Flow Chart Space: 348 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534

PRESENTATIONS:

Saturday, July 22 — 11am–5:45pm

Sunday, July 23 — 10am–7:30pm (includes reception)

NIGHT OF PERFORMANCE — July 22nd, 8pm

With Kimberly Alidio . Angela Ball . Deborah Bernhardt . Mandana Chaffa . Ryan Cook . Iris Cushing . Darcie Dennigan . Jared Daniel Fagen . Farnoosh Fathi . Jason Finkelman . Seth Forrest . Joanna Fuhrman . Andrew Gorin . Michael Gottlieb . Cole Heinowitz . Carla Harryman . Joselia Rebekah Hughes . Jemman . Kamikaze Jones . Elisabeth Joyce . Eric Keenaghan . Rosamond S. King . Jeffrey Lependorf . Andrew Levy . Rachel Levitsky . Tracie Morris . Mark Nowak . Cynthia Oliver . Monica Ong . E.R. Pulgar . Eugene Richie . Paolo Javier . Abigail Raley . Evelyn Reilly . Anne Riesenberg . Joan Retallack . Nate Santana . Dan Schapiro . Schoemer/Parashi . Danniel Schoonebeek . Sparrow . Claire Tuna . Rosanne Wasserman . Rachael Guynn Wilson . YaNi Davis aka Mirakl3 The Messenger. and others.

SCHEDULE

all events at the Flow Chart Space (348 Warren Street, Hudson, NY)

NOTE: Daytime offerings are free. Reservations are not required, but recommended. All may come and go as they please throughout the day.

Saturday, July 22nd

10:00AM–11:00AM — BAGELS & COFFEE

11:00AM–11:45AM — Exploring the Hybrid, Pt. I

Joan Retallack: Pandora Chronicles the Fall of Eve

Claire Tuna: Study on Studies

Andrew Gorin: Simultaneity and Social Perspective in THE LAST CLEAN SHIRT

Evelyn Reilly: Alice Notley's Post-New York School Divergences & Disobediences

11:45AM–noon —BREAK

noon–12:45PM — Exploring the Hybrid, Pt. II

Anne Riesenberg: The Palace of Unbearable Feeling

Joanna Furhman: Poetry Videos

Seth Forrest: Drone and Sizzle: Forms of Noise in Contemporary Poetics

Monica Ong: Visual Poetry: In Studio, In Community

12:45PM–1:45PM — Discussion, moderated by Paolo Javier

1:45PM–3:30PM — LUNCH (on your own)

3:30PM–4:30PM — In the Tradition of Black Experimental Poetics

Mark Nowak: Workshops of Abolition: Attica Print Culture and Small Press Poetry

Rosamond S. King Poems

Rosanne Wasserman: Tom Weatherly's New York School

Deborah Bernhardt: Poems

YaNi Davis aka Mirakl3 The Messenger (by way of video): Feel to Heal: Hip Hop and Poetry at the Heart of The Revolution

4:30PM–4:45PM — BREAK

4:45PM–5:45PM — Discussion, moderated by Tracie Morris

NIGHT OF PERFORMANCE

Saturday, July 22nd, 8PM (doors open at 7:30PM)

Featuring: Kimberly Alidio, Farnoosh Fathi & Darci Dennigan, Rosamond S. King, Kamikaze Jones, Carla Harryman & Co., Tracie Morris, Nate Santana, and Schoemer/Parashi

plays! / performance! / film! / music!

