September 2026 - Literary Things in the Hudson Valley

Hey all! It has been summer quiet but things are picking up! Swim your hearts out while the getting is good, the apples will be here before you know it.

8/15 - 7pm - Forget the Nails: A Summer Reading Series - at MissKarret, 723 Columbia St. - Hudson

8/16 - 2pm - Casey Scieszka in conversation with Sophie Strand, Golden Notebook at Woodstock Library - Woodstock

8/18 - 6pm - Night School at Rough Draft. Alexa Yasemin Brahme, Jayson Greene, Jordan Landsman, Camille Perri, John Wiswell. - Kingston

8/20 - 7:30pm - Good Work works-in-progress reading series with Nikki(!) at The Common Good - Ellenville.

8/22 - 5:30pm - Duston Spear in conversation with Elizabeth Hess - Chatham

8/29 - 10am - “I too dislike it.” Why poetry endures" - A great line up of poets: Michael Dumanis, Monica Ferrell, Bianca Stone, and Mark Wunderlich. - Kinderhook.

8/29 - 5pm - RE-SCRIPTING opening - Kinderhook.

9/17 - 6pm - Valeria Luiselli in conversation with Susan Fox Rogers, at Oblong - Rhinebeck

9/23 - 6pm - Eliot Weinberger delivers the Elizabeth Bishop Poetry Lecture, Taylor 203 at Vassar - Poughkeepsie (Note the date change - this was originally booked for October)

Save the date

10/2–10/3 - Verbatim Text Sound Expo ‘26 at Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts, 35 Big Hollow Road - Maplecrest

11/10 - 6pm - Marlon James gives the William Gifford Lecture at Vassar - Poughkeepsie. Free and open to the public.