Dive into summer with this study by @patriciamhudson currently on view in her exhibition “No Matter What: Patti Hudson and Friends” DM for purchase info! 75% of all sales go directly to the artist! (fb)

The New York City Poetry Festival (NYC PoFest) returns to Governors Island this July 12–13, and Pen + Brush is going to be there! Join us at the The Blackbird: Saturday, July 12th @ 4:00 pm to hear our poets Annie Finch, Paola Fiterre, and Zefyr Lisowski! Every July, The Poetry Society of New York (PSNY) transforms Governors Island into a sprawling, sun-drenched poetry wonderland known as NYC PoFest. For fourteen years, poets, poetry lovers, and poets-to-be have flocked from far and wide to frolic on the island’s lush green lawns and shout poetry to the skyline; to snack on Smorgasburg-worthy treats with new and old poetry besties; to scribble odes to Victorian mansions beneath a canopy of century-old trees. About our readers: Annie Finch is an American poet, writer, translator, cultural critic and performance artist. Her work is centred on feminism and earth-based spirituality. She has published seven books of poetry and has received the Sarasvati Award and the Robert Fitzgerald Award for lifetime contribution to the art and craft of Versification. Paola Fiterre Cuban artist based in New York, whose practice focuses on the representation of the female body as shaped by the migratory experience. She studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana and graduated from the International Center of Photography in 2019, where she received the ICP Director’s Scholarship and the ICP New Media Grant. She has received fellowships such as the Reed Foundation Fellowship for Cuban artists and, in 2023, the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Photography. Her work is a reflection on the tension between personal and cultural identity, exploring themes such as migration, the female figure in a globalized society, and humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Zefyr Lisowski is the author of the forthcoming Uncanny Valley Girls, an essay collection about horror movies, exes, and intimacy (Harper Perennial 2025). A 2023 NYFA/NYSCA Fellow in Nonfiction and 2023 Queer|Art Fellow, she’s also the author of two poetry collections, Girl Work (Noemi Press 2024) and Blood Box (Black Lawrence 2019). (fb)