Watch Strays on Stage: Full Video

Julianne Neely and Rachelle Toarmino Live in Conversation; Recorded Reading by Mary Ruefle

On Saturday June 26, 2021, Foundlings Press launched Strays Pack 4 at the North Park Theatre in Buffalo, New York.

The event featured live readings and conversation from poets Julianne Neely and Rachelle Toarmino, plus a surprise recorded performance by Strays 4 packmate Mary Ruefle.

All three poets read from their Strays chapbooks (available for purchase here). Seated on the North Park’s historic stage and beneath the theatre’s golden dome, Neely and Toarmino also discussed each other’s work, the sonnet form and “broken sonnets,” repetition and punctuation, influences, “confessional” poetry, readings and misreadings of contemporary women poets, MFA and PhD programs and workshops, and their experiences reading and studying with Mary Ruefle.

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Note: Reading starts at 8:59. Aidan’s introduction and Rachelle’s reading are difficult to hear due to mic placement and acoustics issues. Audio quality picks up during Julie’s reading; the discussion and Mary’s reading are entirely audible.

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Zack Grabosky and Gerry Crinnin in Coversation: Video

Poets talk Grabosky’s Blazes, Binghamton, and more

Zack Grabosky, author of the poetry collection Blazes, connected over Zoom for a conversation with Gerry Crinnin, fellow poet and compatriot from their days in the SUNY Binghamton Creative Writing Program. Zack read several poems from Blazes and talked with Gerry about the genesis of the book, his travels through New York and Pennsylvania, fatherhood, and other poets they both studied under and befriended, like the great Milton Kessler.

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