Hi,
On Sun. Sept. 16, we’ll be celebrating our bi-annual event, the Welcome to Boog City 18.5 Arts Festival. We will livestream the goings-on to
https://www.facebook.com/groups/115605743040
And it will be available shortly thereafter 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
Once again, thanks to our fest team, Jiwon Choi, Ron Kolm, and Alan Semerdjian with whom I booked the poets; Jason Dubow, who selected the essayists; Peter Dizozza, who curated the music; and Jessy Randall for the festival logo.
Hope to see you there.
as ever,
David
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Sun. Sept. 16
Block Hill Station
718 5th Ave.
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Directions: R to 25th Street
Venue is between 22nd and 23rd sts.
$8 suggested
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12:00 p.m. Introduction
12:10 p.m. Jason Dubow (poet)
Jason Dubow teaches writing, literature, and digital humanities at St. Francis College. He is working on a book of fiction-memoir-essays loosely based on his blog LearnMeProject. The book is about, among other things, home and other schooling, being a confused Jew, theoretical writing, what it means to be “still married,” how not to f-up your kids (and what to do if you think you have), as well a range of other topics related to coping with our imperfect world, such as lists, juxtaposition, the quantified self, cooking and eating, napping, and the Red Sox.
12:20 p.m. David M. Katz (poet)
https://davidmkatzpoet.com/
David M.Katz is the author of five books of poetry—The Biographer, In Praise of Manhattan, Stanzas on Oz, and Claims of Home, all published by Dos Madres Press, and The Warrior in the Forest (House of Keys). Poems of his have appeared in Able Muse, Poetry, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, and elsewhere. He is a co-host of the Morningside Poetry Series in Manhattan and posts frequently on his website, The David M. Katz Poetry Blog. He recently starred in Gully’s Paradise, a feature-length film by Shalom Gorewitz. Linda Stern photo.
12:30 p.m. Elinor Nauen (poet)
www.ElinorNauen.com
Elinor Nauen has published many books, most recently The Alphabet’s Dilemma, a chapbook. Along with Maureen Owen, she edits the poetry magazine Julebord. She was born and raised in South Dakota and currently lives in Manhattan’s East Village with her husband, Johnny Stanton, and a cat, Lefty. David Beadouin photo.
12:40 p.m. Karen Neuberg (poet)
karenneuberg.blogspot.com/
Karen Neuberg is the author of the full-length poetry collection, PURSUIT (Kelsay Press), and three chapbooks including “the elephants are asking” (Glass Lyre). Her poetry and collages have appeared in numerous online and print journals and anthologies including Beacon Radiant (great weather for Media), Inflectionist Review, Mackinaw, Nixes Mate, Otoliths, and SurVision. She holds an MFA from The New School and is associate editor of the online poetry journal First Literary Review-East. Alan Neuberg photo.
12:50 p.m. Soraya Shalforoosh (poet)
Soraya Shalforoosh is the author of a collection of poems, This Version of Earth, published by Barrow Street. Shalforoosh has poems, reviews and interviews in Brooklyn Rail, Black Earth Institute, Apogee Journal, Columbia Poetry Review, Taos Journal, Court Green, WSQ,, Bomb, New York Quarterly, Tribes.org, etc.
1:00 p.m. Linda Stern (poet)
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Linda Stern’s poems have appeared in American Arts Quarterly, Big City Lit, Kin Poetry Journal, Mezzo Cammin, Minyan magazine, The New Criterion, The Raintown Review, and other publications. Her book, Why We Go by Twos, is available from Barefoot Muse Press. She co-published the poetry magazine Endymion and was associate editor of the online poetry journal Umbrella. She is a co-host of the Morningside Poetry Series in Manhattan and serves on the Board of Directors of Poetry by the Sea, an annual poetry conference. Photo source: SAJ
1:10 p.m. Abigail Welhouse (poet)
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Abigail Welhouse is the author of Small Dog (dancing girl press), Bad Baby (dancing girl press), Too Many Humans of New York (Bottlecap Press), and Memento Mori (a poem/comic collaboration with Evan Johnston). Her poems have been published in The Toast, No Dear Magazine, Flapperhouse, and elsewhere. Subscribe to the Secret Poems of Abigail Welhouse: welhouse.beehiiv.com. Michael Kushner photo.
1:20 p.m Peter Dizozza (music)
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dizozza.bandcamp.com/
CinemaVII.com
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. Mark’s 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.
1:50 p.m. Patricia Carragon (poet)
Patricia Carragon received a 2025 Best of the Net nomination for her haiku, “Cherry Blossoms” from Poets Wear Prada. She is the editor of the new online journal, Sense & Sensibility Haiku, and listed on the poet registry for The Haiku Foundation. Her latest novel is Angel Fire (Alien Buddha Press, 2020). Her books from Poets Wear Prada are Meowku (2019) and The Cupcake Chronicles (2017). Her book Innocence was published by Finishing Line Press (2017). She hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology.
2:00 p.m. Diana-Gitesha Hernandez-Correa (poet)
Diana Gitesha Hernandez is a poet, musician, and multidisciplinary artist deeply rooted in the East Village arts scene. An explorer of the fusion between poetry and jazz, she blends lyrical storytelling with improvisational music, creating performances that captivate and inspire. She hosts regular jazz jams as Diva Dive and curates poetry readings through the Artemis Poetry Collective. Also a painter, printmaker, and ceramicist, Gitesha’s artistry spans multiple forms, reflecting her passion for creativity and community connection.
2:10 p.m. Evie Ivy (poet)
Evie Ivy runs one of the longest running poetry readings in NYC. The Green Pavilion Poetry Event. She also produces Dance of the Word, a seasonal program of dance, poetry, and music. Evie has four books out, including, The Platinum Moon, available on Amazon. Two of which are on form poetry; the nonet, No, No Nonets … the book of Nonets, and Living in 12-Tone … and other poetic forms.
2:20 p.m. Jennifer Juneau (poet)
Jennifer Juneau is a 2025 Acker Award recipient. She is the author of the novel ÜberChef USA (Spork Press) a full-length poetry collection More Than Moon, (Is a Rose Press) and a short fiction collection Maze (Roadside Press). She curates The Phoenix Poetry Open Mic at Shades of Green Pub every Monday evening in the East Village, NYC.
2:30 p.m. Prince A. McNally (poet)
2:40 p.m. Don Yorty (poet)
Don Yorty is the author of three poetry collections, A Few Swimmers Appear, Poet Laundromat, and Spring Sonnets, and a novel, What Night Forgets. He blogs at donyorty.com: an archive of current art, his own writing, and the work of other poets. Poems written in his twenties, Fucking and Other Poems, will be published by Indolent Books in September 2025.
2:50 p.m. Deborah Hauser (poet)
deborahhauser.com/
Deborah Hauser is the author of Ennui: From the Diagnostic and Statistical Field Guide of Feminine Disorders(Finishing Line Press). Her poems and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Ms. Magazine, Women’s Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Bellevue Literary Review, and Calyx. Her work explores the intersection of poetry and activism. She is the Poet Laureate of Suffolk County and founder of Poetry In Action. She leads a double life on Long Island where she works in the insurance industry. Erika Kuciw photo
3:05 p.m. Christina M. Rau (poet)
www.christinamrau.com
Christina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create workshops for various organizations. Her collections include How We Make Amends, What We Do To Make Us Whole, and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Astronauts. She moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv and has served as Poet in Residence for Oceanside Library (NY) since 2020. Her poetry airs on Destinies radio show (WUSB) and appears in various literary journals like fillingStation and The Disappointed Housewife while her prose has appeared in Punk Monk Magazine and Reader’s Digest. During her downtime, she watches the Game Show Network. Collin J Rae photo.
3:15 p.m. George Wallace (poet)
www.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/three-poems-by-george-wallace/
George Wallace is writer in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace in New York, author of 41 chapbooks, and a fixture of the NYC poetry performance scene. He is a poet and recording artist, adjunct professor of English at Pace University in Manhattan, and most recently recipient of the Aristotle Prize in Naoussa Greece. In 2024 Wallace was awarded an honorary doctorate in Madrid Spain from the Royal Academy for Preservation of Mother Cultures & Languages. George travels internationally to share his work, has been invited to major festivals in the US, UK, Europe and South America and received numerous international honors and awards. Lucilla Trapazzo photo.
3:25 p.m. Marzipan Band (music)
Marzipanband.hearnow.com
Marzipan Band is an alt-folk-rock dream-fueled duo from New York City. They write songs together like two vines intertwining. In 2024 they released their debut album “Visualore.”
3:55 p.m. Emily Flouton (essayist)
4:05 p.m. James Freeman (essayist)
4:15 p.m. Nick Rees Gardner (essayist)
4:25 p.m. William Lessard (essayist)
4:35 p.m. Sharon Mesmer (essayist)
4:45 p.m. Pamela Newton (essayist)
4:55 p.m. (music)
5:25 p.m. Katy Bohinc (poet)
www.KatyBohinc.com
I am a poet and a data scientist; an avant garde publisher and a professional marketer; an activist, an astrologer and an innovator. I studied pure math and comparative literature. I don’t think these things are contradictory.
I think it’s the future.
I have three books of poetry: Dear Alain (Tender Buttons Press), Trinity Star Trinity (Scarlet Imprint), and Scorpio (Miami University Press).
5:35 p.m. Douglas Cala (poet)
www.pw.org/directory/writers/douglas_g_cala
Douglas G. Cala is a spoken word performance poet, essayist, and multimedia/IT specialist from New York City, currently residing in Staten Island. Douglas has featured at many notable venues predominantly throughout the Northeast/East Coast and his work is published in anthologies and journals both nationally and internationally. When not writing and reciting, Douglas works full time for NYC Public Schools as an IT Support Technician.
5:45 p.m. Tom D’egidio (poet)
Poet and translator Tom D’Egidio was raised in Philadelphia by his immigrant Italian grandparents. He has also lived in San Francisco, Quito, and Rome. And now lives in Harlem. He writes poetry and fiction. His collection Years Of Pilgrimage is due out later in 2025 from Darklight Publications of Mexico City. His novel, Mondo Scungilli, is a sensation on the samizdat circuit. He translates from Italian and Latin. He recently read in the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series, with a video from that made by Don Yorty available as “Three Elegies by Tom D’Egidio” at donyorty.com
5:55 p.m. Ed Friedman (poet)
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positjournal.com/2024/05/21/ed-friedman/
Ed Friedman is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, including: The Telephone Book and Humans Work; as well as Mao & Matisse, Drive Through the Blue Cylinders, and Two Towns (all three from Hanging Loose Press). From 1987 to 2003, Ed served as the artistic director for the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York City, where he also co-edited the Project’s literary magazine, The World. His recent poems have appeared in: New American Writing; Hurricane Review; Nu Review; Julebord; Posit; and Three Fold. Photo credit: Ken Angel Davis.
6:05 p.m. Matthew Hupert (poet)
6:15 p.m. Jane LeCroy (poet)
#janelecroy
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mailchi.mp/759a13d91b32/wwwjanelecroycom
Jane LeCroy serves the Poetry Gods as a featured character in the Poetry Brothel NYC. She is a teaching-artist bringing love of poetry to students and publishing their work through various programs like Uptown Stories. She sets her poetry to music in her bands: Ω▽(Ohmslice), the experimental modular synth project, and The Icebergs, an avant-pop band of cello and drums. Her records are streaming everywhere. Three Rooms Press published her multimedia book of lyrical poems, “Signature Play.” Pink Trees press Just published a new collection of her poetry this year, “Spellbook of Ordinary Mistakes.” Alethea Hohenberger photo
6:25 p.m. Ronald Okuaki Lieber (poet)
ronaldokuakilieber.com.
Ronald Okuaki Lieber, LP, M.F.A., is a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC. His book, The Long Journey Out, was shortlisted for the North American Poetry Book Award.
6:35 p.m. Suzanne Mercury (poet)
www.suzannemercury.cloud/
Suzanne Mercury is the author of Hive (Lily Poetry Review and Press) as well as two chapbooks, Sassafracas (Xexoxial Editions), and Hand to Earth (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including SpoKe, Truck, Summer Stock, Bombay Gin, Sonora Review, Arts & Letters, and Hayden’s Ferry Review, as well as in the anthologies Let the Bucket Down and The Wisdoms of the Universes in a Single String of Letters. A graduate of Smith College and of Syracuse University’s M.F.A. program in creative writing, Mercury lives in Boston.
6:50 p.m. Bob Rosenthal (poet)
Bob Rosenthal (b. 1950) books of poetry, Morning Poems, Lies About the Flesh, Rude Awakenings, Viburnum, Here I Am; personal prose, Straight Around Allen,Cleaning Up New York, Fifth Avenue Overhead; co-writer, The Cause of Gravity, the Whore of the Alpines, Bicentennial Suicide, and Clear The Range.
7:00 p.m. Christina Strong (poet)
Christina Strong (aka xtina) is a poet, designer and artist. Poetry publications include The Hartford Of (Cy Gist Press), Fifth Plateau-from Pink Adrenaline Star (Propolis Press/Least Weasel) and The New York School (Propolis Press). Xtina is trying to keep from freezing in central Vermont. Recent work is a collaboration called “February Sonnets” with Sean Cole.
7:15 p.m. Jeff Wright (poets theater)
www.jeffreycypherswright.com
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright received an M.F.A. after studying with Allen Ginsberg.
A New Romantic poet and author of 20 books, he also publishes Live Mag! Work appears in Best American Poetry, 2023. He has received a Kathy Acker Award and his book Fuel for Love won the James Tate Award. The Remake is his fourth play.
The Remake
A bard named Ted D, Bear meets Virgil Tomkins and the muse Erato in an air raid shelter cum Valhalla.
With Antanasio De Felice, Madeleine Virbasius, and Brendan Schweda.