Boog City Renegade Press Night, with Autonomedia's Jordan Zinovich ACA Galleries, 529 W.20th St., 5th Flr., NYC on Dec. 14, 2010

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

New York City Small Presses Night Tues. Dec. 14, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free

with Argos Books, Autonomedia, Fractious Press, Kaya Press, LoudMouth Press, New York Quarterly and music from Matteah Baim with Golden Slumbers

Curated by Cristiana Baik and Svetlana Kitto

ACA Galleries, 529 W.20th St., 5th Flr., NYC

This is our one event each season in our non-NYC small presses series where we honor NYC small presses.

Featuring readings from some of the city's finest small presses as well as publications available from each of the presses.

**Argos Books, E.C. Belli, Iris Cushing, and Elizabeth Clark Wessel, eds. —Marina Blitshteyn —Hildred Crill —Bianca Stone

**Autonomedia —Jordan Zinovich

**Fractious Press, Veronica Liu, ed. and pub. —Steven J. Hann —Nikkiesha N. McLeod —Buzz Poole —K. Abigail Walthausen —Thera Webb

**Kaya Press, Sunyoung Lee, ed. and pub. —Samantha Chanse —Lisa Chen —Ed Lin —Thaddeus Rutkowski

**LoudMouth Press, Gregory Ayres, pub./dir. of operations —Geoff Cunningham —Carla Repice

**New York Quarterly, Raymond Hammond, pres. —Tony Gloeggler —Douglas Treem

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Series curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum -- Boog City 66, our New York City Small Presses Issue, published in conjunction with the above event, with pages put together by the participating six presses, featuring work from:

**Argos Books—Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Marina Blitshteyn, Hildred Crill, S.C. Hahn, Safiya Sinclair, and Bianca Stone

**Fractious Press—Jacob Albert, John Cotrona, Nikkiesha N. McLeod, Buzz Poole, Seamus Scanlon, K. Abigail Walthausen, and Thera Webb

**Kaya Press—Lisa Chen, Ed Lin, Thaddeus Rutkowski

**New York Quarterly—Tony Gloeggler and Douglas Treem

As well as your usual swell Boog City content: Reviews of Elastic No-No Band's Fustercluck!!!, books from Lucy Ives, Edward Sanders, and Jared Stanley; and poems from Andy Gricevich and Peter Waldor.

To read the pdf version go to: http://www.welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc66.pdf

Press and author bios

**Autonomedia http://www.autonomedia.org/ Autonomedia is an autonomous zone for arts radicals in old and new media. We publish books on radical media, politics and the arts that seek to transcend party lines, bottom lines, and straight lines. We also maintain the Interactivist Info Exchange, an online forum for discourse and debate on themes relevant to the books we publish.

*Jordan Zinovich http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/2010_FICTION/2010_Fiction_JZ.HTM Jordan Zinovich is a senior editor at Autonomedia and a member of the Amsterdam Balloon Company. Once, long, long ago in the Dark Forest, he heard Baba Yaga singing and glimpsed her walking hut—an experience that arrested his maturation. Through the passing years he has grown younger, and smaller, tracking her trail of glimmering words. The last piece he published in Big Bridge, “Theodolite’s Survey,” was chosen by Dzanc Books for its Best of the Web 2009 anthology. You can view his work at the above url.

**Argos Books http://www.argosbooks.org/

Argos Books was born one auspicious night in Brooklyn in a little place called Daddy’s. Amidst the din of spinning LPs, under the flatteringly dim lighting, over two beautiful amber pints of Stella, Liz Clark Wessel and I spoke of our mutual passion for small press poetry publishing. Having known (and grown to love) Liz for a few months, I was aware that she had started a small press called Stray Dog Press in Stockholm; I harbored much curiosity about the state of its existence. Liz told me about the process of publishing her first book, S.C. Hahn’s A Sky That is Never the Same, and within moments sparks of enthusiasm were flying, invisibly lighting the cave-like corner in which we sat.

Our decision that eve to rename and revive Stray Dog was cemented further when another brilliant and capable cohort, E.C. Belli joined forces with Liz and me. We three wise ladies all attend Columbia University’s Poetry M.F.A. program, and I am grateful to the Fates for bringing us together in such a poetically fertile environment. Argos was the name of Odysseus’ faithful canine companion; Argos Books will soon be a faithful companion to readers and lovers of poetry and translation. Poetry that crosses cultural and national borders, hybrid writing, and work by women is of special interest. Interestingly enough, the mission of Argos Books mirrors somewhat the pursuits of Liz, Emily and myself. We are all translators, and have firm footholds in diverse locations (Omaha, Switzerland, New York, Stockholm…). The upcoming summer and fall promise to be exciting and fruitful times for Argos Books. Stay tuned.

*Marina Blitshteyn http://wagsrevue.com/Issue_5/#/42 Marina Blitshteyn was born in the U.S.S.R. and immigrated to the U.S.A. in 1991. She learned English from cartoons and hip-hop and went on to perform in local and international poetry slams, edit her university’s weekly publication and annual poetry journal, and teach English in the South Bronx. She completed her B.A. in English at the University at Buffalo and is pursuing an M.F.A. in poetry and translation at Columbia University. You can check out her recent work at the above url.

