Special thanks to our festival team, Joanna Fuhrman, Ron Kolm, and Lisa Rogal, who curated the poetry with me; Dennis Moritz who curated the Poets Theater Festival; and Brandon Downing for the festival logo and flyer. For further information email me, Festival Director David A. Kirschenbaum, to editor@boogcity.com
All venues are located in Brooklyn, NY
Sat. Sept. 17
Unnameable Books
615 Vanderbilt Ave.
Prospect Heights
12:00 p.m. Alexis Almeida (poet)
12:10 p.m. Richard West (poet)
12:20 p.m. Jennifer Juneau (poet)
12:30 p.m. Christine Hamm (poet)
12:40 p.m. George Wallace (poet)
12:50 p.m. Anna Gurton-Wachter (poet)
1:00 p.m. Caroline Hagood (poet)
1:10 p.m. Maria Damon (poet)
1:20 p.m. Sharon Mesmer (poet)
1:30 p.m. Christopher Funkhouser (poet)
1:40 p.m. Nada Gordon (poet)
1:50 p.m. K (Kristin) Prevallet (poet)
2:00 p.m. Most Serene Congress (music)
2:30 p.m. break 2:40 p.m. Brenda Iijima (poet)
2:50 p.m. Bill Lessard (poet)
3:00 p.m. Dan Machlin (poet)
3:10 p.m. Stacy Gnall (poet)
3:25 p.m. Carrie Radna (poet)
3:35 p.m. Alan Semerdjian (poet)
3:45 p.m. Robert Gibbons (poet)
3:55 p.m. Sara Jane Stoner (poet)
4:05 p.m. Steph Gray (poet)
4:15 p.m. Rogue Beats (music)
4:45 p.m. break
d.a. levy lives: celebrating renegade presses Furniture Press (Baltimore)
4:55 p.m. Magus Magnus (poet) Elizabeth Savage (poet)
5:25 p.m. Hero Magnus (music), first set
5:40 p.m. Greg Fuchs (poet)
Christophe Casamassima (poet)
6:10 p.m. Hero Magnus (music), second set
6:25 p.m. break
6:35 p.m. Kyra Simone (poet)
6:45 p.m. Tony Iantosca (poet)
6:55 p.m. Amy Matterer (poet)
7:05 p.m. Sarah Anne Wallen (poet)
7:15 p.m. Orly Bendavid (music)
7:45 p.m. Brendan Lorber (poet)
7:55 p.m. Daniel Nester (poet)
8:10 p.m. Joel Kuszai (poet)
8:20 p.m. Susanna Lee (poet)
8:35 p.m. Emilio G., Blue Balloon School (music)
8:50 p.m. Violet L., Blue Balloon School (music)
9:05 p.m. Janet Restino (poet)
9:15 p.m. Didi Champagne (poet)
9:25 p.m. Peter Dolack (poet)
9:35 p.m. Mirene Arsanios (poet)
Sun. Sept. 18
Mama Tried
787 Third Ave.
Sunset Park
5:00 p.m. Keira E., Blue Balloon School (music)
5:15 p.m. Steve Espinola (music)
5:30 p.m. John Pietaro (poet)
5:40 p.m. C.O. Moed (poet)
5:50 p.m. John Mulrooney (poet)
6:00 p.m. Drew Blood (music)
6:15 p.m. Meghann Boltz (poet)
6:25 p.m. Amanda Deutch (poet)
6:35 p.m. Jordan Davis (poet)
6:45 p.m. Brian Ember (music)
7:00 p.m. John Mulrooney (music)
7:15 p.m.
Boog City Classic Albums Live presents,
for its 10th anniversary,
Taylor Swift’s Red
John Mulrooney
“State of Grace”
“Red”
“Treacherous”
Téa M, Blue Balloon School
“I Knew You Were Trouble”.
“All Too Well”
“22”
Brian Ember
“I Almost Do”
“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”
“Stay Stay Stay”
Steve Espinola
“The Last Time”
“Holy Ground”
“Sad Beautiful Tragic”
Drew Blood
“The Lucky One”
“Everything Has Changed”
“Starlight”
“Begin Again”
Mon. Sept. 19
Freddy’s Bar and Backroom
627 5th Ave.
South Slope
6:00 p.m. Shayla Lawa Lawz (poet)
6:10 p.m. Anthony Cappo (poet)
6:20 p.m. Yerra Sugarman (poet)
6:30 p.m. Austin Alexis (poet)
6:40 p.m. Anna Moschovakis (poet)
6:50 p.m. Belynda Jones (poet)
7:00 p.m. Todd Carlstrom (music)
7:30 p.m. break
7:40 p.m. Don Yorty (poet)
7:50 p.m. Karen Lepri (poet )
8:00 p.m. Jean-Paul Pecqueur (poet)
8:10 p.m. Mindy Matijasevic (poet)
8:20 p.m. Robert Kramer (poet)
8:30 p.m. Kimberly Lyons (poet)
8:40 p.m. Dorothy Friedman (poet)
8:50 p.m. Karen Neuberg (poet)
9:00 p.m. Maynard and the Musties (music)
Tues. Sept. 20
Hypothetical Books
1239 Dean St.
Crown Heights
5:30 p.m. Blue Balloon Music School Student (music)
5:45 p.m. Zoe S., Blue Balloon Music School (music)
6:00 p.m. Pareesa Pourian (poet)
6:10 p.m. Jiwon Choi (poet)
6:20 p.m. Anne Tardos (poet)
6:30 p.m. Cliff Fyman (poet)
6:40 p.m. Sheila Maldonado (poet)
6:50 p.m. Urayoan Noel (poet)
7:00 p.m. Emily Frembgen (music)
18th Boog Poets Theater Festival
7:30 p.m. Sekai’afua Zankel, It’s Great to be Alive
7:40 p.m. Wanda Phipps, Cloud Mirror
7:50 p.m. Hillary Keel, Family/Room
7:55 p.m. Lydia Cortes, How Many Poems Are There In a Gallon
8:00 p.m. Barbara Henning, Introduction to Ferne
8:10 p.m. Katt Lissard, Ring of Fire
8:15 p.m. Bee La Roe, Up
8:25 p.m. Esha Thornton, Grand
8:30 p.m. Valerie Fox, Vertigo
8:40 p.m. Will Rittweger, Cottage
8:45 p.m. Melissa Sabater, Melissa’s Monologue
9:00 p.m. KB Nemocosky, 40 Starts to an Autobiography
9:05 p.m. Dennis Moritz, Love Song