Schoemer/Parashi: Ice Cream Wars

Kimberly Alidio: from Teeter: “Hearing” and “Autohistoriography”

Farnoosh Fathi & Darci Dennigan: WOOD LADDER  ma-ma'ing the wood chip  woof chip marionette wipe  water drama  elbow panties  mataphysics // much more dastardly than pataphysics!  aunty farm  a stag's eye in my bra cup  sleep gogurts

Rosamond S. King: Bandin Belly (piece by Rosamond S. King, Cynthia Oliver, and Jason FInkelman)

— Intermission —

Nate Santana: The City of Dreams

Kamikaze Jones: Degeneration Loop 3 (For Rage)

Tracie Morris: Performing with art by Jemman

Carla Harryman & Co.: Hannah Cut In

Sunday, July 23rd

9:30AM–10:00AM — BAGELS & COFFEE

10:00AM–11:00AM — The New York School: Influences, Surrealism, Racism, and Beyond, Pt. I

Rachael Guynn Wilson & Andrew Gorin: Mass Collaborative Poetics: New York School to “Executive Orders”

Danniel Schoonebeek: It is Such a Beautiful Day I Had to Write You a Letter: the Epistolary Voice in the New York School and Beyond 

Iris Cushing: Hardbound Idiom: Convergences in Umbra I, 1963

Michael Gottlieb: Thanks John! — Optimism and Us 

Paolo Javier: Someday I'll Love Frank O'Hara (and the NYS)

11:00AM–11:15AM — BREAK

11:15AM–noon— The New York School: Influences, Surrealism, Racism, and Beyond, Pt. II

Elisabeth Joyce: Barbara Guest's Early Poetry as Abstract Expressionism

Jared Daniel Fagen: Poems

Sparrow: Ted Berrigan and Folk Music 

Andrew Levy: Faulty Writing

noon–1:00PM — Discussion, moderated by Emily Skillings

1:00PM–3:00PM — LUNCH (on you own)

3:00PM–3:45PM — The Non-Conforming Body and Mind

NOTE: Masks are required to be worn from 3:00pm–4:30pm to protect immunocompromised participants.

Joselia Rebekah Hughes & Dan Schapiro: Notes on Seropoetics

Angela Ball: I Have Thirteen Penises

Abigail Raley: The Physical Embodiment of Disability in Literature

Cole Heinowitz & Co.: a play by John Wieners: "Asphodel, in Hell's Dispite”

3:45PM–4:15PM — Discussion, moderated by Mandana Chaffa

4:15PM–4:30PM — BREAK

4:30PM–5:00PM — Queer Poetics

Ryan Cook & E.R. Pulgar: Oh, Anybody (a genderqueer reading of the New York School)

Rachel Levitsky: The Persistence of the Straight Woman Or

Kamikaze Jones: hOle theOry: Ellipses, Omissions, and Ontological Parasites in Contemporary Queer Poetics

5:00PM—5:30PM — Discussion, moderated by Eric Keenaghan

5:30PM–6:00PM — Concluding Discussion, moderated by Eugene Richie & Jeffrey Lependorf

6:00PM–7:30PM — RECEPTION

[Local Dining & Takeout Suggestions can be found at the bottom of this page]

BIOS

Kimberly Alidio (she/they) is the author of four books of poetry, including Teeter, which will be published July 2023. Her writing has been awarded the Nightboat Poetry Prize and nominated for the USArtists Fellowship and the Lambda Literary Award. Their video, sound, and visual poetry appear in FIVES, Bæst, Juf, and Anamorphoseis, and text-visual poems, commissioned by Nicole Eisenman and The Poetry Project, are forthcoming from Hauser & Wirth’s Ursula.

Angela Ball is the author of six volumes of poetry; most recently, Talking Pillow. She writes a bi-weekly column for The Best American Poetry blog called, "The New York School Diaspora" and teaches in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, where she lives with her two dogs, Miss Bishop and Boy.

Deborah Bernhardt (she/her) is the author of Echolalia (Four Way Books) and Driftology (New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM).

Mandana Chaffa is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Nowruz Journal, a periodical of Persian arts and letters, and an Editor-at-Large at Chicago Review of Books. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications. She serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, where she is VP of the Barrios Book in Translation Prize; and also serves as Board President of The Flow Chart Foundation. Born in Tehran, Iran, she lives in New York.

