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 them all!
Here’s the link to the issue:
https://wordpress.boogcity.com/2022/10/28/from-the-archive-booglit-2-nov-1996-n-y-c-issue/
Here’s what I had to say about it in my poem on the press, A Boog Life:
1996
MA! transitions
from half-letter, or digest-size, photocopied general-interest zine
with poetry and fiction section in the middle,
to letter-size, newsprinted litzine,
renamed after that section—Booglit
(which excitedly spellchecks as booklet),
cutting price from $1.50 per issue zine
to a thousand-plus, free distribution, ad-supported litzine,
that unfortunately has no ads,
necessitating a temporary shift back to a digest-size, photocopied zine.
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Inside the issue:
A cover package on the passing of local poet and musician Mario Mezzacappa
—Death of a Poet, feature story by Jill Grossman
—Centerfold “Poem for mario” from James Wilk
—”poem For Mario” from Sparrow
—me on Mario
—and I’ve just added a link to a Facebook post from Mario’s best friend and bandmate David Greenberg
https://www.facebook.com/penpalband/posts/3081981971850172&
www.facebook.com/penpalband/posts/3081981971850172&
—Poems from
—Elio Schneeman with “For Ted”
—Noah Hoffenberg with “Larry’s Buddhist Lingo”
—Lisa Jarnot with “an excerpt from Some Other Kind of Mission”
—Rhett Moran with “Pray for Blanket”
—Beat Reports from
—Albany, words and image by Dan Wilcox
—Boston, Dan Bouchard
—People, Places, and Publications
—Info on every, location, and press mentioned in the issue
—Back Cover —House ad for the sale of the cassette Boog Spoken word anthology Are You Talkin’ to Me, featuring Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Bob Holman, Katie Yates, Lee Ann Brown, Steven Taylor, and a rare recording of the late ’60s Cleveland poet d.a. levy. It’s now available as a free digital download:
—Poems from
—Elio Schneeman with “For Ted”
—Noah Hoffenberg with “Larry’s Buddhist Lingo”
—Lisa Jarnot with “an excerpt from Some Other Kind of Mission”
—Rhett Moran with “Pray for Blanket”
—Beat Reports from
—Albany, words and image by Dan Wilcox
—Boston, Dan Bouchard
—People, Places, and Publications
—Info on every, location, and press mentioned in the issue
—Back Cover —House ad for the sale of the cassette Boog Spoken word anthology Are You Talkin’ to Me, featuring Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Bob Holman, Katie Yates, Lee Ann Brown, Steven Taylor, and a rare recording of the late ’60s Cleveland poet d.a. levy. It’s now available as a free digital download:
