d.a. levy-palooza 3 

MAY 1ST / 2016
​@ Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY 

"Experience is a currency worthwhile. From getting illegally searched and arrested in Arkansas, to setting up the bookstore on Frenchman Street in New Orleans with Cajun
feasts, we’ve been battered and raised. The destinations, monetary opportunities (if they existed), the shows and gains, these don’t elicit a sense of fulfillment.​
It comes down to the process, having the opportunity to inspire ourselves and others."
from "To Health & Art with N!P" in Boog City, #106

[ From Tucson to Yonkers ]

I sometimes validate myself with mileage, the ability to kill long distances in short periods of time. This usually comes about out of a mixture of procrastination & unexpected stumbles knocking us delays. This trip, we kicked off a day earlier than planned, & the foresight closed us out with 12 hrs to spare before our gig in Brooklyn, the 3rd "d.a. levy-palooza," a festival curated by East Village magazine Boog City. ​
A night in New Orleans may have been the unexpected stumble. 
nostrovia press
New Orleans, LA
2730 miles later, we pulled into Yonkers, midnight clicking with the rhythm of a wheel bearing preparing to give out. We cracked quiet wine to celebrate & slept. Waking early, slamming caffiene, we headed into the Bronx & caught the subway. My socks sopped wet.
New Orleans had ripped the bottom of my shoes away asking, "hey now, why you ignoring your mother? You can't walk out of the rain." 
Rain pushed the celebration underneath Unnameable Books. The basement show was lit with tube lights & used books lining the walls.
Boog City selected three renegade presses from outside New York to celebrate. Featuring with Nostrovia! was also Nous-zot and Larks Books & Writing Studio.  David Kirschenbaum, editor of Boog City, hosted the event, transitioning us between presses as we shared our poetry / music / passion. 
Shout out to Christopher Morgan, co-manager of N!, who was unable to make it out to the gig, & to Joe Pan, who coordinated the printing of N!'s interview in Issue #106 of Boog City.  Also to Chris Salas + Jennesy Herrera, our photographers for the event.

[ PerformANCE & Bios ]
Neeko Ford is a hip-hop artist from Tucson, Ariz. He kicked off with Nostrovia! in 2015, touring the West Coast with traveling bookstore Books & Shovels. He’s featured on stages from Tucson to the Bay, down thru New Orleans and up to the 2015 NYC Poetry Festival. His upcoming album Resonating Cycles will drop with Nostrovia! Press.
August Smith is the author of five chapbooks, including Bird Lizard Horse, which was published by Nostrovia! in 2015. He attends UMass Boston and delivers donuts in a van on weekends.  
August is founder of Cool Skull Press.
Sarah Certa is a poet & psychologist who studies evolutionary consciousness at quantumpsych.wordpress.com. She is the author of several chapbooks, including "Juliet II", a winner of Nostrovia!'s 2015 Chapbook Contest, as well as the full-length poetry collection "Nothing To Do with Me" (University of Hell Press, 2015). Her second full-length collection, a poetry memoir of the psyche as it heals dis-order, was one of the recent winners of the Civil Coping Mechanisms Mainline Contest & will be published in 2017.
**Sarah interviewed N!P for Boog City
Jeremiah Walton is a 21 y/o poet from New Hampshire who has been bopping around the country the past two years. He featured at the NYC Poetry Festival, Snoetry, Beast Crawl, and the San Francisco Lit Crawl. He is founder of traveling pop-up bookstore Books & Shovels and small press Nostrovia!. Jeremiah externalizes to survive, and functions best in consistent crisis. He rambles to the moon when there's no wax.
PS : Shout out to Unnameable Books for stocking N!’s 2015 Chapbook Contest winners
nostrovia chapbooks
2015 Chapbook Contest winners + Walton's "raccoon"