July 26th

Alan Gilbert’s books include the poetry collections The Treatment of Monuments (SplitLevel Texts) and Late in the Antenna Fields (Futurepoem Books), and a book of criticism: Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight (Wesleyan University Press). He has received grants and fellowships from the Warhol Foundation, NYFA, and Creative Capital. He is the web editor for BOMB Magazine and teaches in Columbia’s MFA. The second, expanded edition of his ongoing project, The Everyday Life of Design, a sprawling epic elegy sculpted out of the real and virtual detritus of our times, was published by Winter Editions in 2024.

Alex Gibbs’ music is instantly intimate, the kind of thing that you hear once and feel like it's been with you your whole life. Blown away by it, find it on all the streaming platforms and fall in love with this music as I have. Excited to catch him on this US tour, he’ll be in NY tomorrow. They sent me a really gorgeous bio, so I'm just going to read it.

With the release of his sophomore album Stay with the Horses, Alexander Biggs continues to unfold their eclectic take on bedroom folk. With a delivery that sways playfully between earnest and sardonic, Biggs offers condolences and perspective of life.

Far away from the blanket forts and back room studio set ups of the last record, Biggs’ attitude to self-recording is still apparent in their pursuit to find the words in our shared experience.

Stay with the Horses is a collection of songs written during a period of relentless change. The second album from Alexander Biggs navigates emotional peaks and troughs, capturing moments of sickness and recovery, humor and longing. It's an attempt to express something that defies words. Through its themes and undercurrents, the album invites listeners to connect with the shared, often indescribable, experiences of life.

Alexander Biggs has supported top tier talent including Julien Baker, Frightened Rabbit & Evan Dando of The Lemonheads, and amassed over 31 million streams on Spotify.

They’ve performed in the UK, US and South America.

Sarah Riggs is the author of the poetry collections The Nerve Epistle (Roof) and Pomme & Granite (winner of a 1913 Poetry Prize), and the translator of Etel Adnan’s Time (Nightboat), which received the Griffin Prize. As an artist and filmmaker she has recently presented her work in Marrakech, Marseille, and São Paulo. Her newest book of poems, Lines, published by Winter Editions in 2025, pulls from the momentum of Lyn Hejinian’s My Life and Bernadette Mayer’s Memory to create a survival manual for a Trump presidency and a family crisis.

Ted Babcock is a Philadelphia-based composer and percussionist. As a composer, his works ride the boundaries between conceptual electronics, percussive counterpoint, and an instinctual lyricism. Recent premieres include works written for the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, which has been selected by the America Composer’s Orchestra Earshot Program for the Spring 2024 season, and for the Viano String Quartet documenting the lives of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, he is a two-time Grammy-nominated percussionist for his work with The Crossing Choir and has performed with Grammy award-winning contemporary music groups such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and eighth blackbird. He received degrees in composition, percussion, and community artistry from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and the Curtis Institute of Music.

Stephanie Cawley is a poet in Philadelphia. They are the author of No More Flowers (Birds, LLC) and My Heart But Not My Heart (Slope Editions). Recent poems have been published in Protean, Prolit, and the tiny.

Jarrod Campbell is a writer living in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. His work has appeared online and in print with Heavy Feather Review, Northwest Review, Bonerworld (Berlin), and Wicked Gay Ways, among others. His collection of short stories, The Reason I'm Here, (Stalking Horse Press, June 2023) was selected the month of its release as an anticipated LGBTQIA+ read by Lambda Literary.

South Philly-based multi-instrumentalist Mike Gallagher has never played original six string music in front of an audience--he'll be performing two pieces for guitar and delay pedal, and one for just guitar. For fans of minimalism and Drop D.