A night of Chekhov's comedic brilliance brought to life at Torn Page by Vera Beren, Angelica Page, Austin Pendleton, Tony Torn & more.

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In the early 70's Rip Torn and Geraldine Page commisioned Muni Seroff to create a new translation of the Chekhov one act comedies The Bear and A Marriage Proposal. The three acted together in a stage version of the plays called Marraige and Money, directed by Torn in venues such as The Philidelphia's Playhouse in the Park, Westport Playhouse and the Corning Summer Theatre before being filmed for PBS under the name Hollywood Television Theater: Two by Chekhov.

Recently unearthed from the extensive Geraldine Page archives at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the never before published translation has been freshly transcribed and ready to share.

Price for the reading is pay what you wish with a suggested donation of $20.

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November 2nd 3pm — 8pm

Living room festival for Day of the Dead

We will open our space to celebrate their work and our LIVING FLAMES fed by it.

Come partake in Bibliomantic readings of the poetry and work of dear community such as ALICE NOTLEY, LYN HEJINIAN, RICHARD FOREMAN, STEPHANE BOUQUET, FANNY HOWE, EDMUND WHITE, MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN, KENWARD ELMSLIE, COLE HEINOWITZ, MEL NICHOLS and anyone you know and love! 

We celebrate life and love and the importance of art, music, books, creativity and play together as we celebrate with community musicians, priests and priestesses, Tony Torn, Lee Ann Brown, Beth Beth, Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola, Diego Girard, Zoe Brezsny, Sarah Riggs, Lyndsay Turner, Ricardo Gallo of Los ALiENs, Franklin Bruno, Jennifer Scappettone, Paolo Javier, Drew Gardner, Hilma's Ghost and other surprise guests plus YOU!

To stoke the fires we will concurrently have a triple BOOK PARTY for these very special COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS!

JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE’s ten years in the making:

Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism (Columbia University Press, 2025) with new critical work on Etel Adnan, and Lyn Hejinian and others.

PAOLO JAVIER'S: new book NEAR YOUR MIRROR HOME (STAY ON) from (POETS OF QUEENS)

and DREW GARDNER'S anthology, INGENIOUS PLEASURES: An Anthology of Punk, Trash & Camp (University of New Mexico Press) 

https://www.unmpress.com/9780826364944/ingenious-pleasures/

Books Available for Sale!

Bring food, drink, photo, poems to read, collage, FLOWERS, a pillow and come read and listen to poetry and music together!

Please bring a MEMORY OBJECT and poems to offer for the altar

 Torn Page 435 West 22nd Street, NYC 10011

Something Whiskey This Way Comes! is a horror-infused version of Whiskey Flicks Live!, in which Michael and Daniel explore a century of scary movies, asking the age-old question: in a world where we see horror every day - in the news, in the streets, in our lives - why do we turn to scary movies for entertainment, and perhaps even comfort?

Suggested Donation $13

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The concept is simple: for each show, Daniel curates a series of one-time-only movie clips and shows them to Michael, who reacts in real time with a running commentary of personal stories, cultural commentary, film critique...with whiskey. Michael doesn't know what Daniel's going to play, Daniel doesn't know what Michael's going to say, and you, the audience, are along for the ride. There may be dancing (a monster mash, perhaps?), there will definitely be drinking, and hopefully you'll remember why you fell in love with the movies in the first place.

Please note: due to the horror-based nature of this show, some of the movie clips will contain graphic and disturbing content.

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Special evening of sonic composition and improvisation centered on poetry. Three stellar presences: Oliver Ray, No Land, & Steven Taylor.

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OLIVER RAY, writer and composer, will present fragments from the forthcoming book-length poem Source Vagrant-- as well as excerpts from Spoon Thief, a poem-prose novella.

Oliver Ray is all over the place: a writer, musician, and composer, he works across the boundary lines of these disciplines. His work is focused on the intuitive sense of the supernatural and the ways it finds expression in our lives. He worked alongside and co-wrote songs with Patti Smith for over a decade. Most recently, he adapted her book Woolgathering for the stage of Baryshnikov Arts in New York City; which was featured as a NY Times Critic's Pick. Described as a "spoken word opera," the piece which Ray composed and directed was a meditation on the roots of the artist in the landscapes of childhood. In 2023 he collaborated with the poet & artist No Land on "Cremation Piece," for the Allen Ginsberg Estate, a sonic-poem work and cinema piece around "Neal's Ashes," by Allen Ginsberg. He is interested in the idea of the archive as a work of art.

He is currently working on two pieces, a prose work called Spoon Thief; and a long poem "Source Vagrant" which is the imagination/consciousness of the prose piece. An album called beingone of 8 songs will be released in December, 2025 on the label Dark Harbor Records. Also, in December, Ray will be presenting his paper Anthroposophical Anarchism and the Decentralization of the Spirit for the 100 Years of Steiner conference at the Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Excerpts from all of these works may be heard at Torn Page Oct 7th.

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Poet & artist, NO LAND, will present poetries from her recent book The Velvet Wire (co-authored with Anne Waldman, Granary Books 2024) as well as selections from her forthcoming, semi-secret book of poetry (2025). She will be joined by Oliver Ray on guitar for a sonic-poem collaboration. In performance, No Land’s ephemeral, hand-painted scrolls, codex-like-poem documents, and typewritten text fragments are strewn upon her table— which becomes a type of altar as she recites in a trance-like state. Poems are improvised, channeled, and recited in communion with musicians’ sounds as No Land weaves a live, poetical score. Each recitation is unique as the poetry lives in a state of transmutation and amorphous mosaic.

Of The Velvet Wire, Bradley King of the Brooklyn Rail writes: “A sacred text and unique art work— The Velvet Wire is a poet’s shrine to the shared interior and telepathic relationship between Anne Waldman & No Land. It’s a relic of how poets sustain one another through attention, care, and through the cultivation of lineages across generational lines. It’s also a teaching on how to survive— how to offer sustenance and exuberance, one to the other.-- Bradley King

"The artist known as No Land is aptly named. Their work exists in an upper atmosphere, an etheric realm, invisible and moving. Prana, Qi, Life Body or Ether body, are different names for the mysterious life force which animates all that exists over and above the mineral realm. Where this force comes from has been speculated upon since humans were making ochre handprints on cave walls by the light of a torch. The work of No Land won’t fit in a portfolio. Not because there is too much of it, but because it is always moving. Poem scrolls and fragments are laid out on a table. The reading begins; No Land looks through the work like tea leaves or tarot cards. Certain pieces step forward and offer themselves. An hourglass stands beside a rock holding the papers down. The sand travels in both directions, suspended in the unfurling present, an oracle of words. Lines from other poets appear and are given new meaning. The fragment, cutup, collage is taken to its terminus, then sets out on foot forward to origin; being: born anew, integrated, continuously. The poem becomes a drawing, the drawing a song hummed while painting. Valery said that poems are never finished, only abandoned; however, it is this unfinished-ness, this abandon, which is the work. With deep respect for the diversity which surrounds her, we learn that in the quantum jetstream of No Land’s creations, all words, sound, and image are energy vibrating behind appearance. The veil is removed. Creation quivers, a drop of dew reflects the city in summer twilight, and falls away." - Oliver Ray

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STEVEN TAYLOR is a member of the seminal poetry rock group the Fugs. He will present a selection of songs by himself and his poet collaborators.

$10 Suggested / no one turned away for lack of funds

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Join us for LAUNDRY CYCLES, a lively afternoon literary performance and conversation celebrating two new books that look inside neighborhood spaces where the work of laundry gets done. 

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Author Alvin Eng will read from OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond, a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of his upbringing in Flushing, Queens, in the 1970s. Eng will also present songs and monologues from his acoustic punk raconteur performance piece, HERE COMES JOHNNY YEN AGAIN (or How I Kicked Punk). 

“Powerful, funny at times and consistently inspiring… Alvin Eng’s memoir looks back at the past to envision a better future.” David Henry Hwang, playwright

Co-authors Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs will read from HAND BOOK: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry, a collection of writings and images from a performance and film set within New York City laundromats. Their book is a quasi-cinematic encounter, calling to mind the intimacy of touching other people’s clothes, almost like a second skin, the textural care for things kept close to the body.  Actor-collaborators Ching Valdez-Aran and Tony Torn will perform from the book’s playscript, a rumination on the convergence of dirt, stains, money, identity, and desire. With clips from Olesker and Sachs’s hybrid documentary THE WASHING SOCIETY.

“A generously kaleidoscopic offering of perspectives, histories and bodies.” Christopher Harris, filmmaker

Alvin Eng is a native NYC author/playwright, songwriter, educator and performer. His plays and performances have been seen Off-Broadway, in Paris, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China. As a 2024-25 New York Public Library Fellow, he began researching a companion book to his memoir, Our Laundry, Our Town (Fordham University Press). 

Lizzie Olesker makes theater reflecting on the politics and poetry of everyday experience, seen in NYC at New Georges, the Cherry Lane, and Public Theater. Her most recent plays include 5 Stages of Grief, Night Shift, and the collaborative Language of Dolls.

Lynne Sachs is a filmmaker and poet who investigates the connection between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself. Embracing archives, found images, letters, and journals, her work enacts a critical journey through reality and memory. Her feature film Every Contact Leaves a Trace will have its world premiere at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam in November.

Ching Valdes-Aran is a Filipino-American actress of stage, television, and film, who was trained as a dancer. Her many credits include an international tour of Geoff Sobel’s Home, Lav Diaz’s film From What is Before, and multiple appearances at La Mama, Mabou Mines, and New York Theater Workshop.  

Tony Torn is an actor and director with more than 100 stage and screen credits including Ubu Sings Ubu, King Lear, Mud, and In the Solitude of Cotton Fields at Hudson River Park Pier 45. He recently directed the acclaimed play The Whole of Time at Torn Page and the Brick Theater, and is known for his extensive work with legendary experimental theater artists Richard Foreman and Reza Abdoh.

Get ready for a special September poetry party with MARY NEWELL, HELLER LEVINSON, and MARIA GARCIA TEUTSCH: Poetry Loteria & Refreshments! Doors at 730pm, event at 8pm

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Film Club is back! Join us Tuesday, August 12th at 7:30 for a special screening of Sweet Bird of Youth at Torn Page (435 W 22nd St, NY) starring Geraldine Page, Paul Newman and Rip Torn! This edition of Film Club is in support of THE WHOLE OF TIME, a play produced by Torn Page at the Brick starting August 22nd and running thru September 20th!

Free RSVP for Screening at Torn Page HERE

Get tickets for The Whole of Time at The Brick HERE

This evening's special summer salon will begin with a performance of poetry and violin by Kristen and Samantha, whose decade-long collaboration often explores themes of experimental form and sonic hierarchies. Kristen will then read work composed with divination, followed by a live tarot reading for the community.

Attendees will be invited to ask questions of the cards and to discuss themes of divinatory poetics & collaboration.

Kristen E. Nelson is a queer writer, scholar, and performer. She is the author of two books In the Away Time (Autofocus Books, April 2024) and the length of this gap (Damaged Goods, August 2018); and two chapbooks sometimes I gets lost and is grateful for noises in the dark (Dancing Girl, 2017) and Write, Dad (Unthinkable Creatures, 2012). She has published creative and critical writing in Feminist Studies, Bombay Gin, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky Journal, Trickhouse, and Everyday Genius, among others. Kristen founded Casa Libre en la Solana, a non-profit writing center in Tucson, Arizona, where she worked as the Executive Director for 14 years and co-founded Four Queens, a platform for divinatory poetics with Selah Saterstrom. Kristen is currently a Ph.D. candidate and instructor of creative writing at the University of California – Santa Cruz in the Literature Department’s creative/critical writing concentration. Her research centers on Creative Writing, Divinatory Poetics, Feminist Autotheory, and Witchcraft Studies. More info: kristenenelson.org

Samantha Bounkeua (RogueViolin) is a queer violinist-composer-producer whose work blurs perceptions of acoustic performance. Founder of Rogue Violin Studios, she specializes in cross-media collaborations that amplify queer/femme voices and explore themes of vulnerability and identity. A 2023 California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellow and former artist at Stanford’s Re-Presence Residency, Samantha recorded the award-winning score for the 2025 Sundance film, Sunfish and recently appeared as The Muse in the New Cannon Theatre production of An Iliad.

Light Refreshments will be served including iced herbal teas.

Feel free to BYOB or whatever you want to share!

Torn Page is so excited to share this special evening with community old and new. Any questions? Please email poet-host, Lee Ann Brown at TenderButtonsPress@gmail.com

WHISKEY FLICKS LIVE

Whiskey Flicks Live! is an unscripted, booze-infused, deep dive into film with Michael Niederman and Daniel McCoy.

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Whiskey Flicks Live! is an unscripted, booze-infused, deep dive into film. Every performance, Daniel shows Michael a unique series of themed movie clips, and Michael responds with improvised comedy and critique. Michael doesn't know what Daniel's gonna play; Daniel doesn't know what Michael's gonna say, and the audience is along for the ride!

