Coldfront ? This Week in NYC: Featured Readings

Every week, Coldfront features five cross-borough readings in NYC. Here are this week?s picks.
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Boog City presents d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press
Tuesday, January 29 @ 6:30 pm
Sidewalk Caf?, 94 Ave. A, New York, NY
$5 suggested

Event will be hosted by Hyacinth Girl editors Margaret Bashaar and Sarah Reck.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum.

Hyacinth Girl Press is a micro-press founded in 2011 that publishes poetry chapbooks. They specialize in handmade books of smaller press runs. They consider themselves a feminist press and are particularly interested in manuscripts dealing with topics such as radical spiritual experiences, creation/interpretation of myth through a feminist lens, and science. They think outer space, in particular, is pretty darn cool. Hyacinth Girl Press is edited by Margaret Bashaar and designed/laid out by Sarah Reck.

Margaret Bashaar?s second chapbook, Letters from Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel, was released by Blood Pudding Press in 2011. Her poetry has also appeared in or is forthcoming from journals such as Caketrain, Copper Nickel, Menacing Hedge, New South, and RHINO, among others. She edits Hyacinth Girl Press and lives in Pittsburgh with her husband, her son, and far too many typewriters.

Sarah Kain Gutowski?s poems have been published in Epiphany, So to Speak: A Feminist Journal, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, and Verse Daily. She keeps a record of her writing life, experience in academia, and motherhood at the above url.

Crystal J. Hoffman was raised by a biker and a truck driver in the woods outside of a dead mining town. This explains why her most important accomplishments to date are having been reprimanded for climbing trees on three continents and nearly freeing a monkey within one week of assuming her first full-time teaching post. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Arsenic Lobster, Redactions: Poetry and Poetics, Strange Horizons, Whiskey Island, and WomenArts Quarterly. She cofounded and directed the TypewriterGirls Poetry Cabaret with Hyacinth Girl Press editor Margaret Bashaar for five years and spent the past year inducing the Cabaret Voltaire spirit in the Middle East while teaching creative writing at the American University of Beirut.

Niina Pollari wrote two chapbooks, Book Four (Hyacinth Girl Press) and Fabulous Essential (Birds of Lace). A full-length translation of the work of Tytti Heikkinen is due out from Action Books in spring 2013.

Sarah Reck?s short stories have appeared in Elephant Tree and The Tributary. She is co-founding and managing editor of Litterbox Magazine (on hiatus), and blogs at the above url. She lives in New York City and works as a web publicist for a major publishing house.

J. Hope Stein is the author of [Talking Doll] (Dancing Girl Press), [Mary] (Hyacinth Girl Press), and Corner Office (H_ngm_n Bks). She is the editor of Poetry Crush.

Boog City is a New York City-based small press now in its 22nd 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 three regular performance series?d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press, featuring a non-NYC small press, its writers, and a musical act; the new BoogWork series, which features two poets reading, followed by a musical performance, and then the featured poet giving the gathered a poetry workshop; 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.

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Fledge: A Tribute to Stacy Doris
Wednesday, January 30th @ 8pm
The Poetry Project, 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY

Join us at The Poetry Project for readings of work by internationally acclaimed poet and translator Stacy Doris, with special attention to her final book?Fledge?(Nightboat Books). Doris?s previous books of poetry in English are?Kildare, Paramour, Conference, Knot, Cheerleader?s Guide to the World: Council Book, and?The Cake Part. She also wrote three books in French and translated three volumes of French poetry into English. She died on January 31, 2012 at her home in San Francisco, where she taught in the Creative Writing Programs at SFSU. With?Chet Wiener, James Sherry, Lee Ann Brown, Rob Fitterman, Kim Rosenfield, Nada Gordon, Jena Osman, Ann Lauterbach, Cole Swensen, Laynie Browne, Charles Bernstein, Carol Mirakove, Julie Regan and Daria Fain.
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Sorry House Book Release
Thursday, January 31st @ 7pm
Housing Works Bookstore, 126 Crosby Street, New York, NY

Poet Mira Gonzalez is joined by Kool A.D., Giancarlo DiTrapano, Spencer Madsen, Melissa Broder, Willis Plummer, and Marshall Mallicoat for a reading & celebration. Drinks, books, limited-run zines & prints will all be available.

Sorry House?is a Brooklyn-based independent publisher of books in print. The first title?I will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together?by Mira Gonzalez will be released and sold for the first time at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe on January 31st.

All proceeds benefit Housing Works.

Flyer by?Erik Carter.
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Brenda Shaughnessy and Craig Morgan Teicher
Friday, February 1st @ 5 pm
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th St, New York, NY

Brenda Shaughnessy?s new collection is Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). To Keep Love Blurry, Craig Morgan Teicher?s latest title, was published by BOA Editions in 2012.

Sponsored by NYU Creative Writing Program
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The Death and Life of American Cities
Friday, February 1st @ 10pm
The Poetry Project, 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY

In the tradition of?Floating Bear,?Try!,?Rolling Stock?and other hyperactive journals before it,?The Death and Life of American Cities?is couched in the necessity of materializing writing?s frequency in all its cantering grime.? Please join us for a one night procedural intervention in this circuit to parse the first 10 months of publication/gestation with readings by?erica kaufman, Jennifer Nelson, Jamie Townsend, Andrew Durbin, Josef Kaplan and others.

Liquor will flow (though you may want to bring forth from the earth, etc); myna birds will sing; there will, with god?s grace, be karaoke.

And, of course, the new Death and Life of American Cities will be available.
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Have a listing for consideration? Email stephanie.whited(at)gmail(dot)com.

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