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Issue One, January 28-February 10, 2002

-The Beginning of a Great Adventure, opening editorial on why Boog City by editor and publisher David Kirschenbaum

-Lexicons from Erwin Karl (homeland security), Dan Rigney (good), and Dale Smith (the dead)
-Greg Fuchs on art in a post-September 11 world
-Kimberly Wilder’s Notes from My FBI File: Hey Bush--Sanctity, Sanctity Yourself

-Poems from:

David Baratier
Anselm Berrigan
Sean Cole
John Coletti
Ethan Fugate
Lisa Jarnot
Eliot Katz
Aaron Kiely
Eileen Myles
Wanda Phipps,
Kristin Prevallet
Jenny Smith—cover
Lorenzo Thomas
Ian Wilder

-art by Brendan Iijima
-photos from Fuchs

Issue Two, Feb. 11-24, 2002

—World Economic Forum (WEF) Coverage and photos

*Greg Fuchs's column, "It Takes A Global Village Idiot: Attention all
dunderheaded journalists, look this way"
*Notes from the WEF from Ian and Kimberly Wilder
*Lexicons from Laura Elrick (security) and David Hess (war)

—Nevermind Forever: Kurt Cobain at 35

*Reflections on Kurt from Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo
*With poems from Buck Downs, Arielle Greenberg, and Hoa Nguyen, and a special Boogside, centerfold pullout of Eileen Myles’ poem “Kurt”
*from the editor’s notebook the night/morning after Kurt Cobain’s suicide was discovered
*An excerpt from Charles Cross’s Cobain bio, Heavier than Heaven
*A vintage piece on Nevermind, circa 1992, by TimeOutNY’s Tom Gogola

-Kimberly Wilder's Notes from My FBI File: Welcome Back WBAI

-San Francisco Bay Area section, with poetry and prose from Mary Burger, Trane DeVore, Lauren Gudath, Beth Murray, Chris Stroffolino, Delia Tramontina, and Elizabeth Treadwell
And art from DeVore, David Larsen, and Will Yackulic

-Columbus, Ohio section edited by Pavement Saw’s David Baratier,
with poems from Steve Abbott, Stephen Mainard, and Julie Otten

-WBUR's "Here and Now" roving poet Jim Behrle on the New England
Patriots, Super Bowl Champion

-Poems from Edmund Berrigan, Sue Landers, and James Wilk
-Aaron Kiely reviews Skies by Eileen Myles
-Photos from Brian Ach, Chet Gordon, Kimberly Wilder
-Art from Zachary Wollard

Issue Three, Feb. 25-March 10, 2002

-Information on how to run a Third-Party candidacy by Ian and Kimberly Wilder
-Craig Seeman, chair of New York’s Green Party, offers strategies on competing in America’s two-party landscape
-Kimberly Wilder's Notes from My FBI File: Monkeywrenching with Minnie the Cat
-Columnist Greg Fuchs on "Anarchy: The Secret to Democracy in the U.S.A."
-Review of the play Runt of the Litter by Brian Ach
-Tom Devaney reviews FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans
-Burka lexicon from Gerald Schwartz

Poems from:

Eliot Katz-cover
Edward Sanders-centerfold Boogside, excerpt from America, a History in Verse, volume 2, “Henry Wallace, Third Party Candidate in 1948”

*Coletti and Friends—readers for his Boog chapbook pub party. Readers selected by John, work selected by me
Ed Berrigan, I Feel Tractor song lyrics
John Coletti
Betsy Fagin
Greg Fuchs
Mariana Ruiz-Firmat

*non-themed work
Charles Bernstein
Caitlin Mcdonnell
Kent Taylor

Photos from Brian Ach, Vivian Demuth, Eliot Katz,

Art from Nicole Michels

Issue 4, March 11-25, 2002

The Rock, Rock, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Issue

Featuring:
-The induction of the Ramones and the Talking Heads by James Wilk
-With interviews by music editor James Wilk of Hilly Kristal, owner of CBGB’s; Seymour Stein, the man who signed both bands; and Linda Stein, co-manager of the Ramones.
-A Centerfold poster of The Ramones playing CBGB’s in 1977
-James Wilk reviews Joey Ramone’s recently released solo album
-Nancy Seewald reviews Richard Hell’s book Hot and Cold
-Greg Fuchs expounds on the relevance of critic laureate Lester Bangs
-The editor on seeing The Ramones in Montreal

Poem by Emma Straub

Photos by Brian Ach and Danny Fields.

Issue 5, April 8, 2002

Antifolk: The Next Small Thing.

Featuring:
-A look into the new New York underground music scene by James Wilk
-A tour diary of Major Matt Mason USA’s (AKA Matt Roth’s) travels through England
-James Wilk reviews albums from the Olive Juice Records catalogue, the DIY collective of local heroes
-Major Matt Mason centerfold poster with lyrics to song “rockstar”
-Think Local … Music, says the editor

Holy Shit: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, writes our music editor Wilk from the scene of The Ramones and The Talking Heads’ inductions.

Contemporary art hits the streets: A review of the free biennial around New York city this April by Dan Rigney

Buffalo Beat by Michael Basinski

Fiction by Sharon Mesmer

Poems by:

Veronica Corpuz
Alan Gilbert
Daniel Kane
Noelle Kocot
Lisa Lubasch

Art by Brenda Iijima

Photo by Brian Ach, Peter Dizozza, and Marshall Kappel.

Issue 6, April 22, 2002

The Baseball issue

The editor on growing up a Mets fan

Columnist Greg Fuchs on Our Other National Pastime—War

Poems from:

Marcella Durand
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Kevin Gallagher
David Hadbawnik
Owen Hill
Bill Luoma
Sharon Mesmer
Carol Mirakove
Elinor Nauen—centerfold broadside
Ann Elliott Sherman
Ed Smith

Prose from:

Angela Bowering
George Bowering
Don Byrd and Pierre Joris
Tom Devaney
Basil King

Stacee Sledge reviews the new album from The Mysteries of Life

Drawing Conclusions: Cartoonists Take on 9/11 by Gary Sullivan

Comic, The Cheerleader by Javelin P

Non-Baseball poems from:

Philip Good
Chris Martin
Stephen Paul Miller

Art by Karine Duteil and Melissa Zexter
Photos by Brian Ach, Melissa Zexter

Issue 7, May 6, 2002

It’s Belladonna* Baby

Featuring:
-Poet Anne Waldman visits one of the city’s best reading series. Here she and its curator, Rachel Levitsky, discuss poetry and activism.
-Anne Waldman centerfold Boogside
-Juliana Spahr tells us what’s so special about Belladonna*
-Judi Silverman on Bluestockings women’s bookstore
-The editor on Belladonna* founding editor/curator Levitsky

Columnist Greg Fuchs says Let’s Organize Yusef Komunyakaa to Help Save National Poetry Month

A Punk in the Academy: What’s in the water at UMass @Amherst, where indie rockers like The Pernice Brothers, The Silver Jews, Rising Shotgun, and The Figments have all studied with poetry professor James Tate? Music editor James Wilk finds out.

Chris Stroffolino on his former professor James Tate

Frank Sherlock on Brandon Downing’s new book Shirt Weapon

Stephen Dignan on The Myth of Fingerprints: Lumumba’s Vision of a United Africa Comes to Harlem

Poems from:

Public school students and
Ed Berrigan
Bob Hershon
Rebecca Reynolds

Comic from Trane Devore

Art from Karine Duteil and Gary Sullivan.

Photos by Brian Ach, Greg Fuchs, and David Kirschenbaum.

Issue 8, August 2003

Poetry on 1977/1978 edited by Arielle Greenberg,
with work from:

Melissa Anderson
Liz Brown
Maile Chapman
Sean Cole
C.S. Giscombe
Christopher Kennedy
Sarah Manguso
Chelsey Minnis
Edwin Torres

and an editorial from Arielle

and non-themed work:

• a Nick Piombino poem
• Jane Sprague reviews Mariana Ruiz Firmat’s new chapbook
• Nancy Seewald reviews two East Village restaurants
• Greg Fuchs’s column returns with his letter from the President
• Brenda Iijima art
• a Greg Fuchs photo
• and an editorial and essay on Elvis Costello by the editor

Issue 9, September 2003

It's the Bay Area issue, featuring:

—Stephanie Young's travel guide to Oakland, complete with a detailed list of places to eat, shop, visit, and play.

—Small press editor Jane Sprague on Meritage Press

—poetry from Taylor Brady, Del Ray Cross, Donna de la Perrière, Joseph Lease, James Meetze, Catherine Meng, Chris Stroffolino, Eileen Tabios, Delia Tramontina, and Stephanie Young

—photos from Staci Foley Marengo and Andrew Nevin Rado

and non-Bay Area stuff:

—columnist-at-large Greg Fuchs on the community supported agriculture movement

—Nancy Seewald's Eating Well on a Lousy But Steady Income takes on Caracas Arepa Bar

—Stacee Sledge on Juliana Hatfield's new band, Some Girls, featuring her ex-Blake Babies bandmate Freda Love

Issue 10, October 2003

—Columnist-at-large Greg Fuchs’s interview with Poetry Project incoming artistic director Anselm Berrigan on the eve of the project’s new season. Includes some great Fuchs photographs of, and a poem by, Berrigan.

—Small press editor Jane Sprague on Albert Flynn DeSilver’s The Owl Press.

—Nancy Seewald's Eating Well on a Lousy But Steady Income on Bona Fides
Italian restaurant.

—sex poetry from:

kari Edwards, Bruna Mori, Hannah Nijinsky, Chris Pusateri, Anthony Robinson, and Aaron Tieger

Issue 11, November 2003

The Brenda issue

featuring:

—Music editor Jon Berger on Brenda Kahn, Brenda Lee, Brenda Strong, and Brenda Weiler

—Joel Lipman reviews Brenda Starr: Girl Reporter

—Jonathan Skinner reviews Brenda Coultas' A Handmade Museum

—Kristen Hanlon on Brenda Hillman and Patricia Dienstfrey's The Grand Permission: New Writings on Motherhood and Poetics

—poems from:

Brenda Bordofsky, Brenda Coultas, Brenda Hillman, and Brenda Iijima

—art from Brenda Iijima

and non-Brenda content:

—Small press editor Jane Sprague on James Meetze's Tougher Disguises Press.

—Nancy Seewald's Eating Well on a Lousy But Steady Income on Itzocan Café.

—editorial on Elliott Smith

Issue 12, December 2003

featuring:

—Columnist-at-large Greg Fuchs interviews Major Douglas Martin, Chief Officer of Santa Tracking at NORAD.

—East Village Editor Merry Fortune on the neighborhood she's known and the Whole Earth Bakery

—B. Friday reviews Jim Flynn's Stranger to the System, a collection of minibiographies of some homeless people living in and around Tompkins Square Park.

—Nancy Seewald's Eating Well on a Lousy But Steady Income on Lil Frankie's.

—Music editor Jon Berger on The Domestics debut CD and what CDs to give your loved ones for the holidays (by artists whose CDs there's no chance they already own).

—Steve Carll on Continuous Peasant's debut CD.

—Small press editor Jane Sprague on Dana Ward's Cy Press.

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Joanna Sondheim, debuts with:

—Eugene Lim on Toby Olson's The Blond Box
—Jill Magi on Yedda Morrison's Crop
—Kathleen Peterson on Robert Duncan's Letters: Poems 1953-1956
—Corey Frost on Gail Scott's My Paris

Poems from:

Shanna Compton
John Erhardt
Dan Fisher
Gigi Oliver
Robert Paredez

art from Brenda Iijima

Issue 13, February 2004

The issue includes a 16-page clip-n-fold insert of
The Tangent (#14, February 2004),
a zine of politics and the arts based in St. Mary's City, Maryland

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the Boog City portion features:

-Columnist-at-large Greg Fuchs interviews Steven Cuiffo, a.k.a. Russello, The New Hot Conjurer.

-East Village editor Merry Fortune interviews sculptor Eddie Boros.

-Tsaurah Litzky remembers her friend, poet Enid Dame.

-Music editor Jon Berger on Simone White's debut CD.

-Eugene Lim on Kevin Davies' Lateral Argument

Poems from:

-David Harrison Horton
-Yuri Hospodar
-Cassie Lewis

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The Tangent portion features:

Art from:

-Philippe Boisnard
-Colby Caldwell
-Erika Weaver

Essays from:

-Max Boykoff on "Global Warming and Its Discontents."

-Neal "Backstreet" Sand's "Impressions of a City:
Film Geek Takes a Bite out of the Apple."

Poems from:

Susana Gardner
Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Chris Nealon
Tom Orange
Frank Sherlock

The Tangent editorial collective is

Jules Boykoff
Max Boykoff
Kaia Sand
Neal Sand

*Issue 14, March 2004

-Columnist-at-large Greg Fuchs interviews Gianna Chachere, the new director of programming at the Two Boots Pioneer (Movie) Theater.

-East Village editor Merry Fortune on longtime Lower East Sider, poet, playwright, fiction writer Carl Watson.

-New York state Green Party co-chair Ian S. Wilder on New Paltz, N.Y. Mayor Jason West and gay marriage.

-Music editor Jon Berger on Schwervon!’s sophomore CD and U.K. musician Misterlee, who will be playing some dates in downtown NYC in early April

-Small press editor Jane Sprague on Aaron Tieger's CARVE magazine and the small press conference she recently organized in Ithaca, N.Y.

