The Flow Chart Foundation partners with other organizations as well as directly producing programming toward fulfilling its mission. Events are announced through our Mailing List, as well as through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and through local listings and partner organizations. All virtual programs are presented with live close-captioning. Details about and documentation of past events from this year can be found below, and for prior years here.
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Close Readings in a Virtual Space
Favorite poets leading participatory group thinking-and-reading-through workshops of single poems
Installations & Exhibits
Exhibits in the Flow Chart Space and public poetry installations
Readings and Performances
Poetry, music, and other performance events
Discussions & Gatherings
Panel discussions, presentations, moderated conversations, and other such events
Auctions & Galas
Fundraising events
CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE
CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE is a free, participatory virtual series (taking place via Zoom) features some of our favorite poets leading intimate, virtual group reading-thinking-and-reading-through workshops, usually on single, “challenging” poems. The poets—neither explicitly teaching nor explaining—serve as expert tour-guides for us to explore each featured poem as a group. Whether already well-versed in the “close reading” of poems or having never been quite sure you’ve been "getting it," CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE provides a friendly gathering space for us to take a refreshing deep dive into poetry. Each event lasts about an hour and concludes with a brief reading by our special guest poet.
Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge leads a thinking-and-reading-through of Elizabeth Willis
On Thursday, March 6th, 2025, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge led a thinking-and-reading-through of “I Didn't Invent the World” by Elizabeth Willis, followed by a short reading of her own work.
Born in Beijing, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is the author of fourteen books of poetry including Hello, the Roses, Empathy, I Love Artists and A Treatise on Stars, which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her collaborations include works in theater, dance, music, and the visual arts. She received the Bollingen Prize for poetry in 2020.
Samiya Bashir leads a thinking-and-reading-through of Carl Phillips
On Thursday, February 20th, 2025, Samiya Bashir led a thinking-and-reading-through of “Rubicon” by Carl Phillips, followed by a short reading of her own work.
Samiya Bashir is a multi-media poet, writer, librettist, and artist whose solo and collaborative work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, exhibited, screened, experienced, and Oxford comma’d from Berlin to Düsseldorf, Amsterdam to Accra, Florence to Rome, and across the United States. Bashir is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Field Theories, winner of the Oregon Book Award. Her fourth collection, I Hope This Helps, is forthcoming in Spring 2025. Bashir lives in Harlem, NYC.
Eugene Ostashevsky leads a thinking-and-reading-through of Lyn Hejinian
On Thursday, February 6th, 2025, Eugene Ostashevsky led a thinking-and-reading-through of “The Unfollowing: 7” by Lyn Hejinian, followed by a short reading of his own work
EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY is a poet and translator whose writing has been described as “translingual” because of its focus on multilingualism and linguistic interference. HisThe Feeling Sonnets (Carcanet, NYRB Poets, 2022) examines the effect of speaking a nonnative language on emotions, parenting, and identity. An earlier book, The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (NYRB Poets, 2017), discusses communication difficulties between pirates and parrots.As a translator, Ostashevsky is best known for his editions of the Russian avant-garde, such as OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern UP, 2006). His more recent translations include Lucky Breaks by the Ukrainian fiction writer Yevgenia Belorusets (New Directions, 2022).His work has appeared in Best American Poetry(US) andThe Forward Book of Poetry(UK), and won the National Translation Award (US), the City of Münster International Poetry Prize (DE), the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD fellowship (DE), and other prizes.
Omar Berrada leads a thinking-and-reading-through of Henry Dumas
On Thursday, January 23rd, 2025, Omar Berrada led a thinking-and-reading-through of “The Zebra Goes Wild Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Henry Dumas, followed by a short reading of his own work
Omar Berrada is a writer and curator whose work focuses on the politics of translation and intergenerational transmission. He is the author of the poetry collection Clonal Hum (Obultra, 2020), and the editor or co-editor of several books, including The Africans, on racial dynamics in North Africa (Kulte, 2016); La Septième Porte, a posthumously published history of Moroccan cinema by Ahmed Bouanani (Kulte, 2020); and Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets (Litmus, 2024). His writing was included in numerous exhibition catalogs, magazines and anthologies, including Frieze, Bidoun, Asymptote, The University of California Book of North African Literature (UC Press, 2012), and Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry (Texas UP, 2020). He grew up in Casablanca and currently lives in New York
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Elisa Gabbert leads a thinking-and-reading through of John Berryman
On Thursday, January 9th, 2024, Elisa Gabbert led a thinking-and-reading-through of “Dream Song 29” by John Berryman, followed by a short reading of their own work
Elisa Gabbert is the author of seven collections of poetry, essays, and criticism, most recently Any Person Is the Only Self (published in June 2024 by FSG). Her other books include Normal Distance, The Unreality of Memory, and The Word Pretty. She writes the On Poetry column for the New York Times, and her work has appeared in Harper’s, the Atlantic, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, the Believer, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Providence.
Installations & Exhibitions
Flow Chart Space
The Flow Chart Space (348 Warren Street, Hudson, NY) features artwork at play with language, writing, and reading—more information on exhibitions can be found here.
Readings & Performances
SLEEPERS AWAKE: Oli Hazzard & Emily Skillings
Saturday, February 8th, Flow Chart Space
On Saturday, February 9th, 2025, on the occasion of the publication of his collection, SLEEPERS AWAKE (FSG), Oli Hazzard was joined by Emily Skillings for a poetry reading and discussion at the Flow Chart Space in Hudson, NY.
Oli Hazzard is the author of three books of poems, including Sleepers Awake (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), and a novel, Lorem Ipsum (Prototype, 2021). He lives in Glasgow and teaches at the University of St Andrews.
Emily Skillings is the editor of Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works by John Ashbery. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches creative writing at Yale, NYU, and Columbia.
Discussions & Gatherings