GATHERINGS & GIGS
On the road, we hit open mics + slams + festivals + street corners to distribute our publications & participate in communities across the country, allowing us to avoid being a regional publication. We work to bring together writers + artists nationwide. This page shares events we've hosted or participated with, along with upcoming gigs & gatherings.
Contact N!'s Bartenders if you'd like us to swing thru your area.
FUTURE GATHERINGS
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PAST GATHERINGS
2018
N!'s Annual Online Poetry Reading
FEATURES : Lucas Bailor + Sally Burnette + Mx TC + Marlin Figgins + Samuel J. Fox + Tyler Friend + Stephen Furlong + Lyd Havens + Dena Igusti + Laura Villareal
WHEN : December 10th
ABOUT : To celebrate the end of the year, Nostrovia! is planning an online reading event--think of it like a 2018 press / family celebration! Come watch 10 amazing poets share their work, all from the comforts of your own home. Get your covers, laptop, and treats, log in, and we'll handle the rest ♥
FEATURES : Lucas Bailor + Sally Burnette + Mx TC + Marlin Figgins + Samuel J. Fox + Tyler Friend + Stephen Furlong + Lyd Havens + Dena Igusti + Laura Villareal
WHEN : December 10th
ABOUT : To celebrate the end of the year, Nostrovia! is planning an online reading event--think of it like a 2018 press / family celebration! Come watch 10 amazing poets share their work, all from the comforts of your own home. Get your covers, laptop, and treats, log in, and we'll handle the rest ♥
2017
Death Rattle Writers Festival @ Nampa ID
FEATURES : [ day 1 ] / [ day 2 ] / [ day 3 ]
WHEN : October 4th - 7th
ABOUT : Death Rattle is an annual festival celebrating indie presses & poets via workshops, publishing discussions, punk shows, open mics & readings scattered over the course of 3 days.
FEATURES : [ day 1 ] / [ day 2 ] / [ day 3 ]
WHEN : October 4th - 7th
ABOUT : Death Rattle is an annual festival celebrating indie presses & poets via workshops, publishing discussions, punk shows, open mics & readings scattered over the course of 3 days.
Underground Lit Fest @ Uptown Lofts, Michigan City IN
FEATURES : Mark James Andrews + Dianne Borsenik + John Burroughs + Mary Dean Cason + Juliet Cook + A.S. Coomer + Krista Cox + Larry O. Dean + Dan Denton + Daulton Dickey + Carol Estes + Gregg Fraley + Bill Gainer + Joe Gianotti + Janine Harrison + Lennart Lundh + Ezhno Martin + Michele McDannold + Josh Olsen + Puma Perl + Brooke Nicole Plummer + Garret Schuelke + Matthew Sradeja + Jeremiah Walton
WHEN : August 4th - 6th
VENDING : Blood Pudding Press + Blotterature + Books & Shovels + Citizens For Decent Literature + Crisis Chronicles Press + CWP Collective Press + EMP Books + Gimmick Press + Indiana Writers’ Consortium + Mixed Message Zine + Monster House Press + NightBallet Press + Nostrovia! Press + Punk Hostage Press + Sundress Publications
ABOUT : Thrown together by The Literary Underground, this year's showdown of rowdy poets & oddball renegades features a helluva line-up.
FEATURES : Mark James Andrews + Dianne Borsenik + John Burroughs + Mary Dean Cason + Juliet Cook + A.S. Coomer + Krista Cox + Larry O. Dean + Dan Denton + Daulton Dickey + Carol Estes + Gregg Fraley + Bill Gainer + Joe Gianotti + Janine Harrison + Lennart Lundh + Ezhno Martin + Michele McDannold + Josh Olsen + Puma Perl + Brooke Nicole Plummer + Garret Schuelke + Matthew Sradeja + Jeremiah Walton
WHEN : August 4th - 6th
VENDING : Blood Pudding Press + Blotterature + Books & Shovels + Citizens For Decent Literature + Crisis Chronicles Press + CWP Collective Press + EMP Books + Gimmick Press + Indiana Writers’ Consortium + Mixed Message Zine + Monster House Press + NightBallet Press + Nostrovia! Press + Punk Hostage Press + Sundress Publications
ABOUT : Thrown together by The Literary Underground, this year's showdown of rowdy poets & oddball renegades features a helluva line-up.
Feed Our Homies : Food Bank Benefit @ PoMoRo, Tucson AZ
FEATURES : Lando Chill + Nobody aka Willis Earl Beal + Leo & The Libra + Betty Jones + DJ Hunter Guerin
VENDING : Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels + Shot In The Dark Café + Jellywink Botique + GlitterGirlAZ + The School House of Rock + 4Shor Distribution
ABOUT : Come down to PoMoRo for a Food Bank Benefit Show to support our community + fight its hunger. Every attending person generates over 13 MEALS !!! We will be raffling off accessories from Jellywink Boutique, a sexuality resource center, free drink cards for Shot In The Dark Café, & gift cards to Mother Hubbards Café.
FEATURES : Lando Chill + Nobody aka Willis Earl Beal + Leo & The Libra + Betty Jones + DJ Hunter Guerin
VENDING : Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels + Shot In The Dark Café + Jellywink Botique + GlitterGirlAZ + The School House of Rock + 4Shor Distribution
ABOUT : Come down to PoMoRo for a Food Bank Benefit Show to support our community + fight its hunger. Every attending person generates over 13 MEALS !!! We will be raffling off accessories from Jellywink Boutique, a sexuality resource center, free drink cards for Shot In The Dark Café, & gift cards to Mother Hubbards Café.
No Más Muertes Variety Benefit & Open Mic @ Tucson AZ
FEATURES : Lando Chill + Yanara Friedland + Wren Awry
VENDING : No Más Muertes + Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels + Tucson Anarchist Black Cross
ABOUT : No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes is a humanitarian organization based in Southern Arizona dedicated to ending the death of migrants & suffering in the Mexico/US borderlands. A speaker from NMM will discuss the organization's current needs & efforts, followed by an open mic + our featured performers. Entrance is based on sliding-scale donations, along with vegan/vegetarian meals + baked goods + drinks.
SHOUT-OUTS : Love to Paige Corich-Kleim for coming out to speak with us on NMM--& to Marymar Boyer + Wiley Holladay Nash for photographing the event. & all the homies who pulled thru to make this possible--Johanna Robin Hand + Hecho + Cyrus Orion + Chris Salas + Kyle O'Brien + DJ Hunter Guerin + Bella-Rue Boen Gable + Jocelyn Boen DeForrest + Antonio Windom + Alex Villalba <3
FEATURES : Lando Chill + Yanara Friedland + Wren Awry
VENDING : No Más Muertes + Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels + Tucson Anarchist Black Cross
ABOUT : No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes is a humanitarian organization based in Southern Arizona dedicated to ending the death of migrants & suffering in the Mexico/US borderlands. A speaker from NMM will discuss the organization's current needs & efforts, followed by an open mic + our featured performers. Entrance is based on sliding-scale donations, along with vegan/vegetarian meals + baked goods + drinks.
SHOUT-OUTS : Love to Paige Corich-Kleim for coming out to speak with us on NMM--& to Marymar Boyer + Wiley Holladay Nash for photographing the event. & all the homies who pulled thru to make this possible--Johanna Robin Hand + Hecho + Cyrus Orion + Chris Salas + Kyle O'Brien + DJ Hunter Guerin + Bella-Rue Boen Gable + Jocelyn Boen DeForrest + Antonio Windom + Alex Villalba <3
2016
This Lil Lit Fest @ Denver CO
FEATURES : Emily O'Neill & Elle Nash
VENDING : Witch Craft Magazine + Spy Kids Review + Bottlecap Press + Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : An underground Lit Crawl making its way thru Denver carved out space for a series of solid readings coordinated by independent publishers across the States. Coordinated & curated by Ctch Bsnss of Witch Craft Magazine.
SHOUT-OUT : Love to Eric Carver for helping run Books & Shovels, & leap about across the country w/ us in scrambles to fulfill ridiculous distances between events <3
FEATURES : Emily O'Neill & Elle Nash
VENDING : Witch Craft Magazine + Spy Kids Review + Bottlecap Press + Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : An underground Lit Crawl making its way thru Denver carved out space for a series of solid readings coordinated by independent publishers across the States. Coordinated & curated by Ctch Bsnss of Witch Craft Magazine.
SHOUT-OUT : Love to Eric Carver for helping run Books & Shovels, & leap about across the country w/ us in scrambles to fulfill ridiculous distances between events <3
New York City Poetry Festival @ Governors' Island, New York NY
FEATURES : Emily O'Neil + Bob Sykora + Eric Carver + Jeremiah Walton
VENDING : Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : Our 4th round at the NYC Poetry Festival was kicked off w. crossing the country in a mis-firing minivan (that became the equivalent of an expensive Greyhound ticket) to debut 2016’s Chapbook Contest winners & learn how to jerry-rig mechanical band-aids. Even w. the downpours that came, the Chapbooks + Books & Shovels sold strong, & we met a good number of unique heads who came out to our "book-fort" (of tarp & stacked tables) & shared poems in the lil dry there was.
SHOUT-OUTS : Much love extended to Eric Carver + Jennesy Alexa Herrera for helping run the stands--& to Michael Ganjehlou for letting us crash on his floor among his paint brushes & canvas <3
FEATURES : Emily O'Neil + Bob Sykora + Eric Carver + Jeremiah Walton
VENDING : Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : Our 4th round at the NYC Poetry Festival was kicked off w. crossing the country in a mis-firing minivan (that became the equivalent of an expensive Greyhound ticket) to debut 2016’s Chapbook Contest winners & learn how to jerry-rig mechanical band-aids. Even w. the downpours that came, the Chapbooks + Books & Shovels sold strong, & we met a good number of unique heads who came out to our "book-fort" (of tarp & stacked tables) & shared poems in the lil dry there was.
SHOUT-OUTS : Much love extended to Eric Carver + Jennesy Alexa Herrera for helping run the stands--& to Michael Ganjehlou for letting us crash on his floor among his paint brushes & canvas <3
"Save the Date / d.a. levy-palooza 3" @ Unnameable Books, New York NY
FEATURES : Neeko Ford + August Smith + Sarah Certa + Jeremiah Walton
VENDING : Larks Books + Nous-Zot + Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : Named "Renegade Press of the Year" w/ Larks Books & Nous-Zot, Nostrovia! set out from Arizona to New York to bumble into a basement reading w/ a diminished audience due to rain--but one helluva series of readers ranging from prose to poetry to hip-hop. Hosted and curated by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum,
FEATURES : Neeko Ford + August Smith + Sarah Certa + Jeremiah Walton
VENDING : Larks Books + Nous-Zot + Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : Named "Renegade Press of the Year" w/ Larks Books & Nous-Zot, Nostrovia! set out from Arizona to New York to bumble into a basement reading w/ a diminished audience due to rain--but one helluva series of readers ranging from prose to poetry to hip-hop. Hosted and curated by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum,
Tucson Poetry Festival @ Playground, Tucson AZ
VENDING : Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels + Tucson's Press Roundup
ABOUT : Nostrovia!'s second year kicking off our touring season w/ the Tucson Poetry Festival <3
VENDING : Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels + Tucson's Press Roundup
ABOUT : Nostrovia!'s second year kicking off our touring season w/ the Tucson Poetry Festival <3
2015
The Arts Resistance & San Francisco Lit Crawl Present : Write Piercingly @ San Francisco CA
FEATURES : Tamim Ansary + Charlie Getter + Yanina Gotsulsky + Simon Rogghe + Xiaojuan Shu + Jeremiah Walton + Zarina Zabrisky
ABOUT : Three generations of writers of Afghan, American, Belgian, Canadian, Chinese, & Russian background + diverse belief systems deliver fiery tales of their personal quest for meaning in the context of a collective life. All authors have participated in The Arts Resistance event-actions in 2014-2015--& helped to support various causes : from funding the only US mobile bookstore run by teenagers to fixing a leaking roof in a Nepalese hospital & supporting the LGBT community in Putinist Russia.
SHOUT-OUTS : Love to Zarina Zabrisky for making crash space for our landing--& to Ezhno Martin for helping get our asses out there from the Midwest on time for the show <3
FEATURES : Tamim Ansary + Charlie Getter + Yanina Gotsulsky + Simon Rogghe + Xiaojuan Shu + Jeremiah Walton + Zarina Zabrisky
ABOUT : Three generations of writers of Afghan, American, Belgian, Canadian, Chinese, & Russian background + diverse belief systems deliver fiery tales of their personal quest for meaning in the context of a collective life. All authors have participated in The Arts Resistance event-actions in 2014-2015--& helped to support various causes : from funding the only US mobile bookstore run by teenagers to fixing a leaking roof in a Nepalese hospital & supporting the LGBT community in Putinist Russia.
SHOUT-OUTS : Love to Zarina Zabrisky for making crash space for our landing--& to Ezhno Martin for helping get our asses out there from the Midwest on time for the show <3
New York City Poetry Festival @ Governor's Island, New York NY
FEATURES : Neeko Ford + Leah Mueller + August Smith + Jeremiah Walton
VENDING : Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : 2015 was our third year hitting the NYC Poetry Festival & our first year running our annual Chapbook Contest. We crash landed here from Oakland after hitting Beast Crawl Lit Fest. Our time in the Bay was a wild precursor to the largest city in the United States, and damn, the ups and downs continued in the usually messy Passionate Living > Making a Living fashion. Our chapbooks successfully made their print debut after strange Coney Island playground mornings waking under a slide in a cuddle puddle against ocean cold.
FEATURES : Neeko Ford + Leah Mueller + August Smith + Jeremiah Walton
VENDING : Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : 2015 was our third year hitting the NYC Poetry Festival & our first year running our annual Chapbook Contest. We crash landed here from Oakland after hitting Beast Crawl Lit Fest. Our time in the Bay was a wild precursor to the largest city in the United States, and damn, the ups and downs continued in the usually messy Passionate Living > Making a Living fashion. Our chapbooks successfully made their print debut after strange Coney Island playground mornings waking under a slide in a cuddle puddle against ocean cold.
Word Performances w. Beast Crawl @ Ozumo, Oakland CA
FEATURES : Tina D’Elia + Sabrina Seidner + Zarina Zabrisky + Jeremiah Walton + Nikola Printz + Autumn Turley + Todd Siegel + Cybele Zufolo Siegel
VENDING : Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : Word Performances is a series of poetry + prose + fiction + comedy + memoir where words are the lead, music is featured, & dance makes a cameo. Produced and Curated by Cybele Zufolo Siegel & Todd Siegel. We hit Beast Crawl w. an eclectic crew of artists confounding floorboards that hadn't felt the force of that much movement in years.
SHOUT-OUTS : Much love to the homie Chris Salas, who we met at City Lights & housed us up for the couple weeks wait time we had between the gig & our awkward crash landing in the Bay <3
FEATURES : Tina D’Elia + Sabrina Seidner + Zarina Zabrisky + Jeremiah Walton + Nikola Printz + Autumn Turley + Todd Siegel + Cybele Zufolo Siegel
VENDING : Nostrovia! + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : Word Performances is a series of poetry + prose + fiction + comedy + memoir where words are the lead, music is featured, & dance makes a cameo. Produced and Curated by Cybele Zufolo Siegel & Todd Siegel. We hit Beast Crawl w. an eclectic crew of artists confounding floorboards that hadn't felt the force of that much movement in years.
SHOUT-OUTS : Much love to the homie Chris Salas, who we met at City Lights & housed us up for the couple weeks wait time we had between the gig & our awkward crash landing in the Bay <3
Tucson Poetry Festival @ Hotel Congress, Tucson AZ
VENDING : Nostrovia! + Bottlecap Press
ABOUT : Our first year in Tucson marks our first poetry festival w. the community we bumbled blind into. A mix of spoken word & hip-hop reflected the rising temperatures & made for a great launch point for our first West Coast tours.
VENDING : Nostrovia! + Bottlecap Press
ABOUT : Our first year in Tucson marks our first poetry festival w. the community we bumbled blind into. A mix of spoken word & hip-hop reflected the rising temperatures & made for a great launch point for our first West Coast tours.
No Mic Open Mic @ Shot In The Dark Cafe, Tucson AZ
FEATURES : Meikil Berry + Neeko Ford + Linda Michel-Cassidy + Jeremiah Walton + Barrett Warner
ABOUT : Shot In The Dark Cafe & N! combined efforts to throw together one-shot No Mic Open Mic for folks to gather & mingle artistic energies into a creative space pushing spontaneity & dialogue. No stage. No microphone. Speak loud. Louder than the coffee machine growling out comfort & shit sleep cycles.
SHOUT-OUTS : Much love to Shot for letting us use their space for events + Sid Stix for coordinating w/ us <3
FEATURES : Meikil Berry + Neeko Ford + Linda Michel-Cassidy + Jeremiah Walton + Barrett Warner
ABOUT : Shot In The Dark Cafe & N! combined efforts to throw together one-shot No Mic Open Mic for folks to gather & mingle artistic energies into a creative space pushing spontaneity & dialogue. No stage. No microphone. Speak loud. Louder than the coffee machine growling out comfort & shit sleep cycles.
SHOUT-OUTS : Much love to Shot for letting us use their space for events + Sid Stix for coordinating w/ us <3
Mongolian Yurt Poetry Reading : A Gaggle of Hoogalins @ La Vita House, Tucson AZ
FEATURES : Chris Burke + Romeo Castro + Jos Charles + Neeko Ford + Christopher Morgan + A. Razor + Steve Roggenbuck + Jeremiah Walton
VENDORS : Nostrovia! + Bottlecap Press + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : Round One of this brief reading series was a talented full house--& an encouraging push into Tucson. Round Two--smaller & quieter (sorry neighbors, Round One was a process)--made for an intimate Yurt Cipher & low-key hoogalin-ism on stage.
FEATURES : Chris Burke + Romeo Castro + Jos Charles + Neeko Ford + Christopher Morgan + A. Razor + Steve Roggenbuck + Jeremiah Walton
VENDORS : Nostrovia! + Bottlecap Press + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : Round One of this brief reading series was a talented full house--& an encouraging push into Tucson. Round Two--smaller & quieter (sorry neighbors, Round One was a process)--made for an intimate Yurt Cipher & low-key hoogalin-ism on stage.
Mongolian Yurt Poetry Reading @ La Vita House, Tucson AZ
FEATURES : Romeo Castro + Neeko Ford + Melanie Madden + Steve Roggenbuck + Jeremiah Walton
VENDORS : Nostrovia! + Bottlecap Press + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : Christmas lights hang along the yurt's walls & illuminate our lack of stage. The gathering kicks off w/ an open mic for poets + musicians to share their passion. Migrating into our features, Turkish candies gifted, vegan dogs & red wine, our greeting to Tucson opened strongly. We closed out the show w. a Christmas Tree burning.
SHOUT-OUTS : Love to Megan Riojas for cooking for the masses on a budget <3
FEATURES : Romeo Castro + Neeko Ford + Melanie Madden + Steve Roggenbuck + Jeremiah Walton
VENDORS : Nostrovia! + Bottlecap Press + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : Christmas lights hang along the yurt's walls & illuminate our lack of stage. The gathering kicks off w/ an open mic for poets + musicians to share their passion. Migrating into our features, Turkish candies gifted, vegan dogs & red wine, our greeting to Tucson opened strongly. We closed out the show w. a Christmas Tree burning.
SHOUT-OUTS : Love to Megan Riojas for cooking for the masses on a budget <3
2014
Radical Surrealists Hit The Streets @ San Francisco CA
ABOUT : "Next Saturday we hit the streets in our white suits and sparkling red ball gowns. 'Musicians, mimes, magicians, jugglers, human statues, dancers, and other forms of expression and any other activity protected by the First Amendment' blast Fisherman's Warf. They need poets! We, too, will read our poems--to music. Hell, we will even dance. We will put a hat on the ground. We will make tons of dough. We will raise money (and awareness) for Nostrovia!, the one and only mobile publishing house in the world. Nostrovia! will be burning the roads of America with our and YOUR poetry and prose."
SHOUT-OUTS : Love to Zarina Zabrisky & Simon Rogghe (w/ The Arts Resistance) for coordinating this to donate proceeds to the launch of our traveling bookstore, Books & Shovels <3
ABOUT : "Next Saturday we hit the streets in our white suits and sparkling red ball gowns. 'Musicians, mimes, magicians, jugglers, human statues, dancers, and other forms of expression and any other activity protected by the First Amendment' blast Fisherman's Warf. They need poets! We, too, will read our poems--to music. Hell, we will even dance. We will put a hat on the ground. We will make tons of dough. We will raise money (and awareness) for Nostrovia!, the one and only mobile publishing house in the world. Nostrovia! will be burning the roads of America with our and YOUR poetry and prose."
SHOUT-OUTS : Love to Zarina Zabrisky & Simon Rogghe (w/ The Arts Resistance) for coordinating this to donate proceeds to the launch of our traveling bookstore, Books & Shovels <3
#ThisIsPoetry @ The Legacy Theatre, Springfield IL
FEATURES : Craig Cady + Julie Demoff + Michelle McDonald + T.A. Noonan + Ryan Snellman + John Swain + Jeremiah Walton
VENDING : Citizens For Decent Literature + Punk Hostage Press + Red Fez + Zygote In My Coffee + Blotterature + Nostrovia! + UndergroundBooks + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : The goal of #ThisIsPoetry was to present a diverse mix of Outlaw Poets, to jiggle the roots raw with teeth, the rowdy poets, Whitman’s wild children. This was poetry you could mosh to.
FEATURES : Craig Cady + Julie Demoff + Michelle McDonald + T.A. Noonan + Ryan Snellman + John Swain + Jeremiah Walton
VENDING : Citizens For Decent Literature + Punk Hostage Press + Red Fez + Zygote In My Coffee + Blotterature + Nostrovia! + UndergroundBooks + Books & Shovels
ABOUT : The goal of #ThisIsPoetry was to present a diverse mix of Outlaw Poets, to jiggle the roots raw with teeth, the rowdy poets, Whitman’s wild children. This was poetry you could mosh to.
New York City Poetry Festival @ Governor's Island, New York NY
VENDING : Books & Shovels + Nostrovia!
ABOUT : 2014 is our second year hitting this Festival. We raised over $500 for the premature launch of Books & Shovels, our traveling bookstore thru distributing literature + art thru a 'pay-what-you-can' system. Prior to launch, poets & artists donated publications from all over the country to be distributed during our travels. At the Festival, an overwhelming support stocked our shelves further. New York cats & tourist poets gave us copies of zines + chapbooks + cds + anthologies. We acquired a good lick of the underground's dirt through the consistent exchanges--& a series of gigs thru the city that brought us late-night-dragging-hundreds-of-books-under-cracked-streetlights.
VENDING : Books & Shovels + Nostrovia!
ABOUT : 2014 is our second year hitting this Festival. We raised over $500 for the premature launch of Books & Shovels, our traveling bookstore thru distributing literature + art thru a 'pay-what-you-can' system. Prior to launch, poets & artists donated publications from all over the country to be distributed during our travels. At the Festival, an overwhelming support stocked our shelves further. New York cats & tourist poets gave us copies of zines + chapbooks + cds + anthologies. We acquired a good lick of the underground's dirt through the consistent exchanges--& a series of gigs thru the city that brought us late-night-dragging-hundreds-of-books-under-cracked-streetlights.
North East Snoetry @ Guide to Kulchur, Cleveland OH
FEATURES : [ an incredibly long list ]
ABOUT : Pulling into Cleveland OH for Snoetry, Jeremiah Walton + Captain Thornton + Tracie Morell + Shawn King + Elliot Smith made a series of long turns, struggled for parking, & eventually made way thru broken-cigarette winds & a few frozen bones running them inside Guide to Kulchur--an independent book shop & community hall founded by R.A. Washington. Cheap bag wine introduced everyone, & John Burroughs (Crisis Chronicles Press) followed the liquid hellos w/ hosting a wonderful gaggle of over sixty poets from across the States.
FEATURES : [ an incredibly long list ]
ABOUT : Pulling into Cleveland OH for Snoetry, Jeremiah Walton + Captain Thornton + Tracie Morell + Shawn King + Elliot Smith made a series of long turns, struggled for parking, & eventually made way thru broken-cigarette winds & a few frozen bones running them inside Guide to Kulchur--an independent book shop & community hall founded by R.A. Washington. Cheap bag wine introduced everyone, & John Burroughs (Crisis Chronicles Press) followed the liquid hellos w/ hosting a wonderful gaggle of over sixty poets from across the States.
Midwest Small Press Festival @ Kansas City MO
VENDING : The Camel Saloon + Nostrovia!
ABOUT : A traveling literary organization setting up an annual Small Press Festival in ever-changing locations. Every summer, a gathering of artists + writers + bookmakers + performers to celebrate poetry in all its forms: written + spoken + whispered & warbled + sacred + profane + just plain freaky.
SHOUT-OUTS : Cheers to Russell Streur for representing N! again <3
VENDING : The Camel Saloon + Nostrovia!
ABOUT : A traveling literary organization setting up an annual Small Press Festival in ever-changing locations. Every summer, a gathering of artists + writers + bookmakers + performers to celebrate poetry in all its forms: written + spoken + whispered & warbled + sacred + profane + just plain freaky.
SHOUT-OUTS : Cheers to Russell Streur for representing N! again <3
2013
New York City Poetry Festival @ Governor's Island, New York NY
VENDING : Nostrovia!
ABOUT : Our first year at this Festival marked our launch into traveling the States. It was a growing experience & our first round of vending w. an "official table." We became incredibly lost & meandered dead-phone-aimless till happenstance brought us past recognizable features leading back to our makeshift bed.
SHOUT-OUTS : Love to Jennesy Alexa Herrera--who met us this year & has become a long-term N! homie <3
VENDING : Nostrovia!
ABOUT : Our first year at this Festival marked our launch into traveling the States. It was a growing experience & our first round of vending w. an "official table." We became incredibly lost & meandered dead-phone-aimless till happenstance brought us past recognizable features leading back to our makeshift bed.
SHOUT-OUTS : Love to Jennesy Alexa Herrera--who met us this year & has become a long-term N! homie <3
Midwest Small Press Festival @ Milwaukee WI
VENDING : The Camel Saloon + Nostrovia!
ABOUT : A weekend long string of events coordinated by independent publications & organizations to celebrate literary performance & production.
SHOUT-OUTS : Russell Streur took the time to cover of our inability to make it out & vended N! titles alongside his own, cheers!
VENDING : The Camel Saloon + Nostrovia!
ABOUT : A weekend long string of events coordinated by independent publications & organizations to celebrate literary performance & production.
SHOUT-OUTS : Russell Streur took the time to cover of our inability to make it out & vended N! titles alongside his own, cheers!
Tumbling w/ the National Poetry Slam @ Boston MA
VENDING : [ whatever lit we had ]
ABOUT : Nostrovia! & some homies meandered around the events, watching formula pieces fizz on stage & creative risks gamble the o-so-so important numbers. We busked Boston, distributing micro-chapbooks & N! publications.
VENDING : [ whatever lit we had ]
ABOUT : Nostrovia! & some homies meandered around the events, watching formula pieces fizz on stage & creative risks gamble the o-so-so important numbers. We busked Boston, distributing micro-chapbooks & N! publications.