Boog City Festival

Welcome to BOOG CITY “Person Woven by from Glimmer” collage Browne, Laynie Anne Waldman for 11 Poetry, Music, Film, and Theater, Festival

Fri. Sept. 15-Tues. Sept. 19, 2017

11th Annual 6:35 p.m. David Huberman of Women Writers. Her work has been published in various 8:05 p.m. Jasmine Dreame Wagner Welcome to Boog City festival https://sensitiveskinmagazine.com/the-vampires-of-pattaya- journals, magazines, and anthologies, including African Voices http://www.songsaboutghosts.com beach-david-huberman/ Literary Magazine, Black Renaissance Noire, The Mom Egg, 5 Days of Poetry, Music, Theater, and Film David Huberman has had work published in Ever- Killens Review of Arts & Letters, Casa de Cinco, and Cave green. Review, A Gathering of the Tribes, Sensitive Canem Anthologies XII and XIII. Antonio is the author of Skin, Long Shot, Icon, Make Room for DaDa, Best two chapbooks, Every Child Knows, Premier Poets Chapbook FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 15 of Panic, Jews: A People’s History of the Lower East Series 2007 and Solstice, Red Glass Books, 2013, and the cd 5:45 P.M. Side, The Unbearables anthologies, Prometheus, Pink Pages, and Rituals in the marrow: Recipe for a jam session, and is a Public Illumination Magazine, plus many others. He has acted in founding member of the Jazz & Poetry Choir Collective. $5 suggested downtown plays in NYC, including at The Public Theatre, and La Mama Theatre and has done performance at P.S. 22. 7:15 p.m. Dorit (music) http://www.thedoritshow.rocks/ Jasmine Dreame Wagner is a Brooklyn-based musician, Unnameable Books 6:45 p.m. Madeline Artenberg Dorit is an award-winning singer/song- artist, and poet. Her work crosses genres and melds https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheOldInAndOut/about/ writer and multi-instrumentalist. She has autobiographical, political, and natural realms. The lyrics 600 Vanderbilt Ave. ?ref=page_internal fronted and performed with various bands of her song “Full Harbor” cascade over listeners with the (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) Madeline Artenberg’s poetry has appeared in from hard rock and Metal, to Eastern Eu- same searching quality of her poems. “Full harbor, come Prospect Heights, many print and online publications, such as ropean Gypsy Bands, and Middle Eastern now and show me / my old way around my dirty old Vernacular and Rattle. She has work forth- and Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) ensembles. As town,” the artist sings. Brooklyn coming in Maintenant 11. The Old In-and-Out, a solo singer/songwriter Dorit has per- Wagner has two full-length poetry books and multiple Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, a play based on her poetry and that of Karen Hildebrand, formed at various music festivals such as South by South- chapbooks. Her most recent book, On a Clear Day (Ahsahta C to Clinton-Washington aves, Q to 7th Avenue garnered raves in 2013. She won Lyric Recovery and Poetry west, Dewey Beach Music Festival, Nerfa, Chicago World Music Books, 2017), is a viewfinder for history and personal Forum prizes, was semi-finalist in Margie, The American Journal Festival, and Make Music New York. Dorit started off playing memory, from what the poet sees directly in front of her to a sharpening vision of what lies on the horizon. As we 6:00 p.m. Poetry Talk Talk of Poetry contest, and honorable mention in the 2017 High- classical piano for 15 years, and then in high school she built land Park Poetry Challenge. Craig Tobias photo. a classical guitar in a science technology lab and began to hold up the poetic word against the realities of life, we Katy Lederer and David Larsen play. Later, while performing Middle Eastern dance, she would encounter changing landscapes, raw emotional terrain, and reading and in conversation often sit in with the master musicians and there she learned the detritus of the modern world. Disparate pieces are no 6:55 p.m. Jim Feast to play Arabic percussion instruments. Dorit plays guitar, longer disparate as the poet confidently shifts between and http://katylederer.com https://www.mixcloud.com/8ballradio/the-clayton-patterson- piano, percussion, and has currently picked up the ukulele links the personal and political. Each section is conscious Katy Lederer is the author of three books of poems and a show-with-nhi-chung/ after receiving one as a gift. of what has come before and builds on the work’s cohesive family memoir. The Collected Explosive Jim Feast is the author of Time Extends Life momentum. Magazine, a perfect-bound anthology of to Those Who Survive and a member of the In “Snow,” Wagner writes, “To move toward poetry as the 10 issues of the cult-classic mimeo Unbearables group. Nhi Chung photo. 7:45 p.m. break a question itself is a promise of snow: I am compelled to magazine she edited between 1997 continue beneath it, within it, above it; I am compelled to and 2007, is out this fall. 7:55 p.m. Poetry Talk Talk produce and continue producing tunnels encased in tunnels 7:05 p.m. E. J. Antonio David Larsen reading until I, only a source, am exhausted, am snow.” http://paintedlantern.blogspot.com/ Moving toward Wagner’s poetry, we sense the careful David Larsen lives right here. His poems are http://www.ejantoniobluez.net (bio at 6:00 p.m.) E.J. Antonio has received fellowships in Poetry internal and external dimensions of the written word. Each as hard for him as they are for you. His stanza opens to a diverse landscape or void, compelling translation of the many Arabic Names of from The New York Foundation for the Arts, the Hurston/Wright Foundation and The Cave us toward acts of seeing and feeling our true existence. In the Lion compiled by Ibn Khalawayh (d. ca. this, Wagner grants us an adventurous source to return to 980 CE) is out this year from Wave Books. Canem Foundation. She has appeared as a featured reader and performer at several venues in the N.Y. again and again.—Alex Bennett tri-state area, including The Po’Jazz Series at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, The Cultural Café at the East Orange Public Library, Why Not Jazz Room, Word Sunday Reading Series, Arts Westchester, The Stone, and The Hobart Festival 8:15 p.m. Laura Henriksen SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 16 Name, which was named one of Kirkus Review’s Best Teen the like, and threw them into the Pacific Ocean on a return http://brooklynrail.org/2017/02/poetry/Laura-Henriksen Books of 2015. Her poetry has appeared most recently in from Japan. There were other efforts of that type through Laura Henriksen’s poems have been fea- 1:00 P.M. Before Passing, a Great Weather for Media anthology, and in the mid-1960’s. The name Luna Bisonte Prods came about tured in Poor Claudia’s Crush series and the PostMortem issue of POSTblank Magazine. Meagan has in 1974 and became the portal through which I continued Fewer and Further Press’s Asterisk series. $5 suggested also been, variously, a musician, a performing poet, a record making small books, chapbooks, cards, labels, and other Her poems and reviews can be found in store clerk, and an adjunct professor of creative writing at products. In 1975 the journal Lost & Found Times was the Poetry Project Newsletter, No, Dear, Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y. A native Carolinian, born, which continued through 2005. Since that time in and P-Queue. Her first chapbook, Agata, is Unnameable Books she lives and works in New York City. Jackie Sheeler photo. the mid-1970’s, LBP has published or released thousands of forthcoming from Imp. broadsides, TLPs (“Tacky Little Pamphlets”), objects, one-of- 600 Vanderbilt Ave. 2:40 p.m. kathryn l. pringle a-kind books, chapbooks, artist’s books, Lost & Found Times (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) 8:25 p.m. Mark Lamoureux https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/08/created- and some other shorter-lived serials, audio and video works, for-the-listening-kathryn-l-pringles-fault-tree/ print edition books, print-on-demand books, tons of mail Mark Lamoureux lives in New Haven, Conn. Prospect Heights, art, and numerous stunts, gags, and performances. He is the author of four full-length collec- kathryn l. pringle’s Obscenity for tions of poetry: It’ll Never Be Over For Me Brooklyn the Advancement of Poetry (Om- (Black Radish Books), 29 Cheeseburgers / 39 Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, nidawn) is due out this fall. Her d.a. levy readings Years (Pressed Wafer), Spectre (Black Rad- C to Clinton-Washington aves, Q to 7th Avenue book fault tree won the Omni- ish Books), and Astrometry Orgonon(BlazeVOX dawn 1st/2nd Book Prize, selected by C.D.Wright. Her two 3:40 p.m. Bob Heman Books). His work has been published in print and online in 1:00 p.m. Katie Skare (music) other books are Right New Biology (Factory School) and http://www.quale.com/Demographics_BH.html Elderly, Denver Quarterly, Jacket, Fourteen Hills and many http://www.katieskaremusic.com/ Temper & Felicity are Lovers (Lost Roads Press). Her honors Bob Heman’s poems and prose poems have others. In 2014 he received the 2nd annual Ping Pong Katie Skare writes most of her songs as lit- include the following: Besmilir Brigham Award, Lost Roads appeared in numerous journals including New Poetry award, selected by David Shapiro, for his poem “Sum- tle pep-talks to herself. Her music is char- Press; Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize; Fund for Poetry Grant American Writing, Sentence, Otoliths, Caliban, merhenge/Winterhenge.” He teaches at Housatonic Community acterized by honest, insightful lyrics and 2013; and Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor Prize The Prose Poem: an International Journal, College in Bridgeport, Conn. memorable melody lines that kind of sound 2005. Her work has been anthologized in Conversations at Quick Fiction, and Lost and Found Times. He like a mash-up between Disney music and the Wartime Cafe: A Decade of War (WODV Press), I’ll Drown has edited CLWN WR and its predecessor Clown War since Joni Mitchell songs (yes, it is pretentious to My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues), and the early 1970s. His art includes collages, drawings, and 8:40 p.m. Normant Salant (music) The Sonnets: Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat Books). Her Norman Salant is probably one of compare yourself to Joni Mitchell, but she’s going for it). Her cut-outs [“participatory cut-out multiples on paper”]. In debut EP, Just Another, was just released on Bandcamp. work has been published in Coldfront, Denver Quarterly, the late 1970s he was an art-in-residence at The Brooklyn the best New York-based singer-song- Fence, Epiphany, Phoebe, Sidebrow, and others. writers you never heard of. Formerly Museum. a renowned avant-pop saxophone 1:30 p.m. Jackie Clark sensation, recording artist and new https://nohelpforthat.com/ 2:55 p.m. Nada Gordon 3:55 p.m. Nico Vassilakis music composer in San Francisco and New York going back Jackie Clark is the author of one full-length https://thesoundprincess.wordpress.com/ http://staringpoetics.weebly.com/ more than 30 years, he also appeared on recordings with The collection of poems, Aphoria (Brooklyn Arts Nada Gordon was born in Oakland in 1964 Nico Vassilakis wrestles letters to free Residents and Romeo Void. He secretly went over to the dark Press) and four chapbooks of poetry, most and has lived in Bolinas, San Francisco, Tokyo, them of their word scrum. Many of his side of songwriting in the late 1990s and there he remains. recently Sympathetic Nervous System (Bloof and Brooklyn. Her seven books of poetry results can be found online and on his His songs are musically rich, filled with poetic imagery, and Books). She is the series editor of Song of include Vile Lilt, Scented Rushes, Folly, and V. website, Staring Poetics. Alphabet Noir, a always original. He rarely performs in public and when he the Week for Coldfront Magazine and small press editor for Imp. A founding member of the Flarf Collec- book of poems/texts about visual poetry, does he rarely tells anyone. A number of short CDs have been Boog City. She graduate from The New School in 2008 and tive, she has performed widely in the USA and abroad. Her is out from c_L Books. Another book released; a full-length album entitled Yodeling Goodbye is on can be found online at the above url. poems have been translated into Japanese, Icelandic, Hebrew, coming out is In The Breast Pocket Of A Fine Overcast Day the way as soon as he can deal with the censorship issues and Burmese. She teaches English as a Second Language from Deadly Chaps Press. Nico was vispo editor for Coldfront at Pratt Institute. of the manufacturers (bad words). He is extremely pleased to 1:40 p.m. Jaclyn Lovell magazine and is now contributing editor at Utsanga.it. be appearing in the Welcome To Boog City Festival and the http://iopoetry.org/archives/1631 opportunity to perform before those who write. Website: www. Jaclyn Lovell is a part-time assistant professor 3:05 p.m. Trace Peterson normansalant.com. Facebook: Norman Salant Music. 4:10 p.m. Ben Bennett (music, 1st set) at The New School, where she received her https://www.poets.org/ Philadelphia-based M.F.A. Wisconsin-born, she can still catch frogs Trace Peterson is a trans woman poet critic. percussionist Ben with her bare hands and continues to smile on Author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press) Bennett’s unassum- BOOG CITY her subway commute from Brooklyn, her home and forthcoming books of poetry, she also ing appearance for the last seven years. When she is not writing about the edits/publishes EOAGH which has won two provides no hints relationship between princesses and hunting, or the stor- Lambda Literary Awards including the first to the astounding, Presents: ing of trauma in limbs, she’s officiating weddings for close Lammy in Trans Poetry. She is co-editor iconoclastic creativity within, fueled by a desire to get the friends and family. Editor-in-chief at LIT from 2009-2014, of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and most varied and visceral array of sounds from the simplest she was thrilled to be back on the editing scene this past Poetics (Nightboat Books) and of Arrive on Wave: Collected of instruments. Using a wide assortment of drums, cymbals, year working with the good people at Boog City! Poems of Gil Ott (Chax Press). Her recent work appears in tubes, pieces of metal and various found objects, Bennett not Our The Best American Experimental Writing 2016 (Wesleyan only strikes them but also uses friction and his own lungs University Press), From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narra- to gently coax or violently wrench unusual and unfamiliar 1:50 p.m. Emma Brown Sanders tive As Contemporary Practice (ON Contemporary Practice), https://www.instagram.com/brownsanders/ sounds from them. Bennett has quickly built up a reputation TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and at The Academy of in the universe of free improv with his solo performances, 15th Annual emma brown sanders is a queer philly poet American Poets website (above url). originally from chicago. she co-hosts Poetry collaborations with many notable improvisers. Jawns: A Podcast with alina pleskova, who is Within the last two years, Bennett has gained inter- a queen. she recently put out a chap called 3:15 p.m. Lee Ann Brown national notoriety for his series of “Sitting and Smiling” NYC Release Fantasy. you can find her work at fungiculture, https://leeannbrownpoet.com/ Internet videos, which feature him sitting without moving bedfellows, and recreation league and forthcoming in the Lee Ann Brown is a writer, curator, for four-hour blocks of time, bearing an enormous grin on tiny and boneless skinless. and publisher whose poetry has won his face. These 271 videos (and counting) have cumulatively such awards as the Fence Modern Poets garnered over ten million views from people in over 200 Series and the New American Poetry countries and have been the subject of articles in The Small 2:05 p.m. J. Hope Stein Competition. Her collection, Other Archer, was published in Atlantic, Vice and many other media outlets. Bennett is https://poetrycrush.com French and English editions in 2015 by Presses Universita- also a performance artist, spoken-word artist, sculptor and https://eecattings.com ires de Rouen et du Havre. forager. J. Hope Stein is the author of Talking Doll Presses (Dancing Girl Press), Mary (Hyacinth Girl Press), and Corner Office (H_ngm_n Bks.) She is edi- 3:25 p.m. break d.a. levy readings tor at Poetry Crush and the author of e.e. cat- tings (see url above). 3:35 p.m. d.a. levy lives: 4:25 p.m. C. Mehrl Bennett Event celebrating renegade presses https://cmehrlbennett.wordpress.com/ C. Mehrl Bennett studied art at MCDA, 2:15 p.m. Alina Pleskova Luna Bisonte Prods (Columbus, Ohio) http://alina-pleskova.tumblr.com/ Mpls. MN a year and a half, and grad- http://stores.lulu.com/lunabisonteprods Alina Pleskova lives in Philly by way of uated in 1975 with a liberal arts B.A. Moscow and strives to maintain optimum (painting/drawing major) from Clarke Sun., Dec. 10, chill. She is coeditor of bedfellows, a literary University, Dubuque, IA. Her primary magazine focused on narratives of sex/de- focus has been on the assembly of 6:00 p.m. sire/intimacy, and cohost of Poetry Jawns, a podcast, with found objects, collage, drawing and painting, and writing Emma Sanders. Recent/forthcoming poems appear in Public poetry or short songs, and performance art. With her art, Pool, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Elderly, & elsewhere. Her first various scanned or found objects, and text she digitally chapbook, What Urge Will Save Us, is out now from Spooky manipulates or collages visual poetry, or makes tempo- Girlfriend Press. rary installations., handmade books, mailart,or online posts. Sidewalk Cafe Collaborations, visual poetry video, sound poetry recordings, and fluxus or poetry performances and publications, 94 Avenue A 2:30 p.m. Meagan Brothers conducting workshops all figure in her bio. CMB is book Meagan Brothers is the author of three designer/ associate editor of Luna Bisonte Prods. The East Village novels for young adults; Debbie Harry Sings in French; its prequel, Supergirl Luna Bisonte Prods began around 1950, when I, as a child, Mixtapes; and Weird Girl and What’s His made little book-like objects out of paper, matchboxes, and 2 BOOG CITY WWW.BOOGCITY.COM Luna Bisonte, Experimentally Speaking CATHY, YOUR CHANCE HERE Education: B.A. painting/drawing major; liberal arts degree INTERVIEW from Clarke University, Dubuque IA USA 1975 BY STEVE DALACHINSKY (Cathy does not interject) Goals: In Flux recently conducted a short interview with John M. Bennett, A few details of some of the highlights I remember: poet, visual artist, editor-publisher of Luna Bisonte Prods who be How/when did your intense involvement with W.S. nakedsunfish.com CMB is a contributor of digital art or visual Ireading with his wife Catherine Mehrl Bennett along with other Burroughs begin? poetry to over 60 issues since 2006 as well as showcasing his press on Sept 16th, 2017 at Unnameable I had read Naked Lunch and the cut-up trilogy in the early 2007, Â CMB visual poem included in the Winter Book titled, Books in Brooklyn as part of the Welcome to BoogCity Festival 1960’s (as they were published); then in the 1990’s I started Vispoelogy MCBA (Minnesota Center for Book Arts), then ten working with the Burroughs collection at Ohio State, where I years later, in 2017, her collaborative accordian book ASEMIC cataloged a big chunk of it. SHADOWS (with Cheryl Penn of S.Africa) was part of an MCBA exhibit of curated by Michael Jacobson. Who are your influences/who have you 2010, Presented sound score and poems at the Avant Writing influenced? Symposium at The Ohio State Univ. and organized/hosted an I never answer this question because I always exhibit in conjunction with the symposium in Columbus Ohio. forget important people. In general I don’t think of Documentation is at http://visualpoetrymailartexhibit.blogspot. them as “influences”; but there are resonances of com/ many other writers in my work. 2012, organized The 70 Project, a mailart exhibition and performance event in Columbus Ohio. Documentation is at What if any is the reason for writing in http://the70project.blogspot.com/ other languages i.e. Spanish? 2012, The LastÂ Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998 I like it, and it also expands the possibilities of - 2008, NicoVassilaki and Crag Hill,,Fantagraphic Press in what I can do and say. Seattle, OR, USAÂ - CMB was one of four contributing editors and has a visual poem and wrote an essay published in this Your ability to play with and twist and re- important anthology. form / reconstitute / make up language(s) is 2013,Women in the Artistamp Spotlight, Ginny Lloyd, amazing - what is your driving impulse behind TopiChaCha Press, Jupiter, FL USA, “destroying” poetry as we know it ? CMB conducted interviews and composed articles edited I hate “poetry”—I want to “say it all” and create by Ginny Lloyd, wrote the book’s foreword, and is one of the a totem of the world at a specific moment. I do not featured artistamp artists. want to spew out moralistic nonsense, which is what most poets Boog City: What do you consider is your place within writing in English do. Ugh. 2013,Luna Bisonte Prods publication: THE COMPLETE the world of (experimental) poetry visual poetry and WORKS from LOST & FOUND TIMES 1979-2005 by Al visual art? Do you feel any kinship to the language poets in their Ackerman with Introduction by Jack A. Withers Smote - Compilation John M. Bennett: No place; or, my place can only be seen by attempt to neutralize emotions in many cases - be comical and Afterword by C. Mehrl Bennett - http://www.lulu.com/ someone outside myself. As far as I am concerned, I’m invisible. – post-stein - semi-to non-linear and in many cases anti- lunabisonteprods narrative writing? WOW did i say all this??? 2 0 1 6 I hate ‘poetry’—I want When, if ever did your concept shift from so-called No. Their poetry, with some exceptions, is pretty dull. A few maintenant issue narrative/(normal) verse to what you do now? of their theoretical ideas (NOT reflected in their poetry, as it 10(0), a journal to ‘say it all’ and create When I left childish things behind. happens) are interesting, but overblown, and not particularly of contemporary original. dada writing & a totem of the world at How did you develop your unique signature art, CMB poem calligraphic style? Where were you born? event published a specific moment. I do Practice practicepractice. Somewhere in Chicago. 2016 Dada poems, art, not want to spew out How long have you and Cathy been involved in mail- Why were you born? per formances art/fluxus activities?etc.? Who knows? included in Univ. moralistic nonsense, I have been doing it since about 1974; Cathy since about of Cincinnati’s 1976 I think. We met through mail art in 1979. Again. What do you like about poetry? Blue Ash which is what most JMB reiterates: I hate poetry. Onvoid, john College Meta- Can you give me a brief history of your press Luna Dada centennial poets writing in English Bisonte Prods - it’s inception / lost and found times etal? Since our interview was through email here’s a summary from c e l e b r a t i o n LUNA BISONTE PRODS really began around 1950, when I, Catherine Mehrl Bennett who also now co-edits Luna Bisonte exhibit, opening do. Ugh. as a child, made little book-like objects out of paper, matchboxes, Prods: event, and Meta- and the like, and threw them into the Pacific Ocean on a return Dada Journal- from Japan. There were other efforts of that type through the mid- Catherine Mehrl Bennett, 137 Leland Ave, Columbus OH curated by Michael Sanders 1960’s. That’s when I published some chapbooks, using mimeo 43214-7505 USA 2011 - 2017 Annual participation in multi-day Chicago and ditto machines, under the imprint of The Frustration Press. Summary CV: photoshop elements, acrylic painting/multi- Fluxfests and Roanoke VA Marginal Arts Fests The name Luna Bisonte Prods came about in 1974 and became media, drawing, collage, mail artist, collaborator, author, book Editor, tech person, book designer for Luna Bisonte Prods the portal through which I continued making small books, reviews, visual poetry, facilitated 2010 visual poetry mailart imprint: http://www.lulu.com/lunabisonteprods chapbooks, cards, labels, and other products, using rubber exhibit & then The70project.blogspot.commailart exhibit in 2012, CMB Blog: http://cmehrlbennett.wordpress.com/ stamps, collage, photocopiers, and found materials. In 1975 the performed readings in Mexico City and Columbus Ohio from my CMB Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/VisualMom/ journal Lost & Found Times was born, which continued through book “What It Says”, authored and facilitated performances of videos 2005. Since that time in the mid-1970’s, LBP has published or sound score for nine voices numerous times with different groups, CMB Audio files: https://soundcloud.com/catherine-mehrl- released thousands of broadsides, TLPs (Tacky Little Pamphlets), curated Visual Poetry Gallery for 10th issue of madhattersreview. bennett objects, one-of-a-kind books, chapbooks, artist’s books, Lost & com where my interview with mIEKALaND (video by Camille MAIL ART ROMANCE is a documentary about CMB & JMB Found Times and some other shorter-lived serials, audio and Bacos) is also posted, regular contributor of visual poetry and/or by John McClintock produced at OSU 1980-1982, View online video works, print edition books, print-on-demand books, tons digital art at www.nakedsunfish.com, presented paper and power at: https://vimeo.com/56338098 of mail art, and numerous stunts, gags, and performances. point at AreceliZiga& Cesar Espinosa’a X Biennale in Mexico MAKING MAIL https://youtu.be/IjBldhDcylo by Michael One critic referred to LBP’s vast array of formats and genres of City, presented powerpoint show of my kimono collaborations Polk 2014 include interviews with JMB CMB and excerpts from poetry, word-art; visual, sound, video, and performance poetry; and other visual art (myself and others’) at the invitation of MAIL ART ROMANCE. multiple languages, and collaborative and translinguistic writing Clemente Padin in Montevideo, Uruguay, August 2008 and In regARTs to Mail Art Romance there is this movie from 1982 and art as bewildering. The, hah, Mission Statement of LBP is was invited to the 2013 Mundial Potico de Montevideo where https://vimeo.com/56338098 to publish and distribute the unpublishable: important, beautiful, she performed her poems at numerous events/locations. 2011 and essential work from around the world, with an emphasis on thru 2017: performed fluxus scores and/or poetry in Cincinnati, the use of language (defined in the broadest possible terms). Columbus, Dayton, & Xenia OH; Chicago IL, NYC, Roanoke VA, LBP is also a platform on which I can publish some of my own Baltimore MD, Minneapolis MN, Montevideo Uruguay, Buenos work, when I want to have complete control over its presentation, Aires AR, Santiago Chile, and Marseilles France. Raised three content, and look. Most of LBP’s output resonates with the long, sons with spouse, poet John M. Bennett, with whom she helps deep international tradition of avant-garde and outside art produce books under the Luna Bisonte Prods imprint and also and literature. Luna Bisonte Prods provides an alternative and makes tiny accordian book editions with collaborators. Regular challenge to the vast world of stale, formulaic, and cliché-ridden contributor of audio files to Psyche.KG fluxus LPs produced in writing that dries up the creative juices of the majority of writers Germany in limited editions by KommissarHjuler& Mama Baer. and readers in the world today. Specialties: Mailart, artistamps, book art, visual poetry, Luna Bisonte Prods experimental poetry publishing, acrylic painting, anything else pertinent you’d like to add? digital art, collage, sculpture, installations with found objects Be Blank. and common everyday materials, conception and enactment of fluxus events, video poetry, poetry and sound art (live improv& Mehrl would you like to interject (like a cut up)? audio files).

WWW.BOOGCITY.COM BOOG CITY 3 4:40 p.m. John M. Bennett 5:40 p.m. Su Polo Lies inside will seep out. Lies inside lay in wait to betray SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17 http://www.johnmbennett.net/ http://www.supolo.com/ poker face. John M. Bennett has published over Su Polo is a native New Yorker from East Lies inside place themselves on shelves on display for 5:00 P.M. 400 books and chapbooks of poetry 27th Street. She holds a B.F.A. degree in introspection. and other materials. He has published, fine art painting. She is poet, singer-song- $5 suggested Lies inside share the same roof and room with myths of exhibited and performed his word art writer, sculptor, painter, and photographer. interpersonal symbols. worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was She works as a computer graphic artist and editor and publisher of Lost and Found Times (1975-2005), print production designer. Polo is founder and host of the Lies inside spare the world from the excesses of Sidewalk Cafe and is Founding Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at Saturn Series Poetry Reading and Open Mike for 22 years commentary. 94 Avenue A The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has every Monday night. Lies inside tar and feather thoughts. called him “the seminal American poet of my generation.” (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) His work, publications, and papers are collected in sev- 5:50 p.m. Joseph P. O’Brien Lies inside know what ‘it’ is. The East Village eral major institutions, including Washington University (St. https://flapperhouse.com/flappers/joseph-p-obrien/ Lies inside “treasure their scenic value.” (Anne Sexton) Directions: A/B/C/D/E/F/V to W. 4th St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum Joseph P. O’Brien is the managing editor at Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave. of Modern Art, and other major libraries. His Ph.D. (UCLA Flapperhouse. He’s had short fiction pub- Venue is at East 6th Street 1970) is in Latin American Literature. His latest books are lished in Matchbook, The Alarmist, and The 6:45 p.m. mary elizabeth clark Select Poems, Poetry Hotel Press/Luna Bisonte Prods,; and Rusty Nail, poems in Yes Poetry and Rag The World of Burning, Luna Bisonte Prods. mary elizabeth clark is a poet with a background in teach- 9th Boog Poets’ Theater Night, featuring: Queen Periodical, non-fiction in El Jamberoo. ing and the performing arts. as a classical vocalist she has He lives in Brooklyn with his lovely wife and their very performed at city venues including: the amato opera, the 4:55 p.m. Ben Bennett (music, 2nd set) popular dog. Ashley O’Brien photo. liederkranz, and carnegie hall. in teaching she has held 5:00 p.m. Breaking Up Is Hard to Do classes at campuses including the cathedral of st. john the by Robert Moulthrop d.a. levy readings 6:00 p.m. Brian Bonelli (music) divine and the village community school; conducting recitals, Yes, it is, especially when the https://iloverichardnixon.bandcamp.com/releases exhibiting her students’ artwork in the galleries at pratt two of you are sitting next Brian Bonelli is a sad little man who institute. as a poet her work has appeared in journals to each other in a café and 5:10 p.m. Stacey Allam including mobius and the villager. she has been a featured texting. The fact that I had to search for this photo plays original fingerstyle guitar instru- artist at the cornelia st. cafe, the bowery poetry club, and Robert Moulthrop (far l.) (http://www.robertmoulthrop. of just me alone says volumes about me. I mentals about presidents. He has been described as “a great musician with the the nuyorican. com) is a fiction writer, playwright, and translator of children’s am 56 years old and have been married for books. 