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Special thanks to our festival team, Joanna Fuhrman, Ron Kolm, and Lisa Rogal, who curated the poetry with me; Dennis Moritz who curated the Poets Theater Festival; and Brandon Downing...

Review by Thomas DevaneyPregretsAnselm BerriganBlack Square EditionsAnselm Berrigan keeps a notebook. He’s been filling them up at least since the mid-’90s. Roughly between 1996 and 2000, I saw him filling-up...

Interview by Elinor NauenWhy must the method for writing poetry differ from that of prose?Poetry is not made of sentences, though the poet might decide to use sentences at any...

Sun. June 5, 1:00 p.m. Freddy’s Bar and Backroom 627 5th Ave. (17th/18th St.) South Slope, Brooklyn                 1:15 p.m. Todd Carlstrom Todd...

Colossus, also called The Upside(Manic Phase)Heart like a beehive, mind like a Kasai pagoda,I am Theodore Roosevelt in a Marcus Aurelius onesie,built for the long game, coming any minuteover a...

Interview by Sue VisakowitzPoet Stacy Szymaszek announced on her website in November 2021 that she had a “poem in Castle Grayskull but I can’t tell you where to find it.”...

by Alex EmanuelIt happens every spring, baseball that is, our National Pastime. For a while there the nation wasn’t sure if baseball would be happening this spring, however, and with...

Issue 147, March 2022 editor/publisherDavid A. Kirschenbaumeditor@boogcity.com poetry editorJohn Mulrooneypoetry@boogcity.com poets theater editorBill Considinepoetstheater@boogcity.com small press editorSue Visakowitzsmallpress@boogcity.com counselIan S. Wildercounsel@boogcity.com Paper is copyright Boog City, all rights revert to...

WATCH THE FESTIVALwith Illustrated Festival Schedule—Day 1: Poetry and music—Day 2: 17th Boog Poets Theater Festival, Poetry, Music, Classic Album: Singles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)—Day 3: Poetry and Music  MASTHEAD  FEATURES:TRACEY...

How it StartsIn its pre-dawn, concert-hall hush,the meadow’s plushly puffed,its loose-elbowed sleevessummer-bumbled and electric.Over this pink symphonic wreckage,the chorus shifts its weight, takes the milkweed for a baton,   conductingand conductive,nodding at...