[New York]

Rachel Levitsky at The PP@YYL Chapbook Launch
December 9, 2011, 7:00 pm
at 443 PAS@ Kevin M. Absec Designs, Inc.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE PP@YYL CHAPBOOK LAUNCH + CELEBRATION OF: HR Hegnauer’s SIR and Jamie Townsend’s STRAP/HALO with special guests Rachel Levitsky and Geoffrey Olsen HR Hegnauer is a freelance book and website designer who specializes in working with small presses and individual artists. She received her MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University. SIR is her first chapbook. Jamie Townsend is a co-founder of con/crescent, a chapbook publisher & magazine focused on discursive essay / creative non-fiction. He is author of the chapbooks STRAP/HALO (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs; 2011), Matryoshka (LRL Textile Editions; 2011), and THE DOME (Ixnay Press; 2011). His poetry and critical work has appeared in various publications, including The Cultural Society, Gam, Wheelhouse, Volt, Elective Affinities, Jacket2, The Poetry Project Newsletter, & TRY. Rachel Levitsky’s second poetry collection NEIGHBOR was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2009. Her first novel, The Story of My Accident is Ours will be published by Futurepoem in 2012. Levitsky teaches Writing and Literature at Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Bard Prison Initiative and Pratt Institute. She is founder and member of Belladonna* Collaborative--a hub of feminist avant-garde literary action. Geoffrey Olsen lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and works at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in the East Village. He is the author of the chapbooks Not of Distends * Address Panicked (Minutes Books, 2011) and End Notebook (Petrichord Books; 2008).