Book Release Party for Octopus & X-Ing Press: Julie Doxsee, Matvei Yankelevich, Jeremy Schmall & Justin Taylor

Saturday, August 9, 2008
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Melville House
145 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY (DUMBO)

SATURDAY AUGUST 9TH- 6PM. Celebrate the independent small press with a poetry reading featuring three new books: Undersleep by Julie Doxsee (Octopus), The Senator Letters by Jeremy Schmall (X-ing) and More Perfect Depictions of Noise by Justin Taylor (X-ing). The authors are joined by Matvei Yankelevich, author of The Present Work (Palm Press) and editor and translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook). Melville House is located at 145 Plymouth Street in DUMBO. F to York Street.

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Matvei Yankelevich edited and translated TODAY I WROTE NOTHING: THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF DANIIL KHARMS (Overlook, 2007). He is a co-translator of OBERIU: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN ABSURDISM (2006). His translation of the Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "Cloud in Pants" appears in NIGHT WRAPS THE SKY: WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT MAYAKOVSKY (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2008). He is the author of a long poem, THE PRESENT WORK (Palm Press, 2006) and his writing has appeared in Fence, Open City, and many other literary journals. He teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College in New York City and edits the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn.

Jeremy Schmall is the editor and founder of The Agriculture Reader, a small-run, handmade arts annual. He is the author of The Senator Letters, Underneath an Obnoxious Moon, and an artist book, The Slapdown. He's been published in Hotel St. George, Pilot, Juked, and Forklift, Ohio. He lives in Brooklyn.

Julie Doxsee's poems have appeared recently in over thirty-five national and international journals, including Aufgabe, Fourteen Hills, and Tarpaulin Sky. Forthcoming publications include two books: Objects for a Fog Death (Black Ocean, 2008/2009) and Undersleep (Octopus Books 2007/2008), and two chapbooks: You Will Build a City Out of Rags (Whole Coconut 2007) and New Body a Seafloor Body (Seeing Eye Books 2008). The Knife-Grasses (Octopus Books), and Fog Quartets (horse less press) are now available. Beginning Fall 2007, she will join the full-time faculty at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Justin Taylor is the author of More Perfect Depictions of Noise. He is also the editor of two books: The Apocalypse Reader (Thunder's Mouth) and Come Back, Donald Barthelme (McSweeney's). He is the co-editor of The Agriculture Reader. His writing has appeared in numerous online and print publications, and he has been honored by Best American Essays (2007) and Best of the Web (2008). http://www.justindtaylor.net/








This is the kick-off event for a week of readings by Julie Doxsee (I'll be reading at most of them as well). She is in America from Istanbul, so please pass the word on about these readings. Hope to see you at one of them!

Reading Dates

Saturday, August 9th 6pm
Melville House
145 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Reading with Matvei Yankelevich
& X-ing Press poets Justin Talyor & Jeremy Schmall

Sunday August 10th 2pm
Chop Suey Books
1317 West Cary St
Richmond, VA 23220
Reading with Sommer Browning, Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina

Monday August 11th 7pm
Southern Rail
201-C East Main Street
Carrboro, North Carolina
Reading with Mathias Svalina

Tuesday August 12th 6pm
Robins Bookstore
108 S 13th St
Philadelphia, PA
Reading with Mathias Svalina

Wednesday, August 13th 7:30pm
Washington Literary Salon
email for details: mathias.svalina@gmail.com
Washington, DC
Reading with Mathias Svalina

Thursday, August 14th 7pm
Ada Books
330 Dean Street
Providence, RI
Reading with Thibault Raoult & Mathias Svalina

Friday, August 15th 8pm
Amherst Books
8 Main Street
Amherst, MA
Reading with Betrsy Wheeler & Mathias Svalina

Saturday, August 16th 7pm
Brookline Bookstore
279 Harvard Street
Brookline, MA
Reading with Janaka Stucky, Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina