Next month, from Thurs. Sept. 18-Sun. Sept. 21, we’ll be putting on the second annual Welcome to Boog City poetry and music festival. It will feature performances from 49 poets, 13 musical acts, and one theater company over the four days. Among the highlights are: —a night devoted to Durham, N.C. small press minor/american; —a live performance of Lou Reed’s New York album for its 20th anniversary by seven different musical acts; —a performance of a wickedly comic tale of love and lust in a time of war from the prototypical New York School poet Frank O’Hara; —our 5th annual small, small press fair, with exhibits from a dozen different small presses, and readings by their authors; —a discussion on Race and Poetry: Integrating…
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He’s also got a new reading series in Brooklyn. Coming up: September 17: Colic + Gardinier + Liu Bring your queer ears forth to hear September’s Uncalled-For poets: DANICA COLIC SUZANNE GARDINIER & TIMOTHY LIU Wednesday September 17 / 7 pm /free DANICA COLIC lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at Hunter College, where she also received her MFA. Her poems have appeared in Terrain, Realpoetik, Arts & Letters, and Pebble Lake Review. SUZANNE GARDINIER is the author of The New World, A World That Will Hold All the People, and Today: 101 Ghazals. Next year Sheep Meadow will publish another of her long poems, called Dialogue with the Archipelago. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Manhattan. TIMOTHY LIU has two…