Ryan Cook (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based genderqueer poet and performer. An MFA candidate in poetry at Columbia University, where they taught courses on Poetry Beyond the Binary and Traditions in Poetry, and have served as a School of Art’s teaching fellow. Ryan’s work specializes in queer mythologies, digital cultures, and curses, and has been published in Thimble Lit Mag, the Nightboat Blog, No Dear Mag, Hot Pink Mag, and forthcoming in Poetry Project’s Footnotes Series.

Abigail Child is a media artist and writer who pushes the envelope of sound-image-text relations with humor, liveliness and complex montage. Creator of over 50 films and author of ten books of poetry (including A Motive for Mayhem and Mouth To Mouth, a 2017 Lambda Award winner), as well as one of criticism (THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Critical Poetics of Film), Child’s work has been exhibited internationally, and translated into French, Dutch, Italian,  Spanish and Korean. 

Iris Cushing, a scholar, educator, editor, and poet living in the Catskill mountains, is co-editor, with Jason Weiss, of Mary Norbert Korte's Jumping into the American River: New and Selected Poems. Her poems and critical writings have appeared in numerous publications, including Granta, Fence, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series. She is the author of The First Books of David Henderson and Mary Korte: A Research (2020), and Into the Long Long Time: How Mary Korte Saved the Redwoods (2019).

YaNi Davis aka Mirakl3 The Messenger, who holds a Master of Divinity from Claremont School of Theology and a B.A. in English from Spelman College, is a hip hop artist, speaker, educator, poet, and griot, and the founder of My SupaNatural Life, an organization that provides education and wholistic care for people living with disabilities and their caregivers. YaNi is the author of Love Poems for Peace, a kidney transplant survivor, and now completing a second masters at Maryland Institute College of Art.

Darcie Dennigan is a poet and playwright, and author of five books. She directs the Spatulate Church Emergency Shift, a poets theatre thing, in Providence.

Brandon Downing’s collections include The Shirt Weapon (2002), Dark Brandon (2005), AT ME (2010) and Mellow Actions (2013); a feature-length collection of short digital films, Dark Brandon: Eternal Classics, and a monograph of his literary collages from 1996 to 2008, Lake Antiquity. He's recently completed a 700-page translation of Euripides' The Bacchae. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he's now based in the Hudson Valley, and quietly pines away on Instagram @thebrandondowning.

Jared Daniel Fagen is the author of The Animal of Existence (Black Square Editions, 2022). His prose poems, essays, and conversations have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Lana Turner, and Asymptote, among other publications. He is the editor and publisher of Black Sun Lit, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, and an adjunct lecturer at the City College of New York. Born in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, he lives in Brooklyn and the western Catskills.

Farnoosh Fathi is the author of Granny Cloud (2024) and the editor of Joan Murray: Drafts, Fragments and Poems (2018). She lives in NY.

Jason Finkelman combines laptop electronics and acoustic instrumentation to create a distinct ambient, avant-world video and sound. As a composer for dance, Finkelman has collaborated with choreographer Cynthia Oliver for over twenty-three years and received a Bessie Award as a composer for her full evening work SHEMAD (2000).

Seth Forrest has published several articles on Charles Olson and Larry Eigner over the past several years, in addition to work on modernist poetry from Stein to Williams, with an emphasis on sound, noise, and audio technology. He is currently at work on a book project that explores the aesthetics and forms of noise across modern and contemporary poetry, music, and art. He teaches writing and literature as associate professor of Humanities at Coppin State University, an HBCU in Baltimore.

Joanna Fuhrman, an assistant teaching professor in Creative Writing at Rutgers University, is the author of six books of poetry, most recently To a New Era. Her next book, Data Mind, is forthcoming from Curbstone/Northwestern University Press. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Slowdown podcast and Best American Poetry 2023. She recently became an editor at Hanging Loose Press.

Andrew Gorin is a poet and Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication and Environmental Studies at NYU. His creative and critical writings appear in Chicago Review, Criticism, and The Brooklyn Rail, among other places, and he is completing a book on lyric poetry and social marginality (in contract with Iowa UP Contemporary North American Poetry series). He's also an editor at Organism for Poetic Research.

Michael Gottlieb is the author of twenty-two books. His most recent titles are Collected Essays (Chax, 2023), Selected Poems (Chax, 2021), Mostly Clearing (Roof, 2019). A first-generation member of the Language Poetry school, he helped edit one of its foundational magazines, Roof. Several of his works have been adapted for the stage, a number by the Poetry Project at St. Mark's. His next book will be Collected Memoirs, forthcoming from Chax.

Mike Griffin’s Parashi project has been releasing material since 2010. Parashi's sound utilizes a wide variety of improvised sound sources in various states of interaction and decay. Pitch-shifted tapes, creaking analog pedals, primitive synthesizers, metal objects, voice and murky field recordings collide and reorganize themselves within his work. Griffin has been a member of Albany psych-rock troop Burnt Hills since 2011, and plays guitar in Sky Furrows, backing up poet Karen Schoemer. 

Cole Heinowitz is a poet, translator, and Professor of Literature at Bard College. Her books of poetry include The Rubicon and Stunning in Muscle Hospital. She is the translator of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic and Bleeding from All 5 Senses, and Alejandra Pizarnik’s A Tradition of Rupture. Heinowitz’s critical writings have appeared in The Keats-Shelley Review, Chicago Review, Boston Review, and The Cultural History of Tragedy.

Carla Harryman (Detroit & Ypsilanti, MI) is the author of twenty-five books of poetry, prose, and performance writings. Recent publications include A Voice to Perform: One Opera/Two Plays (2020), a two volume bilingual edition of poetry and performance writing, Sue in Berlin and Sue á Berlin (2018), the poet’s theater dialogue play Good Morning (PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 2022, 44:1), and Cloud Cantata (2022).

Joselia Rebekah Hughes is a Mad and Afro-Caribbean disabled writer and artist based in the Bronx. She is a poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal. She’s shared work at the ICA: VCU, Lincoln Center, MoMA, Bard, Swarthmore, Whitney Museum of American Art, and elsewhere. Joselia’s poetry has been nominated for “Best of Net “and has been published in Apogee Journal, Massachusetts Review, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Split This Rock, Blackflash Magazine, Leste Magazine, and Ocean State Review.

Paolo Javier was a featured artist in Greater New York 2015 and in Queens International 2018: Volumes, Paolo Javier is the author of two recent books of poetry, including O.B.B. (Nightboat Books 2021) and True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside (Roof Books 2022). He lives with his family in Jackson Heights, NY.

Jemman is a visual artist, specializing in the computer medium. In addition to making personal art projects, Jemman has over 25 years experience creating refined corporate graphics (working for some of the most prestigious companies in the American financial sector) as well as noteworthy creative artists. Jemman also provides graphic design, interstitial sound, and moving visual atmosphere concepts for individual artists and live performance.

Kamikaze Jones (hi/him) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores extended vocal technique, queer hauntologies, and ritualized erotic transcendence. His work has been presented by The Onassis Foundation, Anthology Film Archives, Black Mountain College Museum, Wave Farm, and The Poetry Project. He is the Arts Editor of WUSSY Magazine.

Elisabeth Joyce is a professor at Pennsylvania Western University. She writes on poetry and other disciplines, such as philosophy and the visual arts.

Eric Keenaghan is a faculty member and department chair of English at The University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author of Queering Cold War Poetry (Ohio State) and co-editor of The Muriel Rukeyser Era: Selected Prose by Muriel Rukeyser (Cornell, forthcoming in November).

Rosamond S. King, a poet, performer, and artist, draws on reality to create non-literal, culturally and politically engaged interpretations of African diaspora experiences. Her collections include All the Rage and the Lambda Award-winning Rock | Salt | Stone. A Professor at Brooklyn College (CUNY), she has performed around the world. The goal of all of her work is to make people feel, wonder, and think, not necessarily in that order.

Rachel Levitsky (she, they) is a poet. They are the author of Under the Sun (Futurepoem), NEIGHBOR (Ugly Duckling),  The Story of My Accident Is Ours (Futurepoem), and over fifteen chapbooks, most recently the bi-lingual English/French Against Travel: Anti Voyage. Rachel Levitsky Has No Problems, will be out soon from Roof Books. Levitsky, who a professor of Writing at the Pratt Institute, is a founder of the Belladonna* Collaborative, which she started as a reading series at Bluestockings Feminist Bookstore in 1999.

Jeffrey Lependorf is the Executive Director of The Flow Chart Foundation.

Andrew Levy is the author of Artifice in the Calm Damages (Chax), Don’t Forget to Breathe (Chax), Nothing Is in Here (EOAGH), and twelve other collections of poetry and prose. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous American and international magazines and anthologies, including Poetics-for-the-More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry & Commentary; The Canary Islands Connection: 60 Contemporary American Poets; and Resist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to The Resistance.

Tracie Morris is a poet working in multiple genres including live performance, sound art, music, visual art, film, creative non-fiction and cultural studies. Tracie is the author/editor of 10 books. She holds an MFA from Hunter College and a PhD from NYU. A Guggenheim Poetry Fellow, Tracie is a Professor of Poetry at Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Mark Nowak’s books include Shut Up Shut Down, Coal Mountain Elementary, and Social Poetics, all from Coffee House Press. He recently edited Coronavirus Haiku (Kenning Editions, 2021), guest-edited the “Why We Write” issue of Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 2021), and wrote an introduction to Celes Tisdale’s When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal (Duke University Press, 2022). A native of Buffalo, Nowak is the founding director of the Worker Writers School (https://www.workerwriters.org).

Cynthia Oliver is a Guggenheim Fellow, USArtist Fellow and New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award-winning choreographer, whose work incorporates textures of Caribbean performance with African and American aesthetic sensibilities.

Monica Ong is the author of Silent Anatomies and a Kundiman fellow. Her astronomy-inspired visual poetry, Planetaria, was exhibited at the Poetry Foundation and is currently at the Hunterdon Art Museum May 21–September 3, 2023. In 2021, she founded Proxima Vera, a micropress of literary fine press and art objects. Ong also served as UX designer for John Ashbery's NEST, a virtual tour of his house and collections led by biographer Karin Roffman.

E.R. Pulgar (they/them) is a Venezuelan American poet, journalist, and translator based in NYC. Their criticism has appeared in Rolling Stone, i-D, Playboy, and elsewhere, and poems have appeared in Changes Review, Epiphany, b l u s h, ANUS Magazine, and elsewhere. They teach at the Craig Newmark Graduate School Of Journalism at CUNY, run the monthly queer reading series Endless Blue at the Bowery Poetry Club, and are a member of the Ugly Duckling Presse working collective.

Eugene Richie is Director of Creative Writing in the Pace University English Department, in NYC, and has published five collections of poems and three books of translations, as well as articles and reviews, on translation and on the work of a number poets. He has edited Ashbery’s Selected Prose and, with poets Rosanne Wasserman and Olivier Brossard, three bilingual collections of Pierre Martory’s poems, translated by Ashbery. With Wasserman, he also edited Ashbery’s Collected French Translations.

Gary Sullivan (he/him) is the author of eight books of poetry, plays, comics, and translations. His work has appeared in The Norton Anthology of Postmodern Poetry, The Comics Journal, and Critical Inquiry. He has drawn The New Life poetry comic for Rain Taxi Review of Books for more than 25 years and hosts a three-hour international music show for WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio. 

Monica Ong (she/her) is the author of Silent Anatomies and a Kundiman fellow. Heastronomy-inspired visual poetry, Planetaria, was exhibited at the Poetry Foundation and is currently at the Hunterdon Art Museum through September 3, 2023. She is also the founder of Proxima Vera, a micropress of literary fine press and art objects. Ong also contributed as UX designer to John Ashbery's NEST, a virtual tour of his house and collections led by biographer Karin Roffman.

