#cat tyc

[jgthirlwell]

01.01.19 New Years Day in NYC means the annual festival of poets from The Poetry Project at St Marks Church. Among the dozens of performers doing short sets were the legendary Anne Waldman,  Cat Tyc, Precious Okoyomon, CA Conrad, Wo Chan, Erica Hunt with guest Marty Ehrlich, Steve Earle, Tammy Faye Starlight, Penny Arcade, M.Lamar, Anne Vitale, Laura Ortman and many more

[honeymooninthefridge]

CAT TYC, PLEASE SCREAM INSIDE YOUR HEART PT. 1, Fence

[stroccospoetry]

ART OF PRETEND  by Cat Tyc

PREFACE: We had a strange and beautiful reading on September 19th. We met in the garden around 4:30, a small group of friends, not a big public. We were wandering around the sunflowers, some of us sipping on cider, accosted by bees. Meanwhile, down by the apple tree, a man was accosted, and assaulted, by two teenagers, who after knocking him to the ground pulled out a phone to film themselves as they kicked him while he was down. It was disturbing to say the least. Drug dealers disappeared as police drove back and forth looking for the teens. We wondered whether the reading would go on at all; Abdul, the Mayor of Grand Street, stopped by to tell the full tale of the long dance between the drunk man and the two teens. Anna Vitale, our first reader, took a deep breath and launched into her reading.

The wireless microphone somehow died, just at the end of Anna’s reading. We came in close to hear Cat Tyc read without amplification. This poem, a work in progress called Art of Pretend summed up the feeling of the day better than any photographs could.

Our next reading in the garden will be October 3rd with Isabel Sobral Campos, Sarah Giragosian, and Julie Priscoe.  - Lex for St. Rocco’s

It is not lost on me That we are reading To each other To keep the monsters Away

When I was young My father refused To read to me Because I knew how But when he would acquiesce Submit to my ask What bliss

It’s kind of a weird era For the face And breath relations In general

A grand emphasis On the minute A lover walks away We evaporate (-ed) On each other

With shattered contact Its funny who you miss With shattered touch Its funny Who you don’t

In the state of trust, what can a body do to be safe ?

If we could turn off the skin, we would appreciate it so much more.

Return to The flood of origin The terror Of a mother panopticon

I feel transparent in the act.

Maybe this is love In the age Of corona

[grandgrandgalop]

Winter Walk Literary Reading at Walnut Hill Fine Art Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 5pm With readings by: Rebecca Wolff Hallie Goodman Cat Tyc Adam Tedesco Karen Schoemer Jane Liddle Hosted by Jasmine Dreame Wagner About the readers: Rebecca Wolff is the author of four books of poems (most recently One Morning-- from Wave Books) and one novel. She is the editor of Fence and Fence Books. She was born and raised in Chelsea, New York and has lived in Hudson almost as long as she lived there. Hallie Goodman is a writer living in Hudson, New York where she co-founded Volume Reading and Music Series. She is a MacDowell Colony, NYFA MARK and InStar Lodge fellow. Her work has appeared in Glamour Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Redbook Magazine, and many others. A recent essay, published by Hunger Mountain, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Hallie holds a GED and an MFA. Cat Tyc is a writer and artist. Her video work has screened locally and internationally at spaces that include the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn Museum, Kassel Fest and the PDX International Festival. Her most recent writings have been published in Weekday, The Sink Review,  6x6 and The Fanzine. She is an occasional contributing writer for BOMB and Topical Cream. She teaches multimedia composition and media analysis within the CUNY system and Rutgers New Brunswick and works as the Program Coordinator for The Home School based in Hudson, NY. Poet and video artist Adam Tedesco is a founding editor of REALITY BEACH, a journal of new poetics. His video work has been shown at MoMA PS1, among other venues. His recent poetry, essays and interviews have appeared in Laurel Review, Prelude, Powderkeg, Fanzine, Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere. He is the author of several chapbooks, most recently ABLAZA (2017), the forthcoming Misrule (Ursus Americanus, 2019) and the forthcoming poetry collection Mary Oliver (Lithic Press, 2018). Karen Schoemer's poems have appeared in La Presa, the Pine Hills Review, Up the River and lex*i*con. She performs and records with several bands, include Sky Furrows, Jaded Azurites and Venture Lift. Her music criticism has been widely published and anthologized; she is the author of Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with '50s Pop Music. An MFA student at the Writer's Foundry in Brooklyn, NY, she lives in Hudson and manages Book Space at Time and Space Limited in Hudson. Jane Liddle is a friend to birds and lives in New Paltz, New York. Her stories have been published in various journals and featured in the Best Small Fictions anthology. Her short-story collection Murder was published by 421 Atlanta in March 2016. Jasmine Dreame Wagner is the author of On a Clear Day (Ahsahta Press), a collection of lyric essays and poems deemed “a capacious book of traveller’s observations, cultural criticism, and quarter-life-crisis notes” by Stephanie Burt at The New Yorker and “a radical cultural anthropology of the wild time we’re living in” by Iris Cushing at Hyperallergic. She works for Basilica Hudson. Sarah Butler : Ephemera is now on view in the gallery... enjoy the readings and the art. 

[mactaggart]

Cat Tyc is Have Nothing Day, she invented the phrase while walking around Brooklyn, contemplating her clothing, each image shows a different piece of mactaggart jewelry from her private collection! 

Photos taken by Cameron Blaylock 

[mactaggart]

Cat Tyc is a Brooklyn based filmmaker/poet/video artist. She has published in journals and websites like Shampoo, Boog City, and NY Nights while also self-publishing zines  for when she went on tour as a opener for punk bands. Her video installations have screened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Camac du’ Art in Paris and at the Art Basel in Switzerland. She has directed music videos that aired on MTVu and  LOGO’s NewNowNext. In 2006, she was a Fellow in Video Art/Documentary at the Flaherty Seminar’s “Creative Demolition” session at Vassar College.  She is currently in mid-production on a documentary deconstructing the sustainable fashion movement to broaden the dialogue about consumerism. 

[shaunsurething]

Fun to watch people talk about Riot Grrrl. You ALL know how obsessed I am with this subject matter and how ABSOLUTELY THRILLED I am that it's officially back on the table.

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