Boog City's Hosts 2014 NYC Small Presses Night Tonight

Boog City presents "d.a. levy lives: celebrating renegade presses", its 12th Annual New York City Small Presses Night, tonight, Nov. 20, 6:00 p.m. sharp. Free! Book fair: 5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m., 7:45 p.m.-8:00 p.m. at Sidewalk Café, 94 Ave. A (at E. 6th St.), NYC.

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 pressesand with publications available from each of the presses:

**Bone Bouquet, Krystal Languell, ed. -- Samantha Zighelboim
**DoubleCross Press, MC Hyland and Jeff Peterson co-eds. -- Ian Dreiblatt -- Anna Gurton-Wachter
**Lunar Chandelier Press, Kimberly Lyons, ed. -- Joe Elliot -- Jerome Sala
**Louffa Press, David Moscovich, ed. -- Erika Anderson, Moscovich, Dustin Luke Nelson
**The Operating System, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, ed. -- Lynne DeSilva-Johnson -- JP Howard
**We'll Never Have Paris, Andria Alefhi, ed-- Veronica Liu

Series curated and with an introduction byBoog City editor David Kirschenbaum.

Boog City 94, the New York City Small Presses Issue, published in conjunction with the above event, will feature pages put together by the participating six presses. To read the pdf version go to www.boogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc94.pdf.

BIOS:

**Bone Bouquet (www.bonebouquet.org) - Bone Bouquet is a biannual online journal seeking to publish the best new writing by female poets, from artists both established and emerging.
*Samantha ZighelboimSamantha Zighelboim's poems, translations and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Boston Review, Bone Bouquet, BOMB and Maggy, among others. She lives in NYC with her cat Buddha, and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University.

**DoubleCross Press (www.doublecrosspress.com) - Founded in Tuscaloosa, Ala in 2008 and since operated in Minneapolis and (now) Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, DoubleCross Press publishes poetry and essays on bookmaking in small handmade editions. DoubleCross Press books are produced at the Center for Book Arts and in editors MC Hyland and Jeff Peterson's home in Ditmas Park.

*Ian Dreiblatt (conjunctions.com/webcon/dreiblatt13.htm) - Ian Dreiblatt is an amateur egyptologist, poet, and the translator of, most recently, Gogol's The Nose and Comradely Greetings, the prison correspondence of Slavoj Žižek, and Pussy Riot's Nadyezhda Tolokonnikova, from Melville House and Verso Books respectively. His poetry has appeared in, among other places, Lungfull!, Web Conjunctions, Bomblog, The Agriculture Reader, The Portable Boog Reader, and Sink Review, and an e-chap is forthcoming from Metambesen. He lives with Anna Gurton-Wachter in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and is developing a whole new approach to soups.

*Anna Gurton-Wachter (yoyolabs.com/cyrus.html) - Anna Gurton-Wachter is a poet, photographer, and archivist. Her first chapbook, Cyrus, is available from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She is originally from Brooklyn and lives in Sunset Park, where she parks her sunset.

**Louffa Press (www.louffapress.com) - The mission behind Louffa Press is to foster a venue for limited edition, collectible, handmade chapbooks by a wide array of authors whose voices must be heard. Louffa Press specializes in innovative fiction and poetry, with a catalogue including writers such as Steve Katz, Stacey Levine, Mike Topp and others, with chapbooks forthcoming by David Abel and Erika Anderson in 2015.

*Erika Anderson (www.facebook.com/FranklinParkReadingSeries) - Erika Anderson teaches at Sackett Street Writers' Workshop, contributes to Hunger Mountain, and tweets for the Franklin Park Reading Series. She has an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in [NABE], Brooklyn. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Creative Nonfiction, Electric Literature's blog The Outlet, Guernica, Hunger Mountain, Interview Magazine, Sarah Lawrence's Lumina, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications.

*Dustin Luke Nelson (www.dustinlukenelson.com) - Dustin Luke Nelson is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection in the office hours of the polar vortex (Robocup) and the chapbook Abraham Lincoln (Mondo Bummer). He's a writer on the variety show The Locals and his writing has appeared in Fence Magazine, the Greying Ghost Pamphlet Series, Opium, Paper Darts, the Nervous Breakdown, 3:AM, and elsewhere.

**Lunar Chandelier Press (lunarchandelier-lunarchandelier.blogspot.com) - Lunar Chandelier Press, formed in 2009, publishes books of modern, evocative writing. They are inspired by the spirit of the poet- and artist-directed expatriate productions of the 1920s Paris Left Bank and the various contemporary poetry projects of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal's right bank: Belladonna Books, Cabinet, Litmus Press, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, and Ugly Duckling Presse, as well as the venerable Hanging Loose Press, based in downtown Brooklyn. Founded in 2009, Lunar Chandelier Press publishes books of evocative modern writing. Lunar Chandelier Press books are distributed by Small Press Distribution (www.spdbooks.org)

*Joe Elliot - Joe Elliot teaches high school English in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife, Anne Noonan, and their three boys. He is the author of numerous chapbooks including You Gotta Go In It's The Big Game, Poems To Be Centered On Much Much Larger Sheets Of Paper, 15 Clanking Radiators, 14 Knots, Reduced, Half Gross, a collaboration with artist John Koos; and Object Lesson, a collaboration with artist Rich O'Russa. Granary Books published If It Rained Here, a collaboration with artist Julie Harrison. His work has appeared in many magazines, including The World, The Poker, Giants Play Well In The Drizzle, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Torque, Chain, Epiphany, Lungfull, Ocho, and Arras. Faux Press published his long poem, 101 Designs for The World Trade Center. In 2006, a collection of his work, Opposable Thumb, was published by subpress, and in 2010 Lunar Chandelier Press brought out Homework.

