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Brooklyn Independents this Wednesday: Andrew Levy, Star Black, Colette Inez

 

Brooklyn Public Library presents Brooklyn Independents:
Colette Inez, Star Black, and Andrew Levy

Renowned poets from Melville House and EOAGH read from their books

 

Wednesday May 1 at 7 PM

at the Central Library

10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn NY 

(this reading will take place on the plaza)

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/ 

 

Star Black is a world-renowned photo-journalist operating out of her mid-Manhattan home. She is co-founder of the wildly popular poetry reading series at the KGB Bar in Manhattan's East Village, and the author of five books of poems: Double Time, Waterworn, October for Idas, Balefire and most recently, Ghostwood from Melville House Press.

Colette Inez is the author of ten books of poetry, including Clemency and Getting Under Way: New and Selected Poems and her new book, Spinoza Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Meville House Press). Inez is the recipient of numerous awards for poetry, including two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Foundation award, and two Pushcart Prizes. She teaches poetry at Columbia University.

Andrew Levy is an activist, teacher and dad. He's the author of fourteen books, most recently Don't Forget to Breathe (Chax Press), Nothing is in Here (EOAGH Books) and Cracking Up (Truck Books). He's an essayist, a journalist, and a fiction writer. He teaches critical thinking as well as journalism at CUNY's Manhattan Community College. With Roberto Harrison, Andrew published the poetry journal Crayon from 1997 to 2008.

EOAGH publishes contemporary poetry and criticism (innovative, experimental, avant-garde, queer, trans). They publish books as well as a yearly journal. http://eoagh.com

Melville House is an independent publisher located in Brooklyn, New York, It was founded in 2001 by sculptor Valerie Merians and fiction writer/journalist Dennis Johnson.

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The reading will take place on the plaza. In case of rain, it will be moved to the Dweck Center on the lower level of the library.

Books will be available for sale at the program.

This series is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Zinc Bar Series Schedule for February / March

Zinc bar schedule February / March 2011
curated by Tim Peterson and Franklin Bruno
all events take place at Zinc Bar, 82 W 3rd St, NYC

Friday, Feb 25 at 6:30 PM
Andrew Levy and Jesse Seldess (EOAGH Books launch)

Sunday, Feb 27 at 6:30 PM
Eddie Berrigan and Brenda Coultas

Saturday, March 5 at 5:30 PM
Jennifer Moxley and Vincent Katz

Sunday, March 20 at 6:30 PM
Tenney Nathanson, Lee Ann Brown, and Filip Marinovich

Sunday, March 27 at 6:30 PM
Mike Boughn and Victor Coleman

Andrew Levy & Jesse Seldess at Zinc (EOAGH Books Launch)

 

Zinc Bar Reading Series presents
Andrew Levy and Jesse Seldess

Celebrating the publication of
the first EOAGH book
Nothing is in Here, by Andrew Levy

on Friday, February 25 at 6:30 PM
at Zinc Bar
82 W 3rd St
NYC

Andrew Levy's recent titles of poetry and prose include Nothing Is in Here (EOAGH Books, 2011) and Cracking Up (Truck Books, 2010). He is also a contributing writer in collaboration with the PUH collective to The Big Melt (Factory School), and author of Memories of My Father (Innerer Klang), Ashoka (Zasterle Books), Paper Head Last Lyrics (Roof Books), Curve (O Books), and Values Chauffeur You (O Books) among other titles. Billy Dale Shoots to Kill is forthcoming from Chax Press.  Levy is an associate professor of English at BMCC-CUNY, and co-editor, with Roberto Harrison, of the poetry journal Crayon. He lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.

Jesse Seldess recently relocated to Brooklyn from Karlsruhe, Germany. He is the author of two books, Who Opens (Kenning Editions, 2006) and Left Having (Kenning Editions, forthcoming), as well as chapbooks on Hand Held Editions, Instance Press, Answer Tag Press, and the Chicago Poetry Project Press. His work has recently appeared in the journals EOAGH, Jacket, Little Red Leaves, and out of nothing. Since 2001, he has edited and published Antennae (http://www.antennae-journal.com), a journal of experimental writing and language-based performance and music scores.

 

NOW AVAILABLE

Nothing is in Here
by Andrew Levy

EOAGH Books 2011
ISBN 978-0-578-05882-5
Poetry / Fiction / Literature
82 pages
$17 

Available for Order/Purchase
at the EOAGH Website

 

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Praise for Nothing is in Here:

"This book percolates with the nervous jitters of a new syntax, highly compressed into gigabyte format, and it attacks the central nervous system of the reader. In my day it used to be 'dudes,' but today it's all the young screens that carry the news. . If, due to a saturation of such memes, the fact of the sentence has lost urgency, maybe it's the job of the poet to point out what we've lost while instructing us in the delight of our debris. No one demonstrates this fact of digital life better than poet Andrew Levy, whose first EOAGH collection arrives at a critical moment in our nation's horologics. If you could synchronize this book to all your inner clocks, you'd be a good forty-five seconds ahead of the rest of the world at all times."

- Kevin Killian

"With barely concealed irony, downright humor, a large wedge of anger and a small edge of wistfulness, Andrew Levy views everything from the 'urban interruption' of mid-town Manhattan to the corrupt politics of G.W. Bush, from war and torture to religiosity and outright mendacity. There's more: invented personae, pop culture, the bubble economy, friends and family, beauty and envy. Even the Brooklyn Bridge makes an appearance. Just about everything is in Nothing is in Here. And the title itself is a bright lure: 'Nothing is in here we' re forced to debate.' The terms are given in the beginning: 'Nothing is in here. So, I make it look as different as possible.'"

- Beverly Dahlen

 

SUBSCRIBE TO EOAGH BOOKS
FOR 2011-2012

* Support EOAGH Books & EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts *

A $25 Subscription includes:
- Nothing is in Here by Andrew Levy (the 2011 EOAGH Book)
- PLUS the forthcoming 2012 EOAGH Book (TBA)

Order/Purchase a Subscription
at the EOAGH website

Peripheral Writing: A Launch Event for EOAGH 6

Celebrating the launch of "Peripheral Writing," this issue's feature edited by Tan Lin: http://chax.org/eoagh/issuesix/tanlin.html, which includes:

Chris Funkhouser / Alejandro Crawford / E. Shaskan Bumas / Chris Alexander / Jeremy Sigler / Danny Snelson / Jennifer Moxley / Jerrold Shiroma / Juliana Spahr / Ben Lerner / Bernadette Corporation / Kit Robinson / Frances Richard / Diana Hamilton / Dan Machlin / Mashinka Firunts / Josef Kaplan / Brian Kim Stefans / Jonathan Skinner / Bruce Andrews / Kristen Gallagher / Chris Nealon / Diana Kingsley / Darren Wershler / Katherine Jaeger / Matthew Landis / Mina Pam Dick / Kieran Daly / Lee Ann Brown / Michelle Taransky / Edward Hopely / Jeremy James Foxtrot Thompson / Danielle Aubert / Amy Wright / Rachel Zolf / David Buuck / Mark Nowak / Patrick F. Durgin / Louis Asekoff / Rebecca Mertz / Paolo Javier / Amanda Raczkowski & Joseph Reed / Steve McLaughlin / Gordon Faylor / Sara Wintz / Prageeta Sharma

on Feb 1 at 6:30 PM
in the James Gallery
at CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, NYC
(Free Admission)

Join us on Feb 1 at the James Gallery for a launch event hosted by Tim Peterson (Trace) featuring poetry readings and multimedia artworks/performances from the forthcoming Issue 6 of EOAGH, including:

Alejandro Crawford
Ana Bozicevic
Andrew Levy
Amy Wright
Bruce Andrews
Chris Alexander
Diana Kingsley
E. Shaskan Bumas
Filip Marinovich
Jeremy Sigler
Jesse Seldess
Jonathan Skinner
Josef Kaplan
Kristen Gallagher
Marc Nasdor
Michael Scharf
Paolo Javier
Rebecca Mertz
Tan Lin
Traver Pam Dick
Vincent Katz

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Tan Lin's Introduction for Peripheral Writing:

This issue looks at how and in what spaces writing takes place, i.e. the ambient environment of reading as well as the ecology of writing practices. If the amount of text being generated today is voluminous and threatens to transform a once-visual era into one structured by data and various communications protocols, the site specificity of the EOAGH cluster is distributive and ethnographic, like a reblog. What would a site-specific ethnography of writing look like? In an environment of re-circulated PDFs, scripting languages, the built environment, e-commerce, photo sharing as a discursive practice, network architectures, and the social more generally conceived, forms of non-writing comprise a re-distribution within the sphere formerly known as poetry. From this generic standpoint, the spaces poetry is said to occupy, or drift in create shared or communal references and appropriations. A few authors are a few allusions. Although individual authors are listed, a page functions best without them.

Tim had initially inquired about an issue of ambience, as a literary idea, and this section of EOAGH tries to site ambience, where ambience is understood as a medium rather than a genre. Non-writing is one of the forms such a medium might take. For this particular issue I asked individuals to:

send anything that is PERIPHERAL to their current writing (these could be actual words) or current writing practice (more generally), i.e. not immediately sensitive to a desire to do writing or intended to "be" writing.

It can be an image, a text you've read and not really thought about, a thought about something that you didn't write about etc etc etc.

It can be a series of linked items or it can be a single item, anything really but unconstrained by a desire to make it into something that it is not.

It should not have much to do with you, at least textually speaking.

I'm hoping this project might continue beyond the strict bounds of the invitation, with further entries submitted post February 1.