[New York]

eXfoliation: Yankelevich, Sealey, Gabb, Blat
February 18, 2015, 7:00 pm
at bookculture

Louffa Press presents four captivating poets in the winter edition of eXfoliation, hosted by David Moscovich and Justin Maki. MATVEI YANKELEVICH is the author of Alpha Donut (United Artists), Boris by the Sea (Octopus), and Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt (Black Square Editions, forthcoming). He is the recipient (along with Eugene Ostashevsky) of the 2014 National Translation Award for Alexander Vvedensky's An Invitation for Me to Think (NYRB Poets). He is a founding editor of Ugly Duckling Presse and has taught at Bard College, Hunter College, Colorado College, Naropa, LIU, Wesleyan, and Columbia University. NICOLE SEALEY is the recipient of a 2014 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and winner of the 2014 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2011, Harvard Review, Third Coast, and elsewhere. She is the Programs Director at Cave Canem Foundation. VANESSA GABB is the author of midnight blue (Porkbelly Press, 2015) and Weekend Poems (dancing girl press, 2014). She is the co-founder of Five Quarterly and is from and lives in Brooklyn. More stuff at missgabb.tumblr.com. SIMONA BLAT is a Latvian-born and Brooklyn-raised poet. She hosts a weekly poetry salon at Brazenhead Books, a speakeasy bookstore in Manhattan, and currently attends the MFA program in Poetry at Columbia University. The mission behind Louffa Press is to foster a venue for limited edition, collectible, handmade chapbooks by a wide array of authors whose voices must be heard. Louffa Press specializes in innovative fiction and poetry.