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MUSIC L J Murphy, The Royal Drag POETRY Richard Deming, Drew Gardner, Nancy Kuhl, Angela Veronica Wong BOOG CITY SMALL PRESS Turtleneck Press’ Brian Warfield A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER FROM A GROUP OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS BASED IN AND AROUND NEW YORK CITY’S EAST VILLAGE ISSUE 72 FREE 6th Annual Welcome to Boog City Poetry and Music Festival Poetry, Music, Politics, Theater Thurs. Aug. 2-Sun. Aug. 5 Sidewalk Cafe, East Village Unnameable Books, Brooklyn Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out Performed Live by Local Musicians Philadelphia’s Turtleneck Press in d.a. levy Lives: Celebrating the Renegade Press Series 3rd Boog Poets Theater Night With 7 New Short Plays 9th Annual Small, Small Press Fair Panel/Never-Ending Participation: Activism and Occupy Wall Street 51 Poets, 13 Musical Acts, 5 Speakers Sommer Browning art THURS. AUGUST 2 Francis Levy Jamie Gaughran-Perez 8:20 p.m. Todd Carlstrom 8:50 p.m. www.screamingpope.com www.verymostgood.com www.reverbnation.com/ 6:30 P.M. Francis Levy is the author Jamie Gaughran-Perez is an editor toddcarlstromandtheclamour of the novels Erotomania: A at Narrow House, a literary small Todd Carlstrom assembled this $5 suggested Romance and Seven Days in press in Baltimore. During the band after recording his first Rio (both from Two Dollar day he’s a creative director in solo LP, Gold on the Map, at Sidewalk Cafe Radio). He blogs at the Washington, D.C. His writing has Olive Juice Studios. They’re above url. appeared in a variety of places in planning on a new release (as) 94 Avenue A. print and online, and he’s really easy to Google. He plays soon (as we get off our asses). The band loves Boog. At this (at East 6th Street) Elinor Nauen bass in Coach Taylor. show, the lovely Becky Elmquist will be augmenting them www.ElinorNauen.com on vocals for the first time, and that’s pretty exciting. The East Village Elinor Nauen has most recently published My Marriage A Jamey Jones 8:35 p.m. Directions: F/V to Second Ave., L to First Ave. to Z: A big-city romance (Cinco Puntos) and So Late into www.brooklynrail.org/2011/11/ Rebecca Keith 9:35 p.m. the Night (Rain Mountain), a book-length poem in ottava poetry/evel-knievel www.theawl.com/2011/08/ The Prose Pros Corpse is Exquisite! 6:30 p.m. rima that Terence Winch on the Best American Poetry blog Jamey Jones is the author of two-poems-by-rebecca-keith www.facebook.com/ called “one of the most impressive and audacious long several chapbooks, including Rebecca Keith’s poems and other prose.pros poems of our times.” the notebook troubled the writing have appeared in Best New Prose Pros presents sleepdoor and Twelve Windows, Poets, BOMBlog, Dossier, The Awl, readings (usually the R. Erica Doyle 8:00 p.m. both from brown boke press. The Laurel Review, The Millions, The first Thursday of the www.rericadoyle.blogspot.com Farfalla, McMillan and Parrish published his first Rumpus, and elsewhere. A native of month), September R. Erica Doyle was born in Brooklyn full-length collection, Blue Rain Morning, last year. downtown New York, Rebecca is a founder, curator, and through June at the Sidewalk Cafe. Previous readers to Trinidadian immigrant parents. A From 2008 to 2010 he lived in Brooklyn, where host of Mixer Reading and Music series. She also sings and have included Andrei Codrescu, Phillip Lopate, Siri recipient of grants and awards from he earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Long plays guitar and keyboards in Butchers & Bakers and The Hustvedt, Sparrow and Foamola, and Hettie Jones. The the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, Island University. He teaches literature and poetry in Roulettes. Sam Morgan photo. sixth season will start this fall. The series is curated Poets and Writers, and The New York Pensacola, Fla. His poems have recently appeared in Big by Elinor Nauen (l.)—[email protected]—and Foundation for the Arts, Doyle is also a fellow of Cave Bridge, Brooklyn Paramount, Fell Swoop, The Brooklyn Amanda Deutch 9:45 p.m. Martha King (r.)