Expect the unexpected as poets, writers, and other creatives from the Hudson area and beyond reveal the inspiration and shadows behind their work.
Featured performers: Ed Go, melissa christine goodrum, Introverted/Extraverted (aka Michael Hoy), Bobby Miller, and special musical guest Venus de Mars.
Hosted by John K Lawson and Jane Ormerod.
Doors at 6:00 pm, show at 7:00 pm.
$10 suggested donation to be shared among performers.
Ed Go is a Chinese-Filipino-Portuguese-English-Scottish-Irish American writer raised in Massachusetts, Virginia, Alaska, Hawaii, and Connecticut. A former video store clerk, school bus driver, CDL driving instructor, garbage truck driver, exterminator, phone book deliverer, mystery shopper, and lead singer/guitar-player in a punk-folk band, Ed Go currently lives and works as a teacher in Brooklyn.
melissa christine goodrum is the author of two full-length poetry collections: “definitions uprising” (NY Quarterly Press) and “something sweet & filled with blood” (great weather for MEDIA). Her poetic experiences include Poetry Workshop Leader for the Safe Return Project, Writing Teacher at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Administrative Director of Bowery Arts & Science, and the recipient of a Zora Neale Hurston Award from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.
Bobby Miller is a performance poet, writer, actor, and photographer. He is the author of four poetry books, and has been published in numerous magazines, periodicals, and anthologies. Spoken Word appearances include Lincoln Center, Whitney Museum, The Smithsonian Institute, LaMama, The Kitchen, and The Massachusetts State Poetry Festival. He has also performed internationally both with poet John Giorno and solo at venues including The Tabernacle, The ICA, and Battersea Arts Centre (London), and The Glasgow Center for the Arts (Scotland).
Introverted-Extraverted (aka Michael Hoy) is originally from Chicago and has lived and worked in Columbia County with the local Camphill movement since 2008. They are a member of The Camphill Hudson Players theater troupe which performs locally. Introverted-Extraverted is also a Drag queen thespian, through their alter ego Ella Ghent, hosting local children’s story time events as well as parade and open mic appearances. In their spare time they ride their unicycle around the streets of Hudson.
Venus de Mars is a multidisciplinary artist and musician, best known as a singer-songwriting transgender rock star and leader of the glam-punk trans-band Venus de Mars & All the Pretty Horses. She is mid-process in writing a memoir reflecting her thirty-year trans journey and place in this fast-changing, trans-embracing-backlashing world where we now find ourselves. Venus returns to the Park Theater on Friday, June 6 for a solo acoustic performance.
