Cleveland by MidnightThese were the first two days of Boog, August 5-6, 1991, 30 years ago. We were headed to Cleveland because of d.a. levy and planned to visit Euclid...
In May of 1992 Boog held its first reading ever, in Albany, NY at Boulevard Books to celebrate the release of our first collection, zaftig: an anthology of sex poetry...
[caption id="attachment_10822" align="alignleft" width="1024"] Ed Berrigan, Katie Yates, and Julian Brolaski at Welcome to Boog City 3 Arts Festival, September 2009 at Brooklyn's Unnameable Books. Dan Wilcox photo.[/caption] Albany’s Dan Wilcox...
I’m excited to consider myself a Boog participant for a third of its 30 years, bookended for me at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn from the summer of 2011 (a week...
The summer of 2006, the summer I turned 23, David Kirschenbaum invited me to write a poem for issue 37 of Boog City, a baseball issue. I have never been a...
III.- Words cannot be wholly transparent. And that is the heartlessness of words. —George Oppen [su_pullquote align="right"]E-mail correspondence came about as an antidote to this loneliness, this lack of a...
Reviews by Tony Tone Plica Fimbriata #238 pages, full color, $12Textured Elevation #144 pages, full color, $12Yoko OK When something spins really fast, like a tornado, a spiral galaxy, or...
Interview by Sara LautmanI've known Yoko OK and her work since 2008. Our projects together (the longest running being our bands, Lady Bright and Tight Little Ship) pushed me into...
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...