hosted by the ~Naked Swim Team Sessions~ out of Hudson, NY Fame is a rapper and artist located in Hudson, NY. His newest video Like AKI* is now available on youtube. FAME SWAZ*....⚠️?‍?An unsigned Artist???.... From NEW YORK*. . .Who Is EVERYWHERE ??.... ? Like AKI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x9iV1DAQxw Woah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcTFwW6-Uho Remyx LeRebel has been rapping and making beats for over 10 years in New York. He lives in Hudson, collaborating with artists such as Fame Swa-z and Kulton the Maker. Been Dat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p1-54IX860 Ifetayo is a poet and a visual artist that lives in Hudson, NY. Not only is she constantly performing with a style all her own, but she is always producing new artworks that can be found for sale all around Hudson. She has collaborated with countless artists in the area and performed at many spaces such as TSL, the Hudson Area Library, the Half Moon, Helsinki, and the Spotty Dog (among others!). Live at Helsinki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbqrFzWZ4kQ

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. This month's writers include: LYNNE TILLMAN Lynne’s novels include American Genius: A Comedy, No Lease on Life, Cast in Doubt, Motion Sickness, Haunted Houses, and most recently, Men and Apparitions. Her essay collection, What Would Lynne TillmanDo?, was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Award in Criticism, and she is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow. CAROLINE CRUMPACKER is author of Astrobolism (Belladonna) and the chapbooks Recherche Theories (Etherdome), The Institution in Her Twilight (Dusie Kollectiv), and Upon Nostalgia (Belladonna*). She was a founding poetry editor of Fence magazine, an editor of the French/American online magazine DoubleChange, and a contributing editor for Circumference magazine. KRISTI COULTER Kristi’s debut book, the memoir-in-essays Nothing Good Can Come from This, was published in August 2018. Her work has also appeared in The Paris Review, The Awl, Glamour, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle Followed by a DJ set from a special guest

Show @ 7PM FREE / NO COVER Sponsored by The Link Project & OutHudson FRAN TIRADO is the Executive Editor of Hello Mr, co-host of the Food 4 Thot podcast, and co-creator of Communion, a not-for-profit queer-only dinner gathering and artist collective. He has been published in Vice, Buzzfeed, Broadly, them., INTO, and Teen Vogue and has been recognized as one of Brooklyn's 30 Under 30 for his work in editing, researching, documenting, convening, and creating community for queer people. ~ ASHLEY AUGUST is an afro-latina, actress, author, playwright, activist, teaching artist, touring spoken word artist, 3rd ranked woman poet in the world, hip-hop junkie, ASTEP at Juilliard fellow, NYC's 2013 Youth Poet Laureate and recently named one of The New York Times 30 Under 30 Most Influential people. Along with multiple television/film appearances and country wide theatrical and poetic performances, her credits include SundanceTV, Cannes Film Festival, Netflix, Aljazaera America, The GAP, BET, and TVOne. She is the former Curator and Slam Master of the Legendary Bowery Poetry Club. With Belize and Brooklyn embedded into her (he)art, August is motivated to speak the unsaid truth and push the boundaries of spoken word and performance to realms they've yet to live in. ~ TIMOTHY DUWHITE is the Program Director at New York Writers Coalition, a non-profit dedicated to providing writing workshops to underserved communities, and much of his work is about being black, queer, HIV positive and having to either navigate or evade varying state apparatuses to remain alive. His writing has been featured at the United Nations/UNICEF, Apollo Theater, Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, La Mama Etc. and Dixon Place, and he has made appearances/ keynote speeches at San Diego State University, Columbia University, Oregon State University and Columbia College Chicago. ~ SHANEKIA MCINTOSH is a writer, poet, programmer, and educator born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. McIntosh has performed her writing at the New Museum, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, September Gallery, Powrplnt, and Basilica Hudson, among other places. Her writing has been exhibited in shows at the 511 Gallery in Portland, Basilica Hudson, and the New Museum. McIntosh has programmed for a variety of art spaces and educational institutions. She is based in Hudson, NY.

