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Jugs of Water [su_pullquote align="right"]‘I used to take a moment at the pump to bend down and tie my shoes, but they’ve rotted into strips and I’ve let them go, like...

Review by Jill Stengel Tender Points Amy Berkowitz Nightboat Books This story, Tender Points, is a true story. It is autobiographical. It is also a biography, of chronic pain. It...

by Jim Dunn Yours Presently: The Selected Letters of John Wieners edited by Seth Stewart University of New Mexico Press In the first letter in The Selected Letters of John...

Review by Bevil TownsendMade to ExplodeSandra BeasleyW.W. Norton & Company Sandra Beasley’s latest book, Made to Explode, is a vital force for understanding humanity during these times of unrest. In the...

In another life I was a dancer  I liked to whirl myself into a gauzy cocoon  I performed dolefully sometimes  Broadening beyond the brink of the stage Spectators called this...

ED SANDERS is a poet and performer whose roots go back to the Beats. During the Vietnam War, he was active in the antiwar movement and founded the Peace Eye...

scabrosa trying to catch up to the blunt-force typing  I promised myself  --  my true vocation -- this data entry that makes nobody money I had been curious  about the...

  From "The February Sonnets 2020" February 6 David tore my last poem into quarters after I’d read it to the part of America that isn’t David. I tore up...

Countdown to Plants and PlanetsGerard’s herball says why look up at the sky when all around your feet are these green beings ready to be seen?Atria are receiving rooms of heart’s blood– Where...

We'd love to hear what you think of the site. Email me to editor@boogcity.com with any feedback.as ever,DavidIssue 144, August 2021editor/publisherDavid A. Kirschenbaum editor@boogcity.comfiction editor Wanda Phipps fiction@boogcity.compoetry editor John...