Newly founded Sandy Rock Poetry record label announces its first ALBUM release, CURIOUS SEALIFE by BRIAN DEWAN.​

With its title, iconography, and its spoken content, someone might believe that a few of the ocean’s most sage creatures temporarily transformed themselves into human form, then proceeded to write a series of nearly thirty Earth-observant poems about what they saw, which Brian Dewan conveniently channels into creation in CURIOUS SEALIFE.​

Says Brian:
“I enjoy distilled, bite-sized experiences produced by small pieces of writing. Undersea creatures move up, down and sideways, and sometimes encounter the strange creations of landlubbers. Gawk at artifacts, then resume undersea life.​”

CURIOUS SEALIFE, featuring Poetry and Music by Brian Dewan (& Words recorded by Chris Funkhouser) is available for download via sandyrockpoetry.bandcamp.com​

A limited edition flexidisc featuring 6 tracks from CURIOUS SEALIFE is available through Bandcamp, or by sending $15 to Sandy Rock Poetry Postoffice Box 63 Tivoli, NY 12583​

RECORD LAUNCH READING! SATURDAY MARCH 14
SPOTTY DOG 440 WARREN ST. HUDSON NY 7 PM​

Sandy Rock Poetry is an independent Hudson Valley-based record label formed to circulate voices of poets and sounds around poetry in various audio formats. Formation commenced in 2025, a doing by radio programmer WGXC/recording engineer-archivist PennSound/literary publisher We Press/mechanical humanist Chris Funkhouser. For more information contact Sandy Rock Poetry via weepress@yahoo.com, @sandyrockpoetry (Instagram), or SubstackMORE

Davey Davis
is the author of Casanova 20: Or, Hot World, X, and the earthquake room. They live in Brooklyn.

Lauren Cook
is a naturalist and the author of I Love Shopping (Glo Worm Press, 2019;

Nightboat Books, 2025) and Sex Goblin (Nightboat Books, 2024). He is from upstate New York.

Miriam Atkin
is a Catskills-based poet. She has written three chapbooks, most recently, Inclination Drawing (Beautiful Days Press, 2024). She is cofounder of Pinsapo, an international publishing collective, and Verbatim Text Sound Expo, an annual small press and record label fair in the mountains. Her podcast, Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills, airs quarterly on WGXC 90.7.

Stacy Szymaszek
is the author of Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals (Fence Books), winner of the Ottoline Prize and a Lambda Literary Award finalist, The Pasolini Book (Golias Books), and Essay (Krupskaya Books, 2025). Starving Is the Energy (Antiphony) and About the House (Rescue Press) are forthcoming in 2026. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Anthrozoology with a focus on farmed animal welfare.MORE

Amy Rigby has established herself as one of America’s enduring underground/cult/indie artists, combining the insight and humor of country and folk songwriting with classic rock craftsmanship and punk DIY spirit. She started bands Last Roundup and the Shams in NYC’s East Village before launching a solo career with her 1996 classic album Diary Of A Mod Housewife. Her most recent album Hang In There With Me (Tapete, 2024) was called “an absolute masterpiece, a career best” in Louder Than War.

“Singer-songwriter…doesn’t fully describe Rigby’s immense gifts and her devotion to the kind of pop and rock music that singer-songwriters often neglect,” wrote the Nashville Scene. A storyteller both on stage and on the page, Rigby has toured internationally for years and is the author of two memoirs: Girl To City (2019) and her latest Girl To Country (2025). 

Long-running Spotty crew member til her move to the UK last year, Amy returns to the Spotty Dog for a reading/performance/book signing Sat. Jan 17th, 7:30 PM. She’ll try to refrain from straightening titles on the shelves but may pour a beer or two.MORE