Silo City Reading Series: Graham Foust, Amy De’Ath, Chuck Tingley, Allegra Krieger

Featured Artists

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  Graham Foust Poet + Translator
  

  Graham Foust

  Poet + Translator

  Graham Foust is the author of nine books of poems, including Terminations (2023), Embarrassments (2021), and Nightnigalelessness (2018). With Samuel Frederick, he has translated four volumes by the late German poet Ernst Meister, including Wallless Space, which was nominated for a National Translation Award. He works at the University of Denver.

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  Amy De’Ath Poet
  

  Amy De’Ath

  Poet

  Amy De’Ath is the author of several short poetry books, and with Fred Wah, editor of a poetics anthology, Toward. Some. Air.  (Banff Centre Press).  Not a Force of Nature  (Futurepoem, 2024) is her first full-length poetry collection. She also has a forthcoming critical book,  Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction  (Stanford UP, 2026) which proposes a new way of reading poetry based on Marx’s critique of value. Until now she taught contemporary literature and theory at King’s College London, but she recently moved to the US, where she will be Assistant Professor of English at Tufts University in Boston. She loves Buffalo and she often stays there, on Seneca territory, the home of the Haudenosaunee people.

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  Chuck Tingley Artist
  

  Chuck Tingley

  Artist

  Chuck Tingley is a Buffalo-based artist who combines abstraction and realism in his drawings, paintings, and murals to develop distinctly contemporary works. He holds a BFA in Painting from SUNY Buffalo State, and currently maintains a studio in Buffalo’s Clinton/Bailey neighborhood. Solo exhibitions of Tingley’s work have been held at the Olean Public Library in Olean, NY, and El Museo Gallery and Buffalo Arts Studio in Buffalo. He has also been included in group exhibitions at the Burchfield Penney Art Center and the Erie Art Museum in Erie, PA. Tingley has created public art for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY and Rhinegeist Brewery in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been awarded public art commissions in Western NY, including Buffalo, Hamburg, Lewiston, Medina, and Niagara Falls. In 2016, he was honored by Arts Services Initiative of Western New York as a Finalist for the ‘Artist of the Year’ Spark Cultural Award, and in March of 2018 his portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. appeared on the cover of Condé Nast magazine.

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  Allegra Krieger Singer-Songwriter
  

  Allegra Krieger

  Singer-Songwriter

  Allegra Krieger was born a selkie in the Atlantic Ocean in 1845. Taking a more conventional corporeal form, she moved to New York City, where she maintains a residence on the sixth floor of a hotel in east midtown. She writes songs, bad checks, love letters, and poorly formatted emails and trusts that terrible things can have extraordinary outcomes.

  Her latest album, ‘Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine,’ is out now from Double Double Whammy.