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. when we were wandering loose in the calendar and sometime singer. During her “heyday” she specialized in Issues Press, published under her legal songs about food poisoning and love, as well as covers of name). In addition to her creative work, she has published Barbara Henning 6:20 p.m. a world of bottomless holes and spelling errors offensive hip-hop songs. Her greatest accomplishment was scholarship on Dionne Brand, Terrance Hayes, Audre Lorde, made by shambling, intelligent plants www.barbarahenning.blogspot.com performing chapters 1-5 of the R. Kelly masterpiece “Trapped and Toni Morrison. Sáma is an amateur photographer when I laugh I use a piece of information in the Closet.” Barbara Henning’s most recent books (becoming quite an expert at iPhone photographs!) and an are a collection of poetry and prose, J. Swagger (pictured), better known to civilians as Julie amateur painter. She is the fiction editor of ragazine and she had 50 eyes and the glowing bill of a toucan. Burzynski-Sager, grew up in rural Maryland, and she began Cities & Memory (Chax Press); a novel, the social media and marketing assistant at hercircle. Thirty Miles from Rosebud (BlazeVox her music career as a semi-respectable classical cellist. But no, I won’t get in your car. [books]); a collection of object-sonnets, all that changed one day when her dad brought home a Bridget Madden 8:00 p.m. You can pass me the ferret jazz bass knockoff and said, “I’m starting a rock ’n’ roll My Autobiography (United Artists); and a book of interviews, www.bridgetscommonplacebook.blogspot.com through the window. band, and we don’t have a bass player. You wanna learn?” Looking Up Harryette Mullen (Belladonna). She teaches for Bridget Madden lives in Boston, where she She’s spent the last 15 years in nearly every genre of band Naropa University and at Long Island University in Brooklyn, grew up. She did a 10-year stint in the imaginable: classic rock, jazz, big band, blues, ska, punk, trad, where she is professor emerita. Michah Saperstein photo. Judah Rubin 8:50 p.m. state of Maine, first at The University of folk, and then some. www.wellgreasedmagazine.tumblr.com Maine, then as a teacher at the old high Patricia Spears Jones 6:30 p.m. Judah Rubin is put to sleep. Precious little school of horror author Stephen King, and of it has back. He edits Well Greased www.psjones.com Todd Carlstrom finally at the Stonecoast M.F.A. program through University Magazine/Press; is the author, most recently, African-American poet and (see Thurs. Aug. 2, 8:50 p.m.) of Southern Maine. She teaches poetry, among many other of The Ernest Hemingway Reader and The playwright Patricia Spears Jones —“It’s Enough” subjects, at an elementary school on a military base near Book of Lamentations; and acts as the is the author of three poetry Boston. Third graders are some of her most favorite poets. editor/coordinator of The Death and Life of Great collections, most recently The Roulettes She also works at a college library in the Boston area. She American Cities, a periodical of pure nitrocellulose. Kate Painkiller (Tia Chucha Press), www.theroulettesnyc.bandcamp.com has a garden, which she prefers to tend to at night, like Berlant photo. and three chapbooks, two from www.facebook.com/theroulettes Emily Dickinson. Brooklyn-based publishers, Belladonna and Red Glass Books. —“Little Babies” Work can be found in Black Nature: Four Centuries of African Nancy Kuhl 9:00 p.m. “The Roulettes killed it.” American Nature Poetry and Angles of Ascent (forthcoming, W.W. Richard Deming 8:15 p.m. www.phylumpress.com/nancykuhl.htm —Tavi Gevinson, Style Rookie www.phylumpress.com/richarddeming Norton). She is the editor of the groundbreaking anthology Nancy Kuhl is the author of Suspend Fronted by two native New Yorkers, The Richard Deming is a poet and Ordinary Women: An Anthology of New York City Women Poets and The Wife of the Left Hand; and the Roulettes grew up playing basement and a theorist who works on the with an introduction by Adrienne Rich. Gabriel Padilha photo. chapbook, Little Winter Theater. She is living room parties in Oberlin, Ohio. After moving to Portland, philosophy of literature. He is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry Ore., they teamed up with label Lucky Madison to record the first the author of Let’s Not Call It Judith Le Blanc 6:40 p.m. publisher, and is curator of poetry of the ever LM release, their self-titled EP, at Portland’s Jackpot! Studios, Consequence (Shearsman Books), Yale Collection of American Literature at www.peace-action.org with engineer Larry Crane (Sleater-Kinney, Stephen Malkmus). winner of the 2009 Norma Farber First Book Award the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Michael In her capacity as the field director for Long ago and far away, The Roulettes graced the cover of the from the Poetry Society of America. In 2012 he was Marsland photo. Willamette Week and played all over their beloved Portland. Now Peace Action (the longtime peace group named John P. Birkelund Fellow at the American that was SANE/FREEZE), Judith Le Blanc back in NYC, the band is recording new material without label Academy in Berlin. Jean-Jacques Poucel photo. Midnight Continuous works with 35 affiliates representing support thus far. The ever-resourceful Roulettes recently tracked unreachable city regardless it shines 100,000 members for a demilitarized vocals in a public middle school’s math classroom. Mmm mmm Oranges on the Table, Water in the Kettle shines now again side-by-side we are U.S. foreign policy. Peace Action’s