TOM COLE
is a writer, performer, and artist living in the Lower East Side and Kingston, NY. He is a three-time MacDowell fellow and an Edward Albee Foundation playwriting fellow. His new book, Chimes: A Monologue, is published this September by The Song Cave.

LANA LIN
is a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in New York and Connecticut. She is the author of The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam (Dorothy, 2025), which was a Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus “Best of the Year” for 2025, longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction, and a 2026 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography.

SHANEKIA MCINTOSH
is an interdisciplinary artist who works with poetry and text in performance, public installation, and signage based works. She is the author of the chapbook Spiral as Ritual (Topos Press) and the full-length poetry collection A New Sense of Luxury (Eureka! Press).

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What if we said that the line between societal advancement and environmental degradation was Saran Wrap thin? Once a marvel of modern science, plastic has become so inextricably woven into our lives that imagining a world without it seems impossible. Over the last seventy-five years, plastic has cradled our planet in a synthetic embrace.

THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC critically examines the paradox of this material, first celebrated for its innovations and now recognized for its devastating environmental and public health impacts. The book reveals how plastic pollution contributes to poisoned oceans, polluted air, and overwhelming waste, particularly affecting marginalized communities, which face the brunt of industrial pollution. The book highlights the pervasive presence of microplastics in the environment and the human body, challenging the belief that recycling can solve the crisis.

In addition to uncovering environmental racism and debunking industry claims, THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC emphasizes the urgent need for action against plastic’s toxic legacy, and offers readers practical, actionable solutions, including a “household waste audit,” which empowers readers to track and reduce their own plastic consumption.

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Judith Enck is the founder and president of Beyond Plastics, whose goal is eliminating plastic pollution everywhere. In 2009, she was appointed by President Obama to serve as regional administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and served as deputy secretary for the environment in the New York Governor’s Office. She is currently a professor at Bennington College, where she teaches classes on plastic pollution. She lives in upstate New York.MORE

The Waldo hunt is coming to a close, but we have prizes! Did you find 20 out of 25 Waldos? Then you will get a prize in our fabulous prize drawing of books and items from your fav Hudson Waldo hosts. *YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE PRESENT TO WIN A PRIZE* but we will have snacks and we will allow those present to pick their prize from what we have on offer. Looking forward to seeing all the intrepid seekers!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