February & March curated by Artists Space: Stella Cilman & Jay Sanders

February 7 – Full video of the reading

Eric Bogosian, playwright, monologuist, and actor, is an Obie, Drama Desk Award, and Silver Bear winner. He is currently featured as Daniel Molloy in the television series Interview with the Vampire. With Travis Bogosian, he produces a website, 100monologues.com, which platforms dozens of New York’s most vibrant actors.

Bunny Rogers was born in Houston, Texas in 1990. She is the author of Cunny Poem vol. 1 & vol. 2, My Apologies Accepted, and Sadly Glass. She lives and works in New York.

February 14 – Full video of the reading

Paul McMahon is the proprietor of the Mothership, an ‘Everything Center’ at Woodstock in progress since 2007. His fields of endeavor include visual art, music (he has released twelve albums), humor, writing, curating, presenting, producing, and spirituality. He has often performed with Linda Mary Montano as his lip-synching doppelgänger.

Linda Mary Montano’s performance practice has involved endurance and the adoption of various personas. For a year she lived tied to artist Tehching Hsieh (1983). Her Fourteen Years of Living Art was a 14-year study of Hindu Chakras. Over 100 of her video works are in the Video Data Bank’s collection.

February 21 – Full video of the reading

Kate Ehrenberg is a poet, nursery school teacher, and MFA candidate at Brooklyn College. Her work has appeared in BRUISER, No, Dear, Commo Magazine and others.

Serubiri Moses’ poems are dedicated to the immigrant’s life. He is the author of THE MOON IS READING US A BOOK and You Who Suffer Because You Love, Love Still More. His fiction debut, Judith Namala: A Novella, is forthcoming from Center for Art, Research, and Alliances.

February 28 – Full video of the reading

Mauss is an artist. Dispersed Events, a volume of his selected writings on art, performance, fashion, and cinema, was published by After 8 Books, Paris in 2024.

Lola Sinreich is a poet from New York City. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College in 2022.

March 7 – Full video of the reading

Forrest Gander, born in the Mojave Desert, is a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Best Translated Book Award, Gander has been a signal voice for environmental poetics. His most recent books are Mojave Ghost: a Novel Poem and the collaboration Across/Ground: Photographs by Lukas Felzmann.

Jennifer Scappettone directs the Environmental Arts and Humanities Lab at the University of Chicago. She has collaborated with musicians, architects, and dancers to sound counter-histories of sites. She is the author of five full-length books; her chapbooks include SMOKEPENNY LYRICHORD HEAVENBRED: 2 Acts and Belladonna Elders Series #5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse.

March 14

Mixed media artist and saxophonist Matana Roberts’ artistic practice aims to expose the mystical roots and the intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression. Their innovative work has forged new conceptual approaches to considering narrativity, history, and political expression within improvisatory structures. 

Kate Valk has co-created and performed in all the of The Wooster Group’s work since 1980, directing three of their productions, including Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

March 21

Dave Morse is a poet, lampmaker, and amateur handyman, who has sold books and radical ephemera since 2012 as the co-founder of Brooklyn’s Better Read than Dead. He works with old shitbox vehicles, printed matter, scrap wood, and language. His third poetry collection is forthcoming on 1080 Press.

Anahid Nersessian is a writer living in Los Angeles and a professor of English at UCLA. She is the author of three books, including Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Bookforum, The NYRB, Mousse, Bidoun, The LRB, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.

March 28

Nayland Blake is an artist, writer, educator, and curator. Their retrospective No Wrong Holes: 30 years of Nayland Blake opened in 2019 at ICA Los Angeles and closed in 2021 at the MIT List Center. They are the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and currently co-director of the studio art program at Bard College.

Aki Sasamoto works in sculpture, performance, video, and more. Her works have been shown at Queens Museum, MOMA-PS1, Venice Biennale, Busan Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, among others. In her installation/performance works, Aki moves and talks inside the careful arrangements of sculpturally altered objects, activating bizarre emotions behind daily life.

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April & May curated by Fence Books: Emily Wallis Hughes & Nikolas Slackman

April 11

Blake Butler is the author of ten book-length works, most recently the bestselling memoir Molly from Archway Editions. His short fiction, interviews, reviews, and essays have appeared widely, including in The Believer, The New York Times, BOMB, Bookforum, and in an ongoing column at Vice. He recently began blogging on Substack at Dividual.

Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, playwright, and performing artist from Salem, Massachusetts. Her books include The Rose and A Sand Book, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her play Telephone won two Obies and has been performed internationally.

April 18

Shane Kowalski was born and raised outside of Philadelphia. His work is published or forthcoming in Conjunctions, Fence, The Iowa Review,Black Warrior Review, EPOCH, Short Story, Long, among other journals. He is the author of the short story collections Small Moods and Are People Out There.

Suzie Bovenzi is a writer and certified nursing assistant from Leominster, Massachusetts.

April 25

Wayne Koestenbaum—poet, critic, novelist, artist, performer—has published nineteen books, including Camp Marmalade, Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Hotel Theory, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Andy Warhol, Humiliation, and Jackie Under My Skin.

Douglas Kearney has published nine books ranging from poetry to essays. In 2023, Optic Subwoof, a collection of his Bagley Wright lectures, won the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Prize for Poetry Criticism and the CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction.

May 2

Prageeta Sharma is the author of Grief Sequence, Undergloom, Infamous Landscapes, The Opening Question (winner of the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize); and Bliss to Fill.

Tess Brown-Lavoie is the author of Lite Year, 2019 winner of the Fence Modern Poets Series. Tess cofounded Sidewalk Ends Farm in 2011 in Providence, Rhode Island, and was recently the Anne Waldman Fellow at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School. Tess lives in Brooklyn.

May 9  

Patricia Spears Jones is the recipient of the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize and author of A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems, three other collections, and five chapbooks. Her poems are widely anthologized, and recent work is published in The New Yorker and The Brooklyn Rail.

Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi is an Iranian-born, Toronto-based poet and translator. They are the winner of the 2021 Vallum Poetry Prize and the author of four poetry chapbooks and three translated poetry chapbooks. They were shortlisted for the 2021 Austin Clarke poetry prize, 2022’s Arc Poem of the Year award, The Malahat Review’s 2023 Open Season awards for poetry, and The Fiddlehead’s 2024 Ralph Gustavson Award.

May 16  

Patricio Ferrari is a polyglot poet. As translator and editor, he has published more than 20 books. In 2025, Ferrari received the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize for Mud Songs, the first volume of his Elsehere trilogy, an exploration of migration, identity, and the vernacular soundscapes of Buenos Aires.

Stella Santamaría is an educator and writer in Miami, Florida. Her poetry has been recently published in Nine Mile Magazine, Pennsylvania English, and The Brooklyn Review, among others. Her poetry book, California Silence, forthcoming from Fence Books in 2026, won the Ottoline Book Prize.

May 23

Amanda Deutch was born and raised in New York City. Her poetry has been published in The New York Times, Oversound, The Rumpus, Cimarron Review, 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center,Denver Quarterly, and other journals.

Brandon Downing’s collections of poetry include The Shirt Weapon, Dark Brandon, AT ME, and Mellow Actions. In 2007, he released a feature-length collection of short digital films, Dark Brandon: Eternal Classics. Fence published Lake Antiquity, his literary collages.