Each performance of Whiskey Flicks Live! is a unique experience for both audience and performers, as we draw on a century of cinema to delve into how we live now, to reflect on how art reflects life (and vice versa), and to remember why we fell in love with the movies in the first place.

Since its beginnings in 2019 at the so-fi Festival in New York, Michael and Daniel have taken their one-of-a-kind impromptu film nerd-out to venues all over NYC, including The Tank, The City Reliquary, Wonderville and the Vino Theatre, online throughout the pandemic and at the 2020 Rochester Virtual Fringe Festival, and on tour at the 2022 Cincinnati Fringe Festival, the 2022 and 2023 Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival, the 2023 Island Fringe Festival, and the 2024 Orlando Fringe Festival.

“Irreverent, celebratory, and poignant…"

"Deceptively simple in concept, Whiskey Flicks demands in execution remarkable levels of truth and presence, and Niederman and McCoy rise to the task."

Come party with us at TORN PAGE as we launch our fundraising campaign to present Romina Paula's THE WHOLE OF TIME at THE BRICK in AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2025! There will be fun and music, food and drink and big opportunities to join our quest to bring our wonderful Drama Desk nominated production to a wider audience!!!! Free to RSVP but come to find ways to support the show and discover how to join our team while having a blast. Tell them Maximiliano sent you!!!

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Booklaunch/Party for Anneysa Gaille's ONCE UPON A CICADA MOON (Tender Buttons Press 2025) May 1st 7pm @ Torn Page

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Once Upon a Cicada Moon is an alchemical mix of folklore, ballad, and long form poem. Anneysa Gaille's debut is a channeled feminist tale that invents new ways to score voice on the page, full of lacy gaps to let in breath, to breathe in the bayou.

“With her poetry, Anneysa lassoes the moon and brings it down to dance amongst the bluebonnets and bayous of Texas.” —Anne Waldman

"In this exhilarating poem, words seem to slide across the page, and what we find as we move through it are the traces of a powerful and mysterious desire. Anneysa Gaille is an heir to the expansive American long poem as it comes down from Walt Whitman, C.D. Wright, and Alice Notley." —Orlando Reade

"Once Upon a Cicada Moon is tender, haunted, and charming as hell. I loved sinking down through the openings of its lovely shapes, where I became one of the book's creatures, stalking low in the grass among cicadas, mockingbirds, a weeping muse, and a charismatic devil (in "snakeskin boots with gorgons guarding each hoof"). Anneysa Gaille has brought forth a world as alive and mysterious as any Texan landscape." —Taisia Kitaiskaia

A special work in progress showing of the Gay Divorce – a new performance text / terrific lil’ number from Cecilia Corrigan.

This is the first ever public showing of this Thing: a true journey to the center of the tears of a clown.

A secret key. A freaky snake. A cool guy. A world of tears. A lonely Xenomorph. A bruise. A ripped-up gift.

In other words, the show throws the hyperpop voice of a comic raconteur (me) into a haunted house of end-stage capitalist nightmares, bitcrunching together classic horror movie tropes, the Barbie-doll playhouse rituals of a weird third-grade girl, the legal documents from Sailor Moon’s second divorce, and “some jokes.”

Anyway blah blah blah. If you’re invited to this you’re probably my friend or at least someone I hope might be friendly to my purposes. So to be honest, I don’t really know what will happen. But I promise you will be entertained! Or! Embarrassed for me!

So come on, join my MLM!!

Just kidding: join me for Many Laughs and Moments on April 24.

@ TORN PAGE Chelsea, 435 W 22nd St @ 9th Ave. 2nd floor.

Tickets are donation based ($15 suggested). Donations over $30 receive a free beverage.

Seating is extremely limited. Twenty Two Seats Only per Performance!

Reservations Required RESERVE HERE

All donations go directly to performers and running costs.

Women in Independent Publishing 

Edited by Stephanie Anderson

Book Release & Discussion

April 15, 8pm (7:30pm doors)

Torn Page, 435 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011

Featuring Lee Ann Brown, Martha King, Patricia Spears Jones,

Susan Sherman, and Eileen Myles

FREE. RSVP HERE

Celebrating Issue 116 with readings by

Sean Cole, Gregory Crosby,

David Kirschenbaum, Vincent Katz

and Jean-Paul Pecqueur

2-4pm

TORN PAGE

435 West 22nd Street 2nd Floor

Fred Moten and Ken Taylor read their poetry at Torn Page.

530pm on Sunday March 2nd.

