Boog City presents d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press, featuring Dos Press!

Tues. Dec. 16, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free

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

Event will be hosted by
Dos Press editors C.J. Martin and Julia Drescher

Featuring readings from

Rosa Alcalá
Michelle Detorie
Ash Smith
Andrea Strudensky

with music from

Andrew Phillip Tipton


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

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

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*Performer Bios*

Rosa Alcalá received her M.F.A. from Brown University and her Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 2001, Some Maritime Disasters This Century was published as a limited edition pamphlet by Belladonna/Boog. Undocumentaries, a selection of poems, is forthcoming from Dos Press. Her poems have also appeared in The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, edited by Francisco Aragón (U of AZ Press), and Cinturones de óxido: de Buffalo con amor / Rust Belt Encounters: From Buffalo with Love, translated by Ernesto Livón-Grosman and Omar Pérez (Torre de Letras, La Habana, Cuba). Alcalá has translated Cecilia Vicuña's El Templo (Situations Press) and Cloud-net (Art in General). Her translation of Vicuña's essay-poem, "Ubixic del Decir, 'Its Being Said': A Reading of a Reading of the Popol Vuh," was published in With Their Hands and Their Eyes: Maya Textiles, Mirrors of a Worldview, Etnografish Museum (Belgium). Alcalá's translation of Bestiary: The Selected Poems of Lourdes Vázquez was published by Bilingual Press. Forthcoming is a co-translation (with Mónica de la Torre) of Lila Zemborain's Malvas Orquídeas del Mar/ Mauve Sea Orchids (Belladonna). She has also translated poems for the forthcomingOxford Book of Latin American Poetry.

Michelle Detorie lives in Goleta, Calif., where she edits WOMB, an online journal of poetry by women, and Hex Presse. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in How2, Foursquare, Dusie, Pool, La Petite Zine, Jacket, and EAOGH, among others. She's also published three chapbooks: Daphnomancy (Small Chapbook Project), Bellum Letters (Dusie), and A Coincidence of Wants (Dos Press). A fourth chapbook, Ode to Industy, will be published with the Dusie Kollektiv later this year. In 2007 she was a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellow.

Ash Smith has lived mostly in Central Texas and the Rio Grande Valley, where she has worked with environmental and educational programs. She is finishing a full-length manuscript at Texas State University. Water Shed, from Dos Press, is her first chapbook.

Originally from Montreal, Andrea Strudensky is living in Buffalo studying poetry.

Andrew Phillip Tipton plays obnoxious anti-folk music about never wanting to grow up. He records several albums every year in his bedroom, including last year’s critically ignored Champion of Love. He lives in Staten Island, where he collects piggy banks.

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