MUSIC Piano man Kenny Davidsen

BOOKS Devil Does Care About Betsy Andrews

POETRY Baseball poetry from Anne Waldman BOOG CITY THEATER Butch McCloud: Lesbian Superhero A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER FROM A GROUP OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS BASED IN AND AROUND CITY’S EAST VILLAGE ISSUE 15 APRIL 2004 FREE Peace, Love, and Understanding 70,000 March on Anniversary of Iraq War to Tell George No More

On Saturday, March 20, 2004, approximately 70,000 people attended the March for the Global Day of Action. In addition to questioning the intelligence failures that instigated the U.S. government’s invasion of Iraq one year ago, there was a strong secondary strain demanding investigation of the intelligence failures that caused 9-11. The event was a joint effort of United for Peace and Justice and A.N.S.W.E.R. It began with speakers at a noon rally in Madison Park. It preceded through midtown to return to another round of speakers at Madison Park. The New York City event was part of events nation- and worldwide held on the same day to call for an end to the U.S. government’s militaristic foreign policy.—Ian S. Wilder The author is co-chair of the N.Y.S. Green Party

NICOLAUS CZARNECKI PHOTOS BOOG CITY Michael Vernon Oakland, Calif. Issue 15, April 2004, free POETRY Dr. ______editor/publisher David A. Kirschenbaum speaking at the dedication of [email protected] Rosemary Griggs San Francisco the new children’s play structure copy editor “The Birth of A-pu” * Debrah Morkun Poem for Cecil Pointing to the blow hole the professor remarked,“It is here, where the skin of He keeps a journal in the backseat which passengers write in. memory stretched tight across the echo of what is above and what is below, that He gets jokes and phone numbers, graphics editor movement and sound become one.” Cecil likes to flirt. Brenda Iijima But he thinks the windshield is a magnifying glass * “The Birth of A-pu” is a carved granite sculpture set into the hill of the open on all the assholes in the city. music editor space outside the Seattle Aquarium. It’s serpentine and multi leveled path creates a Sometimes he doesn’t like how he’s treated terraced play area for children, while at the same time depicts with great care the Jon Berger but then sometimes he gets head so it all evens out. birth of Seattle’s newest Killer Whale, A-pu. poetry editor Cecil has his ex-wife’s name Stephanie Young mixed with the colorful snakes and drums that cover his arms and chest. Michael Farrell It’s like having sex with a painted sculpture or a reptile. printed matter editor I am in love with Cecil. Melbourne, Australia Joanna Sondheim We haven’t spoken for two months and I try not to notice cabs. before poems small press editor Sarah doesn’t know what I see in him but the buff transvestite does. were songs Jane Sprague the poet in lifemask Cecil wants to be an actor. down with his rocks he’s done columnist-at-large Cecil was in a play. for the day for the night Greg Fuchs the hand was like a living hand it could feel the flakes touch This is our poetry the page was like a read page counsel editor Stephanie at the point of its formation Ian S. Wilder Young’s last issue, too poor to affect or effect its states changing as before First printing, 2,250 copies. Additional as she leaves to the sun rose losing percentage copies of this issue may be obtained focus on Bay Area of the day of the night by sending a $3 ppd. check or money Projects. Thanks to the breathing space order payable to Boog City, to the Steph, you’ll be he was no living corpse address below. 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Episode eight, “Dykes are from Mars, Dykes and proving lesbians have a sense a humor, are From Venus,” stars Stacey Whitmire as Our too, we can laugh and get over our own Lesbian Superhero Hero, Butch McCloud of Misstropolis. Nancy’s stereotypes together.” cousin DJ recruits Butch and her merry band Butch McCloud Episode eight, “Dykes are of butches—who also run a local bakery—to from Mars, Dykes are from Venus,” opens t’s a bird, it’s a plane … No, it’s your Friendly theater festival, and directed by Maggie Burkle rescue DJ’s ex-girlfriend, a Danish astronaut, Thurs., April 8 at 8:00 p.m. and runs Fri. April 9 Neighborhood Lesbian Superhero! Butch from On the Verge Theatre Lesbian Pulp-O- lost in space. The batter thickens when Tabitha, at 10:00 p.m., Sat. April 10 at 8:00 p.m., and McCloud is a one-hour live-action lesbian Rama. Butch has become a work in progress I Butch’s ex, and the evil femmes of Vulvatronics. Sun. April 11 at 3:00 p.m., at The Clemente musical comic with a new episode every month. challenge our hero. Soto Velez Center at 107 Suffolk St. Tickets book theatrical Leger has always wanted to do a live soap. “We have a great production that has built are $10/$8 students/$5 for seniors, and they extravaganza. “I felt with a serial-we could continue to-reflect THEATER a loyal fan base in the Lesbian Community,” are available by calling (212) 868-4444 or by It’s written and current political events in the Queer community says Cynthia Kern who portrays DJ. “But visiting www.smarttix.com. For more information, produced by Tom Leger and RiIey MacLeod, and a comedy makes our message accessible it also has become controversial, ruffling a go to www.butchmccloud.com. producers of STAGES, the national transgender to a wider range of audiences,” he says. few feathers … That’s great! It has us talking —Paulette Powell

2 BOOG CITY APRIL 2004 MUSIC Piano Man Kenny Davidsen Plays Other People’s Hits, For Now BY JON BERGER Between the guests, however, it’s Davidsen’s prominently as when he performs live— enny Davidsen likes the Mets. Since he show. His voice is excellent—not on par with his alone at the piano. works evenings, he is only able to go playing, but that’s a damned high standard to Some of the production—the duties Kto Shea Stadium for day games. Most meet—and he loves performing most material. are shared between Davidsen and the nights, he’s a piano man. Monday nights “If they want Broadway material,” he says, “I Voyces’ Brian Wurschum—is overblown. he plays the Green Room (765 Sixth Ave.), usually beg off, or have them sing it, unless I Some of the songs sound like Davidsen Tuesdays he performs has taken his cabaret experience to at Rose’s Turn (55 heart. His songs, relatively strong, Grove St.), while With perfect pitch, classical suffer. Wednesdays and “You Don’t Really Love Him” sounds Thursdays he can training, and years of practice with like Queen at their most bombastic. “If be found at Don’t You Belonged To Me” is Tin Pan Alley, Tell Mama (343 W. pop standards, he’s pretty much a complete with muffled backup singers. 46th St.). Sometimes, human karaoke machine. The songs are pop of a bygone age, Courtesy of Davidsen Kenny he goes out for fill-ins but suffer by comparison. Sometimes, Throughout the album, Davidsen is wearing elsewhere, or works though, the “bigger is better” philosophy works his influences, personal and professional. private events. get a 20 in the tip jar. You’d be surprised what well. The standout track is the closing number, He tries on this style, then that, testing and The format’s pretty much the same at each I’d do, then.” “Stop Your Bleeding,” which is wonderfully epic. vacillating and working out, presumably, what of the locales. Davidsen sits at the piano and His favorites are in the pop-rock field, hitting It doesn’t sound bombastic, it just sounds strong. his own vision will be. plays the hits of his youth, and his parents’ such touchstones as the Beatles, Elton John, Otherwise, it’s the subtler numbers that It could be a great one. Davidsen’s got the and grandparents’ youth. With perfect pitch, Billy Joel, and the Eagles. These are also the work better. “I’ve Touched Your Life” and parts. He’s a good player, a good singer, a classical training, and years of practice with acts he clearly emulates on his debut CD, “Falling Down (Won’t Let You Out)” are good writer. His songwriting will undoubtedly pop standards, he’s pretty much a human Goodnight, Baby. The release has 12 originals, excellent songs. improve if he can only escape the hits he plays karaoke machine. He can recall hundreds some a little too reminiscent of his role models, There are several co-lyricists throughout so well to pay the bills. Maybe then, when he of songs—prepared to play with little or which showcase Davidsen’s composing and the album, “Conversation Killer,” co-written begins to write his own hits, he could take an no preparation. Most of the cabarets he singing ability. with Laurel Hoffman, sounds straight out evening off and catch a night game every now works encourage guest vocalists—audience Most of the album is recorded with full pop of Broadway, particularly the final lines, and then. members who want to sing. These performers arrangements—bass, drums, guitar, an army of “Chittering, chattering, yammering, blabbering, Visit www.kennydavidsen.com for more are sometimes ringers, practicing their backing vocalists. While Davidsen’s keyboard on and on.” information. professional repertoire or just grooving to work shows up throughout the their own favorite tunes. album, it is not featured so redjacket Releases New EP 7th Inning Stretch Song’s edjacket releases their brand-spanking-new EP, Hunted Rebirth, later this month. This is not the first redjacket album, but it is the first with its current membership. If the members have anything to say about Rit, this may well be the final form of the band. “Once we played together,” says drummer and backing Vaudeville Roots vocalist Holly Rock, “it seemed like we were on the same path and we should follow where it led.” ack Norworth, vaudeville star and songwriter, went to his first Major League The path is important to this power trio. When singer/songwriter/guitarist/band visionary Lisa Bianco baseball game in 1940. The Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs. He initiated the project, she was searching out a musical vision, sort of like the band’s namesake Red Jacket, a Jprobably enjoyed that game. People probably fussed over him, even though Native American tribal revolutionary. “He believed in preserving culture and being true to his people,” says vaudeville’s days were well over. After all, he did not gain his true fame as an Bianco, “I could relate his story directly to my own attitude about music.” entertainer but as a composer. While on a Manhattan train 32 years earlier, When Bianco recorded 2002’s Metaphors, she was the only member of the band, though she recorded Norworth wrote “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” with Jaro Ruiz, who later joined the band on bass. All the members of the band take musical freedom In 1908, Norworth saw a sign promoting a “Ballgame Today at the Polo seriously. “redjacket allows me to be fully expressive and creative,” says Ruiz. Their creativity follows the lines Grounds.” This sign included a set of lyrics about young Katie Casey who was of hard-sounding acts like Nirvana and Neil Young: great hooks, good melodies, and fine playing. “baseball mad.” He scribbled his words on scrap paper. The lyrics are not Of Hunted Rebirth’s four power pop cuts, the best is probably the last, the excellent “Sun Glare,” a specific to the sport — he had never been to a game. His collaborator Albert Von hypnotically powerful number about how music transcends all possible difficulties. “I’ve got my problems, I’ve Tilzer, a musical composer, was also ignorant of the sport. This didn’t stop their got solutions,” sings Bianco, with Rock emphasizing the point. For the time that the song plays, it seems like song from being a substantial hit. it really might be as simple as that. Almost 20 years later, in 1927, Norworth rewrote the verses, but kept the Hunted Rebirth will have its record release party on Friday April 30 at Acme Underground , at 9:00 p.m. unbelievably catchy refrain just as it was. Katie Casey became Nelly Kelly, her For more information: www.redjacketmusic.com JB— “young beau” was transformed into a “boyfriend by the name of Joe,” Katie’s friendliness with the players was excised ... just about every line was edited, revised into a newer, catchier form. That’s the form that’s played during just about every seventh inning stretch across the country. Norworth is credited with writing well over 2,000 songs, including several other baseball-related tunes, and the classic “Shine On, Harvest Moon.” None of these have remained so actively ingrained in so many lives as his home run hit. “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” earned him, in 1954, his gold lifetime ballpark pass. In the five remaining years of his life, it’s unclear how many games he went to. Maybe none. Maybe he was too busy writing songs. —JB Make Your Mom Proud Advertise in BOOG CITY (212) 842-BOOG (2664) [email protected] Affordable Rates

APRIL 2004 BOOG CITY 3 SMALL PRESS Cranium Mania Hits Northampton Poetry

BY JANE SPRAGUE The aesthetic quality of the books makes an apt mirror raincase Press (Northampton, Mass.) is] a sort of outcropping for the integrity of the poems within. of the work and energy put into the now-defunct journal Baffling “I try to make chapbooks whose tactility mirrors that BCombustions,” says Braincase editor and publisher, poet Noah Eli of the work inside,” says Gordon. “At times it’s quite an Gordon. “Between our second and third issues, it became pretty clear that arduous process. Each hand-sewn chapbook has a silk- we all had our own particular aesthetic slants and were working with way screened cover, many of them are three-color covers, which means making three separate screens and ‘I have no qualms whatsoever screening each individual cover three times, and then there’s the folding, the sewing, the paper cutting. with publishing my friends and will “The covers are designed by Michael Labenz, who reads the texts and fashions a sort of visual response,” continue to do so. After all, most of says Gordon. “This helps the chapbooks generate a layered multiplicity of meanings. For example, some these friendships were formed more of the work in Nick Moudry’s A Poem, a Movie and or less around a shared love for a Poem, was written through the Bruce Conner film, A Movie, which Michael is also responding to. Although reality through the vehicle of his fledgling imprint. poetry,’ says Braincase’s Gordon. one might not immediately recognize this, it does anchor “There was so much great work, skill, and energy the work to something outside of itself.” around me that the press was really just a matter too many cooks on way too small of a dish. I think it’s vital for those of us Juliana Leslie’s Pie in the Sky is a collection of prose of harnessing and refocusing it, something akin to involved in the poetry community, as tenuous or imagined as it may be, to, poems largely concerned with locating her subjects in time Tom Sawyer’s convincing everyone of how much fun in someway, further the community’s possibilities or boundaries—to add more and space. Labenz’s cover art looks like a mathematical whitewashing a fence could be,” says Gordon. “The to the discussion than simply one’s own poems. Although, there’s nothing equation, or ideas of Pi, gone wild and out of control. first three chapbooks I published were by close friends wrong with submitting one’s work to various journals or publishers, which is, Leslie’s poetry echoes this sense of atmospheric wonder of mine, some of whom were also involved with Baffling of course, a necessary element, but I feel one can always add more—add at life’s frequently dizzying spin: Combustions—Nick Moudry, Juliana Leslie, and Sara something outside one’s own writing.” Veglahn. They all had an integral part in the making Gordon, author of The Frequencies (Tougher Disguises, 2003), began Dear greenest notion of the press and the individual books, from Nick’s publishing Braincase last year. It’s inaugural publications include chapbooks typesetting skills and Sara’s bookmaking abilities, to by Nick Moudry, A Poem, a Movie and a Poem; Juliana Leslie’s Pie in the Everything’s eventual and then. Everyone’s dancer a Juliana and her partner, the artist Michael Labenz, Sky, and Sara Veglahn’s Falling Forward. swimmer an inventor a miner a professor a flower. A and their knack for silk-screening. I have no qualms Printed in editions of 100, the chapbooks are beautifully produced, feature round of sun in a cup of milk. Dearest unbelievable. whatsoever with publishing my friends and will continue original artwork on silk-screened covers, sport hand-sewn bindings, and fit Dearest painter flooded with water. No single binding to do so. After all, most of these friendships were formed snugly in the palm of the hand at approximately 5 inches by 6 inches. definition has been found. more or less around a shared love for poetry. Two of the next three chapbooks, David Perry’s New Years and Jim Leslie explores the Behrle’s (Purple) Notebook of the Lake, contain work highlands of the moon, originally published in Baffling Combustions, work which prairies, Galileo, Virginia I was wholly intrigued with and wanted to support. The Woolf, weather, nature, third, Eric Baus’ Something Else the Music Was, is by and complicated rules of another ex-Baffling Combustor.” relationships between The future of Braincase includes the continued movement and mass, production of hand-bound chapbooks as well as between the individual eventually publishing full-length, perfect-bound editions. and the various systems we “I’m planning to publish three more chapbooks sometime inhabit. “I want to know if in 2004—work by Travis Nichols, Ann Lauterbach, and you are a body at motion Dorothea Lasky. I’d love to be able to do more, and have inside a body at rest,” she had to pass on much great work, as the laborious nature says. She engages ideas of of actually making the chapbooks precludes taking on understanding at the level too many at any one time. Maybe if I could get some of sound, and articulation trained monkeys.” as the inescapable effort For more information on Braincase Press, contact the of language to identify, editor, Noah Eli Gordon, at P.O. Box 1471, Northampton, understand, and locate the MA 01061 or online at http://braincase.blogspot.com/ position of the self in relation to the world as well as the, Queen City’s Field of Dreams sometimes shifty, location of understanding within reat American Ballpark is mild and pretty the poems. “Her face is a like Cincinnati. Home plate has its back to hub for noise,” she writes Gthe city, so one looks out from the bleachers in “Air and space museum.” and into Kentucky, right where the Licking River feeds “Her eye is an assembly into the Ohio River. You can see Newport from there, of human failure. Is a hub home of the world’s largest freestanding bell. that assembles all modes of Like Cincinnati, Great American Ballpark is free of enunciation. All the variations too many distinguishing features. It is neither charmingly assembled in sympathy with retro like Camden Yards nor jarringly modern like Bank strings. All the stars a hub One Ballpark in Arizona. The exterior structure is sandy for sound. When the air was brown brick, with white scaffolding rising above it. Two wrong. The air was moving tile mosaics adorn the main entrance—one of the Big syntax.” Red Machine, and the other of the original Cincinnati As editor, Gordon was Redlegs—the first professional baseball club. compelled to begin publishing Despite the new digs, attendance was average Braincase because he last year, looking to drop further this season. Thus, found himself surrounded by tickets are easy to get and affordably priced. There’s a excellent work in the form of “moon deck” in right field where smoking is permitted, largely unpublished poems and one can cuss freely and talk to the ushers who by several close friends. True know all the players and shoot the breeze with to his vision of extending the baseball junkies who know all the stats. I spend most work of the poet beyond of my games out there, where the breeze is best right simple submissions and the off the river, and the view of the game is ideal. racking up of publication If Great American Ballpark were an element it credits, Gordon took would be air, invisible and necessary. It is my favorite the initiative to make his place in the world. —Dana Ward particular editorial vision a

4 BOOG CITY APRIL 2004 Ironically, the lyric, with its history of a troubled much interest through its poetry in the sport. relationship with women, leads the way. The poem is not a meditation. The Andrews, invoking Dickinson, argues that “this lines themselves are neither meditated nor dry ironic rot / becomes the grounds on which meditative. The lines lack the precise weight PRINTED MATTER we ponder where we can or/ we cannot find and movement of William Carlos Williams’ a path, you and me, through to/ love, as ugly- “At the Game” and the depth of that poem’s the song is about “what the heck we could lovely as this garble of a tree.” insights outside baseball. Williams opens I See D.C. Punk do if we did.” Similarly, when a hairy heckler She-Devil, in pages of “gorgeous deviations,” his poem, “The crowd at the ball game/ is Dance of Days confronts musical agitators Overkill in 1976, engages the body-poem equation with moved uniformly/ by a spirit of uselessness/ by Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins the band’s singer, “clad in tight-fitting black and acrobatic lyricism. “It’s my tern,” says Andrews, which delights them — ” and builds upon this Akashic Books white clothing and wraparound sunglasses,” “little bird of secrets sent to rime/ above the oscillating. Bowering’s poem is most true demands the boozed-up audience member cut toilet water perfumed with fish./ Her darkest in its more plain line “I root for the Boston his long hair. meat is swelling;/ spread her wings, make a Red Sox./ Who are in the ninth place./ This edition of Dance of Days includes a wish.” —Jill Magi Who haven’t won since 1946./ It has to 2003 addendum about current D.C. bands be perfect.” Though sometimes even this such as Good Charlotte. An excellent and Let’s Read Two unpretentious poetic goes too far, “A line up comprehensive “After Lives” directory of the Baseball: A Poem in the Magic Number 9 like that is enough to inspire/ the faithfulness scene’s players show that music, activism, and George Bowering of any fans of the good art/ of baseball.” D.C. pride will carry on. —Solvey Schou Coach House Books Despite the poem’s dedication to Jack eorge Bowering’s Baseball: A Poem Spicer, Bowering apparently was unable to ‘Gorgeous Deviations’ in the Magic Number 9, like much commit to the weighty weightlessness of his She-Devil Gthinking about baseball, is not about subject entirely. That Bowering’s Baseball is Betsy Andrews a game, or even the game, but a fan of the past high- and low-brow becomes a source Sardines Press game. Composed of nine short parts (players, of youthful self-congratulation. So there is sink into/ a study of the skin to know the innings, muses) over nine spreads, this poem, no mistake, he addresses himself: “What world. It is filthy with equations” writes you doing, they ask / young esthete poet n this, its third edition, Dance of Days maps IBetsy Andrews in She-Devil, a handsome Bowering’s poem is most true in / going to baseball games, / where’s your out more than 20 years of Washington letterpress chapbook of 22 poems from its more plain line ‘I root for the Boston hip pocket / Rimbaud?” His response, now ID.C.’s independent punk and hardcore Sardines Press. The essence of the poetry is Red Sox./ Who are in the ninth place./ in his voice, is “I see the perfect double play, scene. From the rise of political heroes Fugazi captured by Dana Carlson’s red-ink cover Who haven’t won since 1946./ It has to second baseman in the air legs tucked,” be perfect.’ followed by an aestheticized account of that Andersen and Jenkins not only illustration of a decorated heart with a songbird peering out from its frame. Here, the body is double play. Similarly, the poem makes a peel back the connections of those an epistemological instrument, “the lines and originally published in 1967 by a 32-year- ninth inning reference to Vietnam. Bowering’s involved, including powerhouse whorls in your palm telling more than you old Bowering, remains light, well-paced, and apologia and politicization cut a little too punk group Scream, which featured realize … “ she warns that “On a landscape sufficiently voiced to trigger similar nostalgic deep against the book’s own proclaimed a pre-Nirvana Dave Grohl on drums, cubed and intersected, to want’s a/ naughty and sentimental feelings in those with memories good humor. they also include personal anecdotes compass, a confusion of circles about your of baseball like Bowering. For those interested Bowering’s Baseball, like a baseball game, to flesh out sometimes dense prose. thighs inventing proofs.” Here, desire generates in baseball and poetry, or baseball alone, the gives itself up entirely as it happens, with its a lyric rigorous in its attention to language. novelty of the book’s binding—a kitschy green balls, strikes, runs, and errors recorded. Like and Minor Threat to the lingering wrath of riot Andrews defies the cultural whitewash felt pennant—the poem’s straightforward charms a game of baseball, it fails to make a larger grrrl, the book goes in depth about bands of heterosexism and a poetics of modernist and Bowering’s popularity—he is Canada’s poet statement about the world, and it succeeds whose anger, fury, and passion spat at the fracture and minimalism that would banish the laureate—justify its reprinting. For those who lack because it does not need to; the poem attempts inequities of American life. music of the King James Bible (from which she this interest in baseball, the book’s reprinting to exhaust neither the game nor the audience. Andersen and Jenkins not only peel back occasionally quotes). “I am born the false/ tangentially touches on the question of whether It offers that small, added warmth of a summer the connections of those involved, including this nostalgia for nostalgia is transforming, day recalled on a summer day. powerhouse punk group Scream, which featured Andrews defies the cultural consistent, or redundant, yet it fails to generate —Alexander Samsky a pre-Nirvana Dave Grohl on drums, they also whitewash of heterosexism and a include personal anecdotes to flesh out sometimes poetics of modernist fracture and dense prose. And while critics may cite Andersen’s minimalism that would banish the voice as only one take on a multifarious scene, his music of the King James Bible (from experience in movements such as Positive Force which she occasionally quotes). D.C., a Washington D.C. area activist group that works for social change and youth empowerment, moral beneath his mildewed tails, a changeling and friendship with Fugazi founder Ian MacKaye a honey-/ comb these gills this cap that rings (pictured above in his Minor Threat days) grant with worms this/ mouldwarp purse between him artistic and social license. my legs said given me by Satan.” Rhyme pulls The authors describe significant moments in us through these poems; the collection begs impressive detail. Just before MacKaye debuts to be read aloud, transforming the personal soon-to-be anthem “Waiting Room” at 1987’s space of the lyric into a public, shared music of State of the Union benefit, the singer jokes a revolutionary content—women loving women. Silent Auction and Fundraiser Saturday, April 17, 2004 3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. St. Mark’s Church 131 E. 10th St. (and Second Avenue) New York City Active Pacifist Telephone bids may be placed up to 6:00 p.m. on Friday, April 16th by calling 212-674-0910. Among the items up for auction are art prints, paintings, collages, rare books, broadsides, and magazines by: Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Kiki Smith, Clark Coolidge, John Ashbery, Jim Carroll, Rudy Burckhardt, Paul Auster, Henri Michaux, Bernadette Mayer, George Schneeman, Kenneth Koch, Emilie Clark, Joanne Kyger, Lou Reed, John Yau, and Patti Smith! For a detailed list of items available, visit: http://poetryproject.com/announcements.html Poets for Peace, Poets Against the War, Poetry is News

APRIL 2004 BOOG CITY 5 POETRY David-Baptiste Chirot Milwaukee Visions of Rube Waddell Anne Waldman Hey Rube—tearing through the stands—tearing off your clothes—no Boulder, Co. and SoHo underwear!—your day to pitch—yelling your arm is so hot it needs ice— Hey Rube—setting left handed strikeout records—that stand for decades— Glutamine Power being retarded, alcoholic, crazy-lost, child among men— "dead stars flash his cheekbones" - WS Burroughs Hey Rube—what was it like—chasing fire engines—joining in passing parades—while the fans and team waited for you— O my bone spur clench my teeth Hey Rube!—disappearing on trains to Pawksatawny[Punxsutawney?]—being Can I flex sent for by escorts—holed up in hotels with a bottle—out on a field pitching to kids— Can I bounce it off the back (leg). What was it like—being a super star on five dollars a day—to protect you O no hindrance but adjustment from yourself— & living with & padding in cleats What was it like—endorsing Coke—and ordering rounds—crowds every & I will I will make do where—and nowhere home—but a pitcher's mound— Floyd, hard to play Hey Rube!—what was it like—when players played tricks on you—putting out center toy animals to distract you—what was it like—mowing them down—laughing at them all— & Cameron "this is killing me" Hey Rube!—where did you go—on wild adventures—gone for days—a childhood continual—sandlots and stadiums all the same— & Floyd Hey Rube! Dada Poet of the fast ball—madman of midways—cheery clown cautious in Big Show—missing trains but not the plate— "like a hook in the foot pulling you Hey Rube—where did you go—when the fastball went—where did you away from where you want to go" go—when the money went—where did you—when the drinking buddies went—where did you go when your body went— "driving a stake or a nail the foot does not bend..." Hey Rube—always playing a game—a big child in the Hall of Fame— more than a surreal photo Hey Rube—Hey— image screened bright & proud...a body poetics

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6 BOOG CITY APRIL 2004 NEW YORK CITY POETRY CALENDAR APRIL 2004 IF NO BOROUGH IS LISTED, EVENT IS IN MANHATTAN. Dara Weir, Ellen Dudley, Noelle Kocot, BPC, $8 gets you a $2 Series Russian-American poets, The Cornelia Street Café, $6 Studio Celebrate Earth Day: Marilyn Hacker, Nancy Mercado, BK=BROOKLYN, BX=THE BRONX, QN=QUEENS, credit at coffee bar • Open mike, limited to 24 poets, must (incl. one drink) 7:00pm Ladies on the Mic, BPC, $7/5 7:00pm Felice Belle, Shirley Cuffee, Yuko Otomo, Anne Babson, Vivian SI=STATEN ISLAND. BPC= POETRY CLUB register in advance, Brooklyn Public Library, BK, free • 2:30pm, Brooklyn Poets Circle Brenda J. Gannam & open mike, First Demuth, Proceeds go to Amnesty Internationals Just Earth SPONSORED BY Frequency Reading Series John Cotter, Paul Killebrew, The Four- Unitarian Church, BK, $3 includes refreshments 8:00pm The program and Women’s Studio Center BPC, $5 7:00pm Brown THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB WWW.BOWERYPOETRY.COM Faced Liar, free 4:00pm Oblivio, Michael Barrish’s 1st Sunday Poetry Project featuring Eileen Myles and D.A. Powell, St. Mark’s Chocolate Cafe Open mike, Brown Chocolate Café, $7 7:00pm WITH DATA PROVIDED BY JACKIE SHEELER WWW.POETZ.COM even-numbered months reading series, $5 • Jazzoetry open Church, $8/$7 students + seniors/$5 members 10:00pm The Brooklyn Public Library Donna Brook, Chris Edgar and Sharon WEEKLY EVENTS mic poetry & jazz, Sista’s Place, BK, free • Iambs and Trochees, Hank Shocklee Experience: DJ Hanz, Mental Notes, Phoenix Mesmer, Brooklyn Public Library, BK, free 7:15pm - 10:00pm, Sundays 12:00pm (11:00am on April 4) Joel Forrester Michael Palma & open for formalist poets, The Greenwich Village & the Shadow, Siji, the Ultimate Jam Session-musicians, bring NYC-Urbana Semifinal 4! BPC, $10 Admission 7:30pm 2012: & People Like Us, BPC, $5 3:00pm Two featured poets selected Bistro, $8 min. • Poet to Poet/Orange Bear, Ken DiMaggio, Mary instruments! Must RSVP: [email protected], BPC, $7/5 A Siren’s Odyssey Open mic for poets, singers, storytellers, 5C from an open mike, Back Fence, $3 cover + $3 min. • Our Grace + open, The Orange Bear, $3 + $3 min 5:30pm - 7:00pm Thurs. 15 see weekly events 7:30am Poetry Cultural Center, $5/$3 students 7:30pm Teachers & Writers Unorganized Reading Open mike hosted by Bob Hart, Mindy The Poetry of Egypt: Nora Amin, in English & Arabic, BPC, $6 Society of America Graywolf Press 30th Anniversary Reading: Beyond Confession: Kathleen Ossip, Maggie Nelson, Spencer Levokove, J.D. Rage, Eugene Ring, Bruce Weber, no lists/no 7:00pm Zinc-TRS, Charles Bernstein, TBD, Zinc Bar, $4 • NYU Elizabeth Alexanderm, Sophie Cabot Black, Matthea Harvey, Tony Short, Rachel Zucker,Teachers & Writers, free 10:00pm ROIR bs/no time limit, ABC No Rio, $2 MFA 2nd Sunday Reading Series, BPC, $5 7:30pm Poet to Poet/ Hoagland, Vijay Seshadri, and Mark Wunderlich, The National Rocks, BPC, $8 Mondays 7:00pm louderMondays, open mic and Queens, The Dueling Richards: Richard Levine & Richard Pearse Arts Club, $7/$5 for PSA members & students 5-6:30pm Calyx Fri. 23 see weekly events 6:00pm Pink Pony West Kent feature, sometimes a SLAM, Bar 13, $5/$4 student ID • Saturn + Open, Barnes & Noble Bay Terrace, QNS 9:30pm First Sundays Books Party, BPC, Free 7:00pm Brown Chocolate Cafe Open Foreman & the best open mike in NYC, The Cornelia Street Series featured poet + open mike, Nightingale, $3 8:00pm The w/ JohnnyO & De La Guarda, BPC, $5 mike, $7 7:00pm Brooklyn Public Library featuring Brenda Café $6 (incl. one drink) 8:00pm - 9:45pm, Daniel Bernard MacGuffin, BPC, $6 • Wabi Sabi Open mic, Spoken Word artists Mon. 5 see weekly events 7:30pm Village Ma Poetry & Coultas, Marie Ponsot and Larry Zirlin, Brooklyn Public Library, Roumain, BPC 8:00pm KUNDIMAN Gala Meena Alexander, invited to perform over a soundscape of experimental/ambient/ acoustic music open mic,The Village Ma, free • Lisa Jarnot and free 7:30pm 2012: A Siren’s Odyssey Open mic for poets, singers, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Regie Cabico, Luis Francia, Timothy dub chill beats improvised by the house dj. Musicians perform Bill Waltz, KGB Bar, free • Pete’s Big Salmon featuring Jennifer storytellers, 5C Cultural Center, $5/$3 students 10:00pm Say Liu, Patrick Rosal, Vijay Seshadri, Chocolate Tasting Reception by solo (no djs), Wabi Sabi* at Bar Below, BK, free 10:00pm Open Benka | Heidi Peppermint, Pete’s Candy Store, free 8:00pm, Word!?!: “Third Party Third Thursdays” featuring DJ Drilla & The XOX Truffles, Open Wine Bar by Martha Clara Vineyards, Cocktail mike hosted by the O’Debra twins, BPC, $3 Hidden Treasure Tony Hoffman & Open Mike, Johnny O’s, BX, Good Results, BPC, $5 Attire, Yale Club, $35 advance from www.kundiman.org, $50 Tuesdays 5:30pm Dante’s Inferno: a roundtable reading, free 8:00pm The MacGuffin, BPC, $6 Fri. 16 see weekly events 6pm Pink Pony West Chris at the door, All proceeds to benefit the Asian American Poets’ BPC, free 8:00pm Featured poet & open mike, The Muddy Cup, Tues. 6 see weekly events 6:00pm Cornelia Street Cafe Brandt & the best open mike in NYC, The Cornelia Street Café, Mentorship Retreat-Workshop at UVA 10:00pm Human Beat Box SI 9:00pm Untie the Tongue Featured poet & open mike, Grand Songwriters workshop & open mike, The Cornelia Street Café, $6 (incl. one drink) 8:00pm National Arts Club White Pine Convention w/ Kid Lucky Central Bar, BK, free • M Lounge Open mike, M Lounge, BK, $6 7:00pm Thomas Sayers-Ellis, Noelle Kocot, Betsy Andrews, Press celebrates Marjorie Agosín, Dennis Maloney, Stephen Sat. 24 see weekly events 2:00pm The Reading: Joanna free Brandon Downing, A Taste of Art, free 7:00pm - 9:15pm Shaba Corey and Frances Richey, National Arts Club 8:00pm Amnesty Klink, Donna Masini, Honor Moore, Victoria Redel, BPC, free Wednesdays 7:00pm Word is Bond Featured poet(s) Sher, Guest Speaker and Book Signing: Award-winning artist International, BPC 3:00pm The Ear Inn, Appetite: Women and Food, The Ear Inn, and open mike hosted by the Welfare Poets, who perform the and designer Houman Mortazavi, author of “Project Misplaced, Sat. 17 see weekly events 2:00pm The Undercroft Lucy free 4:00pm Segue Series featuring Duriel E. Harris & Tracey last Wednesday of every month, Art for Change, free 7:30pm The Rise and Fall of Simon Ordoubadi,” Musical Program: The Maroulleti, Milly Brig + open, The Undercroft Coffeehouse, QNS, McTague, BPC, $5 6:00pm - 7:45pm Latino America en el “Wanted: Poets” Open mic, Carlitos Cafe y Galeria, free 8:00pm mystical poem-songs of Rumi and Hafez with the disciples of the free 3:00pm The Ear Inn Poets’ Grimm Reading, The Ear Inn, Bowery, BPC, $7 6:00pm - 8:30pm, NYC Marijuana-logues, Rev Jen’s Anti-Slam Open mike, Collective Unconscious, $3 Persian music virtuoso, Maestro Mohammad Reza Lotfi, BPC, $8 free 4:00pm Segue Series, featuring Pattie McCarthy & Mark BPC, $10 6:00pm Poetically Incorrect Caribbean-American • Open Reading, Java and Wood, BK, free 9:00pm Slam Piri Thomas in Jonathan Robinson’s film: “Every Child is Born McMorris, BPC, $5 6:00pm Greek American Writers Features writers plus by an open mike, The Cornelia Street Café, $6 (incl. Open, Third Wednesday only is Hip Hop open mic, all other a Poet” BPC, $6 followed by an open mike, The Cornelia Street Café $6 (incl. one drink) 10:00pm Libertad presents: Game, Welfare Poets, Wednesdays an open slam, Nuyorican Poets Café, $8 Wed. 7 see weekly events 5:00pm Spire Press Party, BPC one drink), 7:00pm Soft Skull Speaks: on the Bowery: Maggie Akeebalaun, BPC Thursdays 7:15pm NYC-Urbana Slam, sign-up starts at 6:00pm Cornelia Street Cafe Bruce Weber’s No Chance Ensemble Dubris + Homer Erotic, BPC, $8 7:30pm (re)collection Featured Sun. 25 see weekly events 2:00pm Poets On Sunday, 6:30 pm for the Slam and the Open Mic, BPC, $6 8:00pm Open with Joanne Pagano Weber, Bob Hart and Nelson Alxndr, readers plus an open mike, The Asian American Writers’ Douglas Goetsch + open, sign up at the door. Michael Hinton mic, Kay’s Kafe, BX, $5 The Cornelia Street Café, $6 (incl. one drink) 7:00pm First Workshop, 16 West 32nd Street, 10A, $5 10:00pm Uncle Jimmy’s accompanies you at the Piano, Central Library Auditorium, Fridays 6:30pm The Taylor Mead Show, BPC, $5 7:30pm Wednesdays Featured reader & open mike Hosted by the Bronx Dirty Basement! BPC 11:59pm Ken Butler’s Voices of Anxious QNS, free 3:00pm Cornerstone Center Open reading, OSA Open, Ozzie’s Coffee & Tea, BK, free 9:00pm Tonto Goldstein, Writers Center, Blue Ox Bar, BX free 8:00pm Symphonics, BPC, Objects w/ vocalist Sepideh Vahidi $7 Lutheran Church, $3 3:00pm Naropa 30th Anniversary, Brenda Truth or Dare! BPC, $7/5 10:00pm, Spotlight poet & slam, $5 10:00pm Praise Day for Etheridge Knight BPC, $5 Sun.18 see weekly events 1:00pm Moroccan Star Featured Coultas, Bob Holman, Lorna Smedman, Alan Gilbert, Kristin followed by a midnight open mike, Nuyorican Poets Café, $5 Thurs. 8 see weekly events 7:00pm Brown Chocolate Cafe poet(s) and an open mike, The Moroccan Star, $3 + $3 min Prevallet, Robert Masterson, Rembert Block, Steve Hirsch, BPC, each show Open mike, Brown Chocolate Café, $7 7:00pm Brooklyn Public to restaurant 2:00pm Barnes & Noble JUANITA TORRENCE- $6 6:00pm Transfixor GLBT poetry series,The Cornelia Street Saturdays 11:00am, Poets House for Children, the Library Lee Ann Brown, Michael Lally and Prageeta Sharma, THOMPSON reads and signs her new book, followed by Q&A, Café, $6 (incl. one drink) 8:00pm Balaklava/EEPS “The East Children’s Room welcomes young readers (ages 4-10) and Central Library Auditorium, free 7:00pm Poets at Barnard, Barnes & Noble Bayside, QNS 2:00pm Brooklyn Public Library European Reading” BPC, $5 7:00pm Zinc-TRS, Anselm Berrigan, their adults to discover the magic of poetry, Poets House, free Rebecca Wolff, Barnard Hall, free 8:15pm Carl Dennis & Marie Poets and actors from The Whitman Project perform poems Jordan Davis, Zinc Bar, $4 10:00pm Julia Vorontsova’s CD 12:00pm Respect the Mic: An open reading, BPC $5/3 9:00pm Ponsot, Unterberg Poetry Center at the , $16 of Whitman’s from the Calamus section of Leaves of Grass, release: From St. Petersburg with Love, BPC, $5 Open mike + open slam: slam winner gets $100, Cafe Iimani, 10:00pm First Ever! SONGSLAM $5 Hosted by John Ewbank Brooklyn Public Library, BK, free 2:30pm Frequency Reading Mon. 26 see weekly events 6:00pm Ferlinghetti Publication BK, $5 Fri. 9 see weekly events 6:00pm Pink Pony West featuring Series Marion Wrenn, Ada Limon, Brendan Lorber, The Four- Party thanks Mignon Smith, BPC 7:30pm Village Ma Poetry & DAILY EVENTS Elana Bell & the best open mike in NYC, The Cornelia Street Café, Faced Liar, free 3:00pm Sterling Plumpp, BPC 3:00pm Poet to acoustic music open mic, The Village Ma, free 7:30pm Robin Thurs. 1 see weekly events 5:00pm WW4F.: will write for $6 (incl. one drink) 10:00pm NY Poets $100 Slam, BPC, $10 Poet/Queens Open, Munch Cafe & Grill, QNS, $3 adm, $3 min Schiff and Monica Youn KGB Bar, free 8:00pm Reading Between food, Free, BPC 6:00pm Boog City’s d.a. levy lives: celebrating Sat. 10 see weekly events 2:00pm Futurepoem books 4:00pm The Pedro Pietri Rent-A-Coffin Praise Day, BPC 4:00pm A&B, Three featured poets, free • The Poetry Project, Cynthia the renegade press in america series, featuring Braincase Press event with Charles Bernstein, Lewis Warsh, Garrett Kalleberg, Jazzoetry open mic poetry & jazz Sista’s Place, free 4:00pm Nelson and Martha Zweig, St. Mark’s Church, $8/$7 students + (Northampton, Mass.), Eric Baus, Jim Behrle, Juliana Leslie, Virtual Edwin Torres, Merry Fortune, Kristin Prevallet, Jo Ann Poet to Poet/Orange Bear Stanley H. Barkan, Laura Boss, Kenya seniors/$5 members Nick Moudry, David Perry, Sara Veglahn, hosted by Braincase Wasserman, BPC 2:00pm Nomad’s Choir Open reading: 18 Poets, Blue, Joshua Meander + Open, The Orange Bear, $3 + $3 min Tues 27 see weekly events 6:00pm Graduate Poetry Series editor Noah Eli Gordon Aca Galleries, free 7:00pm Poets & 1 Musician, 1 Feature & Disco Dancing, 149-155 Christopher St., 6:00pm Brian Henry & Andrew Zawacki from Verse Press: A Soft Gavin Adair, Diana Marie Delgado, Amira Thoron, Chris Prentice, Writers Corie Feiner, Bushra Rehamn, & Clara Sala Accompanied $3 2:00pm Daniela Gioseffi, Donna Masini, Phyllis Capello, Jan Skull Skullcracker $8 7:00pm Zinc-TRS, Brandon Downing, Rod The Cornelia Street Café, $6 (incl. one drink) 7:00pm Women’s by Tareq Abboushi, Buzuq, Teachers & Writers, free 7:30pm Clausen, Patricia Spears Jones, Barbara Elovic, Brenda Gannam, Smith, Zinc Bar, $4 8:00pm Rebecca Moore BPC $8 Poetry Jam Two featured poets & an open mike (for women 2012: A Siren’s Odyssey Open