https://tenteditions.com TENT EDITIONS Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:07:52 +0000 https://tenteditions.com en https://tenteditions.com/FI-FIELD-GUIDE Thu, 15 Dec 2022 23:19:01 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/FI-FIELD-GUIDE Field Guide ~ Some Wild Plants of the Beaches and Dunelands of Fire Island Margaret Hopkins photographed and pressed specimens that she collected in and around Oakleyville, a tiny community in Fire Island. She also wrote, illustrated, and self-published a beautiful field guide to the plants she found entitled Some Wild Plants of the Beaches and Dunelands of Fire Island. TENT EDITIONS has lovingly reproduced this pamphlet in tribute to her research and to the natural beauty of Fire Island. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afa8aa56b53dfb183fe9e33ef5d7be56a59534d8c80eb948451b3a65525f3b36/IMG_4402.jpg" data-mid="162131486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/afa8aa56b53dfb183fe9e33ef5d7be56a59534d8c80eb948451b3a65525f3b36/IMG_4402.jpg" /> NYBG&nbsp; ~&nbsp;A trip to Fire Island with Peggy Hopkins <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fd8416dcccaf685a00c347f75f5f7452bfd2777f528809a93da62b438f5b1ce/IMG_4464.jpg" data-mid="162133736" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8fd8416dcccaf685a00c347f75f5f7452bfd2777f528809a93da62b438f5b1ce/IMG_4464.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7c59075bce4cf0c833179985d95ab66ba7f1d4c9becfcb31c0c4de1598ee871/IMG_4432.jpg" data-mid="162131678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7c59075bce4cf0c833179985d95ab66ba7f1d4c9becfcb31c0c4de1598ee871/IMG_4432.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6e7a96918b3c2e097f5bf5b51772457af5aec3e7a0022c71c33dcda4357014c/IMG_4422.jpg" data-mid="162131762" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6e7a96918b3c2e097f5bf5b51772457af5aec3e7a0022c71c33dcda4357014c/IMG_4422.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1369a70a2e3533bd3d5e7cd5f8f075b2cb9d807f91b1c6f18117bc26281d6941/IMG_4415.jpg" data-mid="162131831" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1369a70a2e3533bd3d5e7cd5f8f075b2cb9d807f91b1c6f18117bc26281d6941/IMG_4415.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7dbe32f7b008a36bf41202a45f12b2a5d4343c3c35da2413cc6aec96730896a/IMG_4428.jpg" data-mid="162132253" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7dbe32f7b008a36bf41202a45f12b2a5d4343c3c35da2413cc6aec96730896a/IMG_4428.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79d11d5ab7b8eea8bdfc9c8d19dbff330d487d14b7597137007d80adab422079/IMG_4443.jpg" data-mid="162133702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79d11d5ab7b8eea8bdfc9c8d19dbff330d487d14b7597137007d80adab422079/IMG_4443.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b9fd596c83f99590ca16ff3ded8b7d925003f3d9e498303c6ba1c34d77b4f04/IMG_4449.jpg" data-mid="162133719" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b9fd596c83f99590ca16ff3ded8b7d925003f3d9e498303c6ba1c34d77b4f04/IMG_4449.jpg" /> It is the vegetation, and the vegetation alone, that makes possible the permanent dunes without which there soon would be no Fire Island. — From Some Wild Plants of the Beaches and Dunelands of Fire Island, 1967 <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79c82b62edba15c49ca742889bc67a994b5dd181468a81e89b7d802b50daaec2/IMG_4471.jpg" data-mid="162131493" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79c82b62edba15c49ca742889bc67a994b5dd181468a81e89b7d802b50daaec2/IMG_4471.jpg" /> SOME WILD PLANTS OF THE BEACHES AND DUNELANDS OF FIRE ISLAND —NEW COLORS: Printed in an updated limited edition with 4 new cover variations, 2022.&nbsp; Previously printed in an edition of 100 copies, &nbsp;in 4 cover variations, 25 per color, 2021.&nbsp; $12.00Please select your cover below.&nbsp; Printed with the wonderful crew at Lucky Risograph, New York City. The Risograph originated from Japan and was manufactured by the Riso Kagaku Corporation in 1980. It was intended to be used as a copier for high-volume needs in establishments such as schools, clubs, churches, colleges, and political campaigns. Born out of the mimeograph, the Risograph brought together several printing processes previously done manually. The Risograph uses plant-based ink and the machines are incredibly energy efficient with a minimum amount of waste. Riso means ideal in Japanese. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68a41fa5d9ae355f0a2103b6f7f1427ab7ad5a11c0b241472f3e98958c7306ca/IMG_4394.jpg" data-mid="162131548" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68a41fa5d9ae355f0a2103b6f7f1427ab7ad5a11c0b241472f3e98958c7306ca/IMG_4394.jpg" /> https://tenteditions.com/NIFTY-WALLS Sun, 21 Feb 2021 14:24:01 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/NIFTY-WALLS John Godfrey~ Nifty Walls John Godfrey's poems keep the figures and voids, the letters and haunts, the anthems and hums all equally active. They work perspective from the inside-out, making through their cuts the world be worn as seen, on the streets-mind and felt underneath. Living sonics keep time where decisions quietly and loudly get made, every line on in or about a plane, with connections. Nifty Walls turn out what it, being specific, and therefore mystical, is to be alone with many, to be many alone with this curious ongoing everybody, staying in the way of them who back walk, singing powerful unlikeness from the depths of the real spaces between us. —Anselm Berrigan <img width="1014" height="1458" width_o="1014" height_o="1458" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb89495e97b58270b1b0f3939147eef7c1c2d707d8efc4837d2a15adfcec6bec/EC09C070-7F5C-4FCD-80B8-8571DD6C2EF9.jpg" data-mid="99624456" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb89495e97b58270b1b0f3939147eef7c1c2d707d8efc4837d2a15adfcec6bec/EC09C070-7F5C-4FCD-80B8-8571DD6C2EF9.jpg" /> POEMS: John Godfrey ~&nbsp;The Recluse <img width="1146" height="1280" width_o="1146" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8112b87b184e2554d75b4b896ebf14b243afc1d7ab948b3a752b06c0792a3e37/IMG_0864.jpg" data-mid="99624457" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8112b87b184e2554d75b4b896ebf14b243afc1d7ab948b3a752b06c0792a3e37/IMG_0864.jpg" /> GOOD OUTCOMES In April you try plansTurns into MayBest thing is I don’t know bleepTake dressing for sunTime after time bad target Elevated by ungodly machine is of good outcomesOf all sacks what sack fits?I call you without linesDoes anything come of no one?And turn into sand no salt Deep hole it all disappears Guttural languages: lost Sliver in tragus: rare Armband from funeral homeDon’t go away in madness Don’t go away too sure What a devil says computes Go ahead, have a hey-day Sun squeezes into tight sky Man walks blocks in search NIFTY WALLS — John Godfrey Printed in an edition of 300 copies, 2019. $12.00 ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Godfrey was born in Massena, N.Y. in 1945. He is the author of 14 collections of poetry. He received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1967, and took a B.S. in Nursing from Columbia University in 1994. He has received fellowships from the General Electric Foundation (1984), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2009), and the Z Foundation (2013). He retired in 2011 after 17 years as a nurse clinician in HIV/AIDS. He has lived in the East Village of Manhattan since the 1960s.&nbsp; <img width="464" height="590" width_o="464" height_o="590" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da6469debed7f586404245af724656e9c5ac1df5d7109cdccf1af1370893329a/Screen-Shot-2019-08-16-at-8.29.24-PM.png" data-mid="99624454" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/464/i/da6469debed7f586404245af724656e9c5ac1df5d7109cdccf1af1370893329a/Screen-Shot-2019-08-16-at-8.29.24-PM.png" /><img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc6896953a1adee2f0e059ce34d1f802bee1c4d2916a2fb21a73a79aaae887bb/IMG_0858.jpg" data-mid="99624451" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc6896953a1adee2f0e059ce34d1f802bee1c4d2916a2fb21a73a79aaae887bb/IMG_0858.jpg" /> https://tenteditions.com/RAYS-OF-THE-SHADOW Thu, 18 Mar 2021 02:48:59 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/RAYS-OF-THE-SHADOW Marcella Durand ~ Rays of the Shadow Marcella Durand asks us to consider the geometries that articulate daily life and through which perception and language parse form: people, city, planet. &nbsp;Lines telescope relationships-- parts for whole, fragments for mass, and the singular for the plural and diffuse. We keep pace with Durand's alexandrines, her landed jetes across caesura, alight on waves, water and the sun's liquid illumination on objects and their shadows. Where others see corner or accidents, Marcella Durand would have us see language's infinite radii. –Erica Hunt POEMS: Marcella Durand ~&nbsp;Jacket2 <img width="982" height="1420" width_o="982" height_o="1420" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bbe9bc8ce149e512d49f9f90ea15800048e865e9867ea45dbef91d63005a453/image.jpeg" data-mid="102406829" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/982/i/6bbe9bc8ce149e512d49f9f90ea15800048e865e9867ea45dbef91d63005a453/image.jpeg" /> from RAYS OF THE SHADOW If we were to begin again. This place hangs in the center and continues to either side. Both start and finish, so many endings possible and easy, so many hearts to a city. But variation insists an end is not to beso forecastable or singular. Start againwhen we began to invent clocks and draw towarda way we could see time from a place we had shared with no walls, and only a tall sort of structure visible wherever you are in the city,whichever point, whatever street, however there. RAYS OF THE SHADOW — Marcella DurandPrinted in an edition of 300 copies, 2017.$12.00 ABOUT THE AUTHORMarcella Durand's books include Le Jardin de M. (Garden of M.), with French translations by Olivier Brossard (joca seria, 2016); Deep Eco Pré, with Tina Darragh (Little Red Leaves, 2009); AREA (Belladonna, 2008); and Traffic &amp; Weather, (Futurepoem, 2008). She lives in New York City, where she is working on a long piece for two voices titled Mirror Lines and completing her translation of Michèle Métail's book-length poem, Les Horizons du sol/Earth's horizons. <img width="744" height="744" width_o="744" height_o="744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30788713557a3af401c3b783b3e28b05d93723da73bccb18900f136cbbcd5826/Portrait_01_Durand_photocredit-Andrew-Zawacki.jpg" data-mid="102406836" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/744/i/30788713557a3af401c3b783b3e28b05d93723da73bccb18900f136cbbcd5826/Portrait_01_Durand_photocredit-Andrew-Zawacki.jpg" />Photo by Andrew Zawacki <img width="1032" height="772" width_o="1032" height_o="772" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19319bbc5a1cf0cdc9696d671057190ab4919ef827778f673db7d5bb63e54028/IMG_6454.jpeg" data-mid="102408966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19319bbc5a1cf0cdc9696d671057190ab4919ef827778f673db7d5bb63e54028/IMG_6454.jpeg" />Photography by Eric McNatt IG: @ericmcnatt https://tenteditions.com/KIT-CARSON Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:01:27 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/KIT-CARSON Carol Szamatowicz ~ Kit Carson All the great nobodies come from Chicago: Henry Darger, Vivian Maier, and an avalanche of poets including Carol Szamatowicz. It appears as if Carol can write anywhere, doing anything. She’s resourceful, good with her hands, and questions authority but is a good listener. What she sees is what we get –– which is always more: “the eyes in your ears"; “I have married my big desk"; "don't want a house on a hill / the hill is enough." She's an explorer-discoverer-troubadour. If you don’t know Szamatowicz’s poetry, waste no time. Read immediately. Start with Bombs –– “bombs for other worlds in balance….” –Kostas Anagnopoulos POEMS:&nbsp; Carol Szamatowicz ~&nbsp;Across the Margin,&nbsp; Part One &amp; Part Two <img width="1014" height="1526" width_o="1014" height_o="1526" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e32a26f012c64a6996f59321e9d4bcef2c0923ecebadc9b8be71e6a0ff5d6f22/ki-noshad.jpeg" data-mid="99654423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e32a26f012c64a6996f59321e9d4bcef2c0923ecebadc9b8be71e6a0ff5d6f22/ki-noshad.jpeg" /> LAWN TROLL The idea is to lighten the earth so it levitates.