Literary Night: A Galère of Poetic Autopsies

This galère gathering isn’t simply about the poems, but also the poet’s muse, how the verse came to be. So, if writers write to expose themselves and actors act to hide themselves . . . poets pose as spiritual coroners—examining both the living and the dead—via self-evisceration. A psychic operation that allows the assemblage to decide if the work’s DNA is that of an archangel . . . or Frankenstein.


Bibbe Hansen is an artist, writer, poet, performer, and was one of the youngest members of the Andy Warhol Silver Factory. Aged fourteen, she starred in Warhol’s “Prison” with Edie Sedgwick. Her collection of “Factory Poems” is forthcoming from Waverly Press.

Jee Leong Koh is the author of the poetry collection “Steep Tea,” named a Best Book of the Year by UK’s Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary. His hybrid work, “Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an Insignificant Japanese Poet”, won the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. Originally from Singapore, Jee lives in New York City.

Rik Letendre was a founding member of the No Wave group Circle X. He is author of the collection of short fiction, “Nineteen Stories.” A bon vivant to the limit of patience, Rik wears soft slippers and wields a societal stiletto.