Casey Scieszka is the co-creator of The Spruceton Inn: a Catskills Bed & Bar, which runs an annual Artist Residency program. Her debut novel, The Fountain, was published this spring by HarperCollins.

Corinne Botz is an internationally exhibiting artist whose work explores space, trauma, gender, labor, and invisibility. She is the author of Milk Factory (Saint Lucy Books, 2025), The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (Phaidon/Monacelli Press, 2004), and Haunted Houses (Phaidon/Monacelli Press, 2010).

Ru Marshall is a nonbinary writer and visual artist. Their novel, A Separate Reality, (Carrol & Graf, 2006) was nominated for a Lambda Award for Debut Fiction. Their latest book, American Trickster, a biography of Carlos Castaneda, was published this spring by O/R Books.
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Books are available for purchase and signing.

Created and Hosted by Andrea Kleine.MORE

Jopin us for an author event with Sallie Fullerton & Mark Nowak reading from and discussing their new books Baby Face / Face de bébé and …Again.

MARK NOWAK
Mark Nowak’s books include Shut Up Shut Down, Coal Mountain Elementary, Social Poetics, and …AGAIN, all from Coffee House Press. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Creative Capital foundations. Nowak’s work on poetry by incarcerated writers of the 1970s includes his introduction to Celes Tisdale’s When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal (Duke University Press, 2022) and his essay “Workshops of Abolition: Attica Print Culture and Small Press Poetry,” published in The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020 (Bloomsbury, 2024). He is founding director of the Worker Writers School (https://www.instagram.com/workerwritersschool/).

SALLIE FULLERTON
Sallie Fullerton is a writer living in Hudson, New York. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Yale Review, Bennington Review, Prairie Schooner, Literary Hub, Pioneer Works Broadcast, Frontier Poetry, among other publications, and was anthologized in Pathetic Literature, edited by Eileen Myles. Their work has been supported by a Fulbright Arts/Research Grant and a fellowship from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Baby Face/Face de bébé is their first book.MORE

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