BOWERY MUSIC + POETRY + FILM

H. Paul Moon presents a season of flowing theatrical encounters for you with chamber music, spoken word poetry, and film projections at Bowery Poetry Club. Next up, third in the season, we convene on Election Night for a show of resonant poetry and music, truth to power.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC
7:30pm, doors open 6:30pm with cash bar / $20 admission, in advance or at the door
poetry:
Black Saturn=Experimental Hiphop Industrial Noise. M.C.ing & Dub Poetry
Kyabell Glass is a multimodal creative from the Bronx, sharing collections of musings that come to her often as whispers. Some, you can find floating around on twitter or instagram, @whsprngs.
Jerome Sala’s latest book of poems is Glop, just out from BlazeVOX. Other collections include cult classics such as I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent, The Trip, Raw Deal, Look Slimmer Instantly, The Cheapskates, Corporations Are People, Too!, How Much? New and Selected Poems, Prom Night (a chapbook collaboration with artist Tamara Gonzales) and Double Feature (a chapbook collaboration with poet Elaine Equi). Before moving to New York city in the 80s, Sala and his spouse, poet Elaine Equi, did numerous readings together in Chicago, helping to create the city’s lively performance poetry scene. He has worked as a copywriter and creative director and has a PhD in American Studies from New York University.
Don Yorty is a poet, educator, and garden activist living in New York City. He is the author of two previous poetry collections, A Few Swimmers Appear and Poet Laundromat (both from Philadelphia Eye & Ear), and he is included in Out of This World, An Anthology of the Poetry of the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, 1966– 1991. His novel What Night Forgets was published by Herodias Press in 2000. He blogs at donyorty.com: an archive of current art, his own writing, and work of other poets. His newest book, Spring Sonnets, was published by Indolent Books in August 2019.
music:
Tyler J. Borden (music director/cello) works with, in, and around the constraints of the cello. Formerly from Western NY, he is now based in Brooklyn NY, where he spends much of his time finding ways to exploit the strengths and failures of himself and his instrument.
Brandon Lopez (bass) is a New York-based composer and bassist working at the fringes of jazz, free improvisation, noise and new music. His music has been praised as “brutal” (Chicago Reader) and “relentless” (The New York Times). From the New York Philharmonic's David Geffen Hall to the DIY basements of Brooklyn, Lopez has worked beside many luminaries of jazz, classical, poetry, and experimental music, including Fred Moten, John Zorn, Okkyung Lee, Ingrid Laubrock, Tony Malaby, Tyshawn Sorey, Bill Nace, Chris Potter, Edwin Torres, Tom Rainey, Cecilia Lopez, Sun Ra Arkestra, Susan Alcorn, Mette Rasmussen, and many others. As a 2019–2020 Artist in Residence at Roulette, Lopez will play with his trio consisting of Gerald Cleaver, & Steve Baczkowski, a 4tet adding Cecilia Lopez, as well as a solo performance and duet with Greg Kelley. This continues Lopez's work as 2018 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room and 2018 Van Lier Fellow at Roulette Intermedium, Recent highlight performances include opening the 2018–2019 season of the New York Philharmonic as a featured soloist in Ashley Fure’s “Filament” and a number of works with John Zorn, including the Zorn’s 35th anniversary of “Cobra.”
Nick Neuberg (drums/percussion) is a drummer/percussionist, pianist and composer originally from the greater Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Nick attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with the legendary drummers Rakalam Bob Moses and Billy Hart and studied composition and improvisation with pianist Anthony Coleman and Guitarist Joe Morris. Upon graduating in the spring of 2014, Nick remained in the greater Boston area until the summer of 2018, during which time he both remained active in the creative music scene as a performer and became busy working and teaching. Now living in NYC, Nick has performed as a part of the bands Aykroyd, Letter Castle, Particulars, Ryan Power, Los Greys, Every Kim Parcell, Listening Woman and Creative Healing, among others.
Kevin Ramsay (guitar/electronics) is a composer, producer, recording/mixing/mastering/sound engineer, and musician on several critically acclaimed international albums. Brooklyn born and based, Ramsay’s work focuses primarily on theoretical, practical aspects of sound recording/reproduction with unpredictable pairings of acoustic and electronic instruments. Kevin’s current works explore new ways to capture, mix, and process immersive audio for playback, on multichannel sound systems. In addition to serving as the Lead Sound Engineer at Harvestworks Digital Media, he continues to collaborate with a variety of international artists committed to using sound as their main creative medium. Kevin has worked with notable artist such as Michael Byron, Henry Threadgil, Art Jones, Joan Jonas, Pauline Kim- Harris and Conrad Harris (String Noise), Anne Tardos, Danilio Correale, Maria Grand, Prince Harvey, Emilio Vavarella, Malik Ameer Crumpler, Daniel Belquer, Jon-Carlos Evans and many others.
film:
H. Paul Moon (zenviolence.com) creates films that concentrate on the performing arts. They include “Sitka: A Piano Documentary” about the craftsmanship of Steinway pianos, “Quartet for the End of Time” about Olivier Messiaen’s transcendent WWII composition, and an acclaimed documentary feature about the life and music of American composer Samuel Barber that premiered on PBS. Moon has created music videos and concert films for numerous composers ranging from Moondog to Steve Reich, and four opera films set in a community garden. His film “The Passion of Scrooge” was awarded “Critic's Choice” by Opera News as a “thoroughly enjoyable film version, insightfully conceived and directed” with “first-rate and remarkably illustrative storytelling.” He also was cinematographer for director Josephine Decker's “First Day Out” in the anthology film “collective:unconscious.” Moon’s films have been screened to live audiences at over two hundred film festivals around the world, with several awards and museum exhibitions. Highlights include works featured in exhibitions at the Nevada Museum of Art, the City Museum of New York and the Corcoran Gallery; PBS television broadcasts; and with Bob Holman, the Venice Biennale and dozens of international festivals presenting "We Are the Dinosaur" and "Beside Myself."

The rest of this season features:
Bob Holman — One-Man Show with Mivos Quartet (working title “Life Poem”) / May 26, 2026: This is his life — a true work-in-progress.
This project is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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