Join me with some fellow poet-publishers for a reading and discussion curated by Ruth Danon at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY, on April 17.

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Ruth Danon, the Poet Laureate of Beacon and acclaimed author, continues her celebrated LiveWriting series at the historic Howland Cultural Center. This installment, titled “Poet-Publishers from Hudson Valley and Beyond,” features four distinguished literary figures who balance the creative act of writing with the vital work of independent publishing.

Curated and hosted by Danon, the evening will feature readings by Michael Broder, Stephen Motika, Elizabeth Murphy, and John Yau. Doors open at 7:00 PM.

The Featured Readers:

Michael Broder is the author of the poetry collections Drug and Disease Free (2016) and This Life Now (2014). He is the founder and publisher of Indolent Books, an inclusive press dedicated to publishing work that is provocative, risky, and socially engaged. He edited and produced the beloved online poem-a-day projects HIV Here & Now and What Rough Beast, and currently produces the poem-a-day projects Second Coming and Never Trump Poetry (with poet Dale K. Nichols).

Stephen Motika is the Director & Publisher of Nightboat Books. He was on the staff of Poets House in New York City from 2004 through 2017. The author of the poetry collection Western Practice (2012) and the poetry chapbooks Arrival and At Mono (2007), In the Madrones (2011), and Private Archive (2016), Motika is also the editor of Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman (2009) and co-editor of Dear Kathleen: On the Occasion of Kathleen Fraser’s 80th Birthday (2017).

Elizabeth Murphy is a poet and editor and cofounder of the online interdisciplinary journal The Straddler. Her edition of literary correspondence of American poet Donald Justice and novelist Richard Stern, A Critical Friendship, was published in 2013 by University of Nebraska Press. A collection of her poems, in the form of an exchange with the late poet Taylor Stoehr, was published in 2018 by Pressed Wafer. Her poems and essays have appeared in Salamander, Hopkins Review, and The Straddler.

John Yau is an award winning poet, critic, curator, and publisher of Black Square Editions. He has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism. After serving as the arts editor of The Brooklyn Rail, from 2007 to 2011, he started the online journals Hyperallergic, a leading voice in contemporary perspectives on art and culture. Yau teaches art history and criticism at Mason Gross School of the Arts, the arts conservatory at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

The LiveWriting series is made possible, in part, with support from Poets & Writers and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Howland Cultural Center • 477 Main Street, Beacon, NY, 12508

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