Join us and 75 awesome authors and illustrators, plus performers and exhibitors at The Hudson Children's Book Festival on Saturday, May 7th from 10:00AM to 3:00PM. The Hudson Children’s Book Festival, established in 2009, strives to create, sustain, and nurture a culture of literacy in partnership with our community and schools. This free, public event fosters a love of reading as families meet and greet world-class creators of books for children of all ages. The featured author for the 2017 Book Festival is JACK GANTOS. Jack is the author of forty-nine books for children from the “ROTTEN RALPH” picture books, collections of “JACK HENRY” short stories, upper elementary and middle school “JOEY PIGZA” and “NORVELT” novels, young adult books — LOVE CURSE OF THE RUMBAUGHS, DESIRE LINES, HOLE IN MY LIFE and THE TROUBLE IN ME. His work can lead readers from the cradle to the grave. Please be sure to check their website (www.hudsonchildrensbookfestival.com) for a full list of authors and schedule of events. The size and quality of this event must be seen to be believed.

A reading in celebration of Tinker Street, a Woodstock-based Journal of Visual Art, Writing and Resistance. Launched on November 9, 2016, Tinker Street is a fireball collection of poetry and prose by writers and artists from the upstate New York region and beyond. Sparrow lives in a doublewide trailer in vertiginous Phoenicia, New York with his wife Violet Snow. Every morning Sparrow attempts to write a new poem insulting Donald Trump. Sparrow’s latest book: How to Survive the Coming Collapse of Civilization (And Other Helpful Hints). Violet Snow writes for Woodstock Times and other periodicals. Her fiction has been published in Otter Magazine and recorded for The Strange Recital podcast series. A personal essay, "First Arrest," appeared in Pilgrimage Magazine. She is writing a book about her ancestors. Dawn Casteel-Lorick has been entranced by the animal world her entire life. She has worked in many fields, including sanctuaries, shelters, and rescue, and now as an interspecies communicator and healer. She currently lives in Woodstock NY and is working to complete a collection of nature-based writing.

Volume is a FREE reading & music series featuring prose, poetry and a short DJ set. Every second Saturday at 7:00 pm at The Spotty. Books are available for purchase and signing. KRISTOPHER JANSMA is the author of Why We Came to the City and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, and recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN/ Hemingway Award. He teaches at SUNY New Paltz College. JAYNE BENJULIAN is the author of Five Sextillion Atoms. Her work appears in numerous literary and performance journals including Agni, Barrow Street, The Cortland Review, Poet Lore, Nimrod, HowlRound, Women’s Review of Books, and Poetry Daily. Jayne lives in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, where she teaches the writing and performance of poetry and monologue. JOHN PROCTOR’s work has been published in The Normal School, DIAGRAM, and McSweeney’s. His work was a recent Notable selection in The Best American Essays 2015 and nominated for a 2016 Pushcart. He teaches academic writing and media studies at Manhattanville College. Followed by book signing and a short DJ set.

Come visit with local author, style maven, and "Dr. Oz’s Bra Guru" Jene Luciani as we celebrate the re-release of her updated The Bra Book. Luciani continues her mission to arm women with the knowledge they need to find the right fashion support. From the best bra for every outfit to important information about bras and breast health from puberty to retirement, from the physics behind bra design to how you can best ensure a proper fit, The Bra Book: Second Edition is still the ultimate resource on bras for women everywhere. Lucky for us, Jene has expanded the book to include new and updated, yet essential, information from the ever-changing world of intimate apparel. In the era of “smooth is better,” thanks in part to the “Spanx movement,” The Bra Book: Second Edition now features a guide to the often overwhelming world of shapewear and swimsuits. Luciani eliminates confusion with her friendly guidance on finding the perfect fit and even tackles the uncomfortable questions, such as, “What really causes sagging?” Discover new ways to best flatter your figure—and have fun shopping for that perfect fit. The Bra Book: Second Edition doesn’t just tell women how bras and shapewear work; it shows them how to make those garments work for them!

Lily Konigsberg is a member of the experimental punk band Palberta and Matt Norman performs as Horn Horse, and together they formed a group called Lily And Horn Horse. The duo will release a collaborative album next month, on the heels of Palberta’s most recent album Bye Bye Berta, by way of Philly’s Ramp Local Records. Lily On Horn Horse is 28-tracks long, and due to its interpretive nature, we’re premiering three of the album’s songs at once so listeners can get a feel for the project. Konigsberg and Norman are both multi-instrumentalists, and their versatility can be heard on “George Jones’ Greatest Hits,” “Dancing In The Tubes,” and my favorite of the trio: “Today.” All three of these tracks recall some of Arthur Russell’s deconstructed pop demos, and on “Today,” Konigsberg and Norman piece together the scaffolding for a pop song that has the melodic potential to be developed into something much, much bigger -Stereogum