Zinc Bar Reading Series
Poetry. Sundays at 6:30 p.m. at the Zinc Bar, 82 W. 3rd St.
Launch Party for The Portable Boog Reader 4 annual poetry anthology
with 48 NYC poets and now 24 D.C. Metro area poets all of them new to The Portable Boog Reader
7:00 p.m.
WITH READINGS FROM PBR4 CONTRIBUTORS
N.Y.C. poets:
Ivy Johnson * Boni Joi
Steven Karl * Ada Limon
D.C. poets:
Lynne Dreyer * Phyllis Rosenzweig
Curated and hosted by Portable Boog Reader 4 N.Y.C. editors: Sommer Browning, Joanna Fuhrman, David Kirschenbaum, and Urayoán Noel, and D.C. editors Cathy Eisenhower and Maureen Thorson.
For further information:
212-842-BOOG (2664), editor@boogcity.com
PBR4 (BC61) features the work of 48 New York City and 24 D.C. Metro area poets. The online pdf is available at:
http://welcometoboogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc61.pdf
Bios:
**Boog City**http://www.welcometoboogcity.com/
Boog City is a New York City-based small press now in its 19th year and East Village community newspaper of the same name. It has also published 35 volumes of poetry and various magazines, 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, where each month a non-NYC small press and its writers and a musical act of their choosing is hosted at Chelsea’s ACA Galleries; and Classic Albums Live, where up to 13 local musical acts perform a classic album live at venues including The Bowery Poetry Club, Cake Shop, CBGB’s, and The Knitting Factory. Past albums have included Elvis Costello, My Aim is True; Nirvana, Nevermind; and Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville.
**Lynne Dreyer**http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Dreyer.php
Lynne Dreyer has been a D.C. poet for the past 35 years. She lives in Falls Church, Va.
**Ivy Johnson**
Ivy Johnson would like to thank all of the Brooklyn bartenders who doused her in alcohol and set her on fire.
**Boni Joi**
Boni Joi has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in Arabella, Big Hammer, Mind Gorilla, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other journals.
**Steven Karl**http://stevenkarl.blogspot.com/
Steven Karl and the artist Joseph Lappie collaborated on State(s) of Flux (Peptic Robot Press). Karl has chaps from Flying Guillotine and Scantily Clad presses forthcoming.
**Ada Limon**http://www.adalimon.com
Ada Limón is the author of two award-winning poetry books. Her third book, Sharks in the Rivers, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions.
**Phyllis Rosenzweig**http://www.aerialedge.com/dogs.htm
Phyllis Rosenzweig has lived in Washington, D.C. since 1974. She edits Primary Writing with Diane Ward.
