Poetry readings with authors Alissa Quart, Josepha Gutelius, Mikhail Horowitz, and Sam Truitt, curated by Bruce Weber. Free event. Register through EventBrite to attend.

Rain date - Sunday, July 12th at 5pm

Alissa Quart is the Executive Director of the non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and the author of two acclaimed poetry books, Thoughts and Prayers and Monetized. Her poems have appeared in Granta, The Daily Beast, Teen Vogue, NPR, The Nation, and Columbia Journalism Review among other publications. She is also the author of four non-fiction books including the acclaimed Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America, Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers, and Republic of Outsiders. Her journalism appears regularly in The New York Times and The Guardian and many other venues. She has received an Emmy for her documentary work (the film "The Last Clinic") and a Nieman fellowship among other honors and has taught non-fiction writing at Brown University and elsewhere.

Mikhail Horowitz is a poet/performance artist and the author of Ancient Baseball(Alte Books, 2020). His other books include Big League Poets (City Lights, 1978); The Opus of Everything in Nothing Flat (Red Hill, 1993); and Rafting Into the Afterlife (Codhill Press, 2007). His performance work, with jazz and/or acoustic musicians, has been featured on a dozen CDs, including The Blues of the Birth (Sundazed Records, a collection of jazz fables), and the anthology album Bring It On Home, Vol. II (Columbia Records). He lives in Saugerties, deep in the woods on the former site of a 19th-century bluestone quarry, with the printmaker Carol Zaloom.

Joseph Gutelius is an award- winning writer and visual artist and a resident of Saugerties for over 40 years. She will be reading a story that was anthologized in Best New Writing 2013.

Sam Truitt was born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of the ten works in the Vertical Elegies series, among others in print and other media, including the forthcoming Tokyoatoto. He is the co-editor of In|Filtration: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry from the Hudson River Valley; and Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer. Robert Creeley likened Truitt to “a contemporary Everyman,” and he is the recipient, among other recognitions, of numerous Fund for Poetry awards, a Contemporary Poetry Award from the University of Georgia, and a Howard Fellowship. The producer and a co-host of the podcast Baffling Combustions and Director of Station Hill Press, he lives in Woodstock, NY. For more, visit: samtruitt.org