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Visit here for events from The Flow Chart Foundation. The Flow Chart Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, raising funds to support its programs.

Toward opening new possibilities, The Flow Chart Foundation explores poetry and the interrelationships of various art forms as guided by the legacy of American poet John Ashbery and promotes engagement with his work. Through programs for both general and scholarly audiences showcasing innovative work by a diversity of artists of various kinds, The Flow Chart Foundation celebrates Ashbery and his a

rt as an inspirational and generative force. It also maintains the Ashbery Resource Center to provide opportunities for deep exploration and scholarship, and presents a variety of programs and exhibits through its Flow Chart Space. We see poetry in particular as a conduit to exploration, questioning, and resistance to the status quo, and work to offer new ways to engage with it and its interplay with other artistic modes. We seek out art and artists who help us challenge assumed perceptions of thinking about ourselves, one another and the world. We believe that by showcasing the widest possible diversity of artists working now—from a variety of cultural, ethnic, gender-identified, and aesthetic backgrounds and viewpoints representing a breadth of generative, exploratory work that defies simple consumption—we expand our ability to question, to speak, to think, to dream, to accomplish.

09/11/2025

VEXATIONS: A Debut Immersive Performance of the Book Length Poem⁠
Sunday, September 14th 5–7PM⁠
Flow Chart Space (348 Warren Street, Hudson)⁠
$8 (2-for-1 available)⁠
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Read 2 Poems NOW on Harpers Magazine via the link.tree in our bio⁠.⁠
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Join us for this SPECIAL, ONE-TIME-ONLY debut of the COMPLETE performance of VEXATIONS by , the book length poem, as it was always intended to be. ⁠
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A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world—an immersive performance of Annelyse Gelman's award-winning, book-length poem combining text, music, images, and field recordings. Experimental musician extraordinaire Zach Layton returns to the Flow Chart space to perform from Ashbery’s personal piano for this performance.⁠
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Vexations (Phoenix Poets, University of Chicago Press), winner of the 2022 James Laughlin Award and long listed for the National Book Award in Poetry, is a text score and book-length poem—a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout winds a narrative about a mother and daughter as they move through a world of social and economic collapse. Vexations is titled and structured after Erik Satie’s composition of the same name, a piece that requires patience, endurance, and concentration. This is ambient poetry, drawing on the aesthetic qualities of drone music and sampling voices and sounds to create a lush literary backdrop filled with pulsing psychedelic detail.⁠
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GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY⁠
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This event will also be livestreamed through WGXC ("radio for open ears") on the WGXC Flow Chart Foundation livestream page.

09/03/2025

And that wedding cake—what does it think it is?

Promises? Was it for this I sublet the apartment,

consecrated myself to a life of prudery

and banal satisfaction? I could have sold my life

story to a famous writer. But by then

it would have been over. Too much to write about isn’t a good thing.

—John Ashbery (from THE PEACE PLAN)

08/28/2025

VEXATIONS: A Debut Immersive Performance of the Book Length Poem⁠
Sunday, September 14th 5–7PM⁠
Flow Chart Space (348 Warren Street, Hudson)⁠
$8 (2-for-1 available)⁠
⁠
Join us for this SPECIAL, ONE-TIME-ONLY debut of the COMPLETE performance of VEXATIONS by , the book length poem, as it was always intended to be. ⁠
⁠
A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world—an immersive performance of Annelyse Gelman's award-winning, book-length poem combining text, music, images, and field recordings. Experimental musician extraordinaire Zach Layton returns to the Flow Chart space to perform from Ashbery’s personal piano for this performance.⁠
⁠
Vexations (Phoenix Poets, University of Chicago Press), winner of the 2022 James Laughlin Award and long listed for the National Book Award in Poetry, is a text score and book-length poem—a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout winds a narrative about a mother and daughter as they move through a world of social and economic collapse. Vexations is titled and structured after Erik Satie’s composition of the same name, a piece that requires patience, endurance, and concentration. This is ambient poetry, drawing on the aesthetic qualities of drone music and sampling voices and sounds to create a lush literary backdrop filled with pulsing psychedelic detail.⁠
⁠
GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY⁠
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This event will also be livestreamed through WGXC ("radio for open ears") on the WGXC Flow Chart Foundation livestream page.

08/27/2025

EXHIBITION ANNOUCEMENT

BACKWARD INTO LIGHT: Charles Goldman

Backward into Light is an exhibition made up of a series of lo-tech sculptural works created from lumber, concrete, paneling, steel and carpet, etc. The works reflect adjustments to the body as it moves through space. Compressing, bending, slumping, shrugging, kneeling are ways that our body moves with and through the space around it, depending on the situation at hand. The centerpiece – WINGS – introduces the possibility of flight to these quotidian postures. The sculptures are both casual representations of and enduring monuments to those fleeting moments. They are layered moments. The exhibition’s title, Backward into Light, is a line taken from the 1975 John Ashbery poem, "The One Thing That Can Save America."

OPENING SATURDAY, AUGUST 30TH
Open Saturdays 12–6pm or by appointment.

08/12/2025

THIS SATURDAY⁠
Philippe Soupault, Poetry, Prose, and Interviews LAUNCH⁠⁠
Saturday, August 16th, 6-7pm⁠
Flow Chart Space — FREE⁠
⁠Register for FREE via the Link.tree in our bio⁠
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At the age of nine, John Ashbery saw a spread in Life Magazine on an exhibition of Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism. He later said, “Those images made me want to be a Surrealist.”⁠
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This evening Gregg Ellis will read from his new book of translations of Soupault’s poems and prose. Eric Longo and Mark Dow will complement the readings with excerpts of the original French texts and a selection of Ashbery’s more “surrealistic” poems.

08/10/2025

Philippe Soupault, Poetry, Prose, and Interviews LAUNCH⁠⁠
Saturday, August 16th, 6-7pm⁠
Flow Chart Space — FREE⁠
⁠Register via the Link.tree in our bio⁠
⁠
At the age of nine, John Ashbery saw a spread in Life Magazine on an exhibition of Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism. He later said, “Those images made me want to be a Surrealist.”⁠
⁠
This evening Gregg Ellis will read from his new book of translations of Soupault’s poems and prose. Eric Longo and Mark Dow will complement the readings with excerpts of the original French texts and a selection of Ashbery’s more “surrealistic” poems.

08/09/2025

TODAY⁠
The Flow of the Poem's Display of Itself Reading & Discussion⁠
7–8:30pm at Flow Chart Space — FREE⁠
Register via the Link.tree in our bio⁠
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The Flow Chart Foundation in collaboration with Roof Books is proud to present a reading and panel discussion of Carrie Hunter’s The Flow of the Poem’s Display of Itself. Hunter’s book channels John Ashbery’s seminal long poem Flow Chart revealing an extended reflection on influence, community, and what it means to spend one’s life reading and writing poetry. ⁠
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Hunter’s reading from her book at the historic Flow Chart Space will be followed by a panel discussion on Flow Chart and poetry communities in the NY School and the Bay Area by Hunter, Marcella Durand, and Ann Lauterbach with an introduction by Roof publisher James Sherry.⁠
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Register for FREE today!

08/08/2025

READER HIGHLIGHT: Marcella Durand⁠
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Marcella Durand is the author of several books of poetry, including A Winter Triangle, forthcoming from Fordham University Press in Fall 2025 and the recipient of the 2024 Poetic Justice Institute Prize. Other books include To husband is to tender (Black Square Editions, 2022), The Prospect (Delete Press, 2020), The Garden of M./Le Jardin de M., translated by Olivier Brossard and published in a bilingual edition by joca seria, 2016, and a book-length translation of Michele Metail’s constraint-based work, Earth’s Horizons/Les Horizons du sol, (Black Square Editions, 2020). She is the co-editor with Jennifer Firestone of Other Influences: The Untold History of Avant-Garde Feminist Poetry, published by MIT Press in Fall 2024, and the 2021 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art. She lives and works in the Lower East Side, where she also engages in local ecology advocacy and monitoring urban wildlife.⁠
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hear Marcella read with other amazing poets at:⁠
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The Flow of the Poem's Display of Itself Reading & Discussion⁠
TOMORROW, August 9th⁠
7–8:30pm at Flow Chart Space — FREE⁠
Register via the Link.tree in our bio⁠
⁠
The Flow Chart Foundation in collaboration with Roof Books is proud to present a reading and panel discussion of Carrie Hunter’s The Flow of the Poem’s Display of Itself. Hunter’s book channels John Ashbery’s seminal long poem Flow Chart revealing an extended reflection on influence, community, and what it means to spend one’s life reading and writing poetry. ⁠
⁠
Hunter’s reading from her book at the historic Flow Chart Space will be followed by a panel discussion on Flow Chart and poetry communities in the NY School and the Bay Area by Hunter, Marcella Durand, and Ann Lauterbach with an introduction by Roof publisher James Sherry.⁠
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Register for FREE today!

08/07/2025

Did you know that any of the lines in quotes from "The Flow of the Poem's Display of Itself" are taken from John Ashbery’s Flow Chart or occasionally⁠
some of his prose writings, or other poetry?⁠
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COME TO THE LAUNCH AT THE FLOW CHART SPACE TO LEARN MORE⁠
⁠
The Flow of the Poem's Display of Itself Reading & Discussion⁠
Saturday, August 9th⁠
7–8:30pm at Flow Chart Space — FREE⁠
Register via the Link.tree in our bio⁠
⁠
The Flow Chart Foundation in collaboration with Roof Books is proud to present a reading and panel discussion of Carrie Hunter’s The Flow of the Poem’s Display of Itself. Hunter’s book channels John Ashbery’s seminal long poem Flow Chart revealing an extended reflection on influence, community, and what it means to spend one’s life reading and writing poetry. ⁠
⁠
Hunter’s reading from her book at the historic Flow Chart Space will be followed by a panel discussion on Flow Chart and poetry communities in the NY School and the Bay Area by Hunter, Marcella Durand, and Ann Lauterbach with an introduction by Roof publisher James Sherry.⁠
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Register for FREE now!

08/06/2025

READER HIGHLIGHT: Ann Lauterbach⁠
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Ann Lauterbach’s eleventh poetry collection Door (Penguin 2023) was short-listed for the 2024 Griffin International Poetry Prize. She received a 2025 NYSCA grant for her forthcoming work“The Meanwhile”. Recent writings include Untitled (Event)in Felix Gonzalez-Torres Photostats(Siglio 2020); Art of the Unbeautiful True, in Mina Loy Strangeness is Inevitable (Princeton University Press 2023), Topos Non Topos : Notes on David Novros (Paula Cooper Gallery 2023).Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship, she teaches at Bard College.⁠
⁠
hear Ann read with other amazing poets at:⁠
⁠
The Flow of the Poem's Display of Itself Reading & Discussion⁠
Saturday, August 9th⁠
7–8:30pm at Flow Chart Space — FREE⁠
Register via the Link.tree in our bio⁠
⁠
The Flow Chart Foundation in collaboration with Roof Books is proud to present a reading and panel discussion of Carrie Hunter’s The Flow of the Poem’s Display of Itself. Hunter’s book channels John Ashbery’s seminal long poem Flow Chart revealing an extended reflection on influence, community, and what it means to spend one’s life reading and writing poetry. ⁠
⁠
Hunter’s reading from her book at the historic Flow Chart Space will be followed by a panel discussion on Flow Chart and poetry communities in the NY School and the Bay Area by Hunter, Marcella Durand, and Ann Lauterbach with an introduction by Roof publisher James Sherry.⁠
⁠
Register for FREE today!⁠
⁠
[Pictured in slide 1: Ann Lauterbach. Slide 2: event graphic. Slide 3: book cover. Slide 4: Carrie Hunter. Slide 5: Marcella Durand, Slide 6: James Sherry]

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