Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Atticus / Finch d.a. levy lives Event







Boog City presents
d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press Atticus/Finch Chapbooks (Seattle) Tues., March 31, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free ACA Galleries 529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr. NYC Event will be hosted by Atticus/Finch editor Michael Cross

Featuring readings from
Thom Donovan Judith Goldman David Larsen Kyle Schlesinger

with music from
Julian T. Brolaski

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.
Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum
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**Atticus/Finch Chapbookshttp://www.atticusfinch.org/
Atticus/Finch balks emphatically at faux notions of newness. Rather, they present to you beautiful and affordable editions in the splendid aura of their fresh new-ity. Help them help you rabidly consume the future of poetry as it unfolds before your very eyes. They greatly appreciate your patronage.

*Performer Bios*
**Julian T. Brolaski http://www.atticusfinch.org/brolaski.htm
Julian T. Brolaski is the author of the chapbooks Hellish Death Monsters (Spooky Press, 2001), Letters to Hank Williams (True West Press, 2003), The Daily Usonian (Atticus/Finch, 2004) and Madame Bovary’s Diary (Cy Press, 2005) (under the name Tanya Brolaski) and Buck in a Corridor (flynpyntar, 2008). Brolaski received an MFA from Mills College and is a PhD candidate in English (UC Berkeley). Brolaski lives in Brooklyn where xe is writing xir dissertation on rhyme in medieval, Renaissance and Apache poetries.

**Thom Donovan http://whof.blogspot.com/
Thom Donovan is an ongoing participant in the Nonsite Collective, coedits ON Contemporary Practice, the first issue of which can be purchased now at SPD, edits Wild Horses of Fire weblog, and curates PEACE events series. His poems and critical writings have been published variously, including his Atticus/Finch collaboration with Kyle Schlesinger, Mantle.

**Judith Goldman http://www.obooks.com/books/death_star.htm
Judith Goldman is the author of two books of poetry, Vocoder (Roof) and DeathStar/Rico-chet (O Books), and the co-editor, with Leslie Scalapino, of War and Peace, an annual anthology of experimental writing against the war. Her chapbook The Dispossessions is forthcoming from Atticus/Finch.

**David Larsen http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/11908/the-thorn.aspx
Newly relocated from San Francisco's Bay Area, David Larsen is pursuing a career in postgraduate studies. His first book of poetry is The Thorn (Faux Press), and will soon be joined by his translation of Names of the Lion by Abu Abd Allah ibn Khalawayh (Atticus/Finch). From 2005-2007 he was co-curator of the New Yipes reading/video series at Oakland's 21 Grand.

**Kyle Schlesinger http://www.kyleschlesinger.com
Kyle Schlesinger’s books include The Pink, Hello Helicopter, and, with Caroline Koebel, Schablone Berlin. With Thom Donovan and Michael Cross, he edits ON, a poetics journal that focuses on contemporaries. He is the co-author, with Thom Donovan, of Mantle (Atticus/Finch).
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Directions:C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues

Next event:
Tues. April 28 Bird Dog magazine (Seattle)
--David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher Boog City 330 W.28th St., Suite 6HNY, NY 10001-4754 For event and publication information:http://welcometoboogcity.com/T:
(212) 842-BOOG (2664)

1 comment:

Grammaticus said...

I fancy that Iliad design, I must confess -- bravo.