A 65th Birthday Celebration for d.a. levy October 29, 2007

Come honor the life and work of the late Cleveland poet-publisher who was at the vanguard of the mimeo revolution of the sixties. We’ll recognize the radical and enduring effect levy left on small press poetry and publishing during his short life with readings of his work and informal discussion. Participants will include Steve Clay, Bob Holman, David Kirschenbaum, Jake Marx and Gary Sullivan, with some special guests, too. This event will be preceded by a screening of Kon Petrochuk’s levy biopic if i scratch, if i write at 5:00 p.m. at the Bowery Poetry Club. Co-curated with Boog City. Steve Clay is an editor, curator, archivist, and publisher of Granary Books. He is author and organizer (with Rodney Phillips) of A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing 1960-1980 and editor (with Jerome Rothenberg) of A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections About the Book & Writing. He lives in New York City with his wife Julie Harrison, an artist and teacher, and their two daughters. Bob Holman’s new CD, The Awesome Whatever, is the first release from Bowery Records. New book: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, a collaboration with Chuck Close, is out from Aperture. New job: teaching “Art and the Public Sphere,” a graduate course at NYU, and his Columbia course, “Exploding Text.” Samo: Proprietor of Bowery Poetry Club, ExecDirect of Bowery Arts & Science. Proud to be acolyte of fellow Buckeye, d.a. levy. David Kirschenbaum’s work has appeared in The Brooklyn Review Online, canwehaveourballback.com, Chain, Pavement Saw, and unpleasanteventschedule.com, among others. He is the editor and publisher of Boog City, a New York City-based small press and community newspaper now in its 17th year. Boog City’s “d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press” series, now in its fifth year, has hosted 68 different small presses. Jake Marx (b.1942) Carpenter, community college part-timer, has lived in Cleveland his entire life. Friend of the Asphodel Book Shop for 38 years. Not as generous as d.a. concerning bad poetry or poets with love beads. Married to, god bless her, Cindy. Gary Sullivan is the author of How to Proceed in the Arts (Faux Press) and, with Nada Gordon, Swoon (Granary Books). He has published three issues of his comic book series Elsewhere and lives in Brooklyn with Nada and their two cats, Dante and Nemo.

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