mic, 5C Cultural Center, $5/$3 Michael Graves, Patricia Spears Jones, Mae Jackson, Sybil Kollar, Mon. 19 see weekly events 5:00pm Douglas Rothschild’s only) Bluestockings Women’s Bookstore and Café, $5 8:00pm students 10:00pm Zero Boy’s April Fool’s Extravaganza, featuring Rika Lesser, Richard Levine, Tsaurah Litsky, Daniel Nester, D. Poetry Game Show, BPC, free 6:00pm Cornelia Street Cafe NY - 9:30pm, Washington Square Arts: a performance reading about Ambrose Martos, Sxip, Mangina, Christopher Rozzi, Eric Hall, Nurkse, Wanda Phipps, Carl Rosenstock, Brooklyn Heights Quarterly poetry journal reading, The Cornelia Street Café, $6 surviving homelessness, BPC 7:00pm Acentos Maria Nieves, Ryosuke Koike, Master Lee as Salvador Dali, The Red Bastard, Public Library, free 4pm Segue Series featuring Drew Gardner (incl. one drink) 7:00pm Saturn Series featured poet + open Nina & Jessica Torres & open reading, Blue Ox Bar, $5 7:00pm Karen Sneider as Stacey Nightmare, Shecky Beagleman as Mucho & Deborah Richards, BPC, $5 6:00pm Italian-American Writers mike, Nightingale, $3 7:30pm Village Ma Poetry & acoustic Brooklyn Public Library Hugh Seidman, Brooklyn Public Library, Gerolimo, Mr. Tom and Damaris Webb, BPC $7 Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Joann Sicoli and 5-minute open mike, music open mic, The Village Ma, free 7:30pm Deborah Digges BK, free 10:00pm The Hungry March Band, BPC, $6 Fri. 2 see weekly events 6:00pm, Pink Pony West, Patrick Cornelia Street Café, $6 (incl. one drink) 7:00pm - 9:30pm and Rebecca Wolff, KGB Bar, free 7:30pm Pete’s Big Salmon Wed. 28 see weekly events 5:00pm - 7:00pm Spuyten Donnelly & open mike, The Cornelia Street Café, $6 (incl. one Oren Bloedow, John Kruth, BPC $8 9:00pm Poet to Poet/Queens Drop party and reading for Free Radicals: Poets Before Their Duyvil, BPC 7:00pm Green Pavilion Featured poets & an open drink) 7:00pm The New School LIT 8 launch party: readings Thomas M. Catterson Memorial w/Robert Dunn & Leigh Harrison First Books (Subpress), Pete’s Candy Store, BK, free 8:00pm mike, Green Pavilion $5 min + $3 donation 7:30pm - 9:30pm by Lisa Cohen, Noah Eli Gordon, Shafer Hall, Liana Scalettar, + Open, The Vault 10:00pm Baba Ola Jagun, BPC $10 A Tribute to Marianne Moore featuring Bonnie Costello, James Amir Vahab BPC $12 8:00pmThe Poetry Project Kenward and music by DJ Wizzy D, plus drinks & snacks, New School Sun. 11 see weekly events 1:00pm Poet to Poet/Brooklyn Fenton, Eric Ormsby, Kay Ryan, Grace Schulman and Cynthia Elmslie’s 75th Birthday Bash, St. Mark’s Church $8/$7 students University, free • Revolution Poetics: Voices Against AIDS, Maya Christy Pardee + Open, Starbucks, $3 adm & $3 min. 3:00pm Zarin, Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, $16 8:00pm + seniors/$5 members 10:00pm The Little Miss Big Mouth Show Azucena, Poem-Cees, Julian C. Curry, Carlos Gomez, Clara Sala, Iraj Anvar, Persian storytelling, BPC, $15 4:00pm Kairos Hidden Treasure Lora Tucker & Open Mike, Johnny O’s, BX, starring Sara Valentine $7 Brent Shuttleworth, step team performance, BPC, $10 7:30pm, Cafe Open reading hosted by Alan Baxter, Davis Jones, Robin free 8:00pm The Poetry Project Open Reading, sign up 7:45, St. Thurs. 29 see weekly events 10:45am Brooklyn College Writing Aloud, featuring Libba Bray and Jenifer Hixson, and “Rainbow Girl” Small-McCarthy, $3 5:00pm Tribes Colette Inez Mark’s Church, $8/$7 students + seniors/$5 members 10:00pm Women’s Voices in Italian-American Literature features Vittoria open, The Prince George Tea Room, $6 ($3 NYWC members) & Anyssa Kim with violinist Yuri Vodovoz, Tribes, free 6:00pm Bowery Poetry Club Open mike, BPC, $ Repetto, Brooklyn College, Student Union Building, BK, free 11:00pm, Chris Berry Rootsy, free 11:59pm Paradigm SpillOut, - 9:30pm OrdiNarY jOe’s “All Star Easter” Open mike and Tues. 20 see weekly events 6:00pm The Writer’s Room 6:00pm Cornelia Street Café, Jan Claussen, Cathy Hong, Patricia BPC $5 talent showcase, BPC, $7/5 college 1 drink minimum 6:00pm Poetry & prose from the Writer’s Room, The Cornelia Street Spear Jones, and Soraya Shalforoosh,The Cornelia Street Café, $6 Sat. 3 see weekly events 10:00am Nuyorican Poets Spiral Thought Featured poet(s) TBA & open mike, The Fall Café, $6 (incl. one drink) 6:30pm National Book Foundation, (incl. one drink) 6:30pm Brooklyn Poetry Outreach signup at Cafe Snippets, poetry interspersed with “snippets” of one- Café, free 6:00pm Cornelia Street Cafe BEAT NIGHT: POETRY Marilyn Hacker & Willie Perdomo, The Blue Heron Arts Center, 6pm, featured Brooklyn poet & open, hosted by Ken Siegelman, person shows from poets/actors, Nuyorican Poets Café, $8 with & MUSIC: Poets Denice Kondik, Roy Edroso, K. Adisman and $5 7:30pm Poetry Society of America A Poetry in Motion(r) Poet Laureate of Brooklyn, Barnes & Noble, Park Slope, BK, free calendar/$10 at door 1:00pm American Scream: A Howl Party Armand Ruhlman accompanied by The Larry Simon Ensemble. Reading: Jill Bialosky, Lee Ann Brown, Marilyn Chin, Sonia Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z Party for Debra Weinstein, free, for Allen Ginsberg, with Jonah Raskin, Anne Waldman, Brenden Larry Simon, guitar/music director; Cynthia Chatis, flute; Chris Sanchez, and Sapphire, Tishman Auditorium, The New School, BPC 7:00pm Brown Chocolate Cafe Open mike, Brown Chocolate Lorber, and more, BPC, free 3:00pm, Joe Harrison, Kate Light, Stambaugh, bass; Mike Barron & Frank Laurino, percussion, The free 6:00pm Peter Lewin “Silverdale”, BPC, free • Poet to Poet/ Café, $7 7:00pm Brooklyn Public Library, Elaine Equi, Robert The Ear Inn, free • The Riverside Poets David Elsasser, DeeAnne Cornelia Street Café, $8 (incl. one drink) 10:00pm Paradigm Queens, Bob Hart, Vivalex Calice + Open. Book Value Discount Hershon and Quincy Troupe, Brooklyn Public Library, BK, free Gorman + open mike, NY Public Library Riverside Branch, free Spillout, BPC $5 Bookstore, QNS • Laugh, BPC, free 9:30pm, Kareoke + Poetry, 7:30pm 2012: A Siren’s Odyssey Open mic for poets, singers, 4:00pm Segue Series, Will Alexander, Harryette Mullen, BPC Mon. 12 see weekly events 7:30pm Lucie Brock-Broido, BPC, $6 storytellers, 5C Cultural Center, $5/$3 students 10:00pm Bowery $5 6:00pm Ziryab: Arab-American Writers Lawrence Joseph & Glyn Maxwell, KGB Bar, free 8:00pm Reading Between A&B with Wed. 21 see weekly events 6:00pm Laurel Blossom & All Star Music Series: 3 Bean Stew, Tarantula, BPC $10 Angelo Verga with Tarik Benbrahim on oud + an open mike, The Tom Bissell, Three featured poets, 11th Street Bar, free 8:00pm Vicki Hudspith, The Cornelia Street Café, $6 (incl. one drink) Fri. 30 see weekly events - 7:30am Patrias Uruayon Noel, Cornelia Street Café, $8 (incl. one drink) 8:00pm, Guy LeCharles The Poetry Project Deborah Richards and Cedar Sigo, St. Mark’s 7:30pm Magdalena Alagna, Tomara Aldrich, Sarah Antine, Johhny Lorenz, Poppy, Rania Khalil, William Glenn, Alexandra Gonzalez’s Louder Than Words, Poetry Variety Show, BPC $6 Church, $8/$7 students + seniors/$5 members 9:00pm Chaos Jennifer Baumgartner, Larry Jones, Laura Reznick & Amy Yee, VandeKamp, Les Lopes, Jeremiah Alexis and Bill Coffel Patrias, 10:00pm Hip-Hop Poetry and The