Abigail Raley is a queer poet from Kentucky. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana.

Evelyn Reilly a poet, scholar, and environmentalist. Her books include Styrofoam, Apocalypso and Echolocation, all of which are published by Roof Books. Her poetry has appeared in many anthologies and is also included in the Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene, a multimedia compendium of work by scientists, thinkers, poets and artists. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the climate activist group 350NYC.

Anne Riesenberg (she/her) is a writer, photographer and Five-Element acupuncturist living in Newcastle, Maine. Winner of Blue Mesa Review’s Nonfiction and Storm Cellar’s Force Majeure contests, a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, her work can be found in Pleiades, Rogue Agent, Posit, Heavy Feather Review, What Rough Beast, and elsewhere. The Palace of Unbearable Feeling, her chapbook of visual poems, was recently published by Lily Poetry Press.

Joan Retallack is a poet and essayist with a background in visual arts. Her most recent poetry volume is BOSCH'D: Fables, Moral Tales & Other Awkward Constructions (Litmus Press). Her long out-of-print poem, MEMNOIR, is now available in English and French editions on the CUNY Graduate Center Manifold Platform.

Nate Santana (he/him) is a poet, musician, and video artist. Nate's artwork embodies a multifaceted exploration of social realities and human experience. Through poetry, video art, music, and lived experience, Nate explores the complexities of poverty in the United States, the effects of technology on social relations, and the raw emotions and creativity of the human spirit.

Dan Schapiro is an HIV+ Jewish poet, artist, and access doula based in New York. His work engages Madness, virality and risk as critical methods of attendance, knowledge and relation, and has been published by Leste Magazine, Sticky Fingers Publishing, Wendy's Subway and elsewhere. He is the author of a book of poems and images called HOLEPLAY (Nueoi Press, 2020).

Karen Schoemer is a poet, spoken word artist and author. She contributes words and vocals to a number of music projects, including Jaded Azurites (a duo with bassist Mike Watt), Karen & Peter, Ivan the Tolerable, Day for Nights, and Sky Furrows. A former journalist for The New York Times and Newsweek, she published the music-memoir Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with 50s Pop Music in 2006. 

Danniel Schoonebeek is the author of American Barricade (YesYes Books, 2014) and Trébuchet, a 2015 National Poetry Series selection (University of Georgia Press, 2016). A recipient of a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from Poetry Foundation, recent work appears in Poetry, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

Sparrow writes thousands of poems, and is in several bands: Foamola, Truffles, Peg (and others). He lives in a doublewide trailer in trustworthy Phoenicia, NY. One of his books is Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies (Monkfish).

Claire Tuna (she/her) lives in Missoula, Montana. She is currently a graduate student in the MFA program at the University of Montana, where she studies poetry and has taught Composition and Creative Writing. She is an Associate Editor at Poetry Northwest. 

Rosanne Wasserman’s books of poems include Apple Perfume, The Lacemakers, No Archive on Earth, Other Selves, and Sonnets from Elizabeth’s, as well as Place du Carousel and Psyche and Amor, collaborations with Eugene Richie, with whom she co-edited John Ashbery’s Collected French Translations. They run the Groundwater Press, publishing New-York-School-related poets and artists since 1981. She has recently retired from thirty years of teaching at the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

Rachael Guynn Wilson is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her work has appeared in books, periodicals, and journals such as apricota (Secretary Press), Brooklyn Rail, e-flux, Hyperallergic, Jacket2, Kenyon Review, Matters of Feminist Practice (Belladonna* Series), Ritual and Capital (Bard + Wendy’s Subway), The Volta, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. in English from New York University, where she studied collaboration between poets and visual artists. She is Managing Editor at Litmus Press and teaches at Pratt Institute.

A Partial and Selective List of Local Dining and Takeout Suggestions

TAKEOUT & COFFEE

El Sabor de Oaxaca—Mexican take-out with outdoor seating. 9am–9pm Sat./Sun. 364 Warren Street (a few doors uphill from Flow Chart).

