Whiplash, January 1, 2-8, Livestream

Announcing Whiplash: The Hudson valley New Year's Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza, January, 2-8 PM livestreamed fro Greenkill on Youtube.

Announcing Whiplash: The Hudson Valley New Year's Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza, January 1st, 2-8 PM livestreamed from Greenkill on Youtube.

Whiplash

“Whiplash'“  is produced by Bruce Weber, and has evolved out of the New Year's Day Extravaganza that he organized in Manhattan from 1995-2019.  A recent full time resident of the Hudson Valley, Weber was inspired to create the event by his exposure to talent in the region, and the exciting creative opportunities that are arising in the vicinity of Kingston.

The show provides a great opportunity to become familiar with a potpourri of creative writers and musicians online during the  course of the six hour event,  a follow up to the at  Beverly Lounge in Kingston, and the Green Kill Gallery in Kingston.  The performers were filmed by David Schell at Green Kill Gallery in Kingston during the course of this autumn.

Among the performers are: Jan Alexander, Tony Pena,  Larry Bush, Mikhail Horowitz, Pamela Twining, Andy Clausen, Suzanne Bennett, Sparrow, Violet Snow, Phillip Levine, Anne Gorrick, Michael Ruby, Richard Pantell and  Karen Whitman.

Whiplash Two Hour Perfomer List

2-4

Jan Alexander

Robert Basner  

Larry Bush

Sage Higgins   

Adam Lefevre 

Tony Pena 

Bruce Weber 

Joanne Pagano Weber

Allison Koffler Wise  

Dayl Wise

4 -6 PM

Miriam Atkin 

Suzanne Bennett  

Andy Clausen

Richard Comerford 

Teresa Costa 

William Seaton  

Gary Siegel  

Violet Snow

Sparrow 

Sam Truitt

Pamela Twining

6-8  PM

Jared Daniel Fagen

Anne Gorrick 

Brenda Goultas

Mikhail Horowitz

Mike Jurkovic 

Phillip Levine

Brian Liston  

Leonard Nalencz

Richard Pantell

Guy Reed

Tom Romeo

Michael Ruby   

Karan Whitman

LIST OF PERFORMERS WHIPLASH 2021 BY HOUR WITH BIOS

2PM

Bruce Weber 

Bruce Weber is a poet and art historian, and the producer of the Hudson Valley New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza. His most recent book of poems

Is THERE ARE TOO MANY WORDS IN MY HOUSE (Rogue Scholars Press, 2019).

Tony Pena 

Tony Pena was the 2017-2018 Poet Laureate for the city of Beacon, New York.  

A volume of poetry and flash fiction, "Blood and Beats and Rock n Roll," is available now at Amazon.  

Colorful compositions and caterwauling with a couple of chords can be seen at:

Jan Alexander

Jan Alexander is the author of the novel, Ms. Ming’s Guide to Civilization (Regal House Publishing, Sept. 2019), a utopian female buddy novel set in contemporary China and a Leap Frog Fiction Prize semi-finalist. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica magazine, 34th Parallel, Neworld Review, and Everyday Fiction, and her flash fiction stories have received honorable mentions from Flash Fiction magazine and the spring 2021 Women on Writing contest, as well as a Pushcart Prize nomination. She has written about business and travel for many publications and taught Chinese history at Brooklyn College. She is also the author of Getting to Lamma, a novel, and co-author of Bad Girls of the Silver Screen, a look at Hollywood’s portrayal of prostitutes through the ages.

Adam Lefevre 

Adam LeFevre makes his living as an actor on stage, on film, and on television. He has published four volumes of poetry. His plays have been produced in NYC and in regional theaters across the country. He lives in New Paltz, NY.

Sage Higgins   

3PM

Joanne Pagano Weber

Joanne Pagano Weber is a writer and visual artist. She produced the set that you will see on screen, and has designed the sets for many for the New Year’s Day events, including the last two relating to he event in upstate New York, as well as for many years in New York City for the Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza. 

Dayl Wise

Dayl Wise is a husband, father, grandfather and a keen gardener.  He was drafted into the US Army in 1969 with service in Viet Nam and Cambodia, 1970. He returned to Viet Nam in 1993, 1995 and 1997 with a different mission, in the form of reconciliation delivering medical supplies. With his wife, the poet Alison Koffler, he is the co-founder of Post Traumatic Press.  His poems have appeared in numerous publications, and he is the author of Poems and other stuff (Post Traumatic Press, 2004) and Basic Load (Post Traumatic Press, 2009).

