The Portable Book Reader 5 Launch Party
Sunday, February 20, 2011, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Zinc Bar
82 W. 3rd St. (bet. Sullivan & Thompson sts.)
New York, NY
Boog City presents the launch party for The Portable Boog Reader 5, an annual poetry anthology, with readings from PBR5 contributors:
Stephanie Jo Elstro * Tracy K. Smith * Anne Tardos * K. Abigail Walthausen
with co-editor John Mulrooney reading Boston contributors' works
Curated and hosted by Portable Boog Reader 5 NYC editors David Kirschenbaum, Douglas Manson, Arlo Quint, and Lauren Russell, and Boston editors Michael Carr, John Mulrooney, and Aaron Tieger.
BOOG CITY is a New York City-based small press now in its 20th 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's My Aim is True; Nirvana's Nevermind; and Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville.
STEPHANIE JO ELSTRO is an Ohio native. In 2009 she received her M.A. in poetry from Miami University and transplanted to Bushwick, Brooklyn, at that time.
JOHN MULROONEY's work has appeared in Fulcrum, Pressed Wafer foldem' zine and Process and has appeared on NPR. He lives and writes in Massachusetts where he also teaches at Bridgewater State University.
TRACY K. SMITH's third collection, Life on Mars, will be published by Graywolf Press in May. She teaches at Princeton University.
ANNE TARDOS is a poet, composer, and visual artist. She is a 2009 Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
K. ABIGAIL WALTHAUSEN wrote a chapbook, released on Fractious Press, called The Internet, and it has a hole in every page.