Artists Space

Segue Reading Series:
Alan Felsenthal & Betsy Fagin

Reading
May 23, 2020, 5pm

This reading is presented as part of the Segue Reading Series.

A flyer featuring a vintage orange and black computer with a small monitor and chunky keyboard set against a saturated yellow background. White, stylized text on a faded computer screen reads: "A READING BY ALAN FELSENTHAL AND BETSY FAGIN." Red text on the yellow background in the upper left corner reads: "Artists Space & the Segue Reading Series present" and in the lower right corner: "Saturday May 23rd / 5 pm NYC time / Zoom ID 378 232 567”
[A flyer featuring a vintage orange and black computer with a small monitor and chunky keyboard set against a saturated yellow background. White, stylized text on a faded computer screen reads: "A READING BY ALAN FELSENTHAL AND BETSY FAGIN." Red text on the yellow background in the upper left corner reads: "Artists Space & the Segue Reading Series present" and in the lower right corner: "Saturday May 23rd / 5 pm NYC time / Zoom ID 378 232 567”]

Alan Felsenthal is the author of Lowly (Ugly Duckling Press, 2017). His writing has appeared in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Critical Quarterly, jubilat, Harper’s, and the New York Times Magazine. He runs a small press called The Song Cave with Ben Estes. They co-edited A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (The Song Cave, 2013).

Betsy Fagin is the author of All is Not Yet Lost (Belladonna, 2015), Names Disguised (Make Now Books, 2014), and a number of chapbooks. Fagin was awarded a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry. Recent work is forthcoming in Obsidian.

Listen to the reading by Betsy Fagin

Listen to the reading by Alan Felsenthal

Program support for Artists Space is provided by The Friends of Artists Space, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, The Cy Twombly Foundation, The David Teiger Foundation, The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The New York Community Trust, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, The Willem de Kooning Foundation, The Danielson Foundation, The Fox Aarons Foundation, Herman Goldman Foundation, The Destina Foundation, The Luce Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, VIA Art Fund, Arison Arts Foundation, The Chicago Community Fund, The David Rockefeller Fund, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, The Jill and Peter Kraus Foundation, The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation.