Poetry/ Anselm Berrigan
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="681"] Bill Russell[/caption] Poem written just before turning fifty Mickey Mantle didn't believe he'd make it to fifty, a book told me. David told me...
Poets Theater/ Ellen Pober Rittberg
by Olena JenningsOlga was performing at the Stray Dog Cabaret in the basement of building No. 5 St. Michael’s Square, not far from Nevsky Prospect. Anna was going to the...
Poetry/ Marc Vincenz
In a History of Half-Light In all these measures, in the fields, across the treetops, into the crag and bluster, the muscled-in, the go-without, it goes without saying, and this...
Poetry/ Louise Viera
Rehash X s 4 A Love Song always there were cows across the hardtop like statues except for their jointed jawsand intimacies they shared with...
Poetry/ Alex Machado
My Body as Experiment My upper right thigh bares a stick-and-poke linecreated at sunset, birthed from a bottle of Fernetand a whole pack of camel reds on East Beachwhen we had nowhere else...
The October Project 2022: Brooklyn
Brooklyn-tinged epistles between David A. Kirschenbaum and Sean Cole - October 1 Dear Sean, 70 years ago, in the summer of 1952, my dad, Irwin, was 22. He...
From the Archive: Booglit 2, Nov. 1996, N.Y.C. Issue
I was going to say this is one of my favorite issues, but then I realized I say that very often, which I think is a positive thing. I love...
The Portable Boog Reader 1A: Philadelphia (2001)
Artist's StatementIn November 2000 Boog put out the first Portable Boog Reader, an instant anthology of NYC poetry. But the press had always featured work from outside of the five...
Death Becomes Him: The Sheen of Language in Lewis Warsh’s Elixir
Review by Ryan NowlinElixirLewis WarshUgly Duckling Presse,2022 In an earlier book of Lewis Warsh’s, Avenue of Escape, in the poem “Entering Night,” he writes “You could hope for an act of...
Boog Leap Day 2000
I love to honor Leap Day, it started with these two chapbooks from Ed Berrigan and Prageeta Sharma for an event at the C-Note on Feb. 29, 2000 with a performance...