Limited Seating Available.

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Please join us in welcoming delicate songsmith extraordinaire AARON ROCHE back home to NYC as we celebrate the final show of his first solo tour in far too many years…TRUFFLES, a multi-generational music collective loosely arranged of poets, musicians, visual artists and professors in the spirit of the pre-digital 20th century will also perform and invite poets in the audience to participate……and JOHNNY COLAPINTO has agreed to emerge from the fog to kick of the night with his elegant songcraft mysteries…

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Truffles — 9:45pm

https://www.instagram.com/truffleheads

Aaron Roche — 8:45pm

https://aaronrochemusic.bandcamp.com

Johnny Colapinto — 7:45pm

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6MPqZxAuMuFjYReZTJ090W

Sunday February 23, 2025

7:30pm — 10:30pm

TORN PAGE 435 W 22nd StreetNew York, NY 10011

Suggested Donation $15

NOTAFLOF

Voyages, by Lonely Christopher

Presented by Inter Poets Theater  & Torn Page​

​Monday, February 3, 7pm

Torn Page

435 W 22nd St, NYC

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Voyages is about the short life of Modernist poet Hart Crane as he attempts to create a “mystic synthesis” of American culture in his writing while dealing with debilitating familial psychodrama and the dangers of loving men in a homophobic society. Careening through the Prohibition years in Cleveland, New York City, Hollywood, and the Gulf of Mexico, the drunken author challenges and attempts to transcend the moral order of his time and place. Surviving privation, humiliation, and the wages of vagabondage, Hart Crane negotiates the foibles and prejudices of literary friends and historical luminaries. Openly queer and with a penchant for sailors, Crane’s sex life is as scandalous and radical as his baroque, mythical, and yet strongly modern American verse. Exhaustively researched and full of linguistic pyrotechnics, Voyages animates the world of Hart Crane as never before. Join the poet on his voyage to discover Atlantis!​

This is a script reading for a work in development.

Starring:

Dante Fuoco

Tony Torn

Hilary Dennis

Rezarta Seferi

Ry Cook

Lambert Tamin

Theodore Bouloukos

Kit James

Cecilia Corrigan

Written and Directed by Lonely Christopher

Produced by Lonely Christopher and Tony Torn

More info and bios at

https://www.interpoetstheater.com/voyages

ANGELICA PAGE TO PERFORM HER ACCLAIMED SOLO SHOW TURNING PAGE 

A FUNDRAISER FOR TORN PAGE & OPENING ACT NYC

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Please join us in New York City on Monday, November 25th for this very special ONE NIGHT ONLY site specific, immersive event at Torn Page Studio’s strictly limited intimate east coast venue, Torn Page NYC.

Written and Performed by Angelica Page and Directed by Wilson Milam, Turning Page is a sophisticated, funny and deeply compelling play about legendary actress Geraldine Page -- a magical opportunity to personally encounter one of the most influential, celebrated and private American artists of the 20th century. 

It tells master craftswoman Geraldine Page’s remarkable journey – one of an iconoclast, a queen rebel and trail blazer whose sparkling career earned her a record-breaking eight Academy® Award-nominations and whose untimely death in 1987 deprived us of one of entertainment’s most dazzling figures until now. Her inspiring story is a gift to the next generation(s) of artists and must not be forgotten anytime soon.

This solo show runs 100 minutes without an intermission. 

“AN UNCANNY TRIBUTE... for those who have been touched by Page’s sorcery — and I personally don’t know any great actor who hasn’t been — Angelica’s virtuosic conjuring of her mother’s spirit is something to behold.” Charles McNulty, LOS ANGELES TIMES

“Phenomenal. For anyone who loves the theatre, go and see TURNING PAGE. You are in for a rare treat." -- BROADWAYWORLD

“This is not a high wire act of mimicry. This is lived enchantment that moves. This love song sung by a daughter to a mother, from performer to performer, is a gift to us. Angelica is Geraldine and It is a marvel.”  -- URBAN EXCAVATIONS 

This fundraiser benefits TORN PAGE with a portion of the proceeds donated to OPENING ACT NYC, who provides theater programs for students attending New York City's most under-served public schools. Please donate to reserve one of the two dozen available seats in our intimate studio space. Go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/turning-page-in-nyc-tickets-1080442876729

The performance will be held at Torn Page’s intimate east coast venue, Torn Page NYC, 435 West 22nd Street, 2nd Floor.

