Who’s Performing and How and When to Watch
Hi,
On Fri. Sept. 20 and Sat. Sept. 21, we’ll be celebrating our bi-annual event, the Welcome to Boog City 18 Arts Festival. We will livestream the goings-on to
https://www.facebook.com/groups/115605743040
And it will be available shortly thereafter in full the next day at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGD_RIKdy7P9fdpIugMgoLg/featured
There is an $8 suggested donation, which can be sent to Boog City via:
https://venmo.com/u/David-Kirschenbaum-1
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Fri. Sept. 20
Unnameable Books
615 Vanderbilt Ave.
Brooklyn
Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Ave.
Venue is between St. Marks Avenue and Bergen Street
$8 suggested
22nd Boog Poets Theater Festival
6:00 p.m. Home Cookin’ by Lydia Cortes
My Love, Home Cooking is so many things.
She’s published 2 poetry collections, Lust for Lust and Whose Place.
She’s the recipient of residencies at the MacDowell Colony and at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
6:10 p.m. Vertigo by Valerie Fox
A woman and a man try to reconcile their younger and older selves.
Valerie Fox’s most recent volume of poetry is a collaboration with Arlene Ang, The Failed-Love Factory Auction Catalog. Other books include They Rorschach Factory, Insomniatic, and The Glass Book
6:18 p.m. Madrid by Karin Randolph
A planned trip to Madrid devolves into a purgatory of mingled voices.
Karin Randolph lives in Bushwick. Her poetry book Either She Was was a winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. She is most recently published in the 2024 New American Writing.
6:26 p.m. Bob and Cindy and the Laughing Man by Wanda Phipps
Who is the man following her at night? His humming is strangely familiar.
Wanda Phipps’s books include Mind Honey (Autonomedia), Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire (BlazeVOX [books]), and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Soft Skull Press). Her poems are widely anthologized and translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Galician and Bangla.
6:36 p.m. The Roman Pool by John Rosenberg
At the Hearst Castle, San Simeon CA, two tour guides get to swim in the Roman Pool one hour each year.
John Rosenberg lives in Mar Vista, California. He doesn’t like to get water on his face.
6:46 p m. from Taxi Night by Cliff Fyman
Cellphone intimacies and secrets. The naked city shows it all.
Cliff Fyman published Taxi Night in 2021 (Long News Books, Brooklyn), At Sardi’s in 2023 (State Champs, S.F.) and looks forward to soon having a new poem in the first issue of the Nu Review of Books.
6:53 p.m. The Pork Chop Wars by Laurie Carlos
“This is the road of shadows at the end of a long journey/these are old tellers with visions restored.”
Laurie Carlos Laurie Dorothea Carlos (née Smith; January 25, 1949 – December 29, 2016) was an American actress and avant-garde performance artist, playwright and theater director. She was also known for her work mentoring emerging artists in the theater.
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Actors Boog Poets Theater
Beverly Carline Gunn, a Philadelphia Tri-state actor who has performed in numerous theater pieces, commercials, independent and SAG productions.
Paula Kem, Since 2015 Paula has been studying the Meisner technique at Playhouse West in Philadelphia. Most recently she played Mag in ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’.
Paul Pirozzi, is an actor, musician, song writer, Jack of all trades. He has worked with Dennis Moritz for over twenty years. His songs have been featured in a number of movies.
Regina Robinson is an adult educator who appreciates the power of storytelling and theater to connect and inspire people. She lives in a historic house in Philadelphia with her husband, John, and their rescue dog, Iggie.
Russell J Fowler is married with 4 adult children. Lives in Germantown, Mount Airy section of Philadelphia. Retired from U.S. Navy, and then as a Registered Nurse who now enjoys traveling and fine dining.
Jessica E. Stinson, has been directing and acting in theater and film for the last 30 years. She is thrilled to be making her NY debut and can’t wait to take N1Theatre to the next level!
Will Rittweger is an actor, writer, director, and filmmaker from New Jersey. He is the producer, co-writer, and lead actor of period-piece feature film “Man Freed” and the author of historical fictional historical memoir “Henry Every: Tales of Pyracy & Memoirs of the Soul.”
Directors
Dennis Moritz (Producer, Director) is a poet who writes a lot of plays produced mainstage and in improvised spaces. Angel Hair/United Artist books, the longtime poetry press, published two collections of his plays. The only playwright in their catalog.
Jessica E. Stinson
(see actors)
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7:00 p.m. Peter Dizozza and Thomas Patrick Maguire (music)
Peter Dizozza wrote the music for Theater for the New City’s 2024 Street Theater production with lyrics by its writer/director, Crystal Field. It toured the city with dates at St. Marks Church, Washington Square, Central Park, Coney Island, and Tompkins Square.
Dizozza’s new project is a musical play script that continues the nature theme begun previously (“Float” personified as families the four elements as Floaters, Farmers, Flyers and Flames. “Bulb” was a burlesque on flowers and the husbandry of their Dutch Master Gardeners). This latest piece, Mushroom Head, focuses on the Fungi domain! His music is available on streaming platforms and is gathered at his bandcamp site above.
https://thomaspatrickmaguire.bandcamp.com/
My name is Thomas Patrick Maguire. I’m a singer songwriter from Woodside, Queens NY. I’m contacting Boog City about possibly being considered to play the Boog City Fest in September.
I am currently working on a series of beer can paintings. My next album will be released this year. It’s produced by Neil Kelly of Huggabroomstik.
7:25 p.m. Kristina Anderson (poet)
Kristina Andersson Bicher is the author of She-Giant in the Land of Here-We-Go-Again (MadHat Press 2020) and Heat, Sob, Lily (forthcoming MadHat Press 2025), as well as the translator of Swedish poet Marie Lundquist’s full-length collection I walk around gathering up my garden for the night (Bitter Oleander Press 2020).
Her poetry appears in such literary journals as AGNI, Ploughshares, Hayden’s Ferry, Plume, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, and Narrative. Her translations and nonfiction have appeared in The Atlantic, Brooklyn Rail, Harvard Review, Asymptote, and Writer’s Chronicle, among others.
She holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.
7:35 p.m. Rebecca Faulkner (poet)
www.rebeccafaulknerpoet.com
Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet based in Brooklyn. The author of Permit Me to Write My Own Ending (Write Bloody Publishing), her work appears in New York Quarterly, The Maine Review, The Poetry Society of New York, Calyx Press, Berkeley Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is a 2023 poetry recipient of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, the winner of Black Fox Literary Magazine’s 2023 Writing Contest, and the 2022 winner of Sand Hills Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Contest. Faulkner was a 2021 Poetry Fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She is at work on her second collection of poetry, exploring female identity and artistic endeavor. Ben Esner photo.
7:45 p.m. Jonathan Berger (poet)
Jonathan Berger’s found 2024 to be a very poetic year, with more content being produced on his website than in any other recent year. Is it good? You be the judge. David Barish photo.
7:55 p.m. Rebecca Weiner Tompkins (poet)
sensitiveskinmagazine.com/author/rebecca-weiner-tompkins/
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins’ King of the Fireflies was published by Sensitive Skin Books. Poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Pequod, Poetry, Seneca Review, Sensitive Skin, and The Antioch Review.
She received awards from the NEH and the Academy of American Poets, taught English/Writing for 37 years at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, and teaches literature/theology seminars. In 2010 she gave a TEDx talk “Sensing Convergences.”
She’s played violin with Patti Smith, Scott McClatchy, The Sometime Boys, Emily Duff, Life in a Blender, Conrad y Skordalia, Maynard & The Musties, Sergio Webb, Mark Huff, Luke Powers, Afton Wolfe, among others. She lives in Nashville and Brooklyn.
8:05 p.m. Lila Dlaboha (poet)
Lila Dlaboha is a poet born of Ukrainian immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She was short-listed for the Poetry International Prize and is a finalist, for her full-length manuscript, in the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Arts & Letters, Bellevue Literary Review, and other publications. On and off since 2016 she has been volunteering with kids and teens in the war zones of eastern Ukraine under the auspices of the Ukrainian NGO GoGlobal. She lives in New York City.
She will be reading excerpts from my war journal 2017, written during my time in the Donbas during the earlier invasion.
8:15 p.m. Steve Levine (poet)
Steve Levine is a poet whose writing is primarily collected in A Blue Tongue; Three Numbers, with Jim Hanson; and Pure Notations (Toothpaste Press); and The Cycles of Heaven and To and For (Coffee House Press). His work can also be found in numerous anthologies and magazines. Keep an eye out for In the Hall of Arms There Is No Legroom, forthcoming from Idiosyncratic & Epigrammatic. Chris Kraus Reads Steve Levine wnd four. Mike DeCapite photo.
8:25 p.m. Abby Romine (poet)
Abby Romine is a sentimental poet and ceramicist from the San Fernando Valley. Her work is marked by melodrama, irrelevant humor, and premature greys. She has read for The Brooklyn Rail’s “The New Social Environment” series #872, #621, and #937. Currently based in Brooklyn, Romine is in constant talks with God and the Digital. You can find her online @cyb3rf33lings or in real life waiting for two parallel lines to meet. Her hair has grown long from waiting.
8:35 p.m. Jim Behrle (poet)
Jim is the host of Three Thumbs Up on WFMU Tuesdays 6-7 PM. Ben Mcfall photo.
8:45 p.m. Alan Semerdjian (poet)
Alan Semerdjian is an Armenian-American writer, a musician, and an educator. Recent recognitions include two Pushcart Prize nominations; a Frontier New Poets Award; poems in Poetry International, The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Hanging Loose, and Mizna (forthcoming); and a tweet from Kim Kardashian that made his 2020 spoken word album The Serpent and The Crane (with guitarist/composer Aram Bajakian) viral for a day. Alan’s poem “The Writing About It Again” was part of a short, animated film (An Armenian Triptych: Retracing Our Steps, made in collaboration with Bajakian and international visual artist Kevork Mourad) that won honors in several film festivals. Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian has called his first full-length poetry collection, In the Architecture of Bone (GenPop Books, 2009), “well worth your reading.” Alan has been teaching English in public schools for over twenty five years winning awards for his commitment to education while recording, releasing, and touring in support of several critically-acclaimed collections of music across a range of genres. He is on the advisory board for the International Armenian Literary Alliance, through which he founded and directs the Young Armenian Poets Awards. Alan is the current Nassau County Poet Laureate.
8:55 p.m. Peter Dizozza and Thomas Patrick Maguire (music)
(see 7:00 p.m.)