Verbatim Text Sound Expo 2026

Performances:

Friday, October 2nd, 6pm - 10pm

Saturday, October 3rd, 1pm - 10pm

Market:

Saturday October 3rd, 11am-6:30pm

Location:

Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts

35 Big Hollow Road, Maplecrest, NY

Food and drink: 

The Juice Branch | Left Bank Ciders

Featured curators: 

John Cage Trust | Northern Spy Reading Series | Center for Deep Listening

Vendors:

Black Ocean Press | Bodily Press | Terra Nova Press | Paper Moon | Portraiture Platform | Tripticks Tapes | Notice Recordings | Lobby Art | Sandy Rock Poetry

| Infrequent Seams | Wave Farm | Dispersed Holdings | Siglio Press | Lanesville Press

| Arteidolia | Spiral Editions | Pinsapo Collective | Far West Press | Blue Bag Press

| 1080 Press | Poetry Corp. | Black Sun Lit | Essay Press | Ugly Duckling Presse | The Sphinx National Poetry Tabloid

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Friday, October 2nd

6:30pm: Doors

7:00pm: Elisa Harkins (Wave Farm)

7:35pm: Emma Mistele / Sam Boston (Tripticks Tapes)

8:10pm: Eliot Cardinaux (Bodily Press)

8:45pm: Manuel J. Perez III (Death Rattled Creative)

9:20pm: Dave Snyder (Northern Spy Reading Series)

9:35pm: Karen Schoemer (Pinsapo Collective)

Saturday, October 3rd

11:00am: Market opens

1:00pm: Brian Dewan (Sandy Rock Poetry)

1:35pm: Silvina Lopez Medin (Essay Press)

1:50pm: Joe Hall (Black Ocean Press)

2:10pm: Thom Eichelberger-Young / Barrett White (Blue Bag Press)

2:35pm: Casper Lee (Spiral Editions)

2:50pm: Norman Douglas (Far West)

3:10pm: [Outdoor set] Truffles

3:30pm: Erik Kramer / Atticus von Holten / Don Lyons (Portraiture Platform)

4:05pm: E.Tracy Grinnell (Poetry Corp.)

4:20pm: Djdrummernk (Paper moon)

4:55pm: Katy Mongeau / Shredded Nerve (Black Sun Lit)

5:15pm: [Outdoor set] Thel emonate: Chris Funkhouser / Stephen Cope (Sandy Rock)

6:00pm: Market closes

6:30pm: Bow & Arrow: Lea Bertucci / Michael Beharie (Cibachrome Editions)

7:05pm: Laura Ortman (Pinsapo Collective)

8:00pm: Jeffrey Lependorf / Eric Keenaghan / Sam Wenc / James Ilgenfritz (John Cage Trust)

8:35pm: Anne Waldman / Devin Brahja Waldman (Infrequent Seams)

9:15pm: Keith Fullerton Williams (Notice Recordings)

Verbatim Text Sound Expo is fiscally sponsored by Phoenix Web Collective.

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by CREATE Council on the Arts.