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Joanna Sondheim, features:

-Tom Devaney on Robert Creeley's If I were writing this
-Eugene Lim on David Markson's Vanishing Point
-Nicholas Leaskou on the Jen Hofer edited Sin Puertas Visibles:
An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women

Our Poetry section, edited by Stephanie Young, features poems from:

-Tina Celona Brown
-Eli Drabman
-David Hadbawnik
-Simon Perchik
-Eleni Sikelianos

-art from Brenda Iijima

-photos from Greg Fuchs, Eric Lippe, and Victoria Luther

Issue 15, April 2004

-Photographer Nicolaus Czarnecki presents portraits from the New York City March for the Global Day of Action. New York state Green Party co-chair Ian S. Wilder provides the accompanying text.

-Incoming East Village Editor Paulette Powell previews Butch McCloud, a live-action lesbian musical comic book serial theatrical performance.

-Nancy Seewald's Eating Well on a Lousy But Steady Income on the restaurant Ginger.

-Music editor Jon Berger on piano man Kenny Davidsen, redjacket's new EP, and the vaudeville roots of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."

-Small press editor Jane Sprague on Noah Eli Gordon's Braincase Press.

-Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Tale #16, a comic from Jeffrey Lewis

-Cy Press editor Dana Ward on watching a ballgame in his hometown of Cincinnati at the Great American Ballpark.

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Joanna Sondheim, featuring reviews by:

-Jill Magi on Betsy Andrews' She-Devil (Sardines Press).
-Alexander Samsky on George Bowering's Baseball: A Poem in the Magic Number 9 (Coach House Books).
-Solvey Schou on Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins' Dance of Days (Akashic Books), which maps out more than 20 years of Washington D.C.’s independent punk and hardcore scene.

Our Poetry section, edited one last time by the incomparable Stephanie Young (before she moves on to Bay Area projects), features poems from:

-Michael Farrell
-Rosemary Griggs
-Michael Vernon

And yours truly selected baseball poetry from:

-David-Baptiste Chirot
-Joel Lewis
-Ryan Murphy
-Shin Yu Pai
-Anne Waldman

Our graphics editor Brenda Iijima brings us art from

-Daisy Hulme
-Alan Sondheim

Issue 16, May 2004

-Music editor Jon Berger travels the East Village open mic circuit with 25-year veteran John Hodel and profiles Danny Kelly, who could be the hardest working man in AntiFolk.

-East Village editor Paulette Powell with her neighborhood beat report.

-Columnist-at-large Greg Fuchs on the march to legalize marijuana and profiling poet Stephen Rodefer.

-Nancy Seewald's Eating Well on a Lousy But Steady Income on the restaurant Lima's Taste.

-Cortney Powell on the origins of May Day.

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Joanna Sondheim, featuring reviews by:

-Katie Peterson on Fanny Howe's The Wedding Dress and Economics.
-Corina Copp on Lisa Robertson's Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

-Small press editor Jane Sprague on Tinfish Press

Our Poetry section, edited by new poetry editor Carol Mirakove, features poems from:

-Yedda Morrison
-Rodrigo Toscano
-Mark Wallace

-Art from James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook

-Photographs from Nicolaus Czarnecki, Greg Fuchs, Danny Kelly, and Christina Strong

Issue 17, June 2004

-Columnist-at-large Greg Fuchs interviews poet, performer, educator Anne Waldman on Naropa, Buddhism, gender, and more.

-Roger Hitts on his musical year in 1984 and what Prince's album Music from the Motion Picture Purple Rain meant to him.

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Joanna Sondheim, featuring reviews by:

-Nicholas Leaskou on Brenda Iijima's Around Sea.
-Eugene Lim on Eugene Marten's In the Blind.

-Music editor Jon Berger reviews Dani Linnetz's new album Caller Seventeen.

-Kathy Zimmer on JOANASPOLICEWOMAN's new self-titled ep.

-Small press editor Jane Sprague interviews Subpress Colective editors Daniel Bouchard, Jordan Davis, and Juliana Spahr.

-East Village editor Paulette Powell with her neighborhood beat report.

Our Poetry section, edited by poetry editor Carol Mirakove, features
work from:

-Douglas Rothschild
-Alan Semerdjian
-Elizabeth Treadwell

-Art from Betty Tompkins

-Photographs from Greg Fuchs and Michael Turlo

Issue 18, August 2004

-Columnist Tom Gogola recounts his time being "technically homeless."

-Roger Hitts travels back in time … to the East Village in the 1990s.

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Joanna Sondheim, featuring reviews by:

-Eugene Lim on Gilbert Sorrentino's The Moon in Its Flight.
-Eva Neuberg on Brooklyn Noir, edited by Tim McLoughlin.

Our Music section, edited by Jon Berger, featuring:

-Berger on Amy Hills and her new album Heroine.

-Eric Rosenfield on gay, Jewish rapper Soce the Elemental Wizard.

Our Poetry section, edited by Carol Mirakove, features work from:

