The event will also be streamed via Facebook Live
https://www.facebook.com/groups/115605743040
And it will be available online in full the next day at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGD_RIKdy7P9fdpIugMgoLg/featured
Below are the links to the illustrated schedule for each day of the festival (followed by the, well, unillustrated schedule).
Once again, thanks to our fest team, Rachel Allen, Lydia Cortes, and Sharon Mesmer, with whom I booked the poets; Dennis Moritz, who is curating the poets theater; and Maury Botton, for the festival logo.
Hope to see you there.
as ever,
David
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Day 1, Sat. Feb. 18, 2023
Freddy’s Bar and Backroom
627 5th Ave.
South Slope, Brooklyn
https://wordpress.boogcity.com/2023/02/11/welcome-to-boog-city-16-5-arts-festival-sat-feb-18-2023/
Day 2, Sun. Feb. 19
Young Ethel’s
506 5th Ave.
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Day 3, Mon. Feb. 20
330 W. 28th St., Apt. 6H
Chelsea, NYC
Torn Page
435 W. 22nd St.
Chelsea, NYC
https://wordpress.boogcity.com/2023/02/13/welcome-to-boog-city-16-5-arts-festival-mon-feb-20-2023/
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Saturday February 18
Freddy’s Bar and Backroom
627 5th Ave.
South Slope, Brooklyn
Directions: R to Prospect Avenue
Venue is between 17th and 18th sts.
$8 suggested
12:00 p.m. Expanding Table with Mindy Levokove (music)
12:40 p.m. Dorothy Friedman (poet)
12:50 p.m. Christine E. Hamm (poet)
1:00 p.m. Ron Kolm (poet)
1:10 p.m. Cannonball Statman (music)
1:40 p.m. Kimberly Lyons (poet)
1:50 p.m. Thomas Devaney (poet)
2:05 p.m. Ethan Fugate (poet)
2:20 p.m. Kyle Dacuyan (poet)
2:30 p.m. Neil Kelly (music)
3:00 p.m. Mark Lamoureux (poet)
3:15 p.m. Danny Shot (poet)
3:30 p.m. Aldon Nielsen (poet)
3:45 p.m. Tyrone Williams (poet)
4:00 p.m. Casey Holford (music)
4:30 p.m. Zoe Brezsny (poet)
4:40 p.m. Joshua Wilkerson (poet)
4:50 p.m. Yvonne Lebien (poet)
5:00 p.m. Tracie Morris (poet)
5:15 p.m. Blueberry Hi Heels (music)
5:45 p.m. The Grasping Straws (music)
6:15 p.m. Boog City Classic Albums Live presents
for its 25th anniversary
Quasi’s Featuring “Birds”
—The Grasping Straws—
Our Happiness Is Guaranteed
I Never Want to See You Again
Poisoned Wellfive
—Blueberry Hi Heels—
Happy Prole
Sea Shanty
It’s Hard to Turn Me on
—Cannonball Statman—
Nothing from Nothing
Tomorrow You’ll Hide
California
—Hexxcatt—
You Fucked Yourself
Ape Self Prevails in Me Still
Please Do
—Expanding Table with Mindy Levokove—
I Give Up
Birds
Repetition
Only Success Can Fail Me Now
Sunday February 19
Young Ethel’s
506 5th Ave.
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Directions: F, G, R to 4th Ave./9th St.
Venue is between 12th and 13th sts.
$8 suggested
Doors at 1:30 p.m.
1:45 p.m. Chris Campanioni (essayist)
1:55 p.m. Jason Dubow (essayist)
2:05 p.m. Theo Gangi (essayist)
2:15 p.m. Keyshawn Griffith (essayist)
2:25 p.m. Patricia Grisafi (essayist)
2:35 p.m. The Feral Cats (music)
3:00 p.m. Mitch Levenberg (essayist)
3:10 p.m. Ian Maloney (essayist)
3:20 p.m. Amie Souza Reilly (essayist)
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3:30 p.m. d.a. levy lives:
celebrating renegade presses
Pine Hills Review
(Albany, N.Y.)
Jenna Cardinale (poet)
Rone Shavers (poet)
Sarah Sarai (poet)
Daniel Nester (poet)
4:00 p.m. Architrave (music), first set
4:15 p.m. Guillermo Filice Castro (poet)
Jeffery Berg (poet)
Carley Moore (poet)
4:45 p.m. Architrave (music), second set
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5:00 p.m. David Pemberton (poet)
5:10 p.m. Edmund Berrigan (poet)
5:20 p.m. Cori Hutchinson (poet)
5:30 p.m. Bill Evans (poet)
5:40 p.m. Michele Somerville (poet)
5:50 p.m. Alan Felsenthal (poet)
6:00 p.m. Matt Proctor (poet)
6:10 p.m. John Mulrooney (poet)
6:25 p.m. I feel tractor (music)
6:50 p.m. Joanna Acevedo (poet)
7:00 p.m. Joel Lewis (poet)
7:10 p.m. Rachel Allen (poet)
7:20 p.m. Christina Olivares (poet)
7:30 p.m. Bakar Wilson (poet)
7:40 p.m. Joanna Sit (poet)
7:50 p.m. Robert Gibbons (poet)
8:00 p.m. Uche Nduka (poet)
8:10 p.m. Rusty Doves (music)
Monday February 20
11:00 a.m. sharp
330 W. 28th St., Apt. 6H
(8th/9th aves.)
Buzzer 7153
Chelsea, NYC
we’ll have coffee and cookies,
and readings from
Vincent Katz
Bob Holman
Lee Ann Brown
with music from
Brian Ember
We will end the event with one poem from Lee Ann. Then, anyone who’s interested can walk with us over to Torn Page, where we’ll have the final event of the festival, beginning at 1:00 p.m., with Lee Ann doing a full 10-minute set to begin the festivities there. And here’s the Torn Page lineup:
Torn Page
435 W. 22nd St.
Chelsea, NYC
Directions: 1/9 to 23rd Street
A/C/E to 23rd Street
Venue is between 9th and 10th avenues
$8 suggested
1:00 p.m. Lee Ann Brown (poet)
1:10 p.m. Karin Randolph (poet)
1:20 p.m. Brian Ember (poet)
1:35 p.m. Janet Restino (poet)
1:45 p.m. Yerra Sugarman (poet)
1:55 p.m. Anne Waldman (poet)
2:05 p.m. Brian Ember (music)
2:20 p.m. Robert Kocik (poet)
2:30 p.m. Diana Goetsch (poet)
2:40 p.m. Amy Barone (poet)
2:55 p.m. Anne Tardos (poet)
3:05 p.m. Andrei Codrescu (poet)
3:15 p.m. Edwin Torres (poet)
3:30 p.m. Brian Ember (music)
19th Boog Poets Theater Festival
3:45 p.m. Marzia Dessi, The Dord is Sounding
3:55 p.m. Ann van Buren, I AM Memory
4:05 p.m. Karin Randolph, Madrid
4:15 p.m. Evangeline Johns, The Laser Man
4:20 p.m. Ariana Johns, 17 Restless Ghosts
4:25 p.m. Dennis Moritz, Oprah (1 and 2)
4:35 p.m. Andrei Codrescu, Philosophers on Laughter