All Soul's Day Poetries and Herbals

poetics / talks / pathways

with Alana Siegel, Deirdre Larkin, and Kodi Fabricant

Alana will deliver a poem. Deirdre will give a talk. Kodi will lead a meditation.

Deirdre Larkin, Talk: “Dark Green: Plants as agents of power, prophecy, and protection at the boundaries between worlds.”

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dark-green-all-souls-day-poetries-and-herbals-tickets-1041713421887

Note on tickets: Donation is completely optional. We thank you for anything you can put towards the continuation of our space.

Alana Siegel is a poet living in Upstate New York. Her full-length collection of poetry, Archipelago, is published by Station Hill Press. In 2019, she completed a Three Year Retreat in Vajrayana Buddhism at Pema Osel Ling. In 2023, she received a NYSCA Rural and Traditional Arts grant to write, direct and act in Persephone’s Dream, a 12 hour play and meditation weaving together agricultural and theatrical practices drawn from Noh Theater, The Patrons of the Orders of Husbandry, and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Recent prose and essays can be found in editions of The Swan. This fall, for the Khyentse Foundation, she is teaching a poetry workshop centered around Sky and Speech. Please come talk to her if you are interested.

Deirdre Larkin is an horticulturist and historian of plants, with a special interest in their use in seasonal and ceremonial magic and ritual. Formerly in charge of the gardens of the Met Cloisters in Northern Manhattan, she was the originator and chief contributor to The Medieval Garden Enclosed, now archived on the Museum website at https://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/ She now gardens, lectures, and teaches upstate in Delaware County, New York, in the Western Catskills.

Kodi Fabricant was born and raised in South Florida. She is an artist, writer, and energy worker certified in Spiritual Response Therapy and Reiki. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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Thank You!

Friday September 27th · 

4pm FLOWERS + TEA + Typewriter poems 

6pm Sharp: Poetry Readings Begin!

All welcome! 

Books and late summer bouquets fresh from upstate available for purchase! 

Please support the Poets and Farmers!

Location: Torn Page- 435 W 22nd Street, second floor, between 9th and 10th Ave., NYC

Details: Celebrating new books:

Laurie Price’s These Pages Once Were Skin (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024)

Joe Elliot’s An Everything (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024) 

Katie Naughton’s The Real Ethereal (delete press, 2024) 

Light refreshments + Green and Floral Teas

Flowers by Abode Farm

Donations gladly accepted at door

Come Buy Books & Flowers!

Mónica de la Torre & Lynn Xu join Patricio Ferrari & Lee Ann Brown for a reading & discussion on writing poetry in another language.

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Join Patricio Ferrari and Lee Ann Brown on May 19 as they host poets and translators Mónica de la Torre and Lynn Xu for an inspiring afternoon of exophonic reading and conversation at the World Poetry in Translation Reading Series. Explore the realms beyond our native tongues and discover the rich, transformative power of crafting texts across languages.

$10 Suggested donation benefiting Tender Buttons Press founded by Lee Ann Brown, to go towards future publication projects.

Lite bites and refreshments served. Books will be available for purchase.

Join host Patricio Ferrari of World Poetry in Translation as he welcomes Galician artists for an evening of poetry reading and piano performance.

ABOUT THE GUESTS

Marcos de la Fuente

Marcos de la Fuente is a multifaceted poet, therapist, and cultural activist based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the driving force behind the Open Mic monthly series “Se Buscan Poetas” (Wanted Poets) at the Bowery Poetry Club. His work encompasses poetry reading, action poetry, performance, and spoken word, both with and without musical accompaniment. Since 2010, he has been the organizer of the Kerouac Festival in Vigo, Spain, expanding the festival to New York in 2016 and Mexico City in 2019. His literary influences include Cortázar, León Felipe, Ginsberg, and Kavafis, while his philosophical inspirations come from Herman Hesse, Kundera, Fromm, and Nietzsche. Musically, his rhythm is inspired by Charlie Parker, Saul Williams, and Gil Scott-Heron.

Aida Saco Beiroa

Aida Saco Beiroa is a young Spanish pianist and composer renowned for her “extremely interesting musical personality and lively pianistic instinct.” Her formal education in music was under the tutelage of esteemed pianists such as Josep Mª Colom and Tensy Krismant at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona, Bart van de Roer at Codarts-Rotterdam, and Maurizio Moretti at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. In 2022, she received an invitation from Solomon Mikowsky, a globally recognized piano pedagogue, to pursue postgraduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, a testament to her exceptional talent and potential.