27 years. I have two children, 25 and 23 voice of a used car salesman.” Conan O’Brien once (unfavorably) compared him to Buffalo Bill 6:55 p.m. Ptr Kozlowski Actors: respectively. I’m originally from Rego Park, Queens, NY, but Griffin DuBois (http://www.griffindubois.com) is some- from “The Silence of the Lambs.” He’s working on branching https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL83969448C8866DE1 have resided in Brooklyn for 28 years. I have been writing times a voice actor, sometimes a face actor, and sometimes out into songs with lyrics that are not about presidents! Ptr Kozlowski has been a taxi poetry most of my life. both at the same time. driver, a deliveryman, a poet, a Morgan Zipf-Meister (http://www.morganzipfmeister.com) printer, a singer-songwriter, and a 6:30 p.m. Kenyatta JP Garcia is an actor, New York Innovative Theatre Award-nominated 5:20 p.m. Yuko Otomo guitarist. Having lived a number Painter-poet Yuko https://kjpgarcia.wordpress.com/ lighting designer, and Moth storyteller. of places, from Oyster Bay to Hilo Otomo (top r.) comes They spent Bay, he now resides in Brooklyn. He likes to draw upon his from a creative ten years as experience to bring a musical perspective to the spoken 5:15 p.m. I wore suspenders ... family; her mother a cook after word. He’s been published in Hobo Jungle and Stained painted while her fa- graduating by Trae Herman-Durica Sheets; anthologies by ABC NoRio, Great Weather for Media, ther wrote haiku. Now from SUNY A transgender man reminisces about his self- and Brownstone Poets; and in South Florida Poetry Journal these dual creative Albany with discovery to his childhood teddy bear. and Performance Poets Association Literary Review. modes of visual and textual expression coexist within her a B.A. in Actors: hard-to-classify phenomenologically engaged poems. Therein English/Phi- Trae Herman-Durica is a Brooklyn-based she leads the reader through flashes of transitory, sensu- losophy. Since 7:05 p.m. Big Mike Logan artist who is constantly learning what it means to be hu- ally charged experiences that are simply allowed to exist leaving the https://youtu.be/CfiMtR-2puA man. on the page. restaurant Big Mike is the author of two books of Traveler Bear is old, cranky, and over all your bullshit, but Further sharpening this poet’s focus on the textures business, they personal memoirs, 81 pounds and sibling loves you anyway, because that’s what teddy bears do. of micro experiences is the simplicity and directness of have received a second B.A. in Linguistics and work the rivalry, and anthologized in the book one her language, which she professes comes from being an graveyard shift where they spend my nights putting boxes millimeter, all published by pretty pollution 5:30 p.m. Dating van Gogh exophonic writer. Born and raised in Japan, Otomo decided on shelves. They’re also the author of Slow Living (West Vine press. He is the co-founder of performance to embrace the uniqueness of her English as an attribute Press), Yawning On The Sands, Enter the After-Garde, and group d day productions with poet Puma Perl, crowned by Francine Witte rather than a limitation of her poetry. This Sentimental Education. And, an editor at Rigorous. And Best Neptune at the 2004 annual Coney Island Mermaid Sometimes the spurned wife has the In her A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of Museum (after follow them on Twitter @KJPGarcia. Parade for his portrayal of “The Rape of Europa Guy” with last word ... for a long time. Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte”), Otomo wanders his performance partners valmonte sprout and faux maux, Francine Witte writes plays, poetry, Monologue Without A Speaker through two of the MET’s exhibits in 2004: and his youtube video “awesome dancing guy coney island and flash fiction and reads throughout rock a billy festival 2008” has received 78,235 views. Manhattan. “A girl walks / in front of me / to face the mysterious “blood told as blood will” (Anne Sexton) Actors: meeting / of an old vulgar man-saint/ & a 7:15 p.m. Maria Damon Seth Goldman is one of the Bards of Gridlock, a group of young man-angel. She breaks / her own & my / Crabbie Cabbies who dream of writing sweet prose. Maria Damon Francine Witte concentration, / sneezing. In this cloudless space, / teaches in the we all, one way or another, / wrap ourselves / in Humanities and aesthetic details / of woven cotton fabrics. / Media Studies De- 5:45 p.m. A Butterfly for Nabokov Secular / or sacred, / metamorphosis / of material partment at The by LuLu LoLo reality / still amazes me. Pratt Institute of Vladimir Nabokov was an enthusiastic lepidop- Art. She is the author of two terist. Now one of his butterflies has her say. To this poet the girl in the museum interrupting books of poetry scholarship—The LuLu LoLo (http://www.lululolo.com) is an the viewing of a painting with a sneeze is as interesting Dark End of the Street: Margins international performance artist/playwright/actor and activ- and worthy of note as the saint in the painting and the in American Vanguard Poetry and ist who has written and performed eight one-person plays painting’s privileged space within the museum. In fact, the Postliterary “America”—From Off-Broadway. girl stands physically between Otomo and the saint, but the Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries, last line of the stanza reassures us this is perfectly alright co-author (with mIEKAL aND and and even wonderful. —Anna Fridlis Jukka-Pekka Kervinen) of sev- 6:00 p.m. Rice Paper Heart eral books of poetry; and au- by Hydrogen Junkbox 5:30 p.m. Steve Dalachinsky thor of two books—Meshwards When all is said and done, love Poet/collagist Steve Dalachinsky (w/ Otomo, top l.) was born in and XXX—of cross-stitch visual craves musical accompaniment. Brooklyn after the last big war and has managed to survive lots poetry. Hydrogen Junkbox is a collec- of little wars. His book The Final Nite (Ugly Duckling Presse) won tive of poets and music makers, the PEN Oakland National Book Award. His latest albums are featuring David Lawton, Aimee Herman, and Zita Zenda. The The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach group has made featured appearances at LaMama, Dixon (Roguart) and ec(H)o-system with the French art-rock group, the Place, and Parkside Lounge. Snobs (Bambalam). He has received both the Kafka and Acker Awards and is a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier D’ le Ordre des 6:15 p.m. Conspiracy Theory: Artes et Lettres. His poem “Particle Fever” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. His most recent books include Fools Gold The Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen (Feral Press); a superintendent’s eyes (Unbearable/Autonomedia); by Davidson Garrett flying home, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Famed New York newspaper columnist Dorothy Kilgallen was Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press); and “The Invisible Ray” (Overpass found dead in her bed on Nov. 8, 1965. Alcohol and barbitu- Press) with artwork by Shalom Neuman. rate intoxication was the official cause, but was it? Did her death have a link to JFK’s assassination? Davidson Garrett (http://www.adventpurplepress.com) is

4 BOOG CITY WWW.BOOGCITY.COM a poet/actor/publisher/taxi driver whose latest chapbook is 7:20 p.m. Eliot Katz Sheri Wills What Happened to the Man Who Taught Me Beowulf? and http://www.eliotkatzpoetry.com/ http://sheriwills.net/ Other Poems, published by Advent Purple Press. Eliot Katz is the author of seven books of Sheri Wills is an artist whose work is based in film, video Actors: poetry, including Unlocking the Exits and Love, performance, and installation. Her work has been exhibited Patricia Carragon’s War, Fire, Wind. His most recent book is a read- internationally, including one-person shows at the Director’s (http://brownstonepoets. able, scholarly volume, entitled The Poetry and Lounge in Berlin, the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema in NYC, blogspot.com) latest book Politics of Allen Ginsberg. Called “another classic New Jersey and The International Experimental Cinema Exposition. Her is Innocence (Finishing Line Press). The Cupcake Chronicles bard” by Ginsberg, Katz has been a longtime activist for films have been screened at venues including The London NEED YOUR is forthcoming from Poets Wear Prada. a wide range of peace and social-justice causes, including Film Festival, The International Film Festival in Rotterdam, LuLu LoLo (bio in LuLu LoLo’s A Butterfly for Nabo- many years spent as an advocate for Central Jersey home- and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and is included kov.) less individuals and families. Vivian Demuth photo. in the Rizzoli book, Sonic Graphics: Seeing Sound, by Matt John J. Trause, the director of Oradell Public Library and Woolman. EVENT a multiyear participant in Boog Poets Theater, is the author of five books of poetry—with Why Sing?, a book of tradi- 7:30 p.m. Myrna Nieves tional and experimental poems, forthcoming from Sensitive https://mnieves23.wixsite.com/myrna-nieves Bradley Eros Skin Press in 2017—and one of parody, Latter-Day Litany Myrna Nieves is an award winning writer and Bradley Eros is an artist working in myriad media: experi- educator. She is a founding member and profes- mental film and video, collage, photography, performance, PLANNED, (Éditions élastiques), the latter staged Off Broadway. sor at Boricua College and the director for 20 sound, text, contracted and expanded cinema and instal- years of its Winter Poetry Series. Nieves is also lation. He has exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, NY; The 6:30 p.m. Charity by Austin Alexis a co-founder of the art group 7 Mujeres en Movimento to American Century at the Whitney Musuem, NY; MoMA, NY; Americans have always believed support Puerto Rico, and a bureau chief for the magazine MoMA PS1, Queens, NY; The Kitchen, NY; New Museum, NY; YOUR in supporting charitable causes, And Then. Published books are: Libreta de sueños (narracio- Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Penn.; Performs09, Exit Art, but too many requests for finan- nes), Viaje a la lluvia: poemas, Breaking Ground: Anthology Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), NY; The New York, London, cial contributions can be hazard- of Puerto Rican Women Writers in New York 1980-2012, and Rotterdam Film Festivals, among many others. He has ous to your health. El Caribe: paraíso y paradoja and with artist Yarisa Colón, collaborated with The Alchemical Theater, the band Circle X, PUBLICA- Austin Alexis (top l.) has had the hand-made fiction/art book Another Version of Hansel Voom HD Lab, expanded cinema groups kinoSonik & Arcane his one-act plays performed or and Gretel. She was co-author/co-editor of the collection of Project, and most recently with the Optipus film group. For read at the Samuel French Short prose and poetry Tripartita: Earth, Dreams. Awards include many years he has been a manager and research[er?] at Plays Festival, Theater for the New City, Boog Poets Theater, a Literary Award of the PEN Club of Puerto Rico, and the Anthology Film Archives. TION, POST- and other venues, and has been published in Barrow Street, Latina 50 Plus 2016 Literature Award. Nieves has a B.A. Rabbit Ears: TV Poems, and other journals and anthologies. in World Literature from the University of Puerto Rico, an Actors: Mónica Savirón M.A. in Spanish from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in https://www.monicasaviron.com/ Jason Gallagher is a professor and writer from Upper Latin American and Caribbean Literature from New York CARDS, Mónica Savirón is an experimental Manhattan. University. David Huberman (top r.) is the Ranter and Raver of filmmaker, independent curator, the Lower East Side. and writer. Her film Answer Print 7:40 p.m. Susan Sherman (2016) had its World Premiere at Mindy Levokove (bottom l.) is a multi-media perfor- OR FLYERS, mance poet who teaches qigong and tai chi, as well as adult http://susansherman.com the 54th New York Film Festival. literacy and numeracy. Poet, playwright, essayist, and founding editor Winner of the Best Film award at FRONTEIRA Film Festival Eve Packer (bottom r.), Bronx-born poet/performer/ of IKON magazine, Susan Sherman has had 13 in Brazil, her film Broken Tongue (2013) has been shown actress, has released three books of poetry and five po- plays produced off-off Broadway including an at more than 50 major festivals and art venues around DESIGNED? etry/jazz CDs. She has received awards from the New York adaptation from Spanish of Pepe Carril’s, Shango the world. Her video To Begin With (2012) had its World Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council on de Ima (Doubleday). She has published seven collections Premiere at Experiments in Cinema Festival. Based in New the Arts, among many others. of poetry; a highly acclaimed memoir, America’s Child: A York, her work explores the cinematic possibilities of sound Woman’s Journey through the Radical Sixties (Curbstone/ and avant-garde poetics. Northwestern University Press); a collection of short fiction, 6:45 p.m. The Guides of March Nirvana on Ninth Street (Wings Press); and new and se- Lily Jue Sheng by John J. Trause lected poems, The Light that Puts an End to Dreams (Wings http://www.lilyjuesheng.net/ Four thespians perform Julius Caesar by William Shake- Press). The recipient of several writing awards including Lily Jue Sheng makes moving image-based work with film, CON- speare, minus virtually all the dialogue. NYFA and CAPS fellowships, she is currently working on a video, multi-projection performance, installation, and 2D John J. Trause (bio in Davidson Garrett’s Conspiracy novel, The Immigrant’s Daughter has Come and Gone, dedi- mixed media. She graduated from the School of the Museum Theory: The Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen) cated to The grandmother I never knew/ And the mother I of Fine Arts in Boston, and is currently based in Brooklyn. Actors: am trying to understand. Her work has exhibited internationally at The Whitney Mu- TACT YOUR Davidson Garrett (bio in Davidson Garrett’s Conspiracy seum of American Art, Eyebeam, Mono No Aware, Microscope Theory: The Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen.) Gallery, and The Knockdown Center in New York City; the David Lawton once acted in a terrible production of 7:50 p.m. Sidewalk Cine Soiree!! Boog City film editor, Joel Schlemowitz, presents a program Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; The Musée d’art contempo- Julius Caesar in Boston. This is much less painful. rain de Montréal in Montreal; and the 1933 Slaughterhouse FRIENDS AT LuLu LoLo (bio in LuLu LoLo’s A Butterfly for Nabokov.) of short films by members of the experimental and underground film community of New York and beyond. in Shanghai. Poetry: Marie Losier 8:50 p.m. David Segovia (music) BOOG CITY. http://www.marielosier.net/ http://www.DavidSegovia.com 7:00 p.m. Kathryn Adisman Marie Losier, born in France, is a filmmaker and curator David Segovia is a folk-rock singer-songwriter from https://www.facebook.com/groups/1836272859980504/ who’s worked in New York City for 22 years. She has shown Charlotte, N.C. He now resides in Brooklyn, and he Kathryn Adisman is a Manhattan-born writer/ her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials, and has been performing in the city for almost three EDITOR@ raconteur with a background in poetry, theater, festivals. She studied American literature at the University years. His music is intimate, poetic, and meaningful. and dance. She holds a Master’s in poetry from of Nanterre (France) and fine arts at Hunter College in His style mixes the nuances of classical compositions with the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and an New York City. She has made a number of film portraits the raw power of rock music. He has been playing so many M.F.A. in playwriting from NYU’s Tisch School of on avant-garde directors, musicians, and composers, such as new songs lately at the open mics, we can’t even keep up. BOOGCITY. the Arts. She was a copy editor at People until 2008 and cur- George Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad, His back catalog on ReverbNation is quite strong, and he rently teaches Feldenkrais® “Awareness Through Movement” Genesis P-Orridge, Alan Vega, and Felix Kubin. Whimsical, has one album out on Bandcamp. Maybe he’ll play some of classes and writes about downtown places for The Villager. poetic, dreamlike, and unconventional, her films explore the those numbers at the fest. Adisman is the host/producer of two shows at Cornelia Street life and work of these artists. COM Café, “Tapping into New York” and “What Were the ‘60s Really Like?” which debuted on Inauguration Day in response to the Trump election. Susan Rae Tannenbaum photo. Jacob Burckhardt Jacob Burckhardt has worked at a variety of day jobs— HTTP:// blueberry picker, steel mill laborer, fuller brush man, truck 7:10 p.m. Valery Oisteanu driver, taxi driver, camera repairman, art photographer—all http://brooklynrail.org/contributor/valery-oisteanu the while making underground films. He specializes in sound Valery Oisteanu is a writer and artist with production and has done sound recording and mixing for international appeal. He adopted Dada and projects ranging from an Italian Rai-tv feature production 212-842- Surrealism as a philosophy of art and life. in North Africa to the American porn industry. Burckhardt WP.ME/ Immigrating to New York City in 1972, and directed and produced two features which screened at vari- has been writing in English for the past ous international festivals and were distributed on video: 44 years. Oisteanu is the author of 10 books of poetry in It Don’t Pay To Be An Honest Citizen (1984) with William BOOG English, three in Romanian, a book of short fiction, and a Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Vincent D’Onofrio, and Land- book of essays, The Avant-Gods. He is a recipient of major lord Blues (1986). awards of avant-garde: Aker Award (2013) for poetry per- P1H68O-KU formance,” Chivot (Cavalier) of the citadel” for disseminating (2664) the Romanian avant-garde to Diaspora (2012), and “The End of the World as we know it” a Vault award in 2001. Ruth Oisteanu photo.

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If you feel the need to pray for his Straining his tiny vocal cords, the child next to me Unnameable Books poet laureate of the National Beat Poetry Festival. Alexis Rhone soul, may as well start now! Bipolar Bradley is an Aries, though screams “Hooray” at each burst of light. Fancher photo. he places absolutely no stock in astrology. On the train ride home, 600 Vanderbilt Ave. I meet the man (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) Carl Watson 7:35 p.m. break who played Uncle Sam at Macy’s. Prospect Heights, https://sensitiveskinmagazine.com/late-night-phone-call-from-the- used-to-be/ 7:45 p.m. Lynne DeSilva-Johnson 8:10 p.m. David Elsasser Brooklyn Carl Watson is a poet, fiction writer, http://lynne-desilva-johnson.strikingly.com/ https://unfoldmag.wordpress.com/category/by-lines/david-el- Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, playwright and critic. Watson has written http://www.theoperatingsystem.org/ sasser/ C to Clinton-Washington aves, Q to 7th Avenue cultural criticism and reviews for various Lynne DeSilva-Johnson is a queer interdisciplinary David Elsasser is the poetry co-chair of the West journals including The Village Voice, NY creator working in performance, exhibition, and Side Arts Coalition, and runs a weekly peer poetry 6:00 p.m. Panel: Poetry in the Age of Press, Downtown, Tribes, and The Williamsburg Observer. He has publication in conversation with new media. Lynne workshop, the Parkside Poets, on the Upper West Side. He is a long-time participant in the New York Trump: Where do we go from here? also published several collections of poetry, including Anarcadium is a visiting assistant professor at Pratt, founder and managing Pan (Erie Street Press), Living for the Ecstasy Sect, Confessions of poetry scene, and hosted the Saturn Reading with Su Polo for Five published authors discuss how the election of Donald editor of The Operating System, as well as libraries editor at an Aspirin Eater, The Green Man (Apathy). His latest collection, nine years. His most recent chapbook, Delicious, was published Trump to the Presidency has impacted on their writing -- has it Boog City. She is the author of Ground, blood atlas, and Over- Astral Botanica, is published by Fly by Night Press. Watson by NoNet Press, in Manhattan. He has been published in many changed their focus, their goals? Will they try to become more view Effect, co-author of A Gun Show with Adam Sliwinski, and received the Kathy Acker Award for Fiction in 2012. co-editor of the anthologies Resist Much Obey Little: Inaugural places including The Riverside Poetry Anthology, Poems From obviously political in their content, or less? Where do they think 84th Street, The Parkside Anthology, Dinner With The Muse, American culture is heading? Poems for the Resistance, and In Corpore Sano: Creative Practice Carol Wierzbicki and the Challenged Body. She publishes zines and chapbooks The Brownstone Poets Anthology, and Soul Fountain. Gordon under The Trouble With Bartleby, including the 2017 “Fighting Gilbert photo. Curated and moderated by Ron Kolm ttps://issuu.com/pradapoet/docs/top_teen_greatest_hit_by_ carol_wierzbicki Words” series. Recent or forthcoming publication credits include https://www.facebook.com/The-Unbearables-128458962996/ https://www.facebook.com/carol.wierzbicki1 Drunken Boat/Anomaly, The Brooklyn Poets Anthology, Gorgon 8:25 p.m. Thad Rutkowski Ron Kolm is a member of the Unbear- Carol Wierzbicki’s work has been published in Poetics, Live Mag!, and a Panhtalassa Pamphlet from Tea & http://www.thaddeusrutkowski.com/ ables and a contributing editor of Sensi- Long Shot, Public Illumination, Evergreen Review, Tattered Pages Press. She performs often, resists always, and Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of the tive Skin. He is the author of Divine Big Bridge, Many Mountains Moving, The Otter, lives in Brooklyn. books Guess and Check, Violent Outbursts, Comedy,Suburban Ambush, Duke & Jill, and The Bug Book (anthology forthcoming from Haywire, Tetched, and Roughhouse. Hay- Night Shift and a new collection of po- Poets Wear Prada). Her chapbook is Top Teen Greatest Hits wire won the Members’ Choice Award, ems, A Change in the Weather. Ron’s papers were purchased by 7:55 p.m. Susan Weiman (Poets Wear Prada, 2009 and 2017). She is is co-editor of the given by the Asian American Writers Workshop. He teaches at the New York University library, where they’ve been catalogued http://scwnynotebook.blogspot.com Unbearables “Worst Book” and “Sex” anthologies. Medgar Evers College and the Writer’s Voice of the West Side in the Fales Library. Susan Weiman writes literary nonfiction, poetry, and vignettes. Her work has been published in First Liter- YMCA in New York. He received a fiction writing fellowship from ary Review-East, Sensitive Skin, POST(blank), Citylore. the New York Foundation for the Arts. AAWW photo. Panelists Francine Witte https://thepoetsbillow.org/literary-art-gallary/atlantis-award/in- org, Riverside Poets Anthology, Home Planet News Online, and Jill Rapaport terview-with-francine-witte/ run-to-the-roundhouse nellie. In addition, she wrote a blog about 8:35 p.m. Michele Carlo https://sensitiveskinmagazine.com/the-antisocial-butterfly-jill-ra- Francine Witte is a poet, flash fiction writer, photog- art for the Home Magazine. Weiman is an artist, jewelry- https://www.michelecarlo.com paport-rob-hardin/ rapher, blogger, and reviewer. Her poetry chapbook maker and iPhone photographer. She was born in Richmond, Michele Carlo is a storyteller/solo performer Jill Rapaport is the author of Duchamp et Moi and Not All Fires Burn the Same won the 2016 Slip- Va., and has lived in Massachusetts, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, who has appeared across the U.S., including Other Stories, published by Fly by Night Press/A stream Press Award and was published by them. She is s former Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, and New York. “I tried to escape the MOTH’s GrandSlams and Mainstage in NYC, Gathering of the Tribes. Her work has appeared in high school teacher. She lives in NYC. from NYC twice,” she says. “It didn’t happen.” Her most dif- on NPR with Latino USA and on PBS (Latino numerous literary magazines and anthologies, and ficult move was from Manhattan to Astoria. “It was as if Americans of NY & NJ, 66th & B’way Open-Mic). She is also the she has read in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and 7:05 p.m. Bipolar Bradley (music) I had arrived in a different country.” Linda Casbon photo. author of Fish Out of Agua, a memoir about growing up multi- Chicago, among other cities. Rapaport is the editor, publisher, culti in 1970s NYC and presents the “fish out of water” stories http://reverbnation.com/bipolarbradley and disseminator of the I.H.I.Y.W. and I.H.I.W.S. 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6 BOOG CITY WWW.BOOGCITY.COM “Night Fever” (Bee Gees) Horra “Boogie Shoes” (KC and the Sunshine “Salsation” (David Shire) TBD https://horra1.bandcamp.com Band) Mike Handelman Like an even darker http://www.mikehandelman.com “K-Jee” (MFSB) TBD Sonny and Cher, Horra Mike Handelman is an east coast-based ac- consists of the dynamic tor, musician, comedian, and podcaster. He has tag team of Miss Rep- appeared in films such as Crooked Arrows, “Disco Inferno” (The Trammps) Lucky resent (Margo Goldstein) on guitar and vocals Smiley Face Killers, and the upcoming heist- and Loose Lid (Matthew Seneca) on piano and Witch & the Righteous Ghost comedy The Forger. He made his New York https://lwrg.bandcamp.com/ vocals. Their songs are creepy, funny, unsettling, City premier as part of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway and subversive. LW | RG are a concentrated ball of Short Play Festival. He’s also well known to Boston audi- pure awesome. They have described ences for having appeared in such theatrical productions as their sound as “Soundgarden meets “More Than a Woman” She Kills Monsters, Uncle Vanya, Rosencratz and Guildenstern The Nightmare Before Christmas”. (Bee Gees) Hearth Are Dead, Caucasian Chalk Circle Much Ado About Nothing, Spooky, catchy, different, dark and https://www.instagram.com/wearehearth/ A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Othello. He also plays weird. Female and male vocals taking Brooklyn-based indie folk guitar as Mike Handelman and the Blues Deconstruction. turns accompanied by Omnichord’s celestial twinkles over a duo Hearth consists of two Musically he is known for his improvisational skills and mix- foundation of the intricate rhythms of an acoustic guitar. charming young girls, Sara ing comedy with blues in a unique and hilarious manner. They are the ghost you glimpse out of the corner of your eye Horton and Melanie Wig- when you’re casting spells in the middle of the night. gins, who sing and play their quirky, soulful songs about everything from the vagaries of love in the time of dudebros and Nice Guys to immigration, with a heaping helping of clever covers thrown in.

“If I Can’t Have You” (Yvonne Elliman) Dorit (see Fri., 7:10 p.m.)

“A Fifth of Beethoven” (Walter Murphy) Ben Krieger Ben Krieger has had many day jobs, including founding Green Arts Primary School, assistant program manager at The New Teacher Project, adjunct professor at Mercy College, elementary school teach- TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 19 er. Currently he teaches at PolyArt Kids and tutors with Partners With Parents Tutoring Service, as well as serving as 5:30 P.M. music impresario and sound engineer at Sidewalk Café. In his spare time he $5 suggested writes songs. He has competed in the songwriting competitions Songfight and Nur Ein competition for the past 10 years, submitting entries Sidewalk Cafe under many different names including Boop Boop, Chokehold Princess, Oystercatcher, Solo Frijoles, and Zed Dead Baby. 94 Avenue A (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) “More Than a Woman” (Tavares) The East Village short reprise by Hearth Directions: A/B/C/D/E/F/V to W. 4th St. Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave. Venue is at East 6th Street “Manhattan Skyline” (David Shire) TBD

5:30 p.m. Saturday Night Fever “Calypso Breakdown” (Ralph MacDonald) TBD Movie Screening, “Night on Disco Mountain” (David Shire) Followed by Live Performance of Peter Dizozza http://www.youtube.com/dizozza/#g/u the Original Soundtrack Peter Dizozza is a New York City- based playwright, songwriter, and “Stayin’ Alive” (Bee Gees) Jim Melloan piano virtuoso. His day job as a lawyer doesn’t impede him from ADVERTISE Jim is a writer, editor, actor, and musician. working as the theater director at Currently a freelance editor for Princeton Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, playwright/composer at Review; he has also worked with Random La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and in-house counsel House. Recently he wrote an article for and content provider at http://cinemavii.com/. The New York Observer. Last year he ap- IN peared in three different productions of a play called 64. He plays keyboard and writes songs, often in a pop/jazz “Open Sesame” (Kool & the Gang) TBD vein, often with funny, borderline or over-the-line offensive T lyrics. He hangs out a lot with the community of downtown “Jive Talkin’ “ (Bee Gees) performers that call themselves the Art Stars. In times past Nick Danger Feder BOOG CITY he did a fair amount of acting in plays and improv comedy. He was also a founding member of ImprovBoston. https://www.youtube.com/user/NickFeder Nick Feder is a published author (Tale of Boulderoth), makes action movies “How Deep Is Your Love” (Bee Gees) T0ska (Danger Films), and plays a mean http://toska.bandcamp.com/ electric guitar. Philosophy grad student by night and mu- [email protected] sician also by night, T0SKA makes melan- cholic synthpop about vultures, vipers, and failure to communicate. Her second album “You Should Be Dancing” (Bee Gees) is forthcoming in 2017. Michael Birch Michael Birch is a multi-talented actor and performer who is most well known for playing the father 212-842-BOOG (2664) in the popular Key of Awesome Youtube parody series. He also plays ukelele and sings in a band called Fish & Chips.