yeah. Nadya Wasylko Photography photo. (after Fairfield Porter) dashlit we are still dreaming the unchanging primary focus is the Move the Money Campaign, an effort to view breathtaking i.e. air never decides organize grass roots coalitions of community, labor, and peace Todd Carlstrom Still, it is a funny thing to find each day if it first enters or leaves the lungs groups to change national spending priorities through local (see Thurs. Aug. 2, 8:50 p.m.) oneself waking up in a room with windows, now this is also the past where tenderly resolutions, legislative pressure, and electoral activities. Le Blanc —“Not What You Want” with a door, or two, because it could be he hates me all over all blue shadow blur is helping to coordinate the activities of the New Priorities —“Buy Her Candy” otherwise. Strange that it is not strange when a skyline a hemline a faroff nearing Network, a national network of community, labor, and faith it could be we wake, each of us, singly, arrived the edge again now silent the heart groups who are working to end the militarization of the federal with eyes opened, at some other place, another moment. stunned static my silent silent we’re blinded Christine Murray and friends budget to instead fund human needs. But, honestly, all moments are another. by passing headlights who wouldn’t —“Things You Say” Le Blanc began her national political activity in 1973, Even this now and then, again, now. lose sight our hours our hands incessant so —“Dance Song ’97” working with the legal defense committee for the Wounded unequaled you are familiar you are —“Jenny” Knee occupation on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South For how long, I am the shape of this space: the sun hipbone and brow you are perfectly Christine “Sharky” Murray is a musician- (Bionic Dakota. Le Blanc is a member of the Caddo Tribe of above it all, beyond slate roofs and rusted gutters, remembered and perfectly indifferent Finger, Pantsuit) turned elementary school Oklahoma. She lives in Harlem. past such few clouds, and night on its way. teacher who couldn’t turn down the opportunity to play some I look east. The curtains move. Sleater-Kinney songs! Alan Blattberg is a composer, producer, Anya Skidan 6:50 p.m. Rogue Beats 9:15 p.m. connoisseur, attorney [ahem], polymath, and autodidactic www.roguebeats.bandcamp.com www.anyaskidan.com multitasker based in NYC. Under the name Chow Chow Music, Alan Semerdjian 8:30 p.m. Rogue Beats is Melissa Menake Anya Skidan is a Brooklyn-based Peter Hanlon writes and records music including original www.alansemerdjian.com and Alan Semerdjian, two psychedelic folk-rock musician and soundtrack music for independent films, television pilots, Writer/musician Alan Semerdjian is the NYC educators/artists with a a poet. live-action and animated comedy shorts, PSAs, student films, author of the chapbook An Improvised mutual love for great songs, independent recordings, and live theater. When not molding Device (Lock n Load Press) and his first ukuleles, and singing at the the pliant young minds of undergrads, slowly reading up for full-length book, In the Architecture of top of your lungs while cooking breakfast together. For her dissertation, or taking tap dance lessons, Pam Weis rocks Bone (GenPop Books). His songs have information and totally free downloads, please visit the Break 7:20 p.m. out with The Trouble Dolls and sometimes with Sharky. appeared in television and film and above url. charted on CMJ. He has performed and read all over 2 BOOG CITY WWW.BOOGCITY.COM Katie Yates, Stockport Flats 12:20 p.m. City. His previously published books include Anarcadium something better. Coming from a long line of songwriters SAT AUGUST 4 Pan, Bricolage ex Machina, and Beneath the Empire of the (his great-grandfather apparently wrote “Sweethearts on 11:30 A.M., Free Birds. The Gallimard series Du Monde Enterier published Parade” and “You’ve Got Me Crying Again”), and self- his novel The Hotel of Irrevocable Acts in France, while proclaimed caretaker of that Elliot Smith influence, Fox Unnameable Books Unbearable Books/Autonomedia put it out in New York. confronts isolation in his art and turns it into something www.stockportflats.org/house.htm Sensitive Skin has just published his most recent novel, communal, never better than in “Walking with Strangers.” 600 Vanderbilt Ave. Backwards The Drowned Go Dreaming. He has work in all Everyone calls the notoriously private artist Josh Fox, (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) www.stockportflats.org Katie Yates grew up mostly in French West Africa with stints in of the Unbearables’ anthologies. never simply Josh, though perhaps he would best be called Prospect Heights, India and Turkey and now finds herself in New Haven, Conn., Starting in 1995, the Unbearables literary collective has His Royal Shyness. —Jonathan Berger not a bad place to raise children. She has a D.A. from The published five anthologies—The Unbearables, Crimes of the Brooklyn University at Albany, an M.F.A. from Naropa University, and a B.A. Beats, Help Yourself!, The Worst Book I Ever Read, and The Break 1:30 p.m. Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, from Carleton College, which simply implies she’s well qualified Unbearables Big Book of Sex. The press has also published C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue to converse with a two-year-old. She lives with her blended “novels” by Donald Breckenridge, Jim Feast and Ron Kolm, BoogWork reading, 1:40 p.m. family in a brick house in the suburbs and looks for insight John Ferris, Doug Nufer, Bart Plantenga, Mike Topp, and Carl in Buddhist teachings as much as she can. She still considers Watson. Their books are distributed by Autonomedia, Small Tyrone Williams www.home.earthlink.net/~suspend 9th Annual Small, the Pacific Northwest her home and is the author of Morning Press Distribution, and Baker & Taylor, among others. Tyrone Williams teaches literature and Stories, High Watermark Salo[o]n: Volume 3 Number 2. Small Press Fair theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati. In the muddy mop-up after Federal Disaster #1649, the The Royal Drag 1:00 p.m. He is the author of five books of worst of three 100-year floods, poet Lori Anderson Moseman www.theroyaldrag.com poetry—c.c. (Krupskaya Books), On Spec Sheila Maldonado, A Gathering of the and producer Tom Moseman created Stockport Flats to The Royal Drag is the brainchild of (Omnidawn Publishing), The Hero Project of the Century Tribes/Fly by Night Press 12:00 p.m. celebrate writers and artists whose creative buoyancy builds singer/songwriter Josh Fox, who has (The Backwaters Press), Adventures of Pi (Dos Madres community. They feature experimental poetry (Meander Scar played with, recorded, produced, managed, Press), and Howell (Atelos Books). He is also the author Series), sustainability poetry (Witness Post Series), and a and hung out with countless musicians in of several chapbooks, including a prose eulogy, Pink Tie cross-aesthetic mix of poetry (Confluence Series). New York City and abroad. Many of the www.sheilamaldonado.com songs center around themes of disaffection and isolation, (Hooke Press). www.tribes.org Uche Nduka, Overpass Books 12:30 p.m. with a draggy but cheery pop sound, influenced by artists Sheila Maldonado is the author of one-bedroom solo such as Pavement, Elliot Smith, The Eels, The Smiths, and L J Murphy 1:55 p.m. (Fly by Night Press), her debut poetry collection. She Wilco. www.ljmurphy.com grew up in Coney Island, across the street from the In a world comfortable enough to slip away, The Royal A modern-day beat- Atlantic Ocean. Her family hails from Honduras. She Drag plays to the part of you that didn’t get where you nik, a vaudeville teaches creative writing for The City University of New really wanted to go, say what you really wanted to say. barker, a “New York York and Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She lives Also the part that really digs catchy tunes. noir” rocker, a blues in a one-bedroom in uptown Manhattan, where she is • growler, a barroom www.uchenduka.com working on her next project about a lifelong obsession Josh Fox, who leads the Royal Drag by example, carried balladeer, a saloon www.overpassbooks.com with the ancient Maya. Gabriel Garcia Roman photo. that name from an early failed band to the successful philosopher, a subway cabaret monster, and an untraditional Uche Nduka has achieved a cultlike following as one of the Tribes was conceived as a venue for underexposed recording studio where he earns his keep, producing the likes traditionalist? L J Murphy has been described as all of these. most innovative poets of his generation. Whether from the artists, as well as a networking center and locus for the of Hannah Vs. the Many, Sabrina Stone, and the inestimable Murphy’s live shows are raucous affairs that highlight the pulsing sidewalks of Lagos, the cobbled streets of Bremen, canal- development of new talent. Its formation was motivated by Madison Cano. After some time away from making his own wide array of genres his songwriting encompasses, from matrixed Amsterdam, cupola-tinged Bucharest, or frenetic New the thriving artistic community in and around the Lower music, singer/songwriter/guitarist Fox is at work creating blues and ballads to funk to country to soul to rockabilly York City, this prolific poet has intrigued and solaced readers East Side: poetry at The Nuyorican Poets Café, performances the latest iteration of The Royal Drag, to better inflict his to folk and back again. Maya Mitter photo. and listeners worldwide with his words and music. To a trouble- and plays at The Living Theater, and activist art at Bullet songs onto the world. • filled world he posits peace and creativity. His published poetry Space, as well as hundreds of artists trying to find and Those songs are usually themed around apathy and L J Murphy’s hard to miss. He’s constantly dressed to books include eel on reef (Akashic Books) and Chiaroscuro, develop a voice in their medium and a place in which boredom, a yearning to escape suburban America, or the nines—in suits, shoes, and a fedora so associated with winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize. their work might be appreciated. Housed in a historic else about the dissatisfaction of urban life. It seems that him it ought to be trademarked. His is a distinct visual Overpass Books is a small press based in Brooklyn. federal house built by Hamilton Fish, founder of The Nation everything Fox has experienced in his Southern California style, and that style seems to be 1940s’ bluesman. Established in 2011, OVRPS has been advocating for a diverse magazine, Tribes is located on East 3rd Street between past and his Brooklyn present has left him itching for artistic community of writing and art, while publishing the avenues C and D. The space includes administrative offices, literary magazines By The Overpass and Infinity. Along with a gallery, and a salon where artists of all kinds can drop the magazines, Overpass Books publishes poetry and fiction in and connect with each other and the organization. and promotes readings in New York City. Recent publications include Ijele, the ninth collection of poetry from Uche Nduka, Danforth Prince, 12:10 p.m. and On Equilibrium of Song, the first collection of poetry Blood Moon Productions from John Casquarelli, with art from Lynn Hassan. Sandra Liu, Ugly Duckling Presse 12:40 p.m. www.uglyducklingpresse.org Sandra Liu’s work can be found in Hoboeye, 1913, and The Beloit Poetry Journal. She provides www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7uZiemn_v0&feature=youtu.be guidance for science and www.bloodmoonproductions.com arts grantees at the poles and in New York City. Danforth Prince, president and founder of Blood Moon In her Ugly Duckling Presse collection of observational Productions, has a knack for salvaging the previously poems, On Poems On, Liu considers the world around her, unpublished oral histories of America’s Entertainment wherever she may be or between, and wherever her thoughts industry. In 2011, a respected consortium of literary critics of her environment and her position in it take her. and book marketers, the J.M. Northern Media Group, defined Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit art and publishing him as “Publisher of the Year.” organization whose mission is to produce artisanal and trade In collaboration with the National Book Network, he editions of new poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, has documented some of the controversies associated with performance texts, and books by artists. With a volunteer his work in more than 30 videotaped documentaries and editorial collective of artists and writers at its heart, UDP grew book trailers. Each of them can be watched, without charge, from a 1990s zine into a Brooklyn-based small press that has either on his company’s above website or by performing a published more than 200 titles to date, with an editorial office search for his name on YouTube.com. and letterpress workshop in the Old American Can Factory in Blood Moon Productions is a privately owned New York Gowanus. UDP favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” City-based publishing enterprise dedicated to researching, writers, and its books, chapbooks, artists’ books, broadsides, and salvaging, and indexing the previously unrecorded oral periodicals often contain handmade elements, calling attention histories of America’s entertainment industry. Reorganized to the labor and history of bookmaking. under its present name in 2004, Blood Moon originated in 1997 as The Georgia Literary Association, a vehicle for the Carl Watson, 12:50 p.m. promotion of obscure writers from America’s Deep South. Blood Moon maintains almost 30 titles in print, mostly Unbearable Books/Autonomedia show biz biographies, guidebooks to current films, and scandal guides to Hollywood. Meticulously researched, the books have generated acclaim and controversy for their inclusion of information about events and relationships which, when they occurred, might have been considered either indecent or libelous, but that are now highly pertinent to America’s understanding of its origins, values, and cultural roots. Blood Moon’s books have generated awards, lots of blog www.autonomedia.org and tabloid commentary, and a growing list of devoted fans. www.unbearables.com Carl Watson was born in Indiana and lives in New York
WWW.BOOGCITY.COM BOOG CITY 3 Murphy also has a distinct musical style, but that easier to recognize the nuances of his eccentric characters girl on the bus who talks about bra size seems to be all his own. Calling upon blues, rock, and who have clearly seen better days. The end result is, through so loud other girls turn around and roll Coming singer-songwriter forms, along with the deep storytelling of varied line-ups and different song selections, none of Murphy’s their eyes but I know those girls exist. country and the depth of jazz, Murphy’s one of a kind. residency shows have been anything less than grand. —JB Elsa I think I am holding someone Fall 2012 The New York-born longtime player has been established else’s dream. I remove my pants in bed. in East Village songwriter circles for what feels like BoogWork Workshop, 2:25 p.m. from generations—his infamous 80-week residency at the Micah Freeman 3:40 p.m. late, lamented C-Note was some time back but is still Tyrone Williams (see Sat. Aug. 4, 1:40 p.m.) www.outofnothing.org/711/freeman.html Gival Press remembered fondly. His recently completed residency at Micah Freeman is from Cincinnati and lives in Otto‘s Shrunken Head is easier to recall. Backed by the Nashville. His work has appeared in Abraham young crackerjack aces, The Accomplices, Murphy has been Antonio Serna 3:05 p.m. Lincoln, Out of Nothing, West Wind Review, tearing up the back room of the tiki-themed 14th Street www.antonioserna.com and elsewhere. He makes coffee for people. Riverton Noir club to growing enthusiastic crowds. Originally from southern Texas, Antonio Hailey Higdon photo. by Perry Glasser The response has been great, and has sent Murphy Serna is a multidisciplinary artist/activist (with said Accomplices) into the studio to seek to replicate living and working in New York City. To Winner of the Gival Press the captured magic of 2006’s Mad Within Reason, the East balance his studio practice, Serna enjoys Sara Jane Stoner 3:55 p.m. Novel Award Village stalwart’s first (and, to date, last) album. Those who researching the social anthropology of arts and culture. www.esquemag.org/2012/02/05/ enjoyed the critical stomp of the album’s title track or the sara-jane-stoner Paperback 978-1-928589-75-4 $20 His work has been exhibited in New York, Spain, Mexico, melancholy beauty of “Saturday’s Down” have had a long sad Amsterdam, Berlin, and Texas. He has also taught and Sara Jane Stoner teaches writing and writing E-Book 978-1-928589-77-8 $9.99 wait between albums; soon, Murphy may offer some relief. lectured at Parsons School of Design, St. John’s University, pedagogy at Brooklyn College and Cooper Some of the tunes that populate Murphy and the and at Brooklyn College as a teaching fellow. Union and is a Ph.D. student in English at Accomplices’ recent run of shows are sharp and stunning the CUNY Graduate Center. Her scholarly work Grip portraits. “Barbwire Playpen” describes a city overrun by focuses on unruly contemporary prose texts. She is working by Yvette Neisser Moreno the tastes of a low-class middle class, streaming out of Wall Brian Warfield 3:15 p.m. on a book of brief ekphrastic fictions based on the writings www.brianwarfield.weebly.com Winner of the Gival Press Street into Murphy’s streets, carrying along their definition and paintings of Piet Mondrian, and an autocritical novella of culture like so much flotsam and jetsam, “Blue Silence” Brian Warfield (see story p. 5) lives in Philadelphia and on the necessary pleasures of objecthood, theory, and myopia. Poetry Award is a rollicking blues, made more joyous by occasional call publishes chapbooks through Turtleneck Press. Most recently her writing can be found in ESQUE, Sententia, Paperback 978-1-928589-76-1 $15 and response vocals. Spinning Jenny, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. E-Book 978-1-928589-78-5 $7 Much of Murphy’s songwriting seems to represent anxiety Angela Veronica Wong 3:30 p.m. over a diminishing culture in an inferior world. 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Some shows, featuring only guitarist Tommy and shiny cufflinks. Sometimes on the bus E-Book 978-1-928589-80-8 $9.99 she is finishing up work on a chapbook in translation for Hoscheid or keyboards by Patrick McLennan, offer up emotional you will share your morning with the same Knitting Guns Press. and different performances of the same core of songs. In those people two or three times a week but you The Gay Herman Melville more intimate gigs, Murphy’s gruff vocals are clearer, and it’s will not acknowledge them. I am not that Ken L. Walker 4:15 p.m. Reader www.kenlwalker.tumblr.com edited by Ken Schellenberg Ken L. Walker still carries a Kentucky driver’s license in his wallet even though E-Book 978-1-928589-79-2 $9.99 he has lived in Brooklyn and Queens for TAKE A SUBTERRAINEAN the past five years. He sadly completed Maximus in Catland / leading a poetry workshop at the Riker’s Island Correctional Facility. 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Capria available in a new, revised, 30-year anniversary edition. His evokes a willingness to try something new, not just for its own sake but feel limited by the legacy www.alanaicapria.com radio documentary on the Black Beat, Bob Kaufman, Poet, out of curiosity and a drive towards meaning and awareness. of documented expression. Alana I. Capria (born 1985) has is available through the Pacifica Archive. He is one of the Or, to qualify, it is be- an M.F.A. in creative writing from founding members of the Society of Umbra, that seminal How has running a small press affected your writing? coming more polarized. Fairleigh Dickinson University. She Black Arts Movement group. Christine Meilicke photo. I’d always felt sort of alone as a writer. That my stories were shouts You have the safe formu- resides in Northern New Jersey laic blockbusters on one into an empty well. A lot of my early stories reflect this kind of solitude. with her fiancé and rabbit. Her Sam Donsky 7:00 p.m. Part of the desire to start a press was to break that tendency and hand and authors break- writing and publication links can be found at the www.theawl.com/2011/12/ become more involved in a community. I feel like I write about the ing barriers, intentionally above URL. two-poems-by-sam-donsky same things now, I just do it differently, with more people in mind who writing stripped-down Sam Donsky is a graduate student in could potentially read my stories. prose on the other. I think Adam Moorad genres do help get readers Philadelphia. He is working on his first www.adamadamadamadamadam. into the right frame of mind. manuscript of poems, a collection of 100 Why “Turtleneck” Press? blogspot.com When they see something poems for 100 films. Like a turtle that has spent too long in its shell, I wanted to stick my Adam Moorad is a writer, sales- that looks like poetry, they neck out, to take risks, to do something with my writing and the things man, and mountaineer. He lives in think: “Oh, poetry.” I think I had been learning about small presses, making little books. I wanted Brooklyn. Visit him at the above URL. Soham Patel 7:15 p.m. to encourage other writers to try new things or to try old things in new it is interesting to subvert www.anti-poetry.com/anti/patelso ways. I am still trying to figure out how my press can best represent a these expectations. Soham Patel recently earned new kind of writing. St. Lenox her M.F.A. from the University of What is something/ www.facebook.com/st.lenox Pittsburgh. She plays in a rock ’n’ ‘When they see something that looks like are some things St. Lenox is the project of roll band, and her poems and essays Andy Choi. He was trained poetry, they think: “Oh, poetry.” I think it is you’ve read recently have been included in Copper Nickel, that really blew you as a concert violinist at The Cortland Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. interesting to subvert these expectations.’ away and why? The Juilliard School and I really enjoyed The learned the Great American Songbook at jazz jam Dawn Lundy Martin 7:30 p.m. Map of the System of sessions in Columbus, Ohio. He is an electronic www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/2061 Human Knowledge singer-songwriter who employs sampling, classical Dawn Lundy Martin is the author of A by James Tadd Adcox. melody lines, soul music, and pop skill to write Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering It is set up as a series songs about politics, love, and the wonders of (University of Georgia Press); Discipline of stories that explore ordinary life. Choi recently completed a Ph.D. in (Nightboat Books), which was a finalist for various aspects of human philosophy at The Ohio State University and is now The Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the knowledge. The titles a law student at N.Y.U. Lambda Literary Award; and Candy (Albion are set up in an outline Books), a limited edition letterpress chapbook. She is assistant that breaks things down James Tressel professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. It is also an emblem from my personal history. There was this kid into Memory, Reason, www.my.opera.com/jetressel/blog in elementary school nobody liked. He was picked on and got poor and Imagination with In addition to inspiring owls, grades. He always wore the same red and blue striped turtleneck. subdivisions like History, James Tressel spends his time YOUR AD Or at least that is how I remember him. I don’t really remember what Philosophy, and Poetry reading weird fiction and making happened to him, he just kind of faded away over the years. But as I and so on. The stories strange music by himself and grew older, he became this kind of anti-hero in my mind. He was the are very short and take with the bands Horsey and each sub- or subsub- or HERE “you” character of most of my stories. I typically prefer an underdog Science & Justice. He is at work on another batch to any kind of success story. subsubsubdivision as of poems, some creepy short stories, and an [email protected] its starting point but in experimental dark fantasy novel. His writing blog is 212-842-BOOG (2664) How does Turtleneck pay to print its books, and what are a very accessible way. I at the above URL. your methods of distribution? think that this is the kind My favorite way to get funding is through charitable donations of thing I am looking for from people who read interviews of me and contribute. You can with TP. Something that is : Latinitas is out! donate here. (www.turtleneckpress.com/donate/) Our authors are clearly well thought out really good at promoting themselves, but also I try to hook them up and inventive but doesn’t with interviews and reviews which lead to sales through the website. have to couch itself in New poetry by Micah Ballard, Steve Dalachinsky, Mónica de la Torre, Outside the website I sell books by consignment in bookstores, at expected terms. Clayton Eshelman, Elaine Equi, Alan Halsey, Derek Henderson, various events and even on the streets of Philadelphia. Kimberly Ann Southwick Bob Holman, Ron Horning, Geoffrey Jacques, John Latta, is the editor-in-chief of David Lehman, Joel Lewis, Gerard Malanga, David Meltzer, What are your hopes for Turtleneck within the next year? Gigantic Sequins, a literary Stephen Ratcliffe, Ariana Reines, Raphael Rubinstein, Hal Sirowitz, Within the next five years? arts journal. 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WWW.BOOGCITY.COM BOOG CITY 5 SUN. AUGUST 5 Starlee Kine 12:30 p.m. www.twitter.com/starleekine 11:00 A.M., Starlee Kine is a frequent contributor to PRI’s This American Life and has Free written for The New York Times Unnameable Books Magazine and the Vulture. She loves television, as do most radio people that she knows. 600 Vanderbilt Ave. (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) Evie Shockley 12:40 p.m. Prospect Heights, www.redroom.com/member/evie-shockley Evie Shockley is the author of two books Brooklyn of poetry: the new black (Wesleyan Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, University Press)—one of Library Journal’s C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue Best Books of 2011 in Poetry—and a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press). She has also published a critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal 9th Annual Small, Innovation in African American Poetry (University of Iowa Press). Shockley, recipient of the 2012 National Holmes Small Press Fair Prize in Poetry, is associate professor of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Stéphane Robolin photo. Bakar Wilson 11:00 a.m. www.lambdaliterary.org/features/5-poets/ 04/28/five-poets-who-changed-my-life-2 Dorothea Lasky 12:50 p.m. www.birdinsnow.com Bakar Wilson is a fellow of Cave Canem Dorothea Lasky is the author of and has performed his work at The Poetry Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE, Project, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and all from Wave Books. She lives in The Asian-American Writer’s Workshop. His poetry has appeared New York City and can be found in The Vanderbilt Review, Stretching Panties, and The Brooklyn online at the above URL. Rail, among others. He is an adjunct lecturer of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Krystal Languell 1:05 p.m. www.krystalteaches.blogspot.com Jillian Brall 11:10 a.m. Krystal Languell is the author of Call the Jillian Brall received her B.A. and M.F.A. in Catastrophists (BlazeVox [books]) and a creative writing from The New School. She member of the Belladonna Collaborative. is co-editor of the online poetry and art She teaches writing in the CUNY system and journal Lyre Lyre and co-curates the Earshot edits the journal Bone Bouquet. reading series. Poems have appeared in Connotation Press, Esque, Ping•Pong, Praxilla Journal, Ragazine, 6S, The Best American Poetry Blog, The Thom Donovan 1:15 p.m. www.whof.blogspot.com Portable Boog Reader, The Tower Journal, Unshod Quills, and Thom Donovan is a poet, essayist, others. She is also a saxophonist and visual artist. curator, editor, and archivist. He edits the weblog Wild Horses of Fire, now Guy Pettit 11:20 a.m. in its seventh year. His book, The www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/ Hole (Displaced Press), is available through Small Press crossroads/interviews/page_4/ Distribution. He is at work revising Sovereignty and Us, a Guy Pettit is the director of book of essays and statements. Dorothea Lasky photo. Flying Object and an editor for Factory Hollow Press. His poems have appeared in GlitterPony, Skein, and Laurie Wen 1:25 p.m. www.pnhpnymetro. Supermachine. His chapbook Love Me or Love Me NO1 was blogspot.com published by minutesBOOKS. Laurie Wen is the executive director of Physicians for a Laura Henriksen 11:35 a.m. National Health Program- www.brooklynrail.org/2012/02/poetry/ New York Metro chapter. two-hendriksen-feb2012 She joined the health Laura Henriksen lives in Brooklyn, where justice movement through the AIDS activist group ACT UP. she works to promote urban sustainability. Since last fall Wen has been active with the Healthcare She represents the East Coast-based half of for the 99% working group of Occupy Wall Street. Before the literary zine Water Science’s editorial devoting all her time to advocating for universal health team. Her work has previously appeared in Trainwreck and care, she worked as a documentary filmmaker. The Brooklyn Rail. Ray Brown 1:35 p.m. Yerra Sugarman 11:45 a.m. www.raybrown.bandcamp.com www.yerrasugarman.blogspot.com Ray Brown is from South Salem, Yerra Sugarman is the author of two N.Y. and has been writing songs poetry collections, Forms of Gone and and performing since 2010. The Bag of Broken Glass (both The Sheep His debut album, Canyon, was Meadow Press). She was awarded a 2011 released in April. Boog City National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry, describes his songs as “funny a Canada Council Grant for Creative Writers, the 2005 and tragic at the same time” and The New Yorker dubbed PEN/Joyce Osterweil Poetry Award, a Discovery/The Nation him “a solid songwriter.” His latest album, Orchids, was Poetry Prize, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and released on June 23. The Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin Memorial Award and its Cecil Hemley Memorial Award. She is a Break 2:05 p.m. Ph.D. candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston. 2:15 p.m., PANEL Rayvon Browne 12:00 p.m. Never-Ending Participation: www.rayvonbrowne.bandcamp.com Activism and Occupy Wall Street Morgan Heringer is a “ukulele How does our engagement in the OWS movement (and virtuoso” (The New York Times). adjacent activisms) fluctuate over time? What are the Cal Folger Day has “stage registers our activisms are taking? How do we sustain presence and vocal control that the momentum of our participation? How do we engage command attention” (The New Yorker). Together these language performances in our efforts to enact change? two songwriters present stirring original tunes as well as What exactly is the change we hope to engender? surprising interpretations of classix. Curated and moderated by Brenda Iijima, with panelists Thom Donovan, Filip Marinovich, and Tyrone Williams.
6 BOOG CITY WWW.BOOGCITY.COM Brenda Iijima, curator and moderator by Frank Ezra Levy, whose work is released on Naxos Big Mike Logan www.yoyolabs.com American Classics. Todd Pate is a writer, actor, and musician who lives in Joe Radic Brenda Iijima is the author of If Not Actors: Maureen Nolan and Logan Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press) and New York. Pate wrote two plays, Bird’s Eye View and Brazil, with The Insight Project, a creative program through The Center Two Bronx boys, (or a Bronx boy and other books of poetry. She edited a Jersey girl), since moved on with the eco language reader, a book for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services. Through The Insight Project, he met with first-time felony offenders, their lives, geographically, socially, one of essays by poets weighing in on to college (“Big Mike,” “Columbia”), climate change, and she received a New York Foundation for talked with them about their life experiences, and constructed dramatic pieces around those experiences. the other to New Jersey, as a meat- the Arts fellowship this year. Her work combines language, cutter/trimmer in a large food-chain, supermarket (Pitt, movement, visual arts, and activism. From Brooklyn she runs Lake Hopatcong, Bergen County), meet to discuss the death Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, which is celebrating its 10th Davidson Garrett of their third friend, “Joe Radic,” a kindred spirit, who had anniversary. www.adventpurplepress.com also moved on, only to die a horrifying, untimely death, King Lear of the Taxi: that neither found out about ’til months later! Thom Donovan, panelist Big Fucking Mike is the author of two books of memoirs, (see Sun. Aug. 5, 1:15 p.m.) A Poetic Monologue 81 Pounds and Sibling Rivalry, and is anthologized in the King Lear of the Taxi: A Poetic volume One Millimeter, all published by Pretty Pollution Monologue is the philosophical journey Press. His works have been published in online zines such as Filip Marinovich, panelist of a struggling actor who must earn a grueling living as a Gathering of the Tribes, Smoke, Unpleasant Events, and Cafe’ www.eoagh.com/?gab_gallery=video-filip- taxi driver while striving to attain artistic success. Mo, and in print zines Wormwood Press and Ass Magazine. marinovich-and-the-human-microphone-at- Davidson Garrett is a native of Louisiana. He trained He co-produces and hosts monthly poetry and performance occupy-wall-street for the theater at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts shows, dedicated to spotlighting female artists: Manic Monday Filip Marinovich is the author of Zero and is a graduate of The City College of New York. Garrett at Yippie Museum Café and D-Day at The Bowery Poetry Club. Readership and And If You Don’t Go Crazy is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Screen He was crowned Best Neptune for his “Rape-Of-Europa Guy” I’ll Meet You Here Tomorrow (both from Ugly Duckling Actors Guild—American Federation of Television and Radio costume in The 2004 Coney Island Annual Mermaid Parade. Presse). Some of his poems have been published in Aufgabe, Artists. He has worked as an actor since 1973. A Pushcart EOAGH, Esque, The Brooklyn Rail, and on the Poetry Society Prize nominee, his poetry and fiction have appeared in of America website. He is at work on a new epic, Wolfman literary journals and newspapers. Garrett’s poetry collection, Radomir Vojtech Luza Librarian. Isidora Gajic photo also called King Lear of the Taxi, was published in 2006 www.ollav.com/radluza by Advent Purple Press. He has been an NYC taxi driver www.onthewilderside.net Tyrone Williams, panelist for over 30 years to help subsidize his art. The Blood Will Murder Roses (see Sat. Aug. 4, 1:40 p.m.) Actors: Ian and Kimberly Wilder Dennis Leroy Kangalee A couple sits down at the dinner table to www.nomadjunkie.com discuss divorce. SUN. AUGUST 5 Radomir Vojtech Luza got his love of My Dying City art and politics from his Czech parents, 6:30 P.M. My Dying City is a radio drama who escaped the communism of their about the death of New York beloved Czechoslovakia in 1948. Luza’s father, Radomir Senior, $5 suggested City, a protest against gentrification that inspired the later was a resistance fighter in World War II working under Luza’s solo version Gentrified Minds. Whereas Gentrified Minds grandfather Vojtech Luza, who led the Czech underground before is a monologue, My Dying City is a cubistic tone poem Sidewalk Cafe he was murdered by the Nazis in 1944. Luza’s mother, Libuse, that doubles as a dramatic play for various voices and was an actress at the Czech National Dramatic Conservatory is specifically intended to be recorded, listened to, and 94 Avenue A. until Adolf Hitler closed the school down in 1943. At one point read. It is an elegy for the New York spirit as well as a (at East 6th Street) she spit on the Nazi flag. remembrance and celebration of a culture that no longer Luza has lived in Los Angeles since 2006. The East Village exists. Funny, sad, and strange, it is ultimately a play that His previous New York productions include Curious Tumor Directions: F/V to Second Ave., L to First Ave. extends itself to the rest of the world as all corners of and Beneath the Blood Red Bridge at The Naturalistic Theater the globe continue to fold in on themselves, lose culture, and The Strawberry One-Act Festival at The Riant Theatre. and become victimized by new wave colonialism, corporate Ian Wilder is a spoken word artist, who co-curates the BOOG conformity, and rampant globalization … all in the name politics and culture website On the Wilder Side. Kimberly of “progress.” POETS THEATER Wilder, aka Duchess Susanna, co-curates Peace Couple. Her Dennis Leroy Kangalee is an outlaw poet/dramatist known current obsession is Shirley by Charlotte Bronte. Cory Aaland as the Nomad Junkie. A native New Yorker, he has independently Scabs created and produced his own works for the past 20 years and Actress: Michelle Beth Herman is best known as the performer of Gentrified Minds. Kangalee A person talks to her broom in a dark directed the cult film As an Act of Protest, a dramatic response room. to the murder of Amadou Diallo, and is the author of Lying Cory Aaland lives in Tucson, where he Meat, a collection of poems. He is producing a film, Beyond the is working toward his M.F.A. in creative Ashes, to be directed by Nina Fleck. He hopes to record My politics and culture nonfiction at The University of Arizona. He Dying City as originally intended and make it available as a onthewilderside.net is the blog editor and nonfiction editor for special CD or download through his website. the Sonora Review. Michelle Beth Herman is thrilled Ish Klein to be participating in The Boog Poets www.youtube. New from Pond Road Press Theater Night! Herman is an Equity com/user/ Membership Candidate who is pursuing ishkleinfilms www.pondroadpress.com her B.F.A. in musical theatre at The Hartt D r u m m e r School of Music, Dance, and Theatre. She has performed in venues across the N.Y. metro area, including Smithtown Center 41 Messages: Poems & Interview for the Performing Arts, Star Playhouse, Township Theatre Group, Actors: Klein and Shea Stadium, and The Metropolitan Room. Favorite roles: Berthe Greg C. Purcell by Piotr Gwiazda (Pippin), Marty (Grease), Ronnette (Little Shop of Horrors), and Samuel Beckett’s Dunyasha (The Cherry Orchard). 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