Foreword #2: Sasha Pearl

STARR · RHINEBECK

April 16

Sasha Pearl shares bus poems, plays music, shows paintings.

Hosted by novelist Ashley Mayne:

Ashley Mayne’s work has appeared in Fence, Post Road, Northwest Review, Juked, Peripheries, Blight Podcast, Metambesen, and elsewhere. She is the author of novels Mankiller (2014 Dr. Cicero Books) and Tiger (2015), edits fiction for Fence, curates the reading series Crystal Radio, and works on an organic farm in the Hudson Valley.

Music interludes provided by Willis Ross

Willis Ross is a multi-instrumentalist living in New York’s Hudson Valley. Their newest EP titled Songs I Sing is a collection of six original songs. It was recorded during the winter of 2023 in the catskill mountains. When they are not busy playing keys with the Ulsterados (local country band), or accompanying various other local artists, they can most likely be found eating grapefruit while taking a bath/ fixing their busted old Jeep in the driveway/ or obsessively adjusting the lighting in the living room while also adjusting the volume knob on their favorite tape player.