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SAT. FEB. 15 can both debate and laugh. We’ve done everything from Dalachinsky (Luna Bisonte Prods); and, the most recent, 2:55 p.m. Susan Weiman watching early Jackie Chan movies at a Chinatown cinema Anonymous Landscape (Lithic Press). She lives in New York Susan Weiman is the author of New Unnameable Books to hanging out with Taylor Mead at a showing of one of his City. Steve Dalachinsky photo. York-ish Prose & Poetry. Her work ‘60s films to discussing the AIDS crisis with Paul DeRienzo has been published in The Paterson 600 Vanderbilt Ave. on his cable show, Let Them Talk. Rainbow Chan photo. 2:30 p.m. Eve Packer Literary Review and various journals (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) —Carol Wierzbicki Eve Packer: Bronx-born, poet/performer/ and anthologies. She is also an artist Prospect Heights, actress, appears solo, with music, in dance and resides in Long Island City. Paula Glickman photo. 2:10 p.m. Bonny Finberg and theatre. She has appeared in works Brooklyn $5 admission Bonny Finberg’s fiction, poetry, and photographs ranging from Beckett to Hansberry to 3:05 p.m. Dorothy Friedman August Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, have been published and translated Baraka and others. Several grants and awards including Dorothy Friedman August is a widely C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue internationally in numerous literary journals NYFA, Jerome Foundation, NEH, and NYSCA. She has published and award-winning poet and anthologies and have been included in published three poetry books: skulls head samba, playland with three books of poems and two various gallery exhibitions. Her work has been translated poems 1994-2004, and new nails. (Fly By Night Press). forthcoming from Poets Wear Prada 1:30 p.m. Miwa Gemini (music) into five languages. Publications include a short story She has several poetry/jazz CD’s with saxophonist Noah and Fly By Night Press. Connie Robins http://www.miwagemini.com/ collection, How the Discovery of Sugar Produced the Howard, and others, the most recent ny woman: poetry/ describes her work as “at once intimate, bizarre, and full It’s hard to describe the music of Romantic Era (Sisyphus Press); a novel, Kali’s Day jazz highlights. Spring ’18 saw her new chapbook foss of surprises.” Friedman August has received two NYFA Miwa Gemini. Much like the name (Autonomedia/Unbearable Books); Déja Vu poetry and digital park. Teaches at WCC. Lives downtown and swims daily. fellowships in poetry and an Acker Award. Her poems suggests her sound is mercurial, collages (Corrupt Press); Sitting Book (Xanadu Press). She and articles have appeared in The Partisan Review, The drawing influences that range from is the recipient of a 2014 Kathy Acker Award for fiction. 2:40 p.m. Matthew Hupert California Quarterly, Hanging Loose, and many others. Erik Satie to Beyoncé. Their songs are soaked in an old Matthew Hupert is a writer and Her work has been anthologized in several Unbearables whiskey barrel, dried off a balcony in Paris, then polished Medea’s Kitchen multi-media artist from New York collections and Clayton Patterson’s Jews: A People’s History by the hustle and bustle of NYC. Their unique blend of I read about the suicide, City. He is the founder of the of the Lower East Side. Amy Barone photo. watertight harmony is accompanied by a simple, yet the double murder/suicide, the NeuroNautic Institute and its intricate, instrumentation, and their infectious melodies will first her wrist, associated poetry workshop, and of 3:15 p.m. break have you smiling in no time. then her son’s, NeuroNautic Press. His first full-length collection, Ism is only two, a Retrovirus, was published by Three Rooms Press. He whose father wasn’t there, 3:25 p.m. Jane Ormerod is the author of several chapbooks, and his writing has https://www.janeormerod.com/ 2:00 p.m. Jim Feast who flirted, appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Jane Ormerod is the author of the full- I first met Jim Feast at a reading series and I flirted back, Midstream Magazine, the DaDa journal Maintenant, and length poetry collections Welcome to the at ABC No Rio I was hosting with Dorothy who never trades in borrowed love. the anthology Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets. Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles Friedman. Jim was a featured reader along Now I wonder Matthew hosts several poetry reading series, including on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press), with Mark Statman. Later on Jim and my paths crossed how far love extends the annual showcase for New York voices Night in the and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern again, when I went to an Unbearables magazine collation before it loses heart. party at the 6th Street and Avenue B Garden. I asked Naked City, and the monthly series NeuroNautic Institute Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in publications Presents, which features writers from around the world, including Maintenant, AND/OR, Marsh Hawk Press Review, Post Jim how I could contribute a piece to the next one, he Someone found them lying and a vibrant open mic. When he’s not writing he can (Stranger), and Sensitive Skin. She is a founding editor at said, “just show up.” At the time the zine was called the in a borrowed house, be found cooking for his family. great weather for MEDIA, an indie press focusing on fearless National Poetry Magazine of the Lower East Side. I began side by side, and experimental writing. Kat Georges photo. freelancing for a newspaper at Fairchild Publications, and two knives found myself working alongside Jim at the copy desk. The beside them, office was near NYU, and a couple of times we snuck blood mixing on the kitchen floor into Perry Meisel’s Semiotics class along with Stephen and two lives, two knives, Jerome Sala. One night after class, Stephen and Jim asked as if each blade could Every BOOG CITY issue ever me if I wanted to be an editor of the magazine. I accepted only pity one heart. this esteemed position and thus began a long and fruitful friendship: helping Jim host reading series, plan Unbearables https://boogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc01.pdf insurrections and continue the magazine as the Unbearables 2:20 p.m. Yuko Otomo Assembling Magazine. Yuko Otomo is a visual artist and a through bc134.pdf In addition to being a wonderfully inventive MC at bilingual writer of Japanese origin. She readings, Jim has published wickedly funny mysteries (Long writes poetry, haiku, art criticism, and Day, Counting Tomorrow, and NeoPhobe, from Autonomedia), essays. Her publications include Garden: Just change the issue poetry, (Time Extends Life to Those Who Survive, from Fly Selected Haiku (Beehive Press); Small Poems, The Hand of by Night), and his wife Nhi Manh Chung’s memoir, Among The Poet; STUDY & Other Poems on Art (Ugly Duckling from bc01-bc134 the Boat People (Autonomedia). He has been a steadfast Presse); Elements; KOAN (New Feral Press); FROZEN friend and supportive mentor—someone with whom I HEATWAVE: a collaborative linked poem project with Steve 3:35 p.m. David Lawton Misfit Puppets, as well as Saint Fortune Collective. 4:20 p.m. Jason Zuzga 5:30 p.m. Patricia Carragon David Lawton is the author of Sharp She teaches drama at The Institute for Collaborative https://jasonzuzga.com/ Patricia Carragon’s recent publications Blue Stream (Three Rooms Press). Education in The East Village. Her most recent theatrical After a series of jobs in New York include Bear Creek Haiku, First Lawton is a graduate of the theatre projects include: The Gospel Electric (Park Avenue publishing and a residential poetry Literary Review-East, A Gathering of program at Boston University, where Armory, winter 2019), celebrating Sister Rosetta Tharpe; fellowship year at the Fine Arts Work the Tribes, Jerry Jazz Musician, The he was also a guest artist in the Finegan Kruckemeyer’s The Falls (Unconformity Festival, Center in Provincetown, Mass., Jason Café Review, Muddy River Poetry graduate play writing classes taught by Nobel Laureate fall 2018), which included some of Mack’s compositions; Zuzga completed an M.F.A. in poetry Review, Krytyka Literacka, Panoplyzine, Poetrybay, Nixes Derek Walcott. For 10 years he was a background vocalist and the lead role in Trusty Sidekick’s The Mendelssohn and nonfiction at the University of Arizona, followed by a Mate, and Sensitive Skin. Her latest books from Poets in the New York underground band Leisure Class. At Electric (Park Avenue Armory, winter 2018). Please stay year as the poet-in-residence in the James Merrill House. Wear Prada are Meowku and The Cupcake Chronicles, as the band’s de facto headquarters in the Chelsea Hotel, tuned, who knows where she’ll turn up next! He currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, well as Innocence from Finishing Line Press. Her first he befriended Beat godfather Herbert Huncke and San —Jonathan Berger where he received a Ph.D. from the English department novel, “Angel Fire,” is forthcoming in the spring from Francisco poet Marty Matz, and was inspired by their for his dissertation “Uncanny World: Envisioning Nature in Alien Buddha Press. Carragon hosts Brownstone Poets and embodiment of the written word. Lawton also serves as an 4:00 p.m. Evie Ivy Documentary.” In August 2016, Zuzga was awarded the is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. She is an editor for greatweatherforMEDIA, and collaborates with poet https://www.versewrights.com/e-ivy-profile.html Diane Hunter Prize for Best Dissertation, 2016-2017, from executive editor for Home Planet News Online. She lives in Aimee Herman in the poemusic collective Hydrogen Junkbox.