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Lynn Behrendt and Rachel Levitsky will read in Cadmium Text Series on Saturday, November 21st, 2009 at 2pm.  (more…)

Elizabeth Bryant and Max Winter will read in Cadmium Text Series on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 2pm.  Cadmium Text is curated by local poet and book artist Anne Gorrick and focuses on innovative writing from in and around the Hudson Valley.  The Gallery at R&F provides the backdrop for the readings. 

Elizabeth Bryant is a writer living in Red Hook, NY. She edits Defeffable and co-curates the Bard Roving Reading series. Her most current publications include a chapbook, Fluorescence Buzz (Dusie, 2009), and a new full-length serial piece, (nevertheless enjoyment… (Quale Press, 2010). She has new writing in Wheelhouse, and upcoming in Coconut.

Max Winter’s The Pictures was published by Tarpaulin Sky Press in 2007. He has also published poems in New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Boulevard, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. His reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, Bookforum, The San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. He has been a Poetry Editor of Fence Magazine since 2001.

Previous poets have included:  Lynn Behrendt, Celia Bland, JJ Blickstein, Dennis Doherty, Anne Gorrick, Lea Graham, Kate Greenstreet, Joshua Harmon, Jane Heidgerd, Steve Hirsch, Jennifer Wai-Lan Huang, Geof Huth, Robert Kelly, Maryrose Larkin, Charlotte Mandel, Susan McKechnie, PF Potvin, Richard Rizzi, Carly Sachs, Lorna Smedman, Maureen Thorson, R. Dionysius Whiteurs, and Rebecca Wolff.

A $5 donation to Cadmium Text is suggested to help support this reading and goes directly to the writers.

Cadmium Text is curated by local poet and book artist Anne Gorrick and focuses on innovative writing from in and around the Hudson Valley.  The Gallery at R&F provides the backdrop for the readings.  Don Byrd and Chris Piuma will read in Cadmium Text Series on Saturday, September 19th, 2009 at 2pm.    

Don Byrd lives in Albany, NY, and teaches at the State University. His publications include Aesop’s Garden, Charles Olson’s Maximus, Technics of Travel, The Great Dime Store Centennial, and The Poetics of the Common Knowledge. In the mid-1990s, having decided that something had gone terribly wrong, and for the most part, quit publishing. He has been working intently on a writing of ambiguous genre during these many years. It is entitled “Abstraction.” It is now nearing completion. Thousands of pages have been written and most of them filed away, some on electronic media that would now be hard access.

Chris Piuma is thinking about nouniness. Chris Piuma has had a few chapbooks published, but they’re out of print, so you can’t have any. Chris Piuma wishes it weren’t so hot out. Chris Piuma just added a new post on his poety blog, Buggeryville, at: http://www.buggeryville.blogspot.com/ Chris Piuma is accustomed to the third person. Chris Piuma and how grammar enables affective connections with the dead. Chris Piuma misses Portland and co-organizing the Spare Room poetry series, but enjoys Toronto and grad school. Chris Piuma is learning yet another language! Chris Piuma remembers when life provided cocktail party anecdotes, but now it’s all Facebook status updates.

Previous poets have included:  Lynn Behrendt, Celia Bland, JJ Blickstein, Dennis Doherty, Anne Gorrick, Lea Graham, Kate Greenstreet, Joshua Harmon, Jane Heidgerd, Steve Hirsch, Jennifer Wai-Lan Huang, Geof Huth, Robert Kelly, Maryrose Larkin, Charlotte Mandel, Susan McKechnie, PF Potvin, Richard Rizzi, Carly Sachs, Lorna Smedman, Maureen Thorson, R. Dionysius Whiteurs, and Rebecca Wolff.