&nbsp; &nbsp; -Larry Fagin I can’t tell if I live in a treehouse or a shrunken clubroom help me out here, Huck! (odd complicity) where’s the fence where’s the fight? disobedience breaks away we look human but nothing’s certain not even the March of Dimes my mental reserve is all show the river has me boxed in I sit blinking under a florescent eagle&nbsp; that oversees nothing When I saw myself as a saint there was a lot more fish and bread Start simple take one step the air needs conditioning soon the water too if you don’t love me does that make me a bad one? will you come back later on your raft to save me? if not why not? KIT CARSON — Carol Szamatowicz Printed in an edition of 300 copies, 2017. $12.00&nbsp; ABOUT THE AUTHOR Carol Szamatowicz’s books include Zoop (Owl Press, 2001); Reticular Pop-Ups (Insurance Editions, 2004); and Blasting through a Hole in the Universe (Green Zone Editions, 2009), among others. Acme Rubbers is forthcoming from Insurance Editions. Born among ten siblings on the Southside of Chicago to a Montanan and a corn factory worker, Szamatowicz came solo to New York City as a teenager in 1972, settling in the East Village. She taught children and teenagers in NYC for thirty years. Szamatowicz has written in Culebra, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. She currently teaches yoga at Yoga to the People and spends time writing between the West Village and Hudson, NY, where her daughter, Alex Malmude, lives. <img width="512" height="688" width_o="512" height_o="688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8e26883e695afa9327ab52609c011bb0f14565f322cd4bb5cb8b82af3344071/209-0129-8bP-Szamatowicz.jpg" data-mid="99654161" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/512/i/a8e26883e695afa9327ab52609c011bb0f14565f322cd4bb5cb8b82af3344071/209-0129-8bP-Szamatowicz.jpg" />Photo by John Sarsgard <img width="1655" height="1430" width_o="1655" height_o="1430" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63a3a87d68c51d7381be731fcb925971bd515c6ebed442d4975b86c592a76669/ki-int.jpeg" data-mid="99654424" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63a3a87d68c51d7381be731fcb925971bd515c6ebed442d4975b86c592a76669/ki-int.jpeg" />Photography by Eric McNatt IG: @ericmcnatt https://tenteditions.com/THE-POLES Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:41:22 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/THE-POLES Ann Stephenson ~ The Poles Ann Stephenson is surely talking "on the reg" to O'Hara's “Meditations in an Emergency” which her long poem The Poles sent me running to, excitedly making some connection in the way they both take a matter of fact tone against social death and other threats. But at this late Capitalism date, our narrator is a more menaced guide - a civic poet who warns “terrible things come to those who don’t listen.” The Poles is the epitome of a poem that susses out and then follows the graph of the mind moving. There are no bum lines. In fact, one could teach a master class on line breaks with this poem. Each pause creates suspension followed by a burst of multiple meanings, which, is one of the most generous acts of the poet and this poet’s craft. To any reader following the call to attention, this gesture expands life outside the structure of a bubble. —Stacy Szymaszek POEMS: Ann Stephenson ~&nbsp;Brooklyn Rail<img width="1007" height="1374" width_o="1007" height_o="1374" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2da4a8c97f1c1bb18c1362b495ef935d16e907ad339dde2413722eb2e64ff91b/image.jpeg" data-mid="99661342" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2da4a8c97f1c1bb18c1362b495ef935d16e907ad339dde2413722eb2e64ff91b/image.jpeg" /> from&nbsp;THE POLES Some books turn into other books today the queen is in green just enough netting to cover her eyes give the slow opening tulip a drink I lose time in numbers winter is my time nothing but ice crunching of course things happen around the edges those two houses drink from the same light a row of bushes, bushels of beetroot laundry wrapped with rope I must work on my story the end is divided, almost curtailed by robbers and bawdy revelers outbursts go unnoticed Strike from the record the feeling of helplessness replace it with coarse salts you are strange and beautiful THE POLES — Ann StephensonPrinted in an edition of 300 copies, 2017. $10.00&nbsp; ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ann Stephenson’s publications include Wirework&nbsp;(2006), Adventure Club&nbsp;(2013), and The Poles (2017). Some of her poems have appeared in Across the Margin, Brooklyn Rail, Delineator, Ladowich, The&nbsp;Recluse, and Sal Mimeo, as well as the anthology Like Musical Instruments: 83 Contemporary American Poets (2014). She is the founder and editor of Tent Editions. She received her MFA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in 2007, and curated the Ready Set Readings series at Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta in 2009–10. Stephenson is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Poetry (2017). She was born and raised in Georgia and lives between New York City’s East Village and Fire Island. <img width="1817" height="1278" width_o="1817" height_o="1278" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac6169448f355c4bba31bd5d3dca69edca82b85a435ff7a0ecfa8a409883eadd/image.jpeg" data-mid="99661424" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac6169448f355c4bba31bd5d3dca69edca82b85a435ff7a0ecfa8a409883eadd/image.jpeg" /> Photography by Eric McNatt IG: @ericmcnatt https://tenteditions.com/WIREWORK Fri, 19 Feb 2021 23:57:49 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/WIREWORK Ann Stephenson ~ Wirework Taut, thoughtful ruminations on the smell of friends and evaporating streets. —Byron Coley and Thurston Moore Arthur Magazine, 2007 POEM Night is what you are fit for. They want your personal history, the cast of characters. They want your manifesto. Give an electron to a molecule, one that drops anchor in the stream of your mouth. Space speaks but has lately been vacated. You should have read the notices as a spirit-wounded child. My work is done. Let’s kiss and be agreeable. POEMS: Ann Stephenson&nbsp; ~&nbsp;DIA: Readings in Contemporary Poetry <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/492d350a1ede8a4f5c6d5a38c5107c1512995905091ad74acb65fff71317fdc9/IMG_9938.JPG" data-mid="99936199" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/492d350a1ede8a4f5c6d5a38c5107c1512995905091ad74acb65fff71317fdc9/IMG_9938.JPG" /> BLOTTER Win, lose or draw, this is some sloppy dream world With no flowerbeds to play in, no attic to vacuum What won’t we do for entertainment I skate to work on my laurels Trees print out my shadow My work requires an aerial view of the region The ceiling in stars I calculate the rate of their fall Sabu implicates me, he is deep My mind must be preserved Certain others stop spinning Teens especially have difficulty focusing on one spot WIREWORK&nbsp; — Ann StephensonPrinted in an edition of 300 copies, 2006. $10.00 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ann Stephenson’s publications include Wirework (2006), Adventure Club (2013), and The Poles (2017). Some of her poems have appeared in Across the Margin, Brooklyn Rail, Delineator, Ladowich, The Recluse, and Sal Mimeo, as well as the anthology Like Musical Instruments: 83 Contemporary American Poets (2014). She is the founder and editor of Tent Editions. She received her MFA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in 2007, and curated the Ready Set Readings series at Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta in 2009–10. Stephenson is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Poetry (2017). She was born and raised in Georgia and lives between New York City’s East Village and Fire Island. https://tenteditions.com/FIRE-ISLAND-FORTHCOMING Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:06:58 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/FIRE-ISLAND-FORTHCOMING Forthcoming ~ Fire Island, NY Tent Editions is currently working on a few book projects centered on Fire Island. Further&nbsp; details and updates will be shared here as available.&nbsp; <img width="1254" height="1214" width_o="1254" height_o="1214" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb07bfc3d3d45f585f6ab2056b26998617830cedf77e29dfbd7a0b716078993d/FI-REEDS.jpg" data-mid="209083992" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb07bfc3d3d45f585f6ab2056b26998617830cedf77e29dfbd7a0b716078993d/FI-REEDS.jpg" /> https://tenteditions.com/SUPPORT-XO Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:25:42 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/SUPPORT-XO <img