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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Sat. Sept. 21 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. Madeline Artenberg (poet)
Madeline Artenberg was a photojournalist and street theatre performer before falling for poetry. After the first poem popped out, she sold all her cameras. Her work appears in many publications, such as Rattle and MacQueens Quinterly. She was a semi-finalist in Margie, The American Journal of Poetry contest, and a finalist in Mudfish 2020 contest. One of her poems was nominated as Best of the Net 2020 by Poets Wear Prada. Her first full-length poetry book, Naming a Hurricane, published by Pink Trees Press, is available on Amazon Books and Barnes & Noble.
12:10 p.m. Austin Alexis (poet)
Austin Alexis is the author of Privacy Issues (Broadside Lotus Press, 20th Annual Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award) and two chapbooks from Poets Wear Prada Press. His work has appeared in Barrow Street, The Journal, Hawaii Pacific Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Paterson Literary Review, 10 by 10 Flash Fiction, Flash Boulevard, Rattle (forthcoming) and elsewhere.
His reviews and plays have been published in a number of journals. He was a finalist for the Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Award and received first prize in the Great Weather for Media Flash Fiction of the Month Contest.
12:20 p.m. Pauline Findlay (poet)
Pauline Findlay is a poet and filmmaker for Poetry in Motion! Her new book Dysfunction: A Play on Words In The Familiar released by Pink Tress Press, is a poetic circus filled with winding roads that asks one question, “which road will you take?” She’s performed at Fahrenheit Open Mic reading series, bookstores, Women of Color, and outdoor festivals! You can find her films on YouTube!
12:30 p.m. Phillip Giambri (poet)
Phillip Giambri’s 2022 memoir Good Boy, Bad Boy, A Better Man covers his life’s journey from South Philadelphia in the 40s to New York City’s East Village in the 70s. Phillip’s 2020 novelette The Amorous Adventures of Blondie and Boho is a story of love, survival, and gentrification in NYC’s East Village, and the chapbook Poems from an Unending Pandemic offers his perspective on New York City life during the COVID-19 pandemic. His 2017 chapbook Love Borne in Retrograde is a collection of love poems and erotica and the 2016 memoir Confessions of a Repeat Offender is a compilation of his performance stories.
12:40 p.m. Linda Kleinbub (poet)
Linda Kleinbub is the founding editor of Pink Trees Press, curator of Fahrenheit Open Mic, contributing editor at Girls Write Now, & founder of Pen Pal Poets. Cover Charge (Autonomedia) is her first full-length book of poetry. She’s the editor of the Silver Tongued Devil Anthology (Pink Trees Press) Linda was one of six local poets invited to read at the Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2021. She earned her M.F.A. at The New School. Some of the places she’s been published are Best American Poetry, Brooklyn Rail & The Observer.
12:50 p.m. Lissa Moira (poet)
Lissa Moira, is a multiple award winning playwright, screen writer, director, actor, poet and collage artist. She is the cowriter of the screenplay “Dead Canaries”. She is the Director/Writer of “The Best Sex of the XX Century Sale” and she is the book writer and director, lyricist of “Who Murdered Love?”. Most recently Lissa directed the musical adaptation of poet Dean Kostos’s devastating yet tender memoir “The Boy Who Listened To Paintings,” and Rori Nogee’s sexy, searing psychological thriller “Aftershocks.” Lissa will be curating, hosting and reading at the poetry event at Theater For The New City’s Lower East Side Festival of the Arts on May 26th. Opening May 30th Lissa will be directing Stan Baker’s “ Party Clown Of The Rich and Famous” along with four one acts under the umbrella title of “The Hungry Mind Buffet,”one of the one acts will be her own “The Colonel and the Woman Take Tea in the Rubble,”a story that revolves around the specter of war. Lissa has founded The Live Poets Society which gathers for irregularly scheduled poetry events at Theater For The New City.
1:00 p.m. The Ruminators (music)
https://linktr.ee/ruminatorswithpattirothberg
The Ruminators with Patti Rothberg’s music is about dating life from a woman’s perspective. Similar to Garfunkel and Oates or Weird Al meets Taylor Swift we also write comedy pop/rock.
