by Alex Emanuel It 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...
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...
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...
pupa jubilee“According to the book of Leviticus; on the 49th year, the Jubilee will be proclaimed, whereupon all debts are cancelled, land returned to the dispossessed, all prisoners and slaves...
[su_pullquote align="right"]Fordham Road, Bronx, January 2022[/su_pullquote] GREG FUCHS teaches students with disabilities to trust themselves and question everything. He writes poems and makes photographs. Fuchs survives beneath the underground but surfaces...
Black OpalBlack Opal,born from a burden,named by hisblack, beady eyes,he toppled in tree tops,climbed in cavernscovered in clod and dusthe hid behind bushesto shun the shinefrom the ginger sunand he...
star pocketornament of the nebulonon which I rest my wristpocket of starsoutside the dream but still dreamingI was being kissed by one I love but whoin real lifedoesn’t love medream...