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09/11/2025
VEXATIONS: A Debut Immersive Performance of the Book Length Poem
Sunday, September 14th 5–7PM
Flow Chart Space (348 Warren Street, Hudson)
$8 (2-for-1 available)
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Join us for this SPECIAL, ONE-TIME-ONLY debut of the COMPLETE performance of VEXATIONS by , the book length poem, as it was always intended to be.
A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world—an immersive performance of Annelyse Gelman's award-winning, book-length poem combining text, music, images, and field recordings. Experimental musician extraordinaire Zach Layton returns to the Flow Chart space to perform from Ashbery’s personal piano for this performance.
Vexations (Phoenix Poets, University of Chicago Press), winner of the 2022 James Laughlin Award and long listed for the National Book Award in Poetry, is a text score and book-length poem—a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout winds a narrative about a mother and daughter as they move through a world of social and economic collapse. Vexations is titled and structured after Erik Satie’s composition of the same name, a piece that requires patience, endurance, and concentration. This is ambient poetry, drawing on the aesthetic qualities of drone music and sampling voices and sounds to create a lush literary backdrop filled with pulsing psychedelic detail.
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This event will also be livestreamed through WGXC ("radio for open ears") on the WGXC Flow Chart Foundation livestream page.
08/28/2025
VEXATIONS: A Debut Immersive Performance of the Book Length Poem
Sunday, September 14th 5–7PM
Flow Chart Space (348 Warren Street, Hudson)
$8 (2-for-1 available)
Join us for this SPECIAL, ONE-TIME-ONLY debut of the COMPLETE performance of VEXATIONS by , the book length poem, as it was always intended to be.
A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world—an immersive performance of Annelyse Gelman's award-winning, book-length poem combining text, music, images, and field recordings. Experimental musician extraordinaire Zach Layton returns to the Flow Chart space to perform from Ashbery’s personal piano for this performance.
Vexations (Phoenix Poets, University of Chicago Press), winner of the 2022 James Laughlin Award and long listed for the National Book Award in Poetry, is a text score and book-length poem—a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout winds a narrative about a mother and daughter as they move through a world of social and economic collapse. Vexations is titled and structured after Erik Satie’s composition of the same name, a piece that requires patience, endurance, and concentration. This is ambient poetry, drawing on the aesthetic qualities of drone music and sampling voices and sounds to create a lush literary backdrop filled with pulsing psychedelic detail.
GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY
This event will also be livestreamed through WGXC ("radio for open ears") on the WGXC Flow Chart Foundation livestream page.
08/12/2025
THIS SATURDAY
Philippe Soupault, Poetry, Prose, and Interviews LAUNCH
Saturday, August 16th, 6-7pm
Flow Chart Space — FREE
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At the age of nine, John Ashbery saw a spread in Life Magazine on an exhibition of Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism. He later said, “Those images made me want to be a Surrealist.”
This evening Gregg Ellis will read from his new book of translations of Soupault’s poems and prose. Eric Longo and Mark Dow will complement the readings with excerpts of the original French texts and a selection of Ashbery’s more “surrealistic” poems.
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