Boog City presents levy lives, featuring DOS PRESS

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

Dos Press
(Maxwell, Texas)


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
Julia Drescher
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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**Dos Press
http://www.dospress.blogspot.com/

Dos Press is a handmade chapbook press co-edited by C.J. Martin and Julia
Drescher. They have published three books thus far in the first series, each
in dos-a-dos format: 1 book, 2 spines, 3 authors. Also in the first series
are poems from Hoa Nguyen, Carter Smith, Andrea Strudensky, Michelle
Detorie, Michael Cross, and Johannes Göransson. Noah Eli Gordon has said
that "the editors of Dos Press have done the valuable work of translating
the communal experience of attending a reading into the private realm of
actually reading" (Rain Taxi, summer 2008).


*Performer Bios*

**Rosa Alcalá
http://www.mipoesias.com/mipoprint/RosaAlcala2.pdf

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.


**Julia Drescher
http://www.littleredleaves.com
Julia Drescher lives in San Marcos, TX, where she co-edits Dos Press with
C.J. Martin. She's also a contributing editor for Little Red Leaves. A
chapbook, Mock Martyrs / Abound, is out from dancing girl press. Another
chapbook is forthcoming from the Dusie Kollectiv. Other work may be found,
or will be found, in the following: Cranky, WOMB, the tiny, goodfoot, The
Colorado Review, zafusy, P-Queue, FOURSQUARE, and, with CJ Martin, Broke.


**Ash Smith
http://opened-by.blogspot.com/

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.


**Andrea Strudensky
http://littleredleaves.com/LRL1/strudensky.html

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


**Andrew Phillip Tipton
http://www.myspace.com/andrewphilliptipton

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
year¹s critically ignored Champion of Love. He lives in Staten Island, where
he collects piggy banks.

Zemborain/ Alcala/ Del Torre/ Dec. 14/ 4pm Bowery Poetry Club

Mauve Sea-Orchids/Malvas orquídeas del mar

by Lila Zemborain, translated by Rosa Alcalá and Mónica de la Torre

with readings by the author and both translators!

Sunday, December 14

4PM (SHARP!)

@ The Bowery Poetry Club

(Bowery between Bleeker & Houston)

$6 at the door

Lila Zemborain is an Argentine poet and critic who has lived

in New York since 1985. She is the author of the poetry collections, Abrete sésamo debajo del agua (Buenos Aires, Ultimo Reino, 1993), Usted (Buenos Aires, Ultimo Reino, 1998), Guardianes del secreto (Buenos Aires. Tsé-Tsé, 2002) / Guardians of the Secret (Texas: Naomi Press, forthcoming), Malvas orquídeas del mar (Buenos Aires: Tsé-Tsé, 2004) / Mauve Sea-Orchids (New York: Belladonna Books, 2007), Rasgado (Buenos Aires: Tsé-Tsé, 2006), and the chapbooks Ardores (Buenos Aires, 1989), and Pampa (New York: Belladona Books, 2001). Her work, translated into English by Rosa Alcalá, has appeared in the art catalogues Alessandro Twombly (Brussels: Alain Noirhomme, 2007) and Heidi McFall (New York: Aninna Nosei, 2005). She has just published a collaborative work with artist Martín Reyna, La couleur de l'eau (Paris: Virginie Boissiere, 2008), translated into French by Sarah T. Reyna. She has authored the book-length essay Gabriela Mistral. Una mujer sin rostro (Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2002). She has been the director and editor of the Rebel Road Series (2000-2007), and since 2003 she curates the KJCC Poetry Series at New York University, where she is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish. She is a John Simon Guggenheim fellow (2007).

Rosa Alcalá is the author of two chapbooks, Some Maritime

Disasters This Century (Belladonna), and Undocumentary (Dos Press). She also has poems in The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (U of AZ). She has co-translated (with Mónica de la Torre) Lila Zemborain's Mauve Sea-Orchids (Belladonna), and forthcoming is her translation of Zemborain's Guardians of the Secret (Noemi Press). Other translations include Lourdes Vázquez's Bestiary and Cecilia Vicuña's Cloud-net. She also has translations forthcoming in the Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry. She holds an MFA from Brown University and a PhD from SUNY-Buffalo. Born and raised in Paterson, NJ, she currently resides in El Paso, Texas, where she is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas, as well as Poetry Editor for Noemi Press.

Mónica de la Torre is author of the poetry books Talk Shows

(Switchback, 2007) and Acúfenos, a collection published in 2006 in Mexico City by Taller Ditoria. She c

Announcing Dos Press Chapbook #3

ANNOUNCING DOS PRESS CHAPBOOK #3

1 book, 2 spines, 3 authors.

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:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15222580

Standard edition copies are available here:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15438331

See blog for details: www.dospress.blogspot.com

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. Steensen teaches poetry workshops, literature courses, letterpress
printing, and bookmaking. She is the author of *The Method*(Fence Books,
2008), *A Magic Book*, which won the Alberta duPont Bonsal Prize (Fence
Books, 2004), *The Future of an Illusion* (Dos Press, 2008), and *
correspondence* (with Gordon Hadfield, Handwritten Press, 2004). Her poetry
has appeared in numerous journals, including*Denver Quarterly, Aufgabe,
Goodfoot, Free Verse, Slope, Shearsman, Shiny, *and* La Petit Zine*. Her
essays and reviews have appeared in journals such as *Boston Review, Chain,
P-queue*and *Interim*. She is currently working on a hybrid project, which
is part poetry, part memoir, part history of the Back-to-the-Land movement
of the 1970's. Steensen is also co-editor of Bonfire Press (
http://bonfirepress.colostate.edu), and she serves as one of the poetry
editors for Colorado Review.
Steensen's work online:
http://littleredleaves.com/LRL2/steensen.html
http://handwritten.org/downloads/hadfield-steensen.pdf

*Rosa Alcalá* received her MFA from Brown University and her Ph.D. in
English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 2003, *Some
Maritime Disasters This Century*was published as a limited edition by
Belladonna/Boog Books (New York).*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,
2007), 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, 2005). Alcalá has translated Cecilia
Vicuña's *El Templo* (Situations Press, 2001 ) and *Cloud-net* (Art in
General, 1999). 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, 2003). Alcalá's translation of *Bestiary: The
Selected Poems of Lourdes Vázquez* was published by Bilingual Press in 2004.
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 forthcoming*Oxford Book of Latin American
Poetry*. Her poems, translations, and reviews have been published widely in
a variety of literary journals, including the *Barrow Street**, Brooklyn
Rail,* *tripwire*, *Kenyon Review*, and *Mandorla*. She has held artist
residencies and has given talks and readings in the U.S., Spain, Cuba, and
Scotland.

Alcalá's work online:
http://www.actionyes.org/issue7/alcala/alcala1.html


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.

Smith's work online:

http://webdelsol.com/DIAGRAM/7_1/smith.html

--
325 Mill Rd.
Maxwell, TX 78656
www.dospress.blogspot.com

Little Red Leaves

LRLissue 2

Featuring:

a selection of excerpts from the second Dos Press chapbook as well as

--Michelle Detorie performing w/Austin percussionist Chris Cogburn in
video from the launch reading
--Johannes Göransson reading from his translations of Aase Berg, Henry
Parland, & Ann Jäderlund
--Michael Cross reading from his own work and from Brady & Halpern's
_Snow Sensitive Skin_.

The issue also features new work from
Christiana Baik
Kristy Bowen
Joel Chace
Juliet Cook
Elizabeth Cross
Michael Cross
Betsy Fagin
Raymond Farr
Anna Fulford
Crane Giamo
Carolyn Guinzio
Anne Heide
Juliana Leslie
Ixta Menchaca
Bonnie Jean Michalski
Sheila E. Murphy
T.A. Noonan
Dawn Pendergast
Kyle Schlesinger
Sasha Steensen
Michelle Taransky
Eric Unger
Joshua Ware
Snezana Zabic

Happy New Year

Words for 2008 in Grand Saline, home of the Salt Palace, made of salt

The Problem with Chistmas

inside: a wax record

Many (serious) things I've been meaning to post on ... and will. Working on Red List poems (which do and don't address the red list), taxonomy poems (mostly Racehorse Inverse sequence-- and thinking about RI as a strange multisurfaced chap resisting and engaging with ideas of classification and coordinates), viral poems (from older manuscript "new shapes for the outside being eaten" and will prob change title -- though I found this essay really interesting)

In the mean time, I didn't know that the boto (amazonian pink river dolphin) could be this pink! fantastic but sadly in danger.

hmm... also thinking about a post on chance and divagation.

and xo to Jake and Bethany in whichitAH!

Miriam Londono

Really interesting work by Miriam Londono (w/ an ~ over the later n). Curious to think about these handwriting pieces vs. the cityscape cutouts.

