A Galère of Poetic Autopsies

Featuring Dust Bowl Faeries Duet (Ryder Cooley & Jon B. Woodin), John Kearns (with Siobhan Regan), and Sidney Long.

A monthly series at Hudson’s historic Park Theater. First Thursday of each month.

Together with co-curator John K Lawson, we are excited to take over the reins from the series founder Peter Jacob Streitz.

galère: [French (galƐr) noun. A group of people having a common interest, esp. a coterie of undesirable people.]

A Galère of Poetic Autopsies is held the first Thursday of each month at Hudson’s historic Park Theater. Expect the unexpected as poets, writers, and other creatives from the Hudson area and beyond reveal the inspiration and shadows behind their work.

Hosted by Jane Ormerod and John K Lawson.

$10 suggested donation to be shared among performers.

A faerie-tale fusion of dark folk, gothic polka and post-punk music, DUST BOWL FAERIES is a dark-carnival band from the New York Hudson Valley. The band's eclectic repertoire of songs draw inspiration from circus, murder ballads and Eastern European folk tunes.

JOHN KEARNS is the author of the short-story collection, Dreams and Dull Realities and the novels, The World, and Worlds. His plays include Boann and the Well of Wisdom and Sons of Molly Maguire. John’s fiction has appeared in The Medulla Review and Danse Macabre. His poems have been published in the North American Review and the Grey Sparrow Journal. He has a Masters Degree in Irish Literature from the Catholic University of America. John is happy and proud to have his cousin, SIOBHAN REGAN, performing with him. 
Siobhán Regan from Ireland via Chicago moved to NYC to try acting (forever a secret dream of hers). She was honored recently to perform in the Morningside Players Theatre production of “Next Fall,” originally as a Nurse and then in a lead role as Holly. She acted as understudy in “Boann and the Well of Wisdom” by her cousin John Kearns at the same theatre. Tonight marks her second time at Park Theater: she was a featured reader and singer for the first Galère of Poetic Autopsies. Other staged readings include: “I Knew You’d Say That!” and “Joint Owners in Spain.”

SIDNEY LONG moved to Hudson in 2016 after spending twenty years as an aspiring filmmaker and writer in New York City and then moving to Newport, Rhode Island. Since moving to Hudson, she has written two screenplays and sold several series of photographs of Hudson to a prominent New York art advisor. She is currently writing about her time as a cashier at NYC’s world-famous restaurant, La Grenouille. In October 2023, Sidney exhibited her poems and photographs at Window On Hudson.
Photograph of Sidney Long by Jeremy K. Bullis