Thursday, March 20, 2008

Boog City presents Outside Voices Anthology of Younger Poets Reading

Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

Outside Voices
(Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Readings from poets in the forthcoming
The Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets

This Tues. March 25, 6:00 p.m. sharp, free

ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC

Event will be hosted by
Outside Voices editor Jessica Smith


Featuring readings from

Ellen Baxt
Amy Berkowitz
C.S. Carrier
Lisa Lightsey
j.s. makkos
Justin Marks
Nicole Mauro
Steve McLaughlin
John Most
Marci Nelligan

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

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**Outside Voices
http://poetry2008.blogspot.com

Outside Voices is a poetry small press located in Brooklyn.


*Performer Bios*

**Ellen Baxt

Ellen Baxt is the author of Analfabeto / An Alphabet from Shearsman Books. A poet and dancer, she teaches English as a Second Language in Brooklyn.


**Amy Berkowitz

Amy Berkowitz lives in Brooklyn. Her poems have appeared in Coconut Poetry, Shampoo Poetry, and [sic] Journal.


**Lisa Lightsey

Lisa Lightsey is a young poet living in Portland, Ore. She is the editor of Four Types, the quarterly journal of collaborative typewritings. Her work has appeared in many places, most recently in CapGun2. She received her B.S. in Sustainable Living from Maharishi University


**j.s. makkos

j.s. makkos in one sense can be defined as an experimental composer of visual and audible design-poetics. While his educational background makes him a writer, his aesthetic is in forward moving art. He resides in Cleveland, where he operates a nexus space called the Language Foundry, which is dedicated to hybrid performance arts and music, as well as a book press that is centered around design and poetics.


**Justin Marks
http://www.kitchenpresschapbooks.blogspot.com

Justin Marks’ latest chapbook is [Summer insular] (Horse Less Press). He is the founder and editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks and lives in New York City.


**Nicole Mauro

Nicole Mauro writes poetry and book reviews, and teaches rhetoric and writing at The University of San Francisco.


**John Most
http://www.johnmost.com/

John Most is a poet. He lives in New York City and rural Virginia.


**Marci Nelligan

Marci Nelligan’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Moria, Dusie, eratio, Word For/Word, The Tiny, Chain, syllogism, Foursquare, and other journals.

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Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues