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WWW.WELCOMETOBOOGCITY.COM BOOG CITY 1 Launch Party for VANITAS 4: The Portable Boog Reader 4 TRANSLATION IS OUT!! annual poetry anthology Translations, versions, adaptations, Sun., Jan. 17, 7:00 p.m. homophonics, riffs, $5 fragments, experiments by Charles Borkhuis, Zinc Bar Jen Hofer, Ron Padgett, Mónica de la Torre, Paul 82 W. 3rd St. Violi, Anne Waldman, (Sullivan/Thompson sts.) Bill Zavatsky, and NYC many more. Also poems by Alan Davies, WITH READINGS FROM Ray DiPalma, Joanna PBR4 CONTRIBS Fuhrman, Lisa Jarnot, Steven Karl, Elizabeth N.Y.C. poets: Young, and others. Critical texts by Charles Bernstein, Michael Lally, Yuko Otomo, Kit Robinson, Raphael Ivy Johnson * Boni Joi Rubinstein, Eileen R. Tabios, and Lewis Warsh. Art by Steven Karl * Ada Limon Francesco Clemente, with additional visual work by Augusto de Campos and Brandon Downing. D.C. poets: For copies, go to Small Press Distribution (www. spdbooks.org) or the Vanitas homepage (www. Lynne Dreyer * Phyllis Rosenzweig vanitasmagazine.net). Also on facebook. Directions: A/B/C/D/E/F/V to W. 4th St. Forthcoming from Libellum books, two by Tom Clark: For further information: The New World (new poems) and TRANS/VERSIONS 212-842-BOOG (2664), [email protected] (translations).

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N.Y.C. elcome to The Portable Boog Reader 4. The first Andrea Baker Wthree editions of our now annual anthology Macgregor Card of poetry have featured work only from New York City Lydia Cortes writers, the last two selected by six-person editorial Cynthia Cruz 4 collectives. This time around the four New York City editors— Pam Dick Sommer Browning, Joanna Fuhrman, Urayoán Noel, Mary Donnelly Will Edmiston and me—took our usual 72 poets and designated 48 to Laura Elrick be from New York City, with 24 to come from a sister 5 city. We chose the Washington, D.C. metro area, and Farrah Field were thankful to have Cathy Eisenhower and Maureen Kristen Gallagher Thorson select that region’s work. To these five comrades Sarah Gambito Aracelis Girmay I’m eternally grateful for this volume you’re looking at 6 now, for their decisions and selections, for their turning John Godfrey all of us on to the work of so many great poets. Odi Gonzales In all, 254 different poets have appeared in these four Myronn Hardy volumes. (For a complete rundown of the overall PBR Mark Horosky 7 contributors, see p. 22.) Brenda Iijima I’m also real happy to be featuring work from Laura Ivy Johnson Elrick, Brenda Iijima, and Mark Lamoureux, former Boog Boni Joi editors all, as we don’t publish poems by our editors Hettie Jones 8 here in Boog City. Pierre Joris Thanks to Jesse Schoen for the sweet cover design. Steven Karl And to all of the advertisers in these pages, thank you Vincent Katz for helping get these words out. —DAK 9 Jennifer L. Knox D.C. METRO AREA Wayne Koestenbaum Sandra Beasley Estela Lamat Leslie Bumstead Mark Lamoureux Theodora Danylevich Ada Limon 10 Tina Darragh 16 Sheila Maldonado Buck Downs Jesus Papoleto Melendez Lynne Dreyer Susan L. Miller Wade Fletcher 11 Stephen Motika 17 Joe Hall Marc Nasdor Ken Jacobs Charles North Charles Jensen Jeni Olin Doug Lang Cecily Parks 12 Reb Livingston 18 Nicole Peyrafitte Magus Magnus Mariana Ruiz David McAleavey Lytle Shaw Mark McMorris 13 Laura Sims 19 Chris Nealon Mark Statman Mel Nichols Nicole Steinberg Phyllis Rosenzweig Yerra Sugarman Casey Smith Anne Waldman 14 Rod Smith 20 Jared White Ward Tietz Dustin Williamson Ryan Walker Jeffrey Cyphers Wright Joan Wilcox 15 John Yau 21 Terence Winch

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RECENT RELEASES: 2009 No Gender: Reflections on the Life & Work “The Bellevue Literary Review explores the connective tissue of kari edwards Brolaski, kaufman, Grinnell, eds. between the practice of medicine and literature in a way that is sensitive, surprising, and compassionate.” Bharat jiva -NewPages L i t m u s kari edwards Aufgabe #8 (featuring Russian poetry & poetics) “…a kaleidoscope of creativity… The selections are P r e s s Hyperglossia Stacy Szymaszek unsentimental and sometimes unpredictable.” w w w. l i t m u s p r e s s . o r g - JAMA From Dame Quickly Jennifer Scappettone

We will open to submissions for the annual Is there a BLR Prizes in February 2010: $1000 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction Judged by Andre Dubus III WAR $1000 Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry on Judged by Marie Ponsot $1000 Carter V. Cooper Memorial Prize for Nonﬁction Public Education? Judged by Jerome Groopman We need your work. www-the-teachers-voice.org P.O. Box 150384 www.BLReview.org Kew Gardens, NY 11415

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LONGER POEMS (& THE PRESENT The Poetry Project AS AN ILLOGICAL COMPLICATION) at St. Mark’s Church ANSELM BERRIGAN Fridays 7-9pm: 10 sessions begin Feb. 12 131 E. 10th St. (& 2nd Ave.) POEM AS PROJECT: PROJECT AS POEM 212-674-0910 DAN MACHLIN www.poetryproject.org Saturdays 12-2pm: 10 sessions begin Feb. 13 [email protected] The workshop fee is a great deal at $350, and includes a one-year Sustaining Poetry Project Membership and tuition for all spring and fall classes. Reservations are required due to limited class space, and payment must be received in advance. If you would like to reserve a spot, please follow call 212-674-0910, email [email protected] or register online at www.poetryproject.org under “Get Involved”.

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