Boog City Presents D.A. LEVY LINES: CELEBRATING RENEGADE PRESSES Today
By: BWW News Desk Nov. 21, 2013
Boog City presents d.a. levy lives: celebrating renegade presses -- N.Y.C./L.I. Small Presses Night -- tonight. Nov. 21, 6:30 p.M. Sharp, free at the Sidewalk Café, 94 Ave. A (@ E. 6th St.), NYC with Epiphany Magazine, Marsh Hawk Press, Nor By Press, Tea Party Republicans Press and music from Mixed Doubles.
This is our one event each season in our "d.a. levy lives: celebrating renegade presses" series where we honor locAl Small presses.
Featuring readings from contributors to some of the area's finest small presses and with publications available from each of the presses:
**Epiphany Magazine, Odette Heideman, editor; Tanya Rey, fiction editor;
Cullen Thomas, nonfiction editor; Cassandra Gillig (and Ben Roylance?), poetry editor;
and Nat Otting, managing editor
-Reader TBD
**Marsh Hawk Press, Sandy McIntosh, managing editor
-Claudia Carlson
-Thomas Fink
**Nor By Press, Emily Toder, editor
-Uljana Wolf
**Tea Party Republicans Press, Douglas Piccinnini and Josef Kaplan, co-editors
-Lucy Ives
Series curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum. Boog City 84, our N.Y.C./L.I. Small Presses Issue, published in conjunction with the above event, features pages put together by the participating presses, as well as our usual swell Boog City content: http://boogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc84.pdf -- going live on Tues. Nov. 12 (there is currently a placeholder at that site).
BIOS:
**Epiphany Magazine
Under the poetry editorship of Jennifer Nelson, Epiphany published poems by Macgregor Card, Cody-Rose Clevidence, Lewis Freedman, Lucy Ives, Ish Klein, Bianca Stone, Elizabeth Willis, and many others. The upcoming issue, the thirteenth, features 13 poets: Shannon Burns, Andrew Durbin, Jess Dutschman, Cean Gamalinda, Laura Goldstein, Debbie Hu, Sue Landers, Kelin Loe, Laura Marie Marciano, Filip Marinovich, Steve Roggenbuck, Kim Vodicka, and Simone White.
**Marsh Hawk Press
http://www.marshhawkpress.org/
Marsh Hawk Press, founded in 2001, publishes an eclectic list of poets and poetic styles, with 73 titles currently in print. Notable recent titles include: Sugar Zone by Mary Mackey, winner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature; Blind Date With Cavafy by Steve Fellner, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry; and I Take Thee English, for My Beloved by Eileen R. Tabios, winner of the Calatagan Award from the Philippine American Writers and Arts, Inc. Please visit the above url for submitting information.
*Claudia Carlson
http://www.claudiagraphics.com/
Claudia Carlson's first book of poetry, The Elephant House, was published by Marsh Hawk Press. She co-edited The Poet's Grimm, an anthology of fairy tale poems, with Jeanne Marie Beaumont. Her poems have appeared in Court Green, Gargoyle,nycbigcitylit.com, Southern Poetry Review, and The Cream City Review, among others. She has been included in the anthologies Love Rise Up (Benu Press), A Circle of Friends: Remembering Madeleine L'Engle, and The Breath of Parted Lips II(CavanKerry Press). She's a mapmaker, illustrator, photographer, and award-winning designer specializing in art directing for small presses.
*Thomas Fink
http://www.thomasfinkpoetry.net/
Thomas Fink, is the author of seven previous books of poetry, including Peace Conference (Marsh Hawk Press) and Autopsy Turvy (Meritage Press), as well as three chapbooks. He is also the author of two books of criticism, including A Different Sense of Power (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). Fink's work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Chicago Review, Contemporary Literature, Denver Quarterly, Diode, Jacket, Lit, Milk, Minnesota Review, Otoliths, Second Avenue Poetry, Sentence, Shampoo, Slope, Talisman, Verse, and numerous other journals. His paintings hang in various collections. Fink is professor of English at City University of New York-LaGuardia.
**Nor By Press
http://www.norbypress.wix.com/norbypress
A tiny homespun letterpress operation dedicated to the printing, binding, and warmhearted distribution of limited-edition chapbooks and broadsides, made with only the finest papers, inks, and literatures
*Uljana Wolf
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/21926/19/Uljana-Wolf
Uljana Wolf is a German poet and translator based in Brooklyn and Berlin. She published four books of poetry, among themSonne From Ort, a collaborative erasure with Christian Hawkey (kookbooks, Berlin), and three chapbooks in English, translated by Nathaniel Otting (Nor By Press), Susan Bernofsky (Ugly Duckling Presse), and Monika Zobel (Belladonna*). She translates numerous poets into German, among them Matthea Harvey, Christian Hawkey, Erín Moure, and Cole Swensen, and was the co-editor of the Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2009.
**Tea Party Republicans Press
http://www.teapartyrepublicanspress.com/
Tea Party Republicans Press publishes books.
*Lucy Ives
Lucy Ives is a native New Yorker who is completing her Ph.D. in comparative literature at New York University. She is the author of the books Orange Roses (Ahsahta Press), Nineties (Tea Party Republicans Press), andAnamnesis (Slope Editions), and the chapbook My Thousand Novel (Cosa Nostra Editions). Her work has appeared in Fence, 1913, Ploughshares, The Colorado Review, Verse, Volt, and other journals. A deputy editor at Triple Canopy, she is co-editor of Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism, published byTriple Canopy and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
**Mixed Doubles
https://www.facebook.com/mixeddoublesmusic
As Mixed Doubles, electric guitar wizards Lisa Liu and Justin Gonzales turn down the volume and wrangle long sheets of beautiful noise out of two acoustic guitars.
**Boog City
Boog City is a New York City-based small press now in its 23rd year and East Village community newspaper of the same name. It has put out over 200 publications, including 35 volumes of poetry, various magazines, and a newspaper, featuring work by Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti among others, and theme issues on baseball, women's writing, and Louisville, Ky. It hosts and curates two regular performance series-d.a. levy lives: celebrating renegade presses, featuring a non-NYC small press, its writers, and a musical act; and Classic Albums Live, where up to 13 local musical acts perform a classic album live. Past albums have included Elvis Costello, My Aim is True; Nirvana, Nevermind; Sleater-Kinney's, Dig Me Out; and Liz Phair,Exile in Guyville.
Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave. Venue is at E.6th St.
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