Year: 2022

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...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Postcards from Egypt Snoring in harmony again,20-pounds of cat,butt in my face and bear of a man wrapped around me like I’m a life preserver. Friends laugh at my sudden...

Rotary PhoneNew might be good, but don’t toss the oldI love my rotary phoneThe mouth piece at my mouthnot making me feel I have to yellNo heat coming out of...