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August 25, 2013
23rd Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival

October 19, 2013
Lynn Behrendt and John Bloomberg-Rissman

November 16, 2013
Paul Stephens and TBA

Annandale Dream Gazette

Some believe the dream comes from the gods. Some believe that the dream comes from the ancestors. Some believe that dreams come from a part of the dreamer’s self usually remote or removed from consciousness. Some believe that dreams are scraps of memory and fantasy, remnants of the day. All of these beliefs are probably true enough in their ways, and certainly all have been productive of creative and analytic results. Scriptures and assassinations, benzene rings and orphic odes arise from dreams.

What if the dream is something else as well? Not individual, not a message from God or from the archetypes or from the soul. We hear Freudians speak of the language of dream, but what if dream is language, is language the way language is language: systematic, intentional, focused on saying something. What if dream is above all, exactly as language is, social. This is the aspect of the dream that is seldom considered, dream as arising from the speaking back into a community, a community of native dreamers (so to say).

It was to examine the idea that a dream seeks an intended audience outside the dreamer, that the Annandale Dream Gazette was founded years ago. The dreamer dreams towards someone—and that someone is within the community. Thus two goals are achieved by harvesting the night’s dreams and publishing them: the dream may find its intended hearer, and we may gradually come to learn the nature and shape of the community itself, the community into which one dreams.

So: the dream is public. The dream is social. The dream is communication. The dream intends to speak to you. These are the notions to investigate.

—Robert Kelly

http://www.annandaledreamgazetteonline.blogspot.com/

Deborah Poe and Sam Truitt

Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints

84 Ten Broeck Avenue

Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested. For directions please visit R&F’s website.

 

Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections the last will be stone, too (Stockport Flats), Elements (Stockport Flats), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (Furniture Press). In addition, Deborah is co-editor of Between Worlds: An Anthology of Fiction and Criticism (Peter Lang). She is also co-editing the forthcoming In/Filtration: An Anthology of Innovative Hudson Valley Poetics (Station Hill Press) with Sam Truitt and Anne Gorrick.  Deborah’s poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in journals such as Handsome, 1913, Shampoo, and Denver Quarterly. Deborah also publishes fiction. Her visual work—including video and handmade book objects—has appeared with the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Poetry Off the Page Symposium (Tucson), the Handmade/Homemade Sister Exhibit at Brodsky Gallery (Philadelphia), and ONN/OF “a light festival”(Seattle). Online exhibits of her visual and text work include Lex-ICON, Yew Journal, Peep/Show, Elective Affinities, Trickhouse and the Volta's Medium.  Deborah is founder and curator of the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit.

 

Sam Truitt was born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan. His previous books include: His previous books include: Vertical Elegies 5: Street Mete (Station Hill, 2011), Vertical Elegies: Three Works (UDP, 2008), Vertical Elegies 5: The Section (Georgia, 2003) and Anamorphosis Eisenhower (Lost Roads, 1998), among other books. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Explosive, Jacket, Talisman, and First Intensity, among other journals. His critical writing may be found in Fulcrum and the American Book Review. His works of visual poetry have been exhibited at the Rothstein Gallery, Tonic and the St. Marks Poetry Project and may be seen on www.ubu.com, among other sites. His writing is in a semi-permanent installation at the Paramount Hotel’s Whiskey Bar, designed by Philippe Starck, off Times Square in New York City.  He is the recipient of a 2010-2011 George A. and Eliza Howard Fellowship, two Fund for Poetry grants, the 2002 Contemporary Poetry Series Award from the University of Georgia and residencies at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony and Vermont Studio Center, among other professional acknowledgments.  Sam Truitt holds a BA from Kenyon College, MFA from Brown University, and a PhD from SUNY-Albany, where he teaches, as well as at Bard College. He is also the Managing Director of Station Hill of Barrytown, and with Kim Jaye and their daughters, Indiana and Evangeline, lives in the Mid-Hudson Valley. For more information, visit www.samtruitt.org

 

In the Gallery at R&F:

 

 

Julie Hedrick's Rome exhibition will run through March 23rd, 2013.

 

 

The paintings of Kingston artist, Julie Hedrick, are deceptive. Hedrick paints atmospheric auras that, at first glance, appear to be very simple, minimal fields of color. But variations in tone and her use of impastos give the work a complex, veiled, glowing appearance, where colors and light appear to be shifting, vibrating and transforming within the picture space. Light emanates from the depth of Hedrick’s paintings, pulling the viewer in and surrounding them with the energy of a spiritual place. The artist reminds us of our connection with the universe and our inner selves by inviting viewers to slow down, reflect, and re-energize. For her first show at the Gallery at R&F, Hedrick has created a new series of frescoes inspired by Rome.

Anne Gorrick and Charles Stein

Please note the following date change:

Cadmium on Saturday, February 9th has been canceled due to snow, but we're rescheduling for next Saturday, February 16th. 

In the meantime, drink some tea, make some snowangels, write about how the air smells... 

 

Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints

84 Ten Broeck Avenue

Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested. For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Anne Gorrick is the author of: I-Formation (Book 2) (Shearsman Books, Bristol, UK, 2012), I-Formation (Book 1) (Shearsman, 2010), and Kyotologic (Shearsman, 2008).  She collaborated with artist Cynthia Winika to produce a limited edition artists’ book called “Swans, the ice,” she said with grants through the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.  She has also collaborated on large textual and visual projects with John Bloomberg-Rissman and Scott Helmes.  She co-curates, with Lynn Behrendt, the electronic journal Peep/Show at www.peepshowpoetry.blogspot.com  Her visual work can be seen at: www.theropedanceraccompaniesherself.blogspot.com.  She is currently working on a manuscript of long poems based on perfumes, and she curates this reading series. 

Charles Stein's work comprises a complexly integrated field of poems, prose reflections, translations, drawings, photographs, lectures, conversations, and performances.  Born in 1944 in New York City, he is the author of thirteen books of poetry including From Mimir's Head (Station Hill Press), a verse translation of The Odyssey (North Atlantic Books), and The Hat Rack Tree (Station Hill Press). His prose writings include a vision of the Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone Unveiled (North Atlantic Books), a critical study of poet Charles Olson’s use of the writing of C.G. Jung, The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum (Station Hill Press), and a collaborative study with George Quasha of the work of Gary Hill, An Art of Limina: Gary Hill's Works & Writings, Ediciones Poligrafa. He holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Connecticut at Storrs and lives with guitarist, choral director, and research historian, Megan Hastie in Barrytown New York.  His work can be explored at www.charlessteinpoet.com

In the Gallery at R&F:

Julie Hedrick's Rome will have an opening reception on Saturday, February 2nd from 5-7pm.  The exhibition runs through March 23rd, 2013.

 

The paintings of Kingston artist, Julie Hedrick, are deceptive. Hedrick paints atmospheric auras that, at first glance, appear to be very simple, minimal fields of color. But variations in tone and her use of impastos give the work a complex, veiled, glowing appearance, where colors and light appear to be shifting, vibrating and transforming within the picture space. Light emanates from the depth of Hedrick’s paintings, pulling the viewer in and surrounding them with the energy of a spiritual place. The artist reminds us of our connection with the universe and our inner selves by inviting viewers to slow down, reflect, and re-energize. For her first show at the Gallery at R&F, Hedrick has created a new series of frescoes inspired by Rome.

Elizabeth Bryant and Sylvia Gorélick

 

Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints

84 Ten Broeck Avenue

Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested. For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Elizabeth Bryant is a writer and photographer living in upstate New York. She is the author of (nevertheless enjoyment (Quale Press 2010).  Her second full-length book is taking forever to complete, but she hopes to have it published in 2013 at Black Radish Books. Forthcoming work will appear in Coconut, and IN/FILTRATION: an Anthology of Innovative Hudson Valley Poetry (Station Hill Press 2013). She edits the online photo/text interview series 5&6. Visit her website at www.elizabeth-bryant.com.
 

Sylvia Mae Gorélick is a poet, translator, and philosophy student at Bard College. She has been w

writing poetry since the age of sixteen, and has since read many times in New York, in Paris, and at Bard. Her chapbooks include Seven Poems for Bill Berkson, The Spider's Passage, Violation No. 10409 and Paris-Budapest-New York (both with Tamas Panitz and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte), and most recently Two-Suitor 3 with Tamas Panitz. Her poems have been published in a variety of journals, including The Brooklyn Rail, Gerry Mulligan, Kunstverein NY, and Other Times. This year, her writing has appeared in Heide Hatry's Not a Rose and her translation work has been published in the fourth volume of Poems for the Millennium ed. Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour. 

In the Gallery at R&F:

Alexandre Masino's Geological Radiance opens on Saturday, December 1st and runs through January 19th, 2013.
 

Alexandre Masino’s paintings border between mimesis and invention; responding to observed reality, memory and imaginative perception. The transition between what is real, remembered or imagined creates a fertile territory for the artist, fully understanding that art derives from art. The journey undertaken by the artist is not only a journey through the world but beyond time. The continent that we travel is the continent of art where human history and experience are fundamental.

Masino’s approach is foremost pictorial and is deeply rooted in the constant metamorphosis inherent to the physical act of looking. A painting must offer many different realities according to the distance from which it is viewed and the ambient lighting hitting the surface. Many painters have evoked this very instant when the painting “rises”, when it “happens” and suddenly takes all its meaning. In Masino’s work this moment may only happen when one takes the time to look and place the subject in relation with the background, the light with the shadows, the image and the surface, and all these elements in relation with the complete picture.

 

Michael Ives and Mark Nowak

Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints

84 Ten Broeck Avenue

Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested. For directions please visit R&F’s website.

Michael Ives is the author of the External Combustion Engine (Futurepoem Books), and wavetable (forthcoming from Station Hill Press). His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous magazines and journals both in the United States and abroad. The language/performance trio, F’loom, which he cofounded, was featured on National Public Radio, on the CBC, and in several international anthologies of sound poetry. He has taught at Bard College since 2003.

Mark Nowak, a 2010 Guggenheim fellow, is the author of Coal Mountain Elementary (Coffee House Press, 2009) and Shut Up Shut Down (Coffee House Press, 2004) — a New York Times Editor’s Choice. He frequently speaks about global working class policies and issues, most recently on Al Jazeera, BBC World News America, BBC Radio 3, and Pacifica Radio’s “Against the Grain.” A native of Buffalo, New York, Nowak currently directs the MFA program at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. Follow on Twitter @coalmtn.

 

In the Gallery at R&F:

 

Alexandre Masino: Geological Radiance with an opening reception on Saturday, December 1st from 5-7pm.  The exhibition runs through January 19th, 2013.

Alexandre Masino’s paintings border between mimesis and invention; responding to observed reality, memory and imaginative perception. The transition between what is real, remembered or imagined creates a fertile territory for the artist, fully understanding that art derives from art. The journey undertaken by the artist is not only a journey through the world but beyond time. The continent that we travel is the continent of art where human history and experience are fundamental.

Masino’s approach is foremost pictorial and is deeply rooted in the constant metamorphosis inherent to the physical act of looking. A painting must offer many different realities according to the distance from which it is viewed and the ambient lighting hitting the surface. Many painters have evoked this very instant when the painting “rises”, when it “happens” and suddenly takes all its meaning. In Masino’s work this moment may only happen when one takes the time to look and place the subject in relation with the background, the light with the shadows, the image and the surface, and all these elements in relation with the complete picture.

Geof Huth and Sparrow

Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested. For directions please visit R&F’s website.

The scope of Geof Huth's poetic production includes handdrawn and computer-generated visual poems (some of them wordless), one-word poems, extemporaneous poems recorded in the act of living, and poems performed in a language that doesn't exist with melodies created as the audience listens. He writes on visual poetry and the textual imagination at his blog, dbqp: visualizing poetics. His latest books are ntst: the collected pwoermds of geof huth, a book of 775 one-word poems, and AUTION CAUTION, a book of found photopoems.

Sparrow lives in Phoenicia, New York in a doublewide trailer. He is a local journalist for Chronogram. Recently, Mondo Bummer published a chaste booklet of his poetry entitled Crumbs from My Cabana. Sparrow writes bumper stickers, e.g. I'M ALREADY AGAINST THE NEXT WAR.

In the Gallery at R&F:

The R&F Staff Show is an annual celebration of the workers and dreamers that make R&F function on a day to day basis. Come see a diverse array of artwork created by this all-artist staff, featuring work by: Heather Aderson, Susan Apollo, Stephanie Bell, Richard Frumess, Melissa Hall, Jim Haskin, Matt Kelly, Frannie and Foe (aka Josephine Kenney), Sandy Marsh, Kelly McGrath, Laura Moriarty, Vincent Pidone, Kristin Ploucquet, Darin Seim, Sean Sullivan & Cynthia Winika. The R&F Staff Show will be up for a brief time only, from November 17 - 26. We invite you to join us for a lively opening reception on November 17th from 5-7 pm.