Dos Press Chapbook Series

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

2008-01-30T20:55:00.000-06:00

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

Dos Chap #3 NOW AVAILABLE

2008-01-22T08:54:00.001-06:00

ANNOUNCING DOS PRESS CHAPBOOK #3

Featuring:
Rosa Alcalá's UNDOCUMENTARY
Ash Smith's WATER SHED
Sasha Steensen's THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION

Also featuring a selection of images from TX artist/writer Roberto Ontiveros.

Limited edition copies are available here.
Standard edition copies are available here.

Sasha Steensen is an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University. She holds a B.A. in History and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as well as a PhD in Poetics from SUNY Buffalo. She is the author of 2 books from Fence Books: The Method (forthcoming) and A Magic Book (from 2004), as well as a collaboration with Gordon Hadfield called correspondence (published by Handwritten Press). Steensen serves as one of the poetry editors for Colorado Review and she’s also co-editor of Bonfire Press.

Steensen’s dos chap is an excerpt from her forthcoming book The Method, which shares its title with a collection of proofs by the Greek mathematician Archimedes. The Method also shows up as a character in Steensen’s work & like that character, Archimedes’ book was a traveler, a palimpsest: written, rewritten, written on, written over, on the move. Steensen has spoken of being initially enticed (and eventually repelled) by the character she’s written: as she says in TFOAI, “The ongoingness originally fascinated me, which is why I became a follower.” But The Method eventually threatens to be more than just a note on the mystic writing pad—he threatens to cohere against context, and to leave nothing in his wake—not just to get rid of the evidence, but to erase the place itself. The poem, then, is in some way (again to quote TFOAI) Steensen’s “souvenir to prove [she] went along for the pointless highway ride.”

Steensen's work online:
LITTLE RED LEAVES
HANDWRITTEN PRESS

Rosa Alcalá teaches in the Creative Writing program at UTEP. She received her MFA from Brown University and her Ph.D. in English from SUNY Buffalo. In 2003, her book Some Maritime Disasters This Century was published as a limited edition by Belladonna. As a translator, she has provided us w/invaluable translations of Cecilia Vicuña and Lourdes Vázquez, as well as (more recently) Lila Zemborain. With Carmen Gimenez-Smith, she coedits Noemi Press.

One of the numerous pleasures in reading the poems of Undocumentary is Alcalá’s invitation to experience (& therefore perform ourselves) an unsettling of the notion of “fixed identity” – “ a machine that never shuts down” – the work of working in & against its static through the “roundabout mess” of both the language used to describe it & our own, often confusing, relationships to it. Her work reminds us that one’s ‘identity’ is more plural & more complex than either what one chooses or, perhaps more importantly, what has been “chosen for” one – it is always at once in motion – “backwards and forwards within an irreconcilable set of imperatives” – and never settled. It is through this often painful work of constant navigation that we’re invited to build, or perhaps re-build, a more human “type of architecture” – one that is more complex than a category & more than a product of systemic production.

Alcalá's work online:
ACTION YES

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

The poems in Water Shed take up being-on-the-move as a central concern of writing/living, as one of her titles has it: “YOU COULD TELL YOU WERE MOVING AWAY FROM WHAT YOU NEVER OWNED.” In “Red List” this movement is writing’s way of getting down into things: “they put ink into the watershed put / in order to try to think / under ground.” As if this formulation was too neat (or too poisonous) the poem “Watershed” propels the work upward, “a climb through calculated / as sound.” Even her lists are listless. Even at their most discursive, these poems are unhinged by the fixed nature of description, the finality of pronouncements: “I’d like to describe / the act of listening both above and bellow ground.” Water Shed offers an experience of dwelling as roaming, of being-on-the-move as a way of inhabiting a place.

Smith's work online:
DIAGRAM

Noah Eli Gordon's review of Dos Chap #2

2007-12-05T12:32:00.000-06:00

Please check out the summer print edition of Rain Taxi for Noah Eli Gordon's review of the Detorie/Cross/Goransson chap! Not to be missed!!

Second Dos Chap Now Available

2007-12-04T18:30:00.000-06:00

**You can now purchase a copy of the second Dos Press Chapbook on etsy by clicking here. There are more pics in the etsy listing, as well on the flickr site. Preview it here. This book features the following not-to-be-missed chaps:

Michael Cross' "Throne" (READ/LISTEN).
Michelle Detorie's "A Coincidence of Wants" (READ/LISTEN).
Johannes Göransson's "Majakovskij en tragedy" (READ/LISTEN).

Dos Press Chapbooks: First Series

2007-12-03T17:16:00.000-06:00

Each series includes four books published over (roughly) the course of a year. Each book consists of chaps from three different authors.

In the second book, due out in November:
Michael Cross' "Throne"
Michelle Detorie's "A Coincidence of Wants"
Johannes Göransson's "Majakovskij en tragedy"

Selections from the first book can be read in the first issue of Little Red Leaves. Pics can be viewed from our Flickr site.

The first series includes work from nine other poets in three books.

Also in the first series:
Rosa Alcalá
Hoa Nguyen
Carter Smith
Aase Berg (Trans. Göransson)
Ash Smith
Brian Mornar
Tess Coody-Anders
Andrea Strudensky
Julia Drescher
Sasha Steensen

Second series thus far includes:
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Alison Cimino
Chad Heltzel
Anna Fulford
Jessica Smith
Thom Donovan
Carmen Gimenez Smith

Stay tuned for more detailed info on the schedule/arrangement of authors, etc.

