Silo City Reading Series: 2025 Season Subscriptions

Featured Artists

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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.

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  Kenzie Allen Poet
  

  Kenzie Allen

  Poet

  Kenzie Allen is the author of Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024). She is a Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist, and the recipient of a 92NY Discovery Prize, an inaugural James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, the 49th Parallel Award in poetry, and fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Aspen Writers’ Foundation, and In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets). A finalist for the National Poetry Series, her work has appeared in Poetry magazine, Boston Review, Narrative magazine, Best New Poets, and other venues. She is a first-generation descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin.

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  Andrew Grace Poet
  

  Andrew Grace

  Poet

  Andrew Grace has published three books of poems: A Belonging Field (Salt Publishing), Shadeland (Ohio State University Press) and SANCTA (Ahsahta/Foundlings) . His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Boston Review and New Criterion . A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he is a Senior Editor at the Kenyon Review and teaches at Kenyon College. His fourth collection A Brief History of the Midwest was published by Black Lawrence Press in May 2025.

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  Crystal Z Campbell Artist
  

  Crystal Z Campbell

  Artist

  Crystal Z Campbell, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, is a visual artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipinx, and Chinese descents whose works center the underloved. Working through archives and omissions, Campbell finds complex­ity in public secrets—fragments of information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Campbell’s recent works use underloved archival material to consider historical gaps in the narrative of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks’ “immortal” cell line, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape, salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification, or reference traces of US colonialism in the Philippines.

  photo credit Brandon Watson

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  Donika Kelly Poet
  

  Donika Kelly

  Poet

  Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations (Graywolf), winner of the Anisfield-Wolf book award in poetry, and Bestiary (Graywolf), the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Kelly’s poetry has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Publishing Triangle Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, and longlisted for the National Book Award. A Cave Canem graduate fellow and member of the collective Poets at the End of the World, she has received an NEA fellowship, a Lannan Residency Fellowship, and a summer workshop fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center. She earned an MFA from the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Donika lives in Iowa City with her wife, the nonfiction writer Melissa Febos, and is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa, where she teaches creative writing.

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  Charlie Martin Singer-Songwriter + Producer
  

  Charlie Martin

  Singer-Songwriter + Producer

  Charlie Martin is a Texan artist and producer. Charlie and collaborator Will Taylor combined likeminded batches of material to form the Austin-based project Hovvdy. Charlie’s debut album, ‘Imaginary People,’ is out from Grand Jury.

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  Nabila Lovelace Poet
  

  Nabila Lovelace

  Poet

  Nabila Lovelace is a first-generation Queens born poet, her people hail from Trinidad & Nigeria. Sons of Achilles, their debut book of poems, is out now through YesYes Books. You can currently find her kicking it in Tuscaloosa.

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  Nicole Chochrek Artist
  

  Nicole Chochrek

  Artist

  Nicole Chochrek holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University at Buffalo (2022) and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Environmental Science from the University of North Texas (2015). As an interdisciplinary artist, she has exhibited nationally and internationally, from Al Shaheed Park in Kuwait (2016) to El Museo Gallery in Buffalo, New York (2022).

  Her work has been supported by artist residencies including Laboratory Art + Residency in Spokane, Washington (2019); the UB Arts Collaboratory Student Residency in Buffalo, New York (2020-2021); the Immersive Art & Technology Initiative at Alfred University (2022); and the Soil Factory Residency at Cornell University (2025).

  Beyond her studio practice, Chochrek has presented research on air quality and the impacts of fire season at the National Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit in Phoenix, Arizona (2019). She has worked with the Coalesce Center for Biological Art (2020-2022) and was awarded grants from Creatives Rebuild New York and NYSCA in partnership with CEPA Gallery (2022-2024). These grants supported the creation of Broken Plastics, an arts and education initiative that launched Microplastic Recycling Art Bins across Erie and Niagara County, New York. Research collected through this project was later presented at the New York State Microplastic Summit at the University at Buffalo (2024).

  Chochrek continues to expand this work in collaboration with the Rozalia Project in Burlington, Vermont (2024-2025), and NATURE Lab in Troy, New York (2025).

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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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  happygroupppp band
  

  happygroupppp

  band

  happygroupppp is an ambient-thru-americana musical project based in Buffalo, New York.

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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.