*Jerome Sala (www.espressobongo.typepad.com) - Jerome Sala's latest book of poetry is The Cheapskates, from Lunar Chandelier. Previous collections include cult classics Spaz Attack, I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent, The Trip, Raw Deal, Look Slimmer Instantly, and Prom Night, a collaboration with artist Tamara Gonzales. His poetry and criticism have appeared in The Best American Poetry series, The Nation, Evergreen Review, Pleiades, Conjunctions, Rolling Stone, The Brooklyn Rail and many others. He has a Ph.D. in American studies from NYU. His blog, on "poetry, pop culture and everyday life" is espresso bongo.

**The Operating System (www.theoperatingsystem.org) - The Operating System is not a fixed entity. It is an ongoing experiment in resilient creative practice which necessarily morphs as its conditions and collaborators change. It is not a magazine, or a website, but rather an ongoing dialogue ABOUT the act of publishing on and offline: an exercise in the use and design of both of these things and their role in our shifting cultural landscape, explored THROUGH these things.

*Lynne DeSilva-Johnson (www.thetroublewithbartleby.net) - Lynne DeSilva-Johnson is an interdisciplinary creator confused by Adherence to Titles. If forced, she might admit to being a conceptual artist, but then might argue you are, too. She works in text, mixed multimedia, bookmaking, construction, printmaking, typography, photography, sound, digital manipulation, and on installations incorporating these in tandem. Her written work has been published widely, and she has performed/been shown at The Dumbo Arts Festival, Naropa University, Bowery Arts and Science, The NYC Poetry Festival, The Poetry Project, Undercurrent Projects, Mellow Pages, The New York Public Library, Page 22, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Launchpad BK, Space Space, This Must Be The Place, and the Cooper Union, among others. A regular host and curator of events in NYC, Lynne is the managing editor of The Operating System and also your brunch server. (Sorry, no substitutions.) She's blogged at The Trouble With Bartleby.

*JP Howard (squareup.com/market/the-operating-system/say-mirror) - JP Howard aka Juliet P. Howard is a poet, Cave Canem graduate fellow, member of The Hot Poets Collective and native New Yorker. She curates and nurtures Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon and Blog, a forum offering women writers at all levels a venue to come together in a positive and supportive space. Howard is a 2014 alum of the VONA/Voices Writers Workshop, a Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging LGBT Voices Fellow, was a Cave Canem Fellow-in-Residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and was a finalist for the Lesbian Writers' Fund of Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Her debut full length collection, SAY/MIRROR, is due out from The Operating System in early 2015, and her poems have been published in: Nepantla: A Journal for Queer Poets of Color (Lambda Literary Foundation), Adrienne A Poetry Journal of Queer Women (Sibling Rivalry Press), The Wide Shore A Journal of Global Women's Poetry, The Best American Poetry Blog, Cave Canem Anthology XII: Poems 2008-2009, Cave Canem XI 2007 Anthology, The Portable Lower East Side (Queer City), and Poetry in Performance, among others.

**We'll Never Have Paris (www.wellneverhavepariszine.com) - We'll Never Have Paris zine - For all things never meant to be.Started in 2007 in NYC, We'll Never Have Paris is a micro press literary journal dedicated to nonfiction memoir and tales of regret. The journal is published annually and is supported during the year by a bi-monthly reading series at Pete's Candy Store. Current issue is WNHP 11: Crime.

*Veronica LiuVeronica Liu's writing, comics, photography,and silkscreen prints have been published in We'll Never Have Paris, Broken Pencil, Quick Fiction, the Manhattan Times, and other publications. She has received artist grants from Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, Manhattan Community Arts Fund, Citizens Committee, and the Goodman Fund. She is the founder of Word Up Community Bookshop, an all-volunteer collectively run bookstore and arts space in Washington Heights, and cofounder of Fractious Press, through which she published a remembrance of birthdays packaged inside all the ramen packets she ate in her twenties.

**Yeti (www.yetimusic.co) - Yeti is bass-driven, philosophical, dream-punk with cute killer harmonies. This New York-based trio reeks of feral femininity, fermenting in the forgotten woods of Staten Island. Their music fuses Sleater-Kinney sensibilities with The Cranberries' emotional power. Yeti can be found playing at various venues throughout the New York City area, or in very cold, dark, remote caverns from which few have ever returned. Currently, they have two full-length albums, White Devil and Shadowhead; and their acoustic EP Fur You."

**Boog City (www.boogcity.com) - Boog City is a New York City-based small press now in its 24th 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.