Welcome to Boog City 10 Poetry, Music, and Theater Festival
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Welcome to Boog City 10 Poetry, Music, and Theater Festival Fri. Aug. 5-Tues. Aug. 9, 2016 ON THE OCCASION OF BOOG’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY AT UNNAMEABLE BOOKS IN PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN AND THE EAST VILLAGE’S SIDEWALK CAFÉ. $5 SUGGESTED FRI. AUGUST 5 of poems, Imperfect Fit, is out from Marsh Hawk Press, and 6:30 p.m. Wanda Phipps Of (Cy Gist Press), Fifth Plateau-from Pink a 50-page excerpt from her memoir Outside Inside was in https://mindhoney.com Adrenaline Star (Propolis Press/Least Weasel), 5:45 P.M. the fall 2015 issue of A Public Space. With Elinor Nauen, Wanda Phipps is a writer/performer living and The New York School (Propolis Press). King runs the Prose Pros reading series at Sidewalk Cafe. in Bushwick. Her books include Field $5 suggested Sanjay Agnihotri photo. of Wanting: Poems of Desire (BlazeVOX 7:05 p.m. Basil King Unnameable Books [books]) and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning http://basilking.net 6:05 p.m. Rachel Aydt Poems (Soft Skull Press). Her poetry has been translated into Basil King, born in London, England before 600 Vanderbilt Ave. http://www.rachelaydt.com/ Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Galician, and Bangla. As a founding World War II, and has been painting for over (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) Rachel Aydt is a writer and teacher who member of Yara Arts Group Phipps has collaborated on numerous six decades and writing since 1985. Basil lives in the East Village. She’s spent two theatrical productions presented in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, does both in Brooklyn where he has lived Prospect Heights, decades working in national consumer and at La MaMa, E.T.C. in N.Y.C. She’s curated reading and since 1969. magazines, and has been teaching writing performance series at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, Basil is honored to be the subject of the 2012 film, Brooklyn written about the arts for Time Out New York, Paper Magazine, Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, at The New School University since 2002. She’s at work Basil King: MIRAGE, by Nicole Peyrafitte and Miles Joris- and About.com, and sometimes she sings. Ken Kerbs photo. C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue on a memoir and a collection of essays, and is an M.F.A. Peyrafitte. The text is from his book, mirage: a poem in 22 candidate in creative nonfiction at Sarah Lawrence College. sections, and most of the images are his art. She’s the nonfiction editor of the Sarah Lawrence M.F.A. In 2016 his art will be exhibited at the Black Mountain 5:45 p.m. Jonathan Berger 6:40 p.m. Greg Fuchs literary journal Lumina. Twitter @gregfuchs68 Instagram gregfuchs68 College Museum in Asheville, N.C., and at St. Andrews https://jonberger.wordpress.com tumblr gregfuchs University in Laurinburg, N.C. Sanjay Agnihotri photo. Jonathan Berger, former music editor Greg Fuchs teaches students with for Boog City and current overweight 6:15 p.m. Ivy Johnson disabilities in the Bronx to trust underpaid poet, is. Elva Berger photo. https://ivyjohnsonblog.wordpress.com/ 7:15 p.m. Lisa Liu (music) Ivy Johnson is a poet and themselves and question everything. Fuchs http://lisaliuguitar.com/ performance artist in Oakland, Calif. has written many poems, published books, 5:55 p.m. Martha King Her book, As They Fall, is a pack of and photographed a lot of things. He studied art yet still http://basilking.net 110 notecards for aelatoric ritual, believes in its ability to transform humanity. He survives http://www.blog.basilking.net and was published by Timeless, beneath the underground but occasionally surfaces with his Martha King was born in Virginia, attended Infinite Light. She is co-founder of The Third Thing, a fabulous wife, Alison Collins, and son, Lucas. Black Mountain College in the summer of 1955, feminist performance poetics collaboration with Kate Lisa Liu is a jazz guitarist based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. married Basil King in 1958, and has been living Robinson. They have work forthcoming from Portable Press Liu plays gypsy jazz, swing, and bebop, and also performs with him in Brooklyn since 1969. 6:50 p.m. Christina Strong @ Yo-Yo Labs this summer. http://christinastrong.com/ as a solo fingerstyle guitarist. She’ll be performing a solo Her collections of short stories include North & South, Christina Strong has lived in a recording studio, a yurt, a set of jazz standards arrangements as well as her own Separate Parts, and Little Tales of Family and War. A book tent, and a sugarcane barrel. Work includes The Hartford original compositions. 7:45 p.m. break SAT. AUGUST 6 and The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Write Bloody), which 1:50 p.m. Maria Flaccavento he edited. Thomas V Hartmann photo. http://thefanzine.com/author/mariaf 7:55 p.m. Katie Yates 11:40 A.M. 99 is a series of short, readable books on provocative, Maria Flaccavento lives in Philadelphia Katie Yates (poem for the house, timely subjects that are precisely 99 pages long (prefaces, and works in academic publishing. Stockport Flats) is currently working $5 suggested footnotes, and references aside) or have 99 things in Flaccavento hosts a writing workshop a word and image piece based on Unnameable Books them. once a month through the Head & the her Listhus Artspace residency in Hand press. She is also co-editor and founder of littletell, an Iceland. She is a senior student in 600 Vanderbilt Ave. 12:20 p.m. Jason Baker online literary and arts journal. Max Marin photo. the Shambhala Buddhist tradition as well as a Professor (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) Jason Baker’s poems have at CCSU. Her work can be found online at Cowbird: a Prospect Heights, appeared in Dislocate, Explosion- 2:05 p.m. Christy Davids storytelling site. Proof, New York Quarterly, Poet https://poetrysounds.wordpress.com Brooklyn Lore, Poetry East, and Slice. His first Christy Davids, assistant 8:10 p.m. Jean-Paul Pecqueur Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, chapbook, Questions About Fire, is forthcoming this year. editor at The Conversant, http://www.h-ngm-n.com/17/jean-paul-pecqueur.html C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue Erika Lee photo. “is a poet who often Jean-Paul Pecqueur’s first book, listens to the Beach The Case Against Happiness, was 11:40 a.m. Maxe Crandall, Belladonna* 12:30 p.m. Josh Garcia (music) Boys.” published by Alice James Books. Two Josh Garcia is an 80-year-old bluesman One can pick up signals chapbooks, To Embrace Sea Monsters (Chialun Chang, collaborative member) in the body of a 20-something. of Brian Wilson’s careful and The Imaginations, have been https://maxecrandall.com Mississippi delta blues by way of orchestration in Davids’ published by Greying Ghost Press http://www.belladonnaseries.org Woody Guthrie. Powerful and moving, musings across a 2016 and Forklift, Ink. Some more recent poems have appeared in Maxe Crandall is a literate songs. Conversant series titled H_NGM_N, Sink Review, Vinyl, and Ping Pong. Originally from poet and playwright “Pop & Poetics: Lisa the pacific northwest, Pecqueur currently teaches creative who has received 1:00 p.m. break Robertson, Grimes and the Art of Phantoming” as Davids writing to fine arts students at the Pratt Institute and lives fellowships from Poets and her co-host Crossley Simmons explore the sonic in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. House and The Poetry complexity and lyrical layering in the conversation’s Project. 1:10 p.m. Isabel Sobral Campos eponymous subjects. http://iscampos.com Belladonna* is a feminist avant-garde collective, Davids rhetorically wonders what it would mean to Grappling with substance itself, 8:20 p.m. Dan Wilcox founded in 1999 by Rachel Levitsky. 2016 marks the 17th think “about pop generally”...“like, what pop thinks ...” http://dwlcx.blogspot.com/ Isabel Sobral Campos lifts us from anniversary of the Belladonna* mission to promote the She corrects herself immediately “or what it means to us Dan Wilcox is the host of the corporeality of a book—glossy work of women writers who are adventurous, experimental, ...” and goes on to deconstruct, in a sentence, “what pop the Third Thursday Poetry binding, glue, pages featherweight— politically involved, multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, means” to her by pointing out that pop lyrics “do not Night at the Social Justice into a terrain where sound cultivates. impossible to define, delicious to talk about, unpredictable have to be accountable to any real, significant meaning.” Center in Albany, N.Y. and Voice is tangible in Campos’ debut and dangerous with language. Mic drop. is a member of the poetry chapbook Material (No, Dear and In that unintentional gesture of what pop itself might performance group “3 Guys Small Anchor Press); its body a do, and in her analysis of value in the songs of Claire from Albany”. As a photographer, Wilcox claims to have the 11:50 a.m. John J. Trause, great weather recording paired with liner notes. Boucher (aka Grimes)—what they say vs. what they do world’s largest collection of photos of unknown poets. He Her words permeate our being: dense, for MEDIA (Jane Ormerod, ed.) and how they do it, an extension of the demands made is an active member of Veterans for Peace. His latest book, textured, auratic; the syllables limitless as to where they can http://www.johnjtrause.com by Robertson’s poetics, Davids reveals a critical investment Gloucester Notes, is available from FootHills Publishing. drift, fall, seed, and harm. http://greatweatherformedia.com that will resound throughout the remainder of the series.