Who’s Performing and How and When to Watch
Hi,
From Fri. Sept. 25 through Sun., Sept. 27, we’ll be celebrating our bi-annual event, the Welcome to Boog City 20 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 a $10 suggested donation, which can be sent to Boog City via:
https://venmo.com/u/David-Kirschenbaum-1
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Sat. Sept. 26
Block Hill Station
718 5th Ave.
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Directions: R to 28th Street
Venue is between 22nd and 23rd sts.
$10
12:00 p.m. Elvis Alves (poet)
www.elvisalves.com
Elvis Alves was born in Guyana and raised in Brooklyn. Alves is a graduate of Colgate University and Princeton Theological Seminary. His work has appeared in several journals and magazines, including Poetry Magazine, Sojourners, Transition, Caribbean Writer Journal, and The Applicant. He is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet. Alves is the author of Bitter Melon, Ota Benga, I Am No Battlefield But A Forest Of Trees Growing (winner of the Jacopone da Todi Poetry Book Prize), Black/White: We Are Not Panic (Pandemic) Free, Blackfish, and This Is What I Know. His latest book is Exile Is Home. In 2025, he was a finalist for the Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize (Fordham University).
12:10 p.m. Sarah Sarai (poet)
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Before writing her first poem at age 47 Sarah Sarai read poetry: Rilke, Stevie Smith, California poets, eagerly. She’s worked variously—file clerk for warrant officers; gofer in a casting agency; English teacher. Of That Strapless Bra in Heaven (Kelsay Books) Susan Tepper wrote, “Sarah Sarai knows how to make a line zing, grab your attention, shock you a little or a lot, and make you laugh. All in one stanza. That is no small feat.”
12:20 p.m. Jeffrey Joe Nelson (poet)
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Jeffrey Joe Nelson has been a New York City school teacher for 27 years. He’s run the Greetings Readings series at Unnameable Books since the early aughts. His Road of Thousand Wonders was published by Ugly Duckling Presse and Pomes from the HIve, was recently put out by Slab Press. He likes to Boogie.
12:30 p.m. Jordan E. Franklin (poet)
www.jordanefranklin.com
Jordan E. Franklin hails from Brooklyn. Franklin received her M.F.A. from Stony Brook Southampton and a Ph.D. from Binghamton University. She is the author of the poetry collection when the signals come home (Switchback Books) and the chapbook, boys in the electric age (Tolsun Books). Her work has appeared in Frontier, SWWIM, the Southampton Review, Torch Literary Arts, and elsewhere. Franklin’s second poetry collection, make it to the end (of the movie), a 2025 Blessing the Boats selection, will be published by BOA Editions in fall 2027.
12:40 p.m. Jason Dubow (poet)
jasondubowproject.substack.com/
Brooklyn, fifty-something, writer, professor, husband, father of two adult sons, oldest of seven siblings—confused Jew, tangled mind, unfinished stories, questions abound. At work on Egress, a hybrid “novel.”
12:50 p.m. Barbara Henning (poet)
www.barbarahenning.com
Barbara Henning is the author of six books of prose and eight collections of poetry, most recently Girlfriend (Hanging Loose Press, forthcoming); Ferne, a Detroit Story (Notable Book Award from the Library of Michigan); a poetry collection, Digigram (United Artist Books) and Poets on the Road (City Point Press, with Maureen Owen). She lives in Brooklyn and has taught for Naropa University and Long Island University.
1:00 p.m. Lisa Rogal (poet)
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Lisa Rogal is a poet and educator living in Brooklyn. She is the author of la belle indifference (Cuneiform Press), Feed Me Weird Things (Ugly Duckling Presse), Morning Ritual (United Artists Books), and The New Realities (Third Floor Apartment Press). Her writing has recently appeared in Copenhagen and Hurricane Review. She is editor of Long News Poetry & Poetics.
1:10 p.m. Caroline Hagood (poet)
www.carolinehagood.com/
Caroline Hagood is the author of eight books, most recently Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster, Death and Other Speculative Fictions, and Goblin Mode: A Speculative Memoir. Hagood is an associate professor of literature, writing, and publishing and director of undergraduate writing at St. Francis College.
1:20 p.m. (music)
1:50 p.m. Marianne Sciberras (poet)
Marianne Joan Sciberras is a native New Yorker of Maltese descent. She discovered her talent when she won a songwriting contest in her teens. Later, as life got tougher, writing helped her cope. After getting divorced, she lost her fear of public speaking and began reading her poems at open mics.
A retired registered dietitian, she now focuses on celebrating life’s often overlooked wonders through poetry and storytelling. Marianne lives in NYC.
2:00 p.m. Micah Zevin (poet)
micahzevin.weebly.com/
Micah Zevin is a librarian poet living in Jackson Heights, Queens, N.Y. with his wife and guinea pigs. He has published articles and poems most recently at the Heavy Feather Review, Big Other, The Bowery Gothic, The Poets of Queens Anthology, Narrative Northeast, Pine Hills Review, Spoke Journal, Fence, First Literary Review East, Brevitas 20-2023 Anthology of the Short Poem, the Queensbound poetry project, Oddball Magazine, Unlikely Stories, Ranger, and the zine SlipSlips. His first book of poems, Metal, Heavy was published December 1st, 2020 from Olena Jennings and Poets of Queens Press. He has created/curated an open mic/poetry prompt workshop called The Risk of Discovery Reading Series.
2:10 p.m. Francine Witte (poet)
francinewitte.com
@francinewitte
Francine Witte is a flash fiction writer and poet, and the author of the flash collection Radio Water. Witte’s newest poetry book, Some Distant Pin of Light, has just been published by Cervena Barva Press. Her work has been widely published, and she is a recent recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She lives in New York City. Please visit her website at the above url.
2:20 p.m. Basil King (poet)
***2:30 p.m. TBD (poet)***
2:40 p.m. Joel Kuszai (poet)
2:50 p.m. Martha King (poet)
3:00 p.m. Christian X. Hunter (poet)
Christian X. Hunter is a former Friday Night host/coordinator at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, and a long-time member of The Unbearables. He’s been a contributor to New York Press, American Book Review, Autonomedia Press, and St. Martin’s Press. He is the author of Barefoot In The Heart memories of Neem Karoli Baba and a memoir, The Absence of Angels. Of TK Book title, Gillian McCain, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, said “Every page is permeated with poetic frenzy, grace, and verve. I LOVE THIS BOOK.”
3:10 p.m. Danny Shot (poet)
https://dannyshot.com/
Danny Shot is a New Generation Beat Poet Laureate (2024-Lifetime), which is not quite a joke. Last year saw the publication of a collection of poems, The Jersey Slide (CavanKerry Press) and prose, collected in Night Bird Flying (Roadside Press). WORKS was published in 2018 by CavanKerry Press. He has a new manuscript, Like Falling Rain, ready for publication. Shot was the longtime publisher and editor of Long Shot arts and literary magazine, which he founded along with Eliot Katz in 1982. He lives in Hoboken, home of Frank Sinatra and baseball.
3:20 p.m. Dr. Sue (music)
3:50 p.m. Pamela Newton (essayist)
english.yale.edu/people/full-part-time-lecturers/pamela-newton
Pamela Newton is an essayist and art/culture journalist, who has written for The Atlantic, LitHub, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, American Theatre, and elsewhere. She has been a book critic for O the Oprah Magazine and a theatre critic for Time Out New York and wrote one of the monologues in Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron’s play, Love, Loss, and What I Wore. She teaches non-fiction writing to undergraduates at Yale University. Mara Lavitt photo for Yale University.
4:00 p.m. Mark Street (essayist)
www.markstreetfilms.com
Mark Street has been making films, videos, and installations for 35 years. His work has moved from tactile, abstract explorations of 16mm film to essays on the urban experience to improvised feature-length narratives. He has shown at places like The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The National Gallery in Washington, D.C., as well as venues such as The Point Reyes California Oyster Farm. His work has appeared at the Tribeca (5 times), Sundance, Rotterdam, New York, London, San Francisco, New York Underground, Sarajevo, Viennale, Ourense (Spain), Mill Valley, South by Southwest, and other film festivals.
4:10 p.m. Rick Smigielski (essayist)
Rick Smigielski is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and writer. His work has appeared on HBO/MAX, BBC, and at The Sundance Film Festival. His projects cover topics including true-crime murder investigations, Evangelical Christianity, and the history of New York City. He lives in Brooklyn.
4:20 p.m. Ebony Murphy (essayist)
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Ebony Murphy is an innovative middle and high school English teacher and curriculum designer. She joined the English faculty of Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn in 2022 after five years teaching middle school humanities at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica, Calif. Recently Murphy contributed “Feeling 39” to the essay collection Fast Fallen Women: 75 Essays of Flash NonFiction edited by Gina Barreca and published by Woodhall Press.
4:30 p.m. Philip Dray (essayist)
Philip Dray has been a contributor to The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and Mother Jones. From 1994-2000 he was a staff and development writer covering environmental issues at The Natural Resources Defense Council. A permanent fellow of The New York Institute for the Humanities, he has also been a visiting scholar at The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University and has a B.A. from the University of Minnesota. He was a 2016 recipient of a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and appears in Henry Louis Gates’s’ PBS documentary Reconstruction: America After the Civil War, as well as in Benjamin Franklin, a Ken Burns Film. He is the author of At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America and several other books about civil rights and labor history.
4:40 p.m. Khaholi Bailey (essayist)
www.hofstrawindmill.com/issue-8/borderlands-khaholi-bailey
Khaholi Bailey is the author of the essay collection The Miseducation of a 90s Baby. She is the co-curator of the Crown Inn Reading Series and a contributing editor at Zona Motel. Her fiction or essays have appeared in Catapult, Windmill: The Hofstra Journal of Art & Literature, Midnight and Indigo, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.
4:50 p.m. (music)
5:20 p.m. Judith Lee Herbert (poet)
www.judithleeherbert.com
Judith Lee Herbert, graduate cum laude in English Literature from Columbia University, is a poet and practicing psychotherapist. Her chapbook Songbird (Kelsay Books) was a finalist in the 2017 Blue Light Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Sensitive Skin Magazine, Poetry Bay, The Ekphrastic Review, BigCityLit, and anthologies, such as Silver Tongue Devil Anthology and Some of the Best Long Island Poetry: 2024. Her poems placed in contests including the String Poet Contest 2017, The Nassau County Poet Laureate Society Contest 2018, LIP & LPR Contest 2024, and Babylon Village Arts Council Poetry Contest 2024. She lives in NYC.
5:30 p.m. Michele Carlo (poet)
https://www.michelecarlo.com
Michele Carlo is a writer, storyteller (and sometime actor) who has performed across the U.S.: at the Gotham Storytelling Festival, The Clearwater Arts & Music Festival, The Hans Christian Andersen series in Central Park, with The Silver Tongued Devils and The MOTH Mainstage in New York; the Share The Fire and National Storytelling Network story conferences; multiple house concerts; multiple podcasts (including RISK!, No Name NYC, and Story Collider); on NPR (with Latino USA and WNYC radio); and the WGBH-PBS series Stories from the Stage.
5:40 p.m. Jerry T. Johnson (poet)
https://jtjohnpoet.com/
Jerry T. Johnson is a poet and spoken word artist whose poetry has appeared in a variety of literary publications worldwide. Johnson is the author of three poetry collections—A Coldness (Finishing Line Press), Poets Should Not Write About Politics (Evening Street Press), and Bad Fruit (Gnashing Teeth Publishing). His poetry collection Poets Should Not Write About Politics was selected as the winner of the Evening Street Press’ 2020 Sinclair Poetry Prize. His poems “The Apology” (Evening Street Press) and “Monsters” were nominated for Pushcart Prizes.
5:50 p.m. Allan Yashin (poet)
Allan Yashin is a writer, performer and story teller who has had over 50 of his plays, including four musicals written with Norman Zamcheck, performed in New York. Allan co-wrote the play collection with Milton Polsky, Cry A Little Laugh A Lot…and his novel Protected is available on Amazon.
6:00 p.m. Linda Lerner (poet)
https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-linda-lerner/
Linda Lerner—recent collections: And Wales By Accident (poetry & prose) Iniquity press/Vendetta Books; How It Was (2020-2021) and Is, a chapbook of pandemic related poems (Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books), Taking the F Train (NYQ Books). Others include: Yes, the Ducks Were Real and Takes Guts & Years sometimes (NYQ books); nominated twice for a Pushcart prize; Verse Daily featured “A Bad Weather Time” from Taking the F Train; poems & prose in Gargoyle, No.11, One Art, Shot Glass Journal, Pinyon Review, and more.
6:10 p.m. Matthew Hupert (poet)
@thew_NYC
@NeuroNauticPress
Matthew Hupert is a writer and multimedia artist from New York City. Hupert hosts several poetry reading series, including the annual showcase for New York voices, Night in the Naked City, and the monthly series NeuroNautic Institute Presents. He is a recipient of the 2020 New York Acker Award for Show Organizer and Host. He has two full-length collections, Ism is a Retrovirus (Three Rooms Press) and Secular Pantheism (NeuroNautic Press). He is also the author of several chapbooks. His writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.
6:20 p.m. Elizabeth B. Morse (poet)
https://www.elizabethmorsestories.com/read
Elizabeth B. Morse’s fiction and poetry have appeared in literary magazines including Kestrel, Scoundrel Time, and Active Muse, as well as anthologies such as Help Yourself. She won first prize for flash fiction in Cardinal Sins. Her poetry chapbook, The Color Between the Hours, was published by Finishing Line Press, and her full-length poetry collection, Unreasonable Weather, was put out by Kelsay Books. One of her poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the poetry editor of BigCityLit and a co-editor of Brownstone Poets Anthology.
6:30 p.m. Pete Solomita (poet)
www.instagram.com/storytelling_on_orchard_street
Pete Solomita’s latest poetry collection, From Here To Institutionalized was published by Storytelling On Orchard Street Press. Solomita’s debut collection, Bitter Pill (two shots, and a piece of cake) was put out by Obsolete Press. He hosts the podcast, Storytelling On Orchard Street, which is available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. In addition, he produces the bi-monthly live show The Very Swell Variety Show at Young Ethel’s. He often reads his poetry with musical accompaniment by The Bitter Pill Collective.
6:40 p.m. Jason Schneiderman (poet)
Jason Schneiderman is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire (Red Hen), as well as a book of essays, Nothingism: Poetry at the End of Print Culture (University of Michigan Poets on Poetry), and the craft book Teaching Writing Through Poetry: Understanding Poetic Form and Its Power to Unleash Creative Expression (Bloomsbury). He is professor of English at CUNY’s BMCC and teaches in the M.F.A. program for writers at Warren Wilson College.
6:50 p.m. TBD. (music)