*Hildred Crill Hildred Crill’s English translations are included in a trilingual edition of Per Wästberg’s work, Ortsbestämning/ Determination of Place (Ars Interpres). Her poems have appeared most recently in Greensboro Review, Poetry Ireland Review and Kenyon Review Online. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

*Bianca Stone http://whoisthatsupposedtobe.blogspot.com/ Bianca Stone received her M.F.A. from NYU’s creative writing program in poetry. She is the creator and co-curator of the Ladder Poetry Reading Series in New York City and is a regular contributor to Thethe Poetry Blog. Her most recent poetry publications include The Patterson Literary Review, Fou, Agriculture Reader, and Conduit. Besides writing poetry, she is also a visual artist and freelance illustrator, often combining poetry and illustration. She is currently working on a manuscript exploring the mixed genre of poetry and image. You can visit her blog Poetry Comics at the above url. She lives in Brooklyn.

**Fractious Press http://www.fractiouspress.com Fractious Press is a small artist-run publishing condo founded in the Bronx and Washington Heights in 2005. Since its first release, which was named in The Village Voice’s Best of New York 2005, the press has published emerging artists and writers of fiction, poetry, comics, and zines, and has occasionally hosted day-long zine festivals in Upper Manhattan. The next zine fest, May Day at Ding Dong, will be held on May 1, 2010, with support from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. ForeWord magazine called the press “innovative … a kind of counterculture collaborative.”

*Steven J. Hann http://www.stevenjhann.blogspot.com/ Steven J. Hann is a poet and lyricist. An ex-Circus and Circus Raves columnist, he was an active musician in New York City from 1972 to 1982. He is currently a Morningside Heights–area book purveyor, general curmudgeon, and, most recently, author of the chapbook Blonde, Blue-eyed and Handsome, available at his book stand or at the Fractious Press website. For more information, visit the above url.

*Nikkiesha N. McLeo http://coceyea.wordpress.com/ Nikkiesha N. McLeod is a writer and musician originally from Trinidad and Tobago, where she played the tenor-pan for the steel-band orchestra Panasonic Connection. A co-founder of the grassroots feminist magazine OutLaw Sister Riff, a recipient of Howard University’s John J. Wright Award for Poetry, and a co-recipient of the City College of New York’s Adria Schwartz Award for Women’s Fiction, she continues to play drums in rock bands around New York City. For more information, visit the above url.

*Buzz Poole http://www.madonnaofthetoast.blogspot.com/ Buzz Poole is the author of Madonna of the Toast, which The New Statesman named one of the Best Underground Books of 2007. He has written about books, art, design, and music for numerous publications including The Believer, The Village Voice, Print, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Millions. He is currently managing editor of Mark Batty Publisher. I Like to Keep My Troubles on the Windy Side of Things is his first collection of stories. For more information, visit the above url.

*K. Abigail Walthausen http://www.literaturesandwich.com/ K. Abigail Walthausen wrote a chapbook called The Internet, and it has a hole in every page. On her above website you can see more poems, illustrations, and tinsel paintings.

*Thera Webb Thera Webb is a radical feminist and resident of Queens. In 2003, she co-founded the feminist infoshop Jane Doe Books in Bushwick, and from 2005 to 2007, she managed and edited the book review section for Maximumrocknroll, the long-running international punk rock fanzine promoting progressive politics. She received her M.F.A. in poetry from UNC Greensboro, and has work in Fiction (Japan) and Forklift, Ohio. On the Shoulders of the Bear is her first chapbook.

**Kaya Press http://www.kaya.com/ Kaya Press is an independent not-for-profit publisher of Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic literature. We are dedicated to the publication of new and innovative fiction, poetry, critical essays, art, and culture, and the recovery of important and overlooked work from the Pacific Rim and the API diaspora.

We aim to expand the range of outstanding API literature available to the public by publishing works of excellent literary merit, including works in translation. We are proud to present books that feature unique voices; new and alternative perspectives; accomplished experimental writing; and beautiful, thoughtful book design.

*Samantha Chanse http://www.samanthachanse.com/ Samantha Chanse is a writer, performer, educator, and arts organizer. The recipient of an Individual Artist Commission from the S.F. Arts Commison and an Emerging Artists Residency from Tofte Lake Center, her work has been presented with FringeNYC, Bowery Poetry Club, The Marsh, and others. She co-founded salon series Laundry Party and served as artistic director of S.F.-based arts nonprofit Kearny Street Workshop. A member playwright of Ma-Yi Writers Lab, she is currently pursuing a M.F.A. in playwriting while teaching undergraduate writing at Columbia University. Her first solo play, Lydia's Funeral Video, will be published by Kaya Press in 2011.

*Lisa Chen http://www.burroofinformationandculture.blogspot.com/ Lisa Chen is the author of Mouth (Kaya Press) which won the 2007 Poetry/Prose Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. She graduated from UC Berkeley and the University of Iowa and works as a media consultant for progressive nonprofits. She was born in Taipei, Taiwan and now lives in Brooklyn.

*Ed Lin http://www.edlinforpresident.com/ Ed Lin is the author of the widely praised Waylaid and This Is a Bust (both Kaya Press). Lin, who is of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, was born in New York City. He holds degrees in mining engineering and journalism from Columbia University. He is the first author to win two Members' Choice Awards in the Asian American Literary Awards. His latest book, Snakes Can't Run, the sequel to This Is a Bust, was published by Minotaur Books in April. Lin lives in New York with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung.

*Thaddeus Rutkowski http://www.thaddeusrutkowski.com/ Thaddeus Rutkowski is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the novels Tetched and Roughhouse. Both books were finalists for the Members' Choice of the Asian American Literary Awards. His third novel, Haywire, is forthcoming from Starcherone Books. He is the fiction and nonfiction editor of the literary journal Many Mountains Moving.

**LoudMouth Press http://www.loudmouthpress.org/ LoudMouth Press is a nonprofit independent publishing house founded in 2010 in Brooklyn. The press is committed to developing and producing media that offers an innovative perspective on important topics that concern the entire human family. This small press collaborates with artists and writers as well as community activists, service organizations and learning institutions to identify specific causes around which their projects are built. Topics include: Non-fiction social commentary and observation, counter-cultural guides and practical manuals, global current events, photographic and illustrative cultural critiques, inventive art books, and more. In addition the press supports an education initiative based on a philosophy of increasing youth awareness concerning global and social issues, improving student literacy, and creating opportunities for youth activism.

*Geoff Cunningham Geoff Cunningham is an artist, living and working in Oceanside, Calif.

*Carla Repice Carla Repice is an artist and teacher living in Union City, N.J. After beginning their study of systems of bureaucracy and political divisions in South Africa, Geoff Cunningham and her established the OBA in 2007, while sitting on a park bench at a mall in Orange County, Calif.

**Matteah Baim with Golden Slumbers http://matteahbaim.com/ Matteah Baim was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisc. In 1996, at the age of 17, Baim moved to California to study painting and drawing at the San Francisco Art Institute. After graduating, Baim moved to New York where she met Sierra Casady. In 2005, the duo began to write music together and formed the soft metal band, Metallic Falcons. Voodoo Eros released their first record Desert Doughnuts in 2006. Recorded in Brooklyn, New Mexico, and Chicago, Desert Doughnuts features performances by Antony, Devendra Banhart, Jana Hunter, and Greg Rogove.

After the Metallic Falcons disbanded, Baim moved to Los Angeles and began writing and recording material for her first solo record, Death of the Sun, which was released on Dicristina Stairbuilders in 2007. Death of the Sun was recorded in 2006 partly at her home in Venice Beach as well as at Chicago's CarterCo studio.

She spent the next two years touring and writing material for Laughing Boy. She is also currently working on music for several films, and continues to exhibit drawings. Baim lives and works in New York.

**New York Quarterly http://www.nyqbooks.org NYQ Books was established in 2009 as an imprint of The New York Quarterly Foundation, Inc. Its mission is to augment the New York Quarterly poetry magazine by providing an additional venue for poets who are already published in the magazine. A lifelong dream of NYQ's founding editor, William Packard, NYQ Books has been made possible by growing foundation support and new technology that was not available during Packard's lifetime. We are proud to present these books to you, our readers, and hope that you will continue to support The New York Quarterly Foundation, Inc. and our poets and that you will enjoy the books that you purchase from this site.

*Tony Gloeggler http://www.nyqbooks.org/author/tonygloeggler Tony Gloeggler was born in Brooklyn, lives in Queens, and hopes to die somewhere nearby and somewhat conveniently. He’s managed a group home for developmentally disabled men in Boerum Hill for nearly 30 years. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize a number of times. His chapbook One on One received the 1998 Pearl Poetry Prize. Pavement Saw Press published his first full-length collection, One Wish Left. My Other Life was published by Jane Street Press and Greatest Hits: 1984-2009 was put out by Pudding House Publications.

*Douglas Treem http://www.nyqbooks.org/author/douglastreem Douglas Treem lives in New York City. His book, Everything So Seriously, was released this October by NYQ Books.

---- **Boog City http://www.welcometoboogcity.com Boog City is a New York City-based small press now in its 20th year and East Village community newspaper of the same name. It has also published 35 volumes of poetry and various magazines, 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 the renegade press, where each month a non-NYC small press and its writers and a musical act of their choosing is hosted at Chelsea’s ACA Galleries; and Classic Albums Live, where up to 13 local musical acts perform a classic album live at venues including The Bowery Poetry Club, Cake Shop, CBGB’s, and The Knitting Factory. Past albums have included Elvis Costello, My Aim is True; Nirvana, Nevermind; and Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville.

---- Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St. Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues