Now available for the first time since its only printing of 100 copies in March 1997, it’s
Booglit 3
Women We Need
Here’s my editor’s note from the issue:
The idea of publishing an all women’s issue during women’s history month smacks of being gimmicky even to me, though no more so than the month’s designation itself. That said, I did it because every single artist in this issue would be in these pages any month of the year and this was a good excuse to bring them all together. Their voices are distinct, from the quirkiness of Marianne Vitale to the sentiment of Sara Van Norman, from the wisdom of Hettie Jones to the pop culture prose of Alison Dorfman. This is not about being Esquire, of hiring some old boys club writers to pay homage to the fair sex. This is not necessarily about women we love. This is about women we need.
(with much thanks to my parents, who kept in my old bedroom the copy I gifted them oh so long ago, as I’m away from my archive at present.) https://wordpress.boogcity.com/booglit-3-women-we-need-march-1997/ Featuring:
—Poetry from:
•Sara Van Norman with “heavy”
•Marcella Durand with “City of Ports 10”
•Wanda Phipps with “morning poem #18, 10/3/96”
•Tricia Roush with an untitled poem
•Katherine A. Burch with “The Buffalo in Battalion Headquarters”
•Hettie Jones with “If it is not n this bag, if it is not
•Marianne Vitale with “WHAT IF THE SICK HAD NUTS?”
•Brenda Coultas with “Calendar”
•Lee Ann Brown with “The Day the War Started”
•Sharon Mesmer with “The Wench is Willing”
—Prose from:
•Janine Pommy Vega with “An excerpt from ‘Tracking the Serpent: Journeys to Four Continents’”
•Alison Dorfman with “Golden Arches”
•Krista Weaver with “The End? It’s Not So Bad.”
•Hope Forstenzer with “To Go Back”
Art from:
•Daisy Wake
•Madeline Hope Arthurs
Plus our usual swell content:
—scenes …
•Albany report from Dan Wilcox
•Boston report from Daniel Bouchard
•Buffalo report from Michael Basinski
…and zines
•Kate Stickley with a zine round-up on
—Dirigible: Journal of Language Art
—The Leather Mutants, and
—Demos
•Mary Anne Christiano on JACKPOT!