From the Archive: Booglit 2, Nov. 1996, N.Y.C. Issue
I was going to say this is one of my favorite issues, but then I realized I say that very often, which I think is a positive thing. I love...
The Portable Boog Reader 1A: Philadelphia (2001)
Artist's StatementIn November 2000 Boog put out the first Portable Boog Reader, an instant anthology of NYC poetry. But the press had always featured work from outside of the five...
Death Becomes Him: The Sheen of Language in Lewis Warsh’s Elixir
Review by Ryan NowlinElixirLewis WarshUgly Duckling Presse,2022 In an earlier book of Lewis Warsh’s, Avenue of Escape, in the poem “Entering Night,” he writes “You could hope for an act of...
Boog Leap Day 2000
I love to honor Leap Day, it started with these two chapbooks from Ed Berrigan and Prageeta Sharma for an event at the C-Note on Feb. 29, 2000 with a performance...
d.a. levy lives: celebrating big game books, November 2007
In 2003, the owners of ACA Galleries, Dorian and Geoffrey Bergen, asked me to start a monthly reading series at their beautiful space in Chelsea. I wasn’t sure what I...
Boog City Apartment Reading, March 2004
My buddy Trane DeVore was going to be visiting New York from his home in Oakland. So I organized a reading in my apartment on West 28th Street for my...
Dear Mom: The March Project 2004
In March 2004 my mom had to go to the hospital and each day that month I wrote her a dear mom poem to help her get better, help me...
Poetry/ Bob Holman
the beginning of Life Poem (1969) desperate now, i’ve started to write everything that comes into my headi just lay it out right hereas if the lined paper had...
Poetry/ Carlton Fisk is My Ideal
Here's Bernadette Mayer's classic mid-'70s piece, and a brand new translation in Norwegian by acclaimed baseball poet Elinor Nauen He wears a beautiful necklacenext to the beautiful skin of his...