A Galère of Poetic Autopsies

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: Danny Shot, Laurie Stone, Tallulah Woitach.

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.

Danny Shot is the author of the poetry collection “WORKS” (CavanKerry Press) and the prose collection “Night Bird Flying” (Roadside Press). His new collection of poems “The Jersey Slide” is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press. He is a New Generation Beat Poet Laureate (2024-Lifetime), and Poet in Residence of the Hoboken Historical Museum. Danny was the longtime publisher and editor of Long Shot arts and literary magazine, which he founded along with Eliot Katz in 1982 in New Brunswick, NJ.

Laurie Stone is author of six books of fiction, memoir, criticism, and hybrid writing, most recently “Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing that is Happening” (Dottir Press), longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She was a longtime writer for The Village Voice and is a frequent contributor to The Paris Review, Evergreen Review, and the film platform and journal Galerie.com. Her Substack,Everything is Personal, has 15,000 subscribers and was named by Lit Hub one of the seven best literary publications on Substack. She frequently collaborates on writing and teaching projects with her life partner Richard Toon.

Tallulah Woitach is a fairy princess mermaid menace and artist, writer, comedian currently residing on earth. She enjoys things.