Featuring Matthew Hupert, George Wallace, Debra Wanner
“A Galère of Poetic Autopsies” is a monthly series at Hudson’s historic Park Theater on the first Thursday of each month. Expect the unexpected as poets, writers, and other creatives from the Hudson area and beyond reveal the inspiration and shadows behind their work.
galère: [French (galƐr) noun. A group of people having a common interest, esp. a coterie of undesirable people.]
Hosted by Jane Ormerod and John K Lawson.
Doors at 6:00 pm for socializing, show at 7:00 pm.
$10 suggested donation to be shared among performers. Available at the door or in advance at parktheaterhudson.
Matthew Hupert is a writer and multi-media artist from New York City. Matthew hosts several poetry reading series, including the annual showcase for New York voices, Night in the Naked City, and the monthly series NeuroNautic Institute Presents. He is a recipient of the 2020 New York Acker Award for Show Organizer and Host. He has two full-length poetry collections, Ism is a Retrovirus (Three Rooms Press) and Secular Pantheism (NeuroNautic Press) and is also the author of several chapbooks. His writing appears in numerous journals and anthologies.
George Wallace is Writer in Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace and is the author of forty-two books and five spoken word albums, including Resurrection Song and Last Bacchanale (Roadside Press), and Blowing Through Secaucus (Guttersnob Press). He is winner of the Orpheus Prize (Bulgaria); Alexander Prize and Aristotle Medal (Greece); Silk Road Prize, Poet of the Year (China); Naim Frasheri Laureateship (Macedonia); Corona d'Oro (Albania); Naji Naaman Literary Prize (Lebanon). Recent major appearances include Medellin (Colombia), Aquatacan (Guatemala), Ledbury (England), and Lyric Recovery at Carnegie Hall (United States). He is a National Beat/Next Generation Beat Poet and a 2024 Honorary Doctorate, CiESART/Royal Academy in Spain.
Debra Wanner creates interdisciplinary, inquisitive, imagistic works about notions of being. Her performances have been presented primarily in dance venues in the US and her videos internationally. Debra has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts as a member of Interaction Arts, an artist’s collective. One audience member said of her work, “I felt nauseous, sad, exhilarated, comforted, and impassioned. I believed everything you told me - even your lies.” Photo of Debra by Paula Court