From December 2021

This set of Amtrak Poetry posters is just one part of a three-part installation. Hudson youth took part in a writing workshop by Oral History Summer School and Rebecca Borrer to make poems from oral histories from the Community Library of Voice and Sound. Participants include Olivr Rahman, Kameron Clarke, Rafael Rivera, Jaylon Nelson, Naomi Jackson, Kayla Hopwood, Lance Hopwood, Capri Cash McGriff and Gabe Smart. This installation continues in our “Incident Report” windows located at 348 Warren Street, Hudson, NY, and also includes a one-night Tentacle projection from the Hudson Hall opera house onto a white building across the street from it. Find more information on the Incident Report page..

From September 2021

This set comes to us by way of Scottish poet Thomas A. Clark. Tom tells us: 

It is the year of the COP climate change conference, taking place in Glasgow, and these texts point out that it is not only about how change affects us, but that it is having a devastating influence on other creatures. We tend to think of species extinction as an unfortunate situation, but it is much more than that. Properly, it should be treated as a crime, on the scale of genocide. My work is intended to address that, in a poetic way rather than sloganising. I should explain that the words are adapted from an old civil rights song sung by Marvin Gaye— “Abraham, Martin & John.”

Poet Thomas A Clark lives in a fishing village on the east coast of Scotland. His work responds to the different landscapes of the Highlands & Islands. In the summer months, with the artist Laurie Clark, he runs Cairn Gallery, a space for minimal and conceptual art.

From March 2021

We welcome spring with a trio of Ashbery poems, all from the 1984 collection A Wave.

From January 2021

This selection of Amtrak Poetry features a trio of poems from Fence 37, Winter 2021: “ساوى” by Siwar Masannat, “Red Bird” by Elizabeth Robinson and Suzanne Dykman, and “Mundus” by Rodrigo Toscano.