Joun the Writers Studio sudents and Faculty for a reading. Readers include students of The Hudson Valley Branch and Writers Studio Faculty. This month's reading includes: LISA BELLAMY Reading from The Northway (Terrapin Books: August 2018) REBECCA GEE Her poems have been published in The Madison Review, and she is currently working on a full-length poetry collection. Also featuring the live musical stylings of the local pan-drum and Celtic harp sensation Steely Din. The Hudson Valley branch, the newest addition to The Writers Studio branches, operates like the flagship New York City school — with the same workshop model designed to help students discover and nurture their own voices by “trying on” many approaches to fiction and poetry. The Writers Studio Hudson Valley welcomes students at all stages, from those who have only dreamed of writing fiction or poetry to those with MFAs hungry for additional serious, ongoing instruction. Students provide the desire to write and the willingness to learn, and we provide the structure, the technical know-how, the professional feedback and the nurturing community to enable them to reach their full potential. Hudson Valley currently offers two levels of workshops, as well as readings and other public events. Teachers receive the same rigorous training as our New York City and online faculty. Students who travel frequently or have irregular work schedules are welcome to move back and forth among any of the on-site branches and the online workshops. For more information, contact Therese Eiben: 917-733-7770 or theresee@writerstudio.com.

Daniel Nester is an essayist, freelance writer, poet, writing professor, erstwhile literary journal editor, reading series curator, podcaster, and Queen superfan. He is the author most recently of the memoir Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, Grief, and Other Unlearnable Subjects. His other books include How to Be Inappropriate, a collection of humorous nonfiction; The Incredible Sestina Anthology, which he edited; The History of My World Tonight, a book of poems; and God Save My Queen: A Tribute and God Save My Queen II: The Show Must Go On, his first two books, which are collections on his obsession with the rock band Queen. As a journalist and essayist, his writing has appeared in a variety of places, such as American Poetry Review, Salon, New York Times, Buzzfeed, The Atlantic online, and the Poetry Foundation website. His work has been anthologized in Lost and Found, The Best American Poetry, The Best Creative Nonfiction, Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, and Now Write! Nonfiction. https://danielnester.com/ Mike Faloon is a former DJ, dishwasher, and drummer. He is the author of The Hanging Gardens of Split Rock and co-editor of Fan Interference. Faloon co-founded the Go Metric and Zisk zines and has contributed to Cabildo Quarterly, Cashiers du Cinemart, Razorcake, Submerging Writers, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. He has toured often in the past decade, with stops at the UCB Theatre and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Faloon lives in upstate New York. About Faloon's The Other Night at Quinn's (from Razorcake): Mike Faloon is your guide throughout The Other Night at Quinn’s, a fascinating window into a community of creators surviving beyond the mainstream in an otherwise overlooked outpost of the cultural underground that cuts across distinctions of culture, gender, race, age, and genre. The Other Night at Quinn’s is a circuitous anatomy of a scene where initially opaque and elliptical experiences are transformed into the rewards of deeper understanding and humanity. Mike Watt of the Minutemen exclaims, “Whoa, these spiel batches pack much punch and got their grip way into brain-frame! Faloon had me captured and I had to keep reading.” Wayne Kramer of the MC5 adds that it’s “…a deeply personal dive into the psyche of a hardcore music fanatic…utterly indispensable. A truly great read.” http://razorcake.org/tag/the-other-night-at-quinns/ Jasmine Dreame Wagner is an American writer, artist, and musician. She is the author of On a Clear Day (Ahsahta Press), a collection of lyric essays and poems deemed “a capacious book of traveller’s observations, cultural criticism, and quarter-life-crisis notes” by Stephanie Burt at The New Yorker and “a radical cultural anthropology of the wild time we’re living in” by Iris Cushing at Hyperallergic. She is also the author of Rings (Kelsey Street Press) and six chapbooks. Wagner's work appears in American Letters and Commentary, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Fence, and Guernica. Wagner will be reading from a novel in progress about a young musician touring solo across America. On a Clear Day reviewed at Hyperallergic and The New Yorker: https://hyperallergic.com/382957/bringing-canonical-thinkers-to-bear-on-21st-century-life/ https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/literary-style-and-the-lessons-of-memoir Excerpts from On a Clear Day: https://www.guernicamag.com/origins-of-the-twenty-first-century/ https://entropymag.org/variations-on-a-theme-on-reverb/