Readings from The Portable Boog Reader 7: N.Y.C. and Pittsburgh Set for 1/19

Nicholas DeBoer * Claire Donato * Jeff T Johnson

Morgan Parker * Quincy Troupe * Ken L. Walker

PITTSBURGH POET Shawn Maddey * Alicia Salvadeo
AND MUSIC FROM Marianne Pillsbury with songs from Depression: The Musical
Curated and hosted by Portable Boog Reader 7 N.Y.C. editors Laura Henriksen, Amy King, David Kirschenbaum, Geoffrey Olsen, Nicole Peyrafitte, and Angela Veronica Wong, and Pittsburgh editors Margaret Bashaar and Lauren Russell.

Hosted and curated by Boog City editor and publisher David Kirschenbaum

For further information: 212-842-BOOG (2664), editor@boogcity.com

Boog City http://www.boogcity.com 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 approximately 200 publications, including 35 volumes of poetry and 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 the renegade press, 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. All of these series are hosted at Sidewalk Cafe.