Kate Colby and Darcie Dennigan with Spatulate Church Emergency Shift.
Doors 130pm, Reading 2pm
Kate Colby is author of nine books of poetry, including I Mean and Reverse Engineer. A chapbook called Thingking is forthcoming from Factory Hollow Press. She lives in Providence, where she teaches, writes retail copy, and runs around with Spatulate Church Emergency Shift.
Darcie Dennigan’s next book, Commander!, will be out in Fall 2024 from Canarium. Her article on Providence's 1970s poets theatre group, The Wastepaper Theatre, is in the current issue of Chicago review.
The Spatulate Church Emergency Shift is ad hoc poets theatre, co-directed by Kate Colby and Darcie Dennigan. For Torn Page, Spatulate is working with Davis Alianiello, Matthew Derby, and John Kolodij to make a piece around Keith Waldrop's prose poem "The Silhouette of the Bridge." Waldrop writes, "I come to Providence at the age Dante stumbles into Hell," and each person associated with this project has also stumbled into, and one of us out of, Providence.