width="1200" height="113" width_o="1200" height_o="113" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b815eaf204fababbab60f921596f91d140ab40e5bc6d6f9ccdbd650c937d6c7/Readings_At_Parkside.png" data-mid="241164400" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b815eaf204fababbab60f921596f91d140ab40e5bc6d6f9ccdbd650c937d6c7/Readings_At_Parkside.png" /> <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6bb7b6a39cee53e82713c53d5ec929e3b7e66ca06dc6d4b0430bf2e92b3ca17/ANN-RAPS-SUPPORT-.png-1.PNG" data-mid="241180255" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6bb7b6a39cee53e82713c53d5ec929e3b7e66ca06dc6d4b0430bf2e92b3ca17/ANN-RAPS-SUPPORT-.png-1.PNG" /> DEAR FRIENDS OF READINGS AT PARKSIDE: As we look ahead to 2026, READINGS AT PARKSIDE would like to take a moment to celebrate and express our gratitude for the amazing community of artists, writers, thinkers, publishers &amp; booksellers who make everything possible — as well as all the Parkside proprietors (I love you), bartenders, sound and lighting techs, people spreading the word, friends helping out, people supporting, people creating community, people getting us through — and every single person who came to a reading, or multiple readings, or who hopes to in the future. I always speak as a collective WE when discussing this series, as it takes all the incredible people of The Parkside Lounge to make it go — as well as the dedicated community that supports it (that's you!). But personally speaking, doing READINGS AT PARKSIDE means more to me than I can say. It has been a vital outlet for community connection in this beloved queer and trans owned dive bar at a time&nbsp;when so much around us is designed to make us feel isolated. It is a privilege to&nbsp;assemble and&nbsp;engage with every iconic writer, artist, legacy, or idea with each&nbsp;event in a&nbsp;format that allows for a generous deep dive into the work of each guest, not unlike a dedicated chapter meeting of a fan club. We have had an unbelievable year and this was only possible through your support! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR) is proud to be the fiscal sponsor for Readings at Parkside, a curated series of events with contemporary poets, writers, thinkers and artists which aligns with the mission and programming of FIAR. Fire Island Artist Residency Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, EIN 45-5023652. Contributions are fully tax-deductible to the extent of the law. Fiscal sponsorship refers to the practice of non-profit organizations offering their tax-exempt status to projects engaged in activities related to the sponsoring organization's mission. <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55d71b0fe948f4e839b24872e28f9a29064074dff5531ae87d4901eedc266e29/ANN-RAPS-THX.png.PNG" data-mid="241184639" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55d71b0fe948f4e839b24872e28f9a29064074dff5531ae87d4901eedc266e29/ANN-RAPS-THX.png.PNG" />SUPPORTPlease consider supporting READINGS AT PARKSIDE by making a tax exempt donation to FIAR. Any size donation is immensely appreciated &amp; impactful. Please inform us of your donation so that we may make sure it is properly routed &amp; attributed to READINGS AT PARKSIDE! THANK YOU SO MUCH!To contribute to online, visit: www.fireislandartistresidency.org/support IMPORTANT: In order to properly route donations to READINGS AT PARKSIDE please email a copy of your receipt to tenteditions@gmail.com If you wish to keep your donation anonymous please kindly notify info@fireislandartistresidency.org that your gift is intended for READINGS AT PARKSIDE and they will flag it accordingly. To contribute by check, please make out to Fire Island Artist Residency and notate PARKSIDE in the memo. Checks may be mailed to: Fire Island Artist Residency20-66 28th StreetAstoria, NY 11105 XOXOXOX https://tenteditions.com/LYNNE-TILLMAN-2026 Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:34:10 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/LYNNE-TILLMAN-2026 Readings at Parkside: &nbsp; Lynne Tillman&nbsp; The Parkside Lounge317 East Houston StreetNew York CitySunday, May 17th, 4pm Sliding scale tickets available HERE! Paying Attention Essays on Art and Culture By Lynne Tillman Edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Schambelan Published by David Zwirner Books This event will feature a reading from Paying Attention followed by a conversation between Nayland Blake &amp; Lynne Tillman.&nbsp; <img width="1629" height="2398" width_o="1629" height_o="2398" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bfb3729f791b894bfbd107f8a2e68248635a3ae5e005952e249c535d4800e3bf/LynneTillman-2025--Cover_Final.jpg" data-mid="245411255" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bfb3729f791b894bfbd107f8a2e68248635a3ae5e005952e249c535d4800e3bf/LynneTillman-2025--Cover_Final.jpg" /> From award-winning novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, Paying Attention is the first collection of essays devoted to her incisive, singular reflections on art and culture. Paying Attention gathers nearly seventy of the best and varied examples of Lynne Tillman’s writings in reference to art and culture published over the course of forty years. In essays that operate outside typical categories or genres, Tillman reflects on forms including film, painting, photography, poetry, and fiction, as well as notions of fame, originality, embodied viewing and thinking, collective activity, aging, illness, American identity, cultural politics, modernity, strangeness, and time. Collected mainly from museum and gallery catalogues, artists’ books and monographs, her column in frieze, and magazines including Aperture and Artforum, these meditations on artists and writers, in the broadest sense of these labels, collide as a portrait of our cultural moment. Tillman’s inventive use of language and lateral thought, her ability to evoke conditions of the larger world in often just two thousand words on a specific artwork or individual, make her one of the most significant critics of our time. In a piece on the artist Robert Gober, she notes, “In writing on art, words reach for other words, phrases, idioms, and through them more images and ideas leap out.” In her introduction, Elizabeth Schambelan notes that a hallmark of Tillman’s writing alongside artists is an “elegant rendering of complexity,” and in approaching Tillman’s body of work and thought, Schambelan herself deftly layers the art, voice, and language of criticism. With cover art by Paul Chan, this collection is for ludic and serious readers alike. <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82090fb7a87c331b6920dd16fd6ac7fd56086d3adb7d14fbf156b72ce15c7761/READINGS-AT-PARKSIDE.png" data-mid="245475230" border="0" data-scale="81" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82090fb7a87c331b6920dd16fd6ac7fd56086d3adb7d14fbf156b72ce15c7761/READINGS-AT-PARKSIDE.png" /> Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship; a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant; and The Katherine Anne Porter Prize awarded by The American Academy of Arts and Letters for contributions to literature. She is a professor and writer in residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany. <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30e499fafa42bdf91c961af4c759824a98c40c724100716d33242bea0eebc9e2/lynne-headshot.png" data-mid="245411256" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/30e499fafa42bdf91c961af4c759824a98c40c724100716d33242bea0eebc9e2/lynne-headshot.png" /> Nayland Blake is an artist, writer, educator and curator. Born in New York City in 1960, they attended Bard College and then California Institute of the Arts. After receiving their MFA, they moved to San Francisco in 1984, returning to New York in 1996. They have had one-person exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College. Their Retrospective “No Wrong Holes – 30 years of Nayland Blake opened in 2019 at the ICALA and closed in 2021 at the MIT List Center. They are currently the co-director of the studio art program at Bard College. Their collected writings, My Studio Is A Dungeon Is The Studio were published by Duke University Press in 2025. <img width="1538" height="2048" width_o="1538" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b0451d06ab8037437370eae5827b00b608d3f9ee84b09fee95e536efe73754e/Blakeunbraidedlg-scaled.jpeg" data-mid="245475229" border="0" data-scale="67" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b0451d06ab8037437370eae5827b00b608d3f9ee84b09fee95e536efe73754e/Blakeunbraidedlg-scaled.jpeg" /> https://tenteditions.com/CECILIA-DOUGHERTY Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:07:52 +0000 TENT EDITIONS https://tenteditions.com/CECILIA-DOUGHERTY Readings at Parkside: &nbsp; Cecilia Dougherty The Parkside Lounge317 East Houston StreetNew York CityTuesday, May 5th, 7:30pm Sliding scale tickets available HERE! Please join us for a special screening of Cecilia Dougherty’s video portraits of writers Kevin Killian, Eileen Myles, Leslie Scalapino, Cedar Sigo, Laurie Weeks &amp; Joe Westmoreland— followed by a conversation between Lia Gangitano &amp; Cecilia Dougherty.&nbsp; Screening: JOE, 2018 KEVIN &amp; CEDAR, 2002 EILEEN, 2000 LESLIE, 1998 LAURIE, 1998 <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7dceed15cefe9b8efc4a11ad823e65b15eb653a6bcb5c19806f772d4b1829a1d/Joe-still.jpg" data-mid="245958463" border="0" data-scale="76" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7dceed15cefe9b8efc4a11ad823e65b15eb653a6bcb5c19806f772d4b1829a1d/Joe-still.jpg" /><img width="886" height="642" width_o="886" height_o="642" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19b88b2df1d6131d3484465d1122d64e1bd26c22b8f362e5db261ae2316e386b/Eileen-still.png" data-mid="245958462" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/886/i/19b88b2df1d6131d3484465d1122d64e1bd26c22b8f362e5db261ae2316e386b/Eileen-still.png" /><img width="1272" height="942" width_o="1272" height_o="942" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef3bb0da79f0f7a0b54231340a514c10a0a90f463f0009450ec6b9116b0bbe15/Kevin-Cedar-still.png" data-mid="245958466" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef3bb0da79f0f7a0b54231340a514c10a0a90f463f0009450ec6b9116b0bbe15/Kevin-Cedar-still.png" /><img width="1090" height="804" width_o="1090" height_o="804" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0ba42fe9f533cb256b38191564fe9a623af6915ab56be25521021068ee8c0cf/Leslie-still2.png" data-mid="245958470" border="0" data-scale="71" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0ba42fe9f533cb256b38191564fe9a623af6915ab56be25521021068ee8c0cf/Leslie-still2.png" /><img width="1506" height="1128" width_o="1506" height_o="1128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f48b173513ccbf6c521cff434105a2d3eac923791ec162a45ccf4020c8e69ed9/Laurie-still.png" data-mid="245958467" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f48b173513ccbf6c521cff434105a2d3eac923791ec162a45ccf4020c8e69ed9/Laurie-still.png" /> <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7dc5b3223bc60629e4657d4a3f6b6ef992ce445a9309a16a9b0a683ef3b147f/ANN-CECILIA.png" data-mid="245958461" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7dc5b3223bc60629e4657d4a3f6b6ef992ce445a9309a16a9b0a683ef3b147f/ANN-CECILIA.png" /> Cecilia Dougherty is a visual artist working in video and web-based media programs. She has created more than 30 videoworks in experimental narrative, documentary, and installation and has exhibited and screened her work in many venues, internationally. She has a PhD in Philosophy and teaches in New York. <img width="1200" height="1554" width_o="1200" height_o="1554" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb127c0494721a9045f6ed38c2b1e1be1f402560bf0e9905dc5b368c0b49e150/CeciliaDougherty-photoByJamieChan.jpg" data-mid="246048359" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb127c0494721a9045f6ed38c2b1e1be1f402560bf0e9905dc5b368c0b49e150/CeciliaDougherty-photoByJamieChan.jpg" />&nbsp;photo by Jamie Chan Lia Gangitano is director of PARTICIPANT INC, NY, a not-for-profit art space she founded in 2001. She has served as curator of Thread Waxing Space, NY, associate curator, The ICA, Boston, and curatorial advisor, MoMA PS1. She is a recipient of Skowhegan Governors’ Award for Outstanding Service to Artists (2015), the inaugural White Columns/Shoot the Lobster Award (2016), and the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence (2018). She teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. <img width="2316" height="2914" width_o="2316" height_o="2914" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42f731244b7ceb50e77e1ac66bff0aa261d86202050d3b0dd366be683f93087a/LGbySteiner.jpg" data-mid="246211604" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42f731244b7ceb50e77e1ac66bff0aa261d86202050d3b0dd366be683f93087a/LGbySteiner.jpg" /> photo by A.L. Steiner