Verbatim Text Sound Expo was conceived during the first year of the pandemic, with the intention of bringing together local small presses and record labels in an outdoor space to learn about each others’ work and trade books and tapes. Since then, it has grown into an annual day-long market and performance festival featuring Hudson Valley & Catskills-based small presses and record labels. The market is accompanied by a schedule of performance across disciplines: poetry, avant-garde music, sound art, and hybrid text-sound experiments. It is a gathering of poets, soundmakers, fabulists, singers, and sprechstimmers, moving between & across domains of text and noise.
All Verbatim performances are curated by the presses and labels. If you are a small press poetry publisher or a record label that focuses on experimental sound, and you are based in the Hudson Valley, Catskills, Capital Region, Western Mass, or nearby areas, please contact pinsapocollective@gmail.com if you're interested in becoming a vendor. We have limited capacity so participation isn't guaranteed. We're no longer adding new vendors to the 2025 lineup.
Verbatim is now in its 5th year, and will be held this October 4th at the beautiful Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts in the Northern Catskills. Local food and drink purveyors will keep you all nourished, and WGXC 90.7 will broadcast live from the stage for those who can't attend in person. Come to experience out-there literary and sound experiments emerging from the Hudson Valley, Catskills, Western MA, and Western NY.
VERBATIM TEXT SOUND EXPO V
OCTOBER 4TH, 2025
SUGAR MAPLES CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
35 BIG HOLLOW ROAD
MAPLECREST, NEW YORK
MARKET: 11:30am-5:30pm
PERFORMANCES: 12:30am-9:30pm
PARTICIPANTS
[Presses]
Spiral Editions
Belladonna* Collaborative
1080 Press
PS Hudson
Dispersed Holdings
Blue Bag Press
Pinsapo
We Press
Litmus Press
18 Owls
Lanesville Press
After Hours
Arteidolia
Inpatient Press
Ugly Duckling Presse
[Labels]
Tripticks Tapes
Infrequent Seams
Notice Recordings
LCollective
cow: Music
Carbon Records
Gold Bolus
Pogus
Wave Farm
[Zine / Self-Publisher Table]
Lea Bertucci
Joshua Gruft (Paper Moon)
Manny J. Perez (Death Rattled)
Rachel Allen
[Performers]
-Notice Recordings: Shelley Hirsch & Hand Tammen
-Tripticks Tapes: Stella Silbert & Nat Baldwin
-Infrequent Seams: Joe McPhee, James Ilgenfritz, Anna Vitale
-Litmus Press: Tracie Morris
-LCollective:Teodora Stepancic, Assaf Gidron, Laura Cetilia, Mark Cetilia, Douglas Farrand
-cow:Music: Maeve Schallert
-Carbon Records: SQ (Joe Tunis & Marc Faris)
-Notice Recordings: Shahzad Ismaily, No Land, Oliver Ray
-Gold Bolus: Dave Ruder & Woody Leslie
-Pogus: Duo Denum (Al Margolis, Tom Law)
-Spiral Editions: Ryan Skrabalak and Sam Wenc
-Belladonna* Collaborative: Alexis Almeida and Ayaz Muratoglu
-1080 Press: Sahar Khraibani
-PS Hudson: Matthew Klane
-Dispersed Holdings
-Blue Bag Press: Ry Cook, Alyx Tanner, Death Rattled (Manny J. Perez)
-Pinsapo: Ball of Fire (Sparrow & Brigid Slattery)
-We Press: Most Serene Congress (Chris Funkhouser, David Hirmes, Leonard Nevarez)
-Hypothetical Books: Rachel Allen
LODGING OPTIONS
- Sherwood House: Inn located at the Sugar Maples venue. $100/person. Call Ashley at (518) 263-2030 to reserve.
- Fully-equipped tent sites at Tim's pond: $50/site plus small fee for extra campers. 15-minute drive to the venue. Reserve here (and mention that you're with Verbatim).
- Jimmy O'Connors Windham Mountain Inn: Rooms in the $150-$200 range. 7-minute drive from the venue. Reserve at (518) 734-4270.
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.