Talbot & Arding—gourmet grocery store with excellent takeout prepared sandwiches and salads (order at the counter or find “grab ‘n go” sandwiches in refrigerator case); a few tables inside to eat there. 9am–6pm Sat./Sun.—202 Allen Street (parallel to Warren Street. Walk across the street, then continue to Allen Street and make a right.

Kitty’s Market Café—takeout cafe has excellent egg sandwiches in the morning, and rotisserie chicken plates with sides during the day. May close at 6pm (full restaurant open until 9pm), lovely outdoor garden with bar. 8am—9pm Sat./Sun.—60 S. Front Street (across from Amtrak Station)

Moto Coffee Machine—coffee bar with small selection of sandwiches with tables inside. 8am–6pm Sat./Sun. 357 Warren Street (across the street)

Little Rico—vegan offerings and juice bar. 8am–4pm Sat./Sun.—8am–4pm

WYLDE Hudson—coffee bar & bar with excellent baked goods, indoor and outdoor seating. 8am–6pm Sat./8am–5pm Sun.

Supernatural—best coffee in town and nice selection of baked goods. 8am–4pm Sat. (closed Sun.)—527 Warren Street

DINING

Swoon Kitchenbar—American farm to table and bar. Reservations recommended. noon–10pm Sat./noon-9pm Sun. 340 Warren Street

The Red Dot—bar and restaurant, an old standby with lovely “secret garden” in back. 11am–3pm and 5pm–10pm Sat./Sun.—321 Warren Street

Backbar—bar, beer garden, and Malaysian food. 347 Warren Street (across the street)—347 Warren Street

Baba Louis’s—gourmet pizza. noon–3 and 5–9 Sat./Sun.—517 Warren Street

Issan Thai Star—Thai with lovely back garden. Reservations recommended. noon–10pm Sat. / noon–9pm Sun.—41 N. 7th Street (walk uphill to 7th and make a left)

Hudson Food Studio—Asian fusion (indoor seating and lovely “secret” garden. Reservations recommended. 5–9 Saturday (closed Sun.)—746 Warren Street

Wunderbar Bistro—sandwiches, pizza, and schnitzel. 11am–9pm Sat. (closed Sun.)—744 Warren Street

Lil’ Deb’s Oasis—destination-worthy Pan-Latin restaurant that doesn’t take reservations but is worth the wait. 5pm–10pm Sat./Sun.—747 Columbia Street (walk uphill on Warren to town square, cross it diagonally and continue to pink awning)

Le Gamin Country—French restaurant with crepes, sandwiches, omelettes, salads. Cash only. 9am–5pm Sat./Sun. 609 Warren Street

Savona’s Trattoria & Bar—Italian. Reservations recommended. 11:30am–10pm Sat./11am–9pm Sun. 136 Warren Street

Ca’Mea Restaurant—Italian. noon–3pm and 5–9pm Sat./noon–6pm Sun.—214 Warren Street

Kitty's—excellent new American, shared plates, cocktails. 60 S. Front Street (reservations recommended)—60 S. Front Street

Bodega Aguila Real—Mexican grocery with cheap and excellent food in the back. Eat there or take out and eat in the nearby town square park. 10:30am–6pm Sat. (close Sun.)—749 Columbia Street.

Casa Latina—excellent and inexpensive El Salvadoran and Mexican food (though a bit of a walk). Limited seating inside, tables outside. 10am–9pm Sat. (closed Sunday)—78 Green Street.

COCKTAIL BARS (in addition to above)

Padrona—craft cocktails. 3pm–midnight Sat./3-10pm Sun.—17 N. 4th Street (walk uphill and make a left)

The Maker Lounge—almost secret, hotel speakeasy lounge. 3pm–11pm Sat./3pm–10pm Sun.—302 Warren (entrance at N. 3rd Street & Prison Alley)