I would like to do a project involving paper casts of fingers -- about the difficulty of counting in terms of crisis. Found out today that I would have to leave the wet cast of paper around my fingers until it dried. Diagnosis = I will need fake hands, or robotic hands to work for me while my hands are covered in paper.

Looking around at the IAMPA site -- so many good artists. I found "minature obscure" in Cornelia Beate Ahnert's gallery = the only lit journal I've seen come housed in a hamster wheel.

Some notes on the wonderment inducing properties of dos press

Really glad I got to make it to the dos press/ kadar koli launch party at 12th steet on Saturday. 12th Street Books is a great place to start with, but the readings were really, really good, and it was wonderful to see everyone.

Most of all, I can't get over how really stunning these the dos press chaps are. Chris and Julia are ridiculously talented, but I'm still impressed with how well conceived the idea is, and with all of the gorgeous work that brought these books together. My copy is an aspirin kissed pink with a silver crane/map and black poppy. It's spacious for its 4x4 interlocking scale, and unassuming but intricate. Moreover, there are some really good poems in here, from some really interesting authors -- while each poet seems to occupy a distinct territory in language, the book design emphasises a kind of geo-spatial connection between the authors, as if they were each around the corner from each other in other ways. The press flickr site has some nice images of the birth of the chap, but they really can't compare to turning the book over in your hands and reading the poems.

Julia's "Minumentals" are also seriously more amazing to see in all their three-dimensional fabulousness than the pictures convey. It's surprising to look into each box, (I even had a dream about the one with the shaky white feather) but the choice of objects and arrangement feels really suited to the richness and compression in the Niedecker lines. I love love love them. There are still a few left, along with special edition hand sewn chaps available by donor subscription. ....probably post more later about the poems.

Opera omnia

Already slacking at blogging, but writing poems instead. I'm also looking at this -- a digitized site of rare and complete botanical books. The image above is from a medieval book called "Opera omnia, seu, Thesaraus locupletissimus botanico-medio-atonomicus ..."

Really good poems by Rosa Alcala in pdf

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes today! In turn, I am going to try blogging for real for the next 27 days as a way to keep in touch better (or something). To prove the seriousness of my intent, I have posted an obligatory picture of my cat. xoxo

DIAGRAM

One poem up at DIAGRAM 7.1 -- but be warned! Rather than the lovely double-taking head in the upper right corner which helps the reader navigate back to the table of contents, my page just says ToC in red letters. And those letters will never get you back to the ToC. Instead, you will be stuck with my poem for a long, long time.

Poetry CD Wright, Coral Bracho trans. Forrest Gander, John Evans, Jenny Gillespe, Michael McGriff, Emily Louise Smith, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Arianne Zwartjes Fiction Zdravka Evimova, Judy Wilson Nonfiction Barry Hannah, David Keifbar, Marjorie Perloff Audio/Video Percival Everett, Denis Johnson, Wright, Gander, Perloff Book Reviews

Ice is cool

~*~Womb Poetry Vol.1 : Hives & Covens~*~
http://www.wombpoetry.com/
dedicated in memory to kari edwards
* t h r u m *
<http://www.wombpoetry.com/hives.html>: kari edwards : Eileen Tabios : Barbara Jane Reyes : Elizabeth Treadwell :Ann Bogle : : Alison Cimino :Susan B.A. Somers-Willett : Amy King : KristyBowen : Julie Choffel : : J.B. Rowell : Ebony Golden : Jenna Cardinale :Juliet Cook : Susan Morrison-Kilfoyle : : Holaday Mason : Toti O'Brien :Jessica Schneider : Karen McBurney : Sunnylyn Thibodeaux : : Sarah Mangold :Meagan Evans : Jennifer Bartlett : Marcia Arrieta : Michele Miller : :Priscilla Atkins : Anne Elezebeth Pluto : Marie Buck : Michalle Gould : AnneHeide : : Susan Meyers : Melissa Eleftherion : Susan Settlemyre Williams :J. Elizabeth Clark :
* s p a r k l e * <http://www.wombpoetry.com/hives.html><http://www.wombpoetry.com/hives.html>: Danielle Pafunda : Kathryn Miller : Julia Drescher : k. lorraine graham :Karen McBurney : : Michelle Caplan : Marcia Arrieta : Ashley Smith : AnnetteSugden : Christine Bruness :
* c h i m e *
<http://www.wombpoetry.com/hives.html>: a chapbook by Julia Drescher :

Roberto Ontiveros = Our Shy Salt