—[email protected]. This event Canem: A Workshop and Retreat for Black Writers. Her first Rail, The Tsatsawassins, With + Stand, and Zen Monster. www.esquemag.org/2012/02/01/amanda-deutch/ will also feature surprise guests from the five years book, proxy, is forthcoming from Belladonna in the spring Gülay Isik photo. Amanda Deutch is the author of of the series. of 2013. Nathaniel Siegel photo. three chapbooks. Her poetry has Half Naked been nominated for a Pushcart Prize harder to see men about horses Mike DeCapite Ed Friedman 8:10 p.m. and published in Boog City, Denver www.sparklestreet.com when the day is light www.bigbridge.org/issue5/ Quarterly, EOAGH, Esque, Full Metal Mike DeCapite’s published works fi_nejat.htm Poem, Shampoo, and 6x6, among include the novel Through the skin bumps, sand scratches, miracle grow Ed Friedman lives in New York others. Deutch was the 2007 recipient of a Footpaths to Windshield, the magazine column shadow of an ant wobble carrying some City with his wife and son. Creativity Fellowship in the Azores. She teaches with The “Radiant Fog,” and the chapbooks bumbler leaf twig on its ear His books of poetry and prose Alzheimer’s Poetry Project and is the artistic director of Sitting Pretty and Creamsicle Blue. like a top-heavy antennae Parachute: The Coney Island Performance Festival. include Mao & Matisse, Away, or rotted weather vane— The Funeral Journal, and Drive displaced seed pod bound Martha King Through the Blue Cylinders. From 1987–2003 he was the for new days www.basilking.net artistic director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. G e t W e l l Martha King is still at work on her memoir, Outside Over the years he has produced collaborations with visual radio voices tweak neighbor’s hedge loss Inside, chapters of which have appeared online in artists Robert Kushner, Kim MacConnel, and Valerie Jaudon; equidistant cat chant, slow pierce BlazeVOX, Bombay Gin, Construction, EOAGH, Jacket #40, composer Garrett List; and video-maker Ed Bowes. Ken pulling afternoon steadily and elsewhere. Friedman photo. into night Johnny 10:00 p.m. FRI. AUGUST 3 Jeff T. Johnson 7:30 p.m. North America. Semerdjian teaches English at Herricks www.jefftjohnson.wordpress.com High School in New Hyde Park, N.Y.; writes a monthly Classic Albums Live: 6:00 P.M., Free Jeff T. Johnson’s poetry is column, music reviews, and other kinds of prose for Long Island Pulse; and resides in the East Village. Haik For its 15th Anniversary, forthcoming or has appeared in Unnameable Books 1913: A Journal of Forms; Boston Kocharian photo. Sleater-Kinney’s Review; Forklift, Ohio; and Slope, Dig Me Out 600 Vanderbilt Ave. (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) among other publications. He lives Drew Gardner 8:40 p.m. performed live by: in Brooklyn, is editor-in-chief at www.flarforchestra.tumblr.com Prospect Heights, LIT, and edits Dewclaw. With Claire Donato, he collaborates Drew Gardner’s latest book is Chomp Magnetic Island on Special America, a multimedia intervention. For more Away (Combo). He conducts the Flarf Brooklyn information, visit the above URL. Amanda Smeltz photo. Orchestra. www.magneticislandband.com Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, —“Dig Me Out” C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue —“One More Hour” Genya Turovskaya 7:40 p.m. —“Turn It On” www.supermachinepoetry.com/ It’s Your Birthday Magnetic Island’s self-titled Ted Dodson 6:00 p.m. dearjenny and the entire world is illuminated by a single ferret debut album pairs the band’s Genya Turovskaya is a poet, nearness as new as Albert Finney www.nightdeposits.tumblr.com familiar grandiose structures with a newly baroque focus literary translator, and failing to recognize that life is a Princess Diana Ted Dodson is the cofounder and editor of on layered arrangements. The result is the same ambitious psychotherapist. She is the crash inquest unfolding forever the filmed journal On the Escape, a curator musical arc fans have come to expect from Magnetic Island, author of several chapbooks— in Michael Bolton’s mind for the Triptych Readings, and an editor but with a newfound intimacy. Led by songwriter and Dear Jenny (Supermachine), New Year’s Day (Octopus and the special projects coordinator for guitarist Lisa Liu, the band also features SMV on keys, Justin Books), Calendar (Ugly Duckling Presse), and The Tides I have days when I look in the mirror and I’m Futurepoem. Select publications can be found Gonzales on guitar/keys, and Dominic Rubano on drums. (Octopus Books). Ugly Duckling Presse published her humped to death by a evil disembodied head in la fovea, SET, and Tim. translation of Aleksandr Skidan’s Red Shifting. Norm, 45 is a ripe old age for a hunter Genan Zilkha and J. Swagger Claire Donato 6:10 p.m. www.clairedonato.tumblr.com evidence is monster www.facebook.com/jswaggerbk Claire Donato’s first book, Burial, is Metta Sáma 7:50 p.m. celebrates like a beetle in its power —“The Drama You’ve Been Craving” www.esquemag.com/#!__guess-what- forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press. I used to smoke the emperor of ice station zebra —“Heart Factory” ho-t/sama She collaborates on Special America, a a somewhat smaller time dilation —“Words And Guitar” Metta Sáma is author of Nocturne Trio multimedia intervention, and writes about created in the middle of cooking dinner Genan Zilkha is a full-time lawyer (YesYes Bøøks) and South of Here (New music and wine affect at the above URL.