Larry Bush

Allison Koffler Wise  

Alison Koffler Wise’s poems often take place where the human world and the wilderness intersect. She lives in the Bronx and Woodstock, NY with her husband, the poet Dayl Wise, and their dog, Cole.  She and Dayl are the co-founders of the small independent press, Post Traumatic Press.

Robert Basner  

Robert Charles Basner, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Columbia University, is an internationally recognized physician and biomedical researcher, author, and educator. He has been an invited reader at the Woodstock Poetry Society, the Lace Mill in Kingston, Perfect Pitch: The Hudson Valley New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza, and the Unterberg Poetry Center in New York City. He has also been heard as a featured reader on Planet Poet-Words in Space, on WIOX Community Radio. He is working on a first collection of verse, Ancient, Autumnal, as well as a sequence of musical settings for voice and viola.  

4 PM

Sam Truitt

Sam Truitt was born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan.  He is the author of the ten works in the Vertical Elegies series, among others in print and other media, including most recently Tokyoatoto. He is the co-editor of In|Filtration: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry from the Hudson River Valley; and Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer. Among other recognitions, he is the recipient of numerous Fund for Poetry awards, a Contemporary Poetry Award from the University of Georgia, and a Howard Fellowship. The producer and a co-host of the podcast Baffling Combustions and Director of Station Hill Press, he lives in Woodstock, NY. For more, visit: samtruitt.org

Pamela Twining

Pamela Twining’s work has appeared in Big Scream, Big Hammer, PoetryBay, The Café Review, Napalm Health Spa, and Heyday!, among others. She is author of four chapbooks, “i have been a river…”(2011), “utopians & madmen” (2012), “A Thousand Years of Wanting; the Erotic Poetry of Pamela Twining” (2013) and “Renegade Boots” (2019). In 2021, she and Andy Clausen released a “flip book”, a joint publication of “Never That Girl” (Pamela) & “From Oakland to Eternity” (Andy).

Gary Siegel  

Gary Siegel’s poetry journey began in the Harbor Series of Staten Island, progressed at Naropa in Colorado, danced to the woods wherever he has found them and is now planted and sprouting in the Hudson Valley.   He is happy to share his explorations with you all.

Miriam Atkin 

Miriam Atkin is a writer based in the Catskills. She co-founded Pinsapo, an international micropress collective, and holds a PhD in literature from CUNY.

Andy Clausen

Andy Clausen has travelled and read his poetry all over North America and the world. His latest book, “Beat: The Latter Days of the Beat Generation, a First Hand Account” was published by Autonomedia in fall of 2018. In 2021, Andy released a “flip book”, a joint publication with poet Pamela Twining of “Never That Girl” (Pamela) & “From Oakland to Eternity” (Andy). He is currently working on a book about his backpacking travels around Asia and Europe as well as a new volume of poetry. 

5 PM

Teresa Costa 

Teresa Costa has read extensively in the Hudson Valley / Catskill Mt areas.

She hosts Word oF Mouth Poetry Series- starting back up in April 2022. Costa is currently working on a book of poems due out in Spring 2022..

William Seaton  

William Seaton is a poet, translator and critic, the author most recently of Planetary Motions (Giant Steps Press).  Earlier books include Spoor of Desire: Selected Poems, Dada Poetry: An Introduction, and Tourist Snapshots. He maintains a largely literary blog at williamseaton.blogspot.com.  

Suzanne Bennett  

Suzanne Bennett is the Executive Director of ShoutOut Saugerties, a multi-arts organization. She’s writing a series of futuristic stories set in Queens.  The first in the sequence was published in Newtown Literarymagazine and nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story  award. The story she reads from in Perfect Pitch is the second in the series.  

Sparrow 

Sparrow is known for the softness of his pinto beans. His recent book is Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies(Monkfish).

Richard Comerford 

Richard Comerford has read at many poetry readings in the Hudson Valley, and is scheduled to be the next feature at Word oF Mouth Poetry Series in spring 2022. He was highly inspired after listening to  Susan Hoover read. And is married to poet Teresa Costa.

Violet Snow

Violet Snow is the author of To March or to Marry, a historical novel about suffrage and women's groups. She wrote for the Woodstock Times for 17 years and has been published in the New York Times "Disunion" blog, Civil War Times, American Ancestors, and many other periodicals.

6 PM

Phillip Levine

Phillip Levine is poetry editor for Chronogram magazine and president of 
the Woodstock Poetry Society.

Tom Romeo

Tom Romeo has been writing and performing his poetry and stories for nearly thirty years. So fa,r no one has tried to stop him. He takes that as a good sign. Originally from Long Island, He moved to Kingston, NY in 2014 and over the years has performed at several venues in the Hudson Valley.

Brenda Goultas

Brenda Coultas is the author of five collections of poetry, her last book, The Tatters, an elegy to print culture was published in 2014 and The Writing of an Hour, an ars poetica, is forthcoming also from Wesleyan University Press in Spring 2022. 

Anne Gorrick is a poet and visual artist.  She listens to the ships and trains as they go by in West Park, NY.

Leonard Nalencz

Leonard Nalencz is an assistant professor of English at the College of Mount Saint Vincent and an adjunct professor with the Bard Prison Initiative. He is on the board of the Quechua Collective of New York, and is collaborating on an anthology of poems and stories in Quechua, with translations in Spanish and English.

Mike Jurkovic 

Mike Jurkovic: A 2016 Pushcart nominee, poetry and musical criticism have appeared in over 500 magazines and periodicals worldwide with little reportable income. Full lengths include: AmericanMental, (Luchador Press 2020) Blue Fan Whirring (Nirala Press, 2016), smitten by harpies (Lion Autumn Press, 2014) President, Calling All Poets, New Paltz, NY. CD reviews appear online at All About Jazz, and Lightwood, Featured poet: London, San Francisco, NYC, Albany, Baltimore. He was and hopes to be again the Tuesday night host of Jazz Sanctuary, WOOC 105.3 FM, Troy, N. He loves Emily most of all.

Guy Reed

Guy Reed is author of Second Innocence (Luchador Press) and the chapbooks, The Effort To Hold Light (Finishing Line Press), Still Life With Acorn (Fool Head Press),  and co-author, with Cheryl A. Rice, of Until The Words Came (Post Traumatic Press). He’s published in journals, anthologies and contributed two poems, performing one, in a featured role for the film, I Dream Too Much. Also a filmmaker, Guy is currently working on a documentary about the Esopus Creek, Water Keeps Time. A Minnesota native, Guy’s currently resides in the Catskill Mountains with his wife and their children. 

7 PM

Mikhail Horowitz

Mikhail Horowitz has been spewing his linguistic triple flips throughout the Catskills since 1973. He is the author of Big League Poets (City Lights, 1978) and Slapstick Gravitas (Station Hill, 2021), among other collections. His performance work has been featured on 10 CDs, including The Blues of the Birth, a collection of his jazz fables.

Brian Liston  

A graduate of The Center for spectrum Services, Saugerties High School and SUNY Ulster College. Liuston's poems have been published in Chronogram. He has both read and featured in the Hudson Valley and hius sign poem is: The Autistic Superkid.

Anne Gorrick 

Jared Daniel Fagen

Jared Daniel Fagen is the author of The Animal of Existence, forthcoming from Black Square Editions in 2022. His prose poems and essays have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Lana Turner, Asymptote, Prelude, and Caesura, among other publications. He is founding editor of Black Sun Lit, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, and an English instructor at the City College of New York. Born in Seoul, he lives in Brooklyn and the northern Catskills.

Michael Ruby 

Michael Ruby is the author of seven poetry collections, including Compulsive Words(BlazeVOX, 2010), American Songbook (Ugly Duckling, 2013), The Mouth of the Bay(BlazeVOX, 2019) and The Star-Spangled Banner (Station Hill, 2020); a trilogy in prose and poetry, Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices (Station Hill, 2012); ebooks Close Your Eyes (Argotist Online, 2018) and Titles & First Lines (Mudlark, 2018); and five chapbooks with the Dusie Kollektiv. He also co-edited Bernadette Mayer’s early books, Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words (Station Hill, 2015), and works as an editor at The Wall Street Journal.  

Richard Pantell and Karan Whitman

Karen Whitman and Rick Pantell are an acoustic duo who perform mostly original music that is both humorous and thought provoking. Their influences range from folk and rock to classical, Eastern European and Broadway. Their songs, whether telling stories or touching on social commentary, leave you uplifted.  Karen’s voice is as genuine as it is powerful, and Rick’s guitaring is as imaginative as it is lush. They have performed at Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revivals and the New Jersey Folk Festival, among numerous venues, and have been featured on WKZE FM, WAMC (NPR) and on City World Radio live stream. www.whitmanandpantell.com

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