Aidan Ryan

06. "When the rest of you / Were being children ..." Organizing Isolation: The Podcast · Episode

Listen to James McWilliams and Leo Lensing on the life and poetry of Frank Stanford - recorded live in Buffalo, NY. open.spotify.com/episode/5FOW...

Buffalo: DO NOT MISS the reading and conversation with James McWilliams and Leo Lensing this Saturday, 7pm at Fitz Books: The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford. This kind of thing doesn't come through our town often.

.05 I Am Here ... on the Mountain A visit to the Monteagle Sunday School Assembly

This Tennessee audience got me to dish on Buffalo's numberless failings, how to keep making art (without fame or fortune) into your 80s, and the loneliness of eulogies. aidanmryan.substack.com/p/05-i-am-he...

Buffalo, this Saturday July 26th 7:30 EST!

In a silo!

Check out the expanded second edition of Leo Lensing's Subiaco's Unofficial Poet Laureate: A Memoir of Frank Stanford in High School www.foundlingspress.com/books-and-me...

Tangents — Aidan Ryan — Traffic East An excerpt from Aidan Ryan's I Am Here You Are Not I Love You: Andrew Topolski, Cindy Suffoletto, and Their Life in the Arts.

Then, an excerpt from my book, a chapter about the former 464 Gallery in Black Rock and some of my earliest experiences writing and publishing: www.trafficeast.com/inside-the-a...

Arc Iron — Aidan Ryan — Traffic East Aidan Ryan on the life and work of Buffalo, New York blacksmith Andrew Chambers.

New writing in Traffic East. First, a profile of the master blacksmith Andrew Chambers: www.trafficeast.com/inside-the-a...

Don't miss this upcoming conversation in Buffalo -- James McWilliams and Leo Lensing on their new scholarship around the poet (and Leo's high school friend) Frank Stanford.

Aidan Ryan - I Am Here You Are Not I Love You Lo Fi Lit · Episode

Latest on Lo Fi: Tyler and I talk art heists, agent fiascos, pro wrestling, and the partnerships of artists. Check it out. open.spotify.com/episode/1RiP...

"Mostly it’s morning, Wednesday,
and my loneliness older, the elegy
oh going read it and weep!"

Rachelle Toarmino for Alice Notley in Little Mirror

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I Am Here You Are Not I Love You

And if you don't have your copy yet ... uipress.uiowa.edu/books/i-am-h...

If You Missed It ... Roundup from a month of reviews, interviews, and events

My book is one month old today. Here's a roundup of all the reviews, reflections, and conversations so far - and a look at the rest of the summer. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...

5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Aidan Ryan "I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished."

"I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished." New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Press author Aidan Ryan and his new book 'I Am Here You Are Not I Love You,' about visual artists Andrew Topolski and Cindy Suffoletto. 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...

Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record Every biography begins with a unique set of constraints: there are only so many knowledgeable sources, only so much already written about a subject, only so many boxes in the archive. Anything beyo…

‪@aidanmryan.substack.com‬ examines the benefits and challenges of applying a fiction writing background to the art of biography.

Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record Every biography begins with a unique set of constraints: there are only so many knowledgeable sources, only so much already written about a subject, only so many boxes in the archive. Anything beyo…

Early in my attempt to write this book, I realized that my sources disagreed on how Andy and Cindy had met. Navigating contradictions and gaps in the record required me to rely on tools I'd learned to use earlier in fiction. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/novelists-no...

5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Aidan Ryan "I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished."

I did 5 Qs with @writinguiowa.bsky.social - read it here: writinguniversity.org/news-archive...

YouTube video by Aidan Ryan I Am Here You Are Not I Love You Book Launch - Author Aidan Ryan with Laura Marris and Matt Kenyon

Listen to the full reading and talk (feat. Laura Marris and Matt Kenyon) from the I AM HERE YOU ARE NOT I LOVE YOU launch earlier this month youtu.be/OnVX2PQbfKI?...

.04 I Am Here ... with Gabriel Bump On Alice Notley, unsent letters, pizza kitchens, making a home in Western New York, leaving it, what we can learn from Griselda, and how to keep making art

Listen to my reading and conversation with Gabriel Bump this past Saturday at Unnameable Books in Turners Falls: open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...

If you're in driving distance of Turners Falls, MA tomorrow night, I want to see you at Unnameable Books -- be there by 7pm for a reading, film screening, and talk with me and Gabe Bump

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Sharing what Rachelle Toarmino posted elsewhere— because it’s such a fantastic Notley quotation, that element of being-in that central to her poetics. That shamanic energy 🖤

03. I Am Here ... with Howard Fishman and Charles Clough in Brooklyn A reading and conversation about success and survival in the arts, the demands of New York City, and the merits of Vincent Gallo

Listen - last night's reading and conversation with Charles Clough and Howard Fishman: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/03-i-am-he...

I loved these questions and this conversation--drop in for a discussion of the naming of the Pictures Generation, semiotics in the work of Andrew Topolski, how to be both artists and partners, and much more.

Let's go! Excited to read & talk about this. Congrats, Marty.

Rereading To Anyone Who Ever Asks ahead of our conversation on May 17. This passage about Connie Converse could have been about Andy and Cindy. And it could have been about any almost-there artist in any time. Very excited for these books to collide in Brooklyn.

Rachelle's HELL YEAH is now available for pre-order from Third Man Books - out October 14

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Aidan Ryan’s I Am Here You Are Not I Love You | The Brooklyn Rail In undertaking the dual biography of his aunt and uncle, the artists Cindy Suffoletto and Andrew Topolski, Aidan Ryan looked in two directions: backward at the arc of their too-short lives and forward...

Delighted to see the first review of I Am Here You Are Not I Love You in next month's Brooklyn Rail -- I'm humbled by some of what Melissa saw in this brooklynrail.org/2025/05/book...

02. Three Poems and a Prologue Masterclass in the Buffalo accent

I recorded my set at KGB last night -- three poems and the prologue to my book. Check it out here: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/02-three-p...

7:30! Not sure but from the looks of this I'm reading first

NYC friends - come out to KGB Bar tomorrow night for what I think will be the first time I've read poems since 2019. I'll also read (just a teaser!) from my book I Am Here You Are Not I Love You ahead of the official release next month (Buffalo May 16 / Brooklyn May 17).

Watch I Am Here You Are Not I Love You | Prime Video I Am Here You Are Not I Love You is filmmaker and author Aidan Ryan's short documentary about the lives and work of the late visual artists Andrew Topolski and Cindy Suffoletto, his uncle and aunt, two artists who took part in the avant garde of Buffalo, New York in the 1970s before moving to New York City in the 1980s, following their contemporaries Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, and others.

Oh - and you can stream the film: www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...