Launch Reading -- Okay Mountain

2007-12-02T15:17:00.000-06:00

Michelle Detorie & Chris Cogburn :::::::: Michael Cross

Michalle Gould ::::::: Johannes Göransson

More pics :here:

Thanks to everyone who came to the reading.

An especial thanks to all the poets/performers for being generous guests or hosts, for their wonderful work & for their conversation.....

Launch Reading for 2nd Book

2007-11-18T21:19:00.000-06:00

**Update** On the bottom right under "Events" is a link to some pictures from the reading...

Our launch reading for the second book will be at Okay Mountain in Austin on December 1st at 7:00PM.

Readers:
Michelle Detorie (CA, ed. Hex Presse) will read/perform w/Austin drummer, Chris Cogburn.
Johannes Goransson (Indiana, ed. Action Books)
Michael Cross (Buffalo, ed. Atticus/Finch)
Michalle Gould (Austin, reading from the first book from Hex Presse)

This will be a (small) small press affair, so there will be plenty of books to buy. We hope to see you there!

Recently Received

2005-07-07T11:11:00.000-06:00

We've thanked all these folks individually, but we just wanted to mention their generosity/amazingness here as well. If you've never bought books from these folks, please do so now--you can't go wrong:

From Effing Press:
The Lost Sappho Poems by Gloria Frym
Constitutes/Obstructs by John Crouse
Black Stone by Dale Smith (also rec'd a copy from Dale)
Anne Boyer's Good Apocalypse by Anne Boyer
Is It the King? by Farid Matuk
Whole Milk by Jim Goar
Threnody by Tom Clark
Red Juice by Hoa Nguyen
Effing Magazine #6
(& Scott Pierce's some bridges migrate, from small fires press)

From Noemi Press:
Moveable Types by Jenny Boully
Little Dividing Doors in the Mind by Karla Kelsey

From Cuneiform Press:
BILL BERKSON'S Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006
ULF STOLTERFOHT'S Lingos VI
GREGG BIGLIERI'S Sleepy with Democracy
(& SCHABLONE BERLIN by Caroline Koebel and Kyle Schlesinger, CHAX Press)

From Sardines Press:
language is by John Phillips
Now, As You Awaken by Mahmoud Darwish (trans. Omnia Amin & Rick London)

The Poker #8

kadar koli #1

Daylight on the Wires by Eli Drabman (Vigilance Society)

Brief History of Girl as Match by Kristy Bowen (Dusie Kolektiv)

The Eye of the Falcon (CD) by Anne Waldman & Ambrose Bye

Bellum Letters by Michelle Detorie (Dusie Kolektiv)
Daphnomancy: Improvisations by Michelle Detorie (Cricket Press)

From belladonna* books:
Rosa Alcalá, Some Maritime Disasters This Century
Elizabeth Willis, All the Paintings of Giorgione
Kate Colby, from A Banner Year
Myung Mi Kim, from Penury
Monica de la Torre, Doubles: An Excerpt
Carla Harryman, Open Box
Erica Hunt, Time Slips Right Before Your Eyes
Akilah Oliver, The Putterer's Notebook
Belladonnacards 1 & 2 (kari edwards)

Caribou & Others by Andrew Schelling (Track & Field)

P-QUEUE, Vol. 4

Launch Reading, 12th St. Books, Austin, TX, 06-02-07

2002-06-03T13:35:00.000-06:00

Thanks to all who came out to celebrate both the launch of the first Dos Press chap and the launch of the first issue of David Hadbawnik's kadar koli. Farid Matuk, Carter Smith, Roger Snell, and Hoa Nguyen all delivered really great readings of some gorgeous poems!

Donor Subscription Offer

2000-05-09T18:45:00.000-06:00

More than anything, we want to keep copies/shipping free for whoever wants any of the titles in the Dos Press chapbook series, but we're not a moneyed press. In order to maintain free distribution, we're seeking the help of a handful of generous readers. We gladly accept donations of any amount. However, for those who are interested, we're offering the following Donor Subscription plans:

$50 Donor Subscription

For a $50 donation, you'll receive a limited copy of each book in the first series (4 books total). *Copies are already limited--press run on book 1 is 128 copies--but Donor Subscribers will receive even more rarified copies.* You'll also receive one of our Dos Press Minumentals, an edition of 10 box/book constructions made by Julia (see Flicker photos of Minumentals). AND you'll be listed in all subsequent Dos Press chaps as a Friend of the press.

$100 Donor Subscription

For a $100 donation, you'll receive a subscription of limited editions of BOTH chapbook series (8 books total) AND be listed as a Friend of the press in all subsequent chaps. You'll also receive a Minumental, but in addition, you'll get a title from the next special edition of book-objects (to be produced in conjunction with the second series of chaps).

If you're interested, please contact us at cm49600 at gmail dot com. We greatly appreciate your generosity.

Dos Press Minumentals

2000-05-09T18:36:00.000-06:00

An edition of 10 box-book constructions designed and produced by Julia.

2.75x1.75 inch boxes. Each box-book looks pretty much the same on the outside, however each inside is unique. Text contained therein is one sentence from Lorine Niedecker's prose work [The evening's automobiles...]. Hence, an LN monument in miniature. Here are some pictures of all ten.