Street, Hudson, NY⁠ ⁠

The Flow Chart Foundation has partnered with Kitty’s to offer the Cat’s Meow series of free and fabulous poetry (and some music, too) events—curated by the incomparable Brandon Downing. Have a glass and tickle your ears! All events will live-stream on WGXC “Radio for Open Ears” (and be archived there soon after)⁠ ⁠

Megan Fernandez is a writer living in NYC. She was born in Canada and raised in the Philadelphia area. Her family are East African Goans. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Her book Good Boys was a finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize, the Saturnalia Book Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and was published with Tin House Books in February 2020. Her newest book, I Do Everything I’m Told, is coming out from Tin House this June. Fernandes is an Associate Professor of English and the Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College, where she teaches courses on poetry, creative nonfiction, and critical theory. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University.

Christian Schlegal is a poet and teacher. He has written two books of poetry: Honest James (The Song Cave, 2015) and Ryman (Ricochet, 2022) and his work has been published in The Volta, Lana Turner, West Branch Wired, Harvard Review Online, and elsewhere. His ongoing project, a researched-then-improvised series of talk poems, derives from the methods of David Antin; recent talks have taken up artistic “maintenance” and the problem of reality in art, along with a single line from a Shakespeare sonnet. His talk today will begin with the career of the artist Lee Lozano. He lives in New Haven and teaches grades 2, 7, 9, and 11 at Pierrepont School.
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Toward opening new possibilities for discovery, thought, connection, and joy, The Flow Chart Foundation explores poetry and the interrelationships of various art forms as guided by the legacy of gay American poet John Ashbery, showcasing contemporary artists from a diversity of cultural, ethnic, gender-identified, age, ability, economic, and aesthetic viewpoints. ⁠ ⁠