Patti Rothberg’s recording career goes back to 1996, with her debut on EMI Records, ‘Between the 1 and the 9’, which refers to the time she spent performing in Seemingly overnight, Patti Rothberg achieved the kind of worldwide success one could only dream of. Critically acclaimed, Between the 1 and the 9 was an instant hit and remains a timeless classic. The success of Between the 1 and the 9 had Patti touring quite non-stop from 1996 through 1997, and into 1998. She toured the USA supporting the Wallflowers, Chris Isaak, Midnight Oil, and Garbage, and she toured Europe supporting the Black Crowes
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Just Jill, an NYC Native, returned to NYC, after her Chicago stint in ’99. She was a fixture in the Anti-Folk scene in the East Village at Sidewalk Café in the Aughts. Her album, “Shift”, was recorded by Major Matt Mason USA, a major influencer in the Anti-Folk scene. Just Jill’s music was played on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast and was included on a collection of songs related to 9/11, Vigil, organized by Suzanne Vega. Jill has a photo in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of NY. We’ve been regularly played on WFMU, WHUS in Ct and in Atlanta, by Steve Kilbride at WRFG, and also on WVVY iin Martha’s Vineyard.
1:20 p.m. Bruce Andrews (poet)
Poet, performance writer, poetics theorist, sound designer, retired political scientist & former co-editor of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, BRUCE ANDREWS has published 30+ books, including the brand new Upstage, Designated Heartbeat, Swoon Noir, I Don’t Have Any Paper So Shut Up, The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Letters. Essays on poetics are collected in Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis. Based in New York City since 1975, he is Sally Silvers & Dancers’ main performance/music collaborator.
1:30 p.m. William Lessard (poet)
William Lessard is Poetry & Hybrids editor at Heavy Feather Review. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Best American Experimental Writing, Fence, Posit, and Southwest Review.
1:40 p.m. Heller Levinson (poet)
Heller Levinson lives in the lower Hudson Valley. His most recent books are Query Caboodle, Shift Gristle (Black Widow Press), and The Abyssal Recitations (Concrete Mist Press). Valvular Ash is slated for a spring, 2024 publication (BWP). His book, Lure, won the 2022 Big Other Poetry Book Award.
1:50 p.m. Sally Silvers (poet)
Sally Silvers is an award winning choreographer who also has published articles, essays, and poems in magazines, chapbooks, journals and anthologies. She is the co-director of 2 award-winning dance films & is known for several community curatorial projects including TalkTalkWalkWalk (combining dance artists and poets) and Surprise Every Time (a festival of “live choreography’ – starting a new dance live in front of the audience on the spot).. From 2005 to 2011 she danced in the new and historical works of Yvonne Rainer.
2:00 p.m. Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (poet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2p125jYTcw
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright received his M.F.A. after studying with Allen Ginsberg. Best known as a New Romantic poet, he is also a publisher, critic, eco-activist, impresario, filmmaker, puppeteer, and artist. He is author of 19 books of verse, including Blue Lyre and Party Everywhere. Poems have appeared in The Café Review, New American Writing, The Brooklyn Rail, The Hurricane Review, Posit, First Literary Review East, and Best American Poetry. Recent work also appears in the anthologies NYC Insiders and Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry. His latest work, a book of sonnets and artwork called Doppelgängster is from MadHat Press. Wright publishes Live Mag!
2:10 p.m. Janet Hamill (poet)
Janet Hamill is the author of 10 books of poetry and fiction and has recorded two CDs of spoken word and music. Among her many honors, she has been a Pushcart Prize nominee, and Publisher’s Weekly named Tales From the Eternal Café one of the “Best Books of 2015.” She has taught and read widely, both domestically and abroad.
2:20 p.m. Diana Rickard (poet)
Diana Rickard is a poet, sociologist and criminal criminologist. Many of her poems, which often seek comfort in the graphic abuse of televised dystopic fantasies, or which lament the fact that no one at work can laugh the real good hearty laugh, can be found all over the internet. Her (as of yet) unpublished manuscript of Covid-era isolation poems is titled Is This Now? Her book examining documentaries and wrongful conviction came out in 2023.
2:30 p.m. Jennifer Michael Hecht (poet)
Jennifer Michael Hecht is a poet, and historian. Her most recent book of poetry, Who Said was published by Copper Canyon. Her second, Funny, won the Felix Pollak prize from the University of Wisconsin Press and her first, The Next Ancient World, Tupelo, won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Hecht’s poetry appears in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, and Poetry. She holds a PhD in history from Columbia University and is the author of five prose books including Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It (Yale) and Doubt: A History (HarperOne). Her most recent nonfiction book is The Wonder Paradox: Awe, Poetry, and the Meaningful Life, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
2:40 p.m. Deidre Kovac (poet)
Deirdre Kovac is an editor and designer living in Brooklyn. She is a founding member of Subpress. Mannerism (Edge Books) is her first full-length book.
2:50 p.m. Jill Stengel (poet)
Poet and publisher Jill Stengel’s work has been published in a dozen chapbooks, including Lagniappe (Nous-Zot Press), Ladies with Babies (Boog Literature), and wreath (Texfiles Press), as well as in the full-length collection Dear Jack (Black Radish Books). Jill founded a+bend press in San Francisco in 1999, originally as part of a reading and publication series she ran, and she has published more than 50 poetry titles, including work by some of our country’s foremost experimental women writers. Jill continues to promote voices of experimental women poets and publishers through collaborations, consulting, and editing. Recent projects she’s worked on include Dana Teen Lomax’s The Beautiful: Poets Reimagine a Nation (Gualala Arts) and the posthumous publication of Marthe Reed’s deposition | dispossession: Climate Change in the Sundarbans (Kelsey Street Press). Jill makes her home in Northern California, where she has raised three children into young adulthood, advocates for queer and disabled kids and adults, and occasionally grows an organic garden.
3:05 p.m. Leah Kogen-Elimeliah (poet)
@leahelimeliah
@wordshednyc
Leah Kogen-Elimeliah originally from Moscow, is a poet & writer based in New York. An Adjunct Assistant Professor at The City College of New York & John Jay College, Leah is also the founder & director of WordShedNYC Reading Series & has collaborated on various poetry/visual/dance projects with independent artists, experimenting with cross genres, multimedia & poetry. She is currently crafting her debut poetry collection, working on an art project “Notes from Daughters” & a one woman show. Her writing delves into themes of identity, language, immigration, intergenerational trauma, sexuality and culture.
3:15 p.m. Doctor Dan’s Music Show (music)
https://www.doctordansmusicshow.com
Doctor Dan’s Music Show has touring the USA including performing at Farm Aid with Willie Nelson and Neil Young! Now Doctor Dan is back in the New York Metro area.
3:35 p.m. Jeremy Busch (essayist)
Jeremy Busch is a husband, father and communications strategist who lives in NJ and is currently working on a series of essays about modern communications technology and how it subtly (and not so subtly) shapes our lives for good and ill.|
3:45 p.m. Tobias Carroll (essayist)
Tobias Carroll is the author of five books, most recently the novel In the Sight. He writes a monthly column for Words Without Borders and edits the culture website Vol. 1. Jason Rice photo.
3:55 p.m. Jiwon Choi (essayist)
Jiwon Choi is a poet who struggles to identify and name emotions that remain unnamed and unrevealed from childhood experiences and traumas in order to become the fully actualized human she knows she can be. Choi’s third book of poems, A Temporary Dwelling, was published this year. She started her community garden’s first poetry reading series, Poets Read in the Garden, to support local writers during the early Covid years.
4:05 p.m. Matthew Daddona (essayist)
Matthew Daddona is the author of the poetry collection House of Sound and the recently published novel The Longitude of Grief. A former book editor, he now works full time as a ghostwriter and spends his free time shucking oysters, helping to install irrigation systems, and volunteering as a firefighter. His short story “This Scene Contains Depictions of Violence” was named a finalist in Ninth Letter’s 2024 fiction contest. He lives on the North Fork of Long Island, where’s he working on his second novel and a collection of short stories. Randee Daddona photo.
4:15 p.m. Rachel Federman (essayist)
Rachel Federman spent hours in the woods of Massachusetts as a child. The only guidance from her parents – steer clear of the Superfund site where water had been poisoned, and don’t eat anything that grows from the earth. She now lives in Manhattan with her family. Her band, Dimestore Scenario, used to play clubs like CBGBs that are mostly gone now. Her stories have appeared in Literary Mama, Hoot Review, Writers Resist, On the Run, and Willows Wept Review. She can be found on summer evenings biking along the river contemplating whether to burn old journals.
4:30 p.m. Caroline Hagood (essayist)
https://www.carolinehagood.com/
Caroline Hagood is an Assistant Professor of Literature, Writing and Publishing and Director of Undergraduate Writing at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, where she also teaches in the creative writing MFA program. She is the author of two poetry books; the essay collections, Ways of Looking at a Woman and Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster; and the novels, Ghosts of America and Filthy Creation. Her speculative memoir, Goblin Mode, will be published by Santa Fe Writers Project in Fall 2025. Her work has appeared in publications including Electric Literature, Creative Nonfiction, LitHub, the Kenyon Review, the Huffington Post, the Guardian, Salon, and Elle. Christopher Zedano photo.
4:45 p.m. Brer Brian (music)
Brer Brian Homa studied musical composition with Schoenberg and Webern at the Second Viennese School. In stark contrast with his contemporaries, he decided that traditional tonality was “fine” and released a string of chart-topping pop hits that paid for all his divorces. He currently resides in Modesto California, but has flown back to New York for one last score.
5:05 p.m. Dana Sachs (essayist)
Dana Sachs is the author of five books–the novels If You Lived Here (William Morrow) and The Secret of the Nightingale Palace (William Morrow), and three books of nonfiction, The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam (Algonquin), The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam (Beacon), and All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis (Bellevue Literary Press). Her articles, reviews, and essays have appeared in many publications, including National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, Travel and Leisure Family, The International Herald Tribune, and Mother Jones, and she was a monthly contributor to Salt Magazine from 2013 to 2020. She is co-founder of the nonprofit Humanity Now, which supports grassroots aid projects for refugees and migrants in Greece. She lives in Wilmington, N.C.
5:15 p.m. John Schertzer (essayist)
John Schertzer is the author of Bellamonia and Second Nature. His poems have been published in Big Other, Inverted Syntax, The Germ, American Letters & Commentary, 1913 Journal, The Cortland Review, La Petite Zine, Danse Macabre, LIT, and other journals.
5:25 p.m. Jacob Slichter (essayist)
Jacob Slichter is the drummer for the band Semisonic and the author of So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star (Broadway Books, 2004). He has written for The New York Times, has been a commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition, and currently teaches creative nonfiction at Sarah Lawrence College. He also blogs about connections between music, writing, and other art forms at portablephilosophy.com.
5:35 p.m. Michele Thomas (essayist)
Instagram at @bedstuysomm
Michele Thomas is a writer and educator with deep roots in publishing, food, and wine. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from St. Joseph’s University, and a Certified Sommelier credential from the Court of Master Sommeliers. A full time wine buyer, her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Edible Brooklyn, and Activist Philanthropist, and she has taught English and Creative Writing at the Girls Write Now, Legal Outreach, Fordham University, and St. Joseph’s University. She is also co-author of Culinary Careers for Dummies (Wiley), the author of two science books for middle-grade children, the former executive editor for curriculum at the International Culinary Center (founded as the French Culinary Institute). She is currently working on a memoir and recording her adventures in food, wine, and culture on her above website.
5:45 p.m. AnnaLee Wilson (essayist)
https://www.clippings.me/annaleewilson
AnnaLee Wilson’s essay and memoir writing has appeared in anthologies and literary publications. Her essay “My Mother’s Geranium” was recently featured in Kaleidoscope, Summer/Fall 2022 and accompanied by a podcast. Other writing has appeared in Storied Dishes, Dime Stories, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, This Is the Way We Say Goodbye and The First Line, among others. Wilson is completing her memoir of launching a graphic design firm with two other women, during the 1970s, an era when few businesses were women-owned. The period was researched through a Wertheim Room Residency grant at the New York Public Library. In addition, Wilson moderates the New York Public Library’s One Page Poetry Circle at St. Agnes Branch, and produces the Annual Hundred Word Happening, a reading and writing event which has been held at the Marjorie Deane Little Theater, and most recently at the JCC in Manhattan.
5:55 p.m. James Barickman (poet)
6:05 p.m. Monique Erickson (poet)
Monique Erickson is a poet, performer, and publisher from New York City. She is the founder and editor of Lonesome Press. She has been featured in NYT, NYMAG, WSJ, WWD, Another, Dazed, Purple, Paper, Reserved, White Hot Mag, and Live Mag! In another life, she served as the longtime commercial director of the heritage brand Erickson Beamon.
6:15 p.m. Ashley D. Escobar (poet)
Ashley D. Escobar is a fiction MFA candidate at Columbia University and the author of a debut poetry chapbook called SOMETIMES (Invisible Hand Press). She co-edits Wind-up Mice literary and art journal and publishes a quarterly zine called We Are in the Shop. Her work can be found in Hobart, The London Magazine, Expat Press, and elsewhere.
6:25 p.m. Jay Gaunt (poet)
6:35 p.m. Teresa Gelsomini (poet)