Classics for The Classroom, Club Open mike, Chaos Club, QNS, free Hunter College, free 8:00pm, Blue Jay Way: A garden for George Latin American Folk Art, BK 6:00pm Pink Pony West Kim Michael Cirelli Book Party, with featured performances by 2004 Tues. 13 see weekly events 7:00pm Acentos Luis Cartagena Harrison, BPC, $25 general & $75 benefactor 8:00pm The Poetry Addonizio & the best open mike in NYC,The Cornelia Street Urban Word NYC Teen team, BPC, free & open reading, Hosted by Oscar Bermeo, Blue Ox Bar, $5 Project, Mercedes Roffé and Jerome Rothenberg, St. Mark’s Café, $6 gets you a free drink 7:00pm Curbstone Press Party for Sun. 4 see weekly events 1:00pm, Moroccan Star Featured 10:00pm Open Ear: Tim Berne w/ Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey, Church, $8/$7 students + seniors/$5 members 11:00pm, Joe E Ethelbert Miller & Devorah Major, BPC 10:00pm Jay Clayton poet(s) and an open mike, The Moroccan Star, BK, $3 + $3 Ikue Mori, BPC, $12 Carey & Amecca $5 contribution “Different Voices”, BPC min to restaurant 2:00pm Readings on the Bowery, James Tate, Wed. 14 see weekly events 6:00pm Intercultural Poetry Thurs. 22 see weekly events 5:30pm - 7:00pm Women’s ABC No Rio 156 Rivington Street 212.674.3585Art for Change 1701 Lexington Avenue (@ East 106th/107th) 212.348.7044 | [email protected] • The Asian American Writers’ Workshop 16 West 32nd Street, 10A (@ 5th/Broadway) www.aaww.org • Back Fence 155 Bleecker Street @ Thompson • Bar 13 35 East 13th, 2nd floor, @ Broadway/University Place www.louderARTS.com • Barnard Hall 3009 Broadway (@ West 117th Street) 212.854.2116 or 212.854.2721 www.barnard.edu/english/wpreadings.html • Barnes & Noble Bay Terrace 23-80 Bell Blvd., Bayside, Queens • Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle 1972 Broadway @ 66th Street, Third Floor 646 342 4090 | www.artforanimals.org • Barnes & Noble, Park Slope 267 Seventh Avenue @ 6th Street, Brooklyn 718-832-9066 • Blue Ox Bar East 139th Street & 3rd Avenue, Bronx [email protected] • Bluestockings Women’s Bookstore and Café 172 Allen Street (between Stanton and Rivington) www.bluestockings.com • Book Value Discount Bookstore 33-18 Broadway, Astoria, Queens • The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery @ Bleecker www.bowerypoetry.com • the Bronx Writers Center, Blue Ox Bar Third Avenue & East 139th Street, The Bronx 718.409.1265 | www.bronxarts.org • Brooklyn College, Student Union Building Campus Road and East 27th Street, Brooklyn • Brooklyn Public Library Auditorium, Central Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn [email protected] • Brooklyn Heights Public Library 280 Cadman Plaza West: Auditorium 718.623.7100 • Brown Chocolate Cafe 1084 Fulton Street $7 | www.oralfixsations.g3z.com • Cafe Iimani 148 Stuyvesant Avenue (@ Greene Ave. in Brooklyn) www.cafeiimani.com | 718.574.6565 • Carlitos Cafe y Galeria 1701 Lexington Avenue (@ East 106/107) 212.348.7044 | [email protected] • Java and Wood 110 Manhattan Avenue (Greenpoint, Brooklyn) 718-609-1820 • Central Library Auditorium 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica 718.990.0778 • Chaos Club 90-21 Springfield Boulevard (Queens Village) 718.479.2594 | [email protected] www.thevault.org • Collective Unconscious 145 Ludlow Street (Stanton & Rivington) www.revjen.com • The Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street [email protected] www.poetz.com/pony/pinkpony.htm • The Ear Inn 326 Spring St, west of Greenwich 212.246.5074 | [email protected] home.nyc.rr.com/earinnreadings • 11th Street Bar 510 East 11th Street (@ Avenues A/B) www.readab.com • The Fall Cafe 307 Smith Street, Brooklyn 718.832.2310 | [email protected] www.home.switchboard.com/SpiralThought • First Unitarian Church 50 Monroe Place (@ Pierrepont & Clinton), Brooklyn 718.855.2404 | 718.377.1253 •5C Cultural Center 68 Avenue C @ East 5th www.5CCC.com 212.477.5993 [email protected] • The Four-Faced Liar 165 West 4th Street 212.366.0608 | [email protected] • Grand Central Bar 659 Grand Street, Brooklyn (@ Manhattan/Leonard) www.himinwin.com/work/jd/untietongue_print.jpg • The Greenwich Village Bistro 13 Carmine Street @ Bleecker [email protected] • Halcyon 227 Smith Street, Brooklyn, @ Butler/Douglass [email protected] | 718-260-waxy www.halcyonline.com • Kay’s Kafe 1345-4B Southern Blvd - The Bronx Between Jennings St. & Louis Nine Blvd. 718-378-3434 ebonywashington@earthlink. net www.POetLITICAL.com • Hunter College 68th St. & Lexington Ave, Faculty Lounge, 8th Floor HW • KGB Bar 85 East 4th Street @ 2nd Avenue 212.505.3360 | [email protected] • Latin American Folk Art 167 Fifth Avenue @ Lincoln Place, Brooklyn 718.857.9091 www.patrias.com• Library Lounge at The Telephone Bar 149 2nd Avenue @ 9th Street www.telebar.com | [email protected] • M Lounge 291 Hooper Street, Brooklyn (Broadway & South 5th, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) [email protected] • The Moroccan Star 148 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn (@ Henry & Clinton) • The Muddy Cup 388 Van Duzer Street, Staten Island 718.818.8100 | [email protected] | [email protected] • Munch Cafe & Grill 71-60 Yellowstone Blvd. Forest Hills [email protected] • The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC 212.254.9628 • New School University, Wollman Hall 66 West 12th Street [email protected] • NY Public Library Riverside Branch 127 Amsterdam Avenue @ West 65th 212.870.1810 • 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y 1395 Lexington Avenue www.92y.org | 212.415.5500 • Nomad’s Choir 149-155 Christopher St. • Johnny O’s 2152 Westchester Avenue, The Bronx 718.792.6078 | [email protected] • Nightingale 213 Second Avenue (@ 13th Street) [email protected] • The Nuyorican Poets Cafe 236 East 3rd Street (B&C) 212.505.8183 | www.nuyorican.org • The Orange Bear 47 Murray Street @ Church [email protected] • Ozzie’s Coffee & Tea 251 5th Avenue, Brooklyn (@ Garfield) 718.840.0878 | [email protected] • Pete’s Candy Store 709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn [email protected] | www.petesbigsalmon.com • Poets House 72 Spring Street, 3rd floor www.poetshouse.org | 212.727.2930 • The Prince George Tea Room 14 East 28th Street (@ 5th/Madison) 718.783.8088 | www.nywriterscoalition.org • St. Mark’s Church 131 East 10th Street (@ Second Avenue) www.poetryproject.com | [email protected] 212.674.0910 • Sista’s Place 456 Nostrand Ave (Entrance on Jefferson), Brooklyn [email protected] • Starbucks 3rd Ave & 75th St, Brooklyn • A Taste of Art 147 Duane Street (@ Church/West Broadway) 212.964.5493 www.atasteofart.com • Tishman Auditorium The New School 66 West 12th Street • Tribes 285 East 3rd Street @ Avenues C/D 212.674.3778 www.tribes.org • The Undercroft Coffeehouse 31-18 37th Street, Queens 718.482.8790 • The Vault 90-21 Springfield Blvd, Queens Village • The Village Ma 107 Macdougal Street www.brodian.com • Wabi Sabi* at Bar Below 209 Smith Street, Brooklyn 718-694-2277 • Washington Square United Methodist Church 135 West 4th Street Robinzgrl2@aol. com • Yale Club 50 Vanderbilt Avenue @ 44th Street • Zinc Bar 90 West Houston @ Laguardia/Thompson users.rcn.com/lungfull | [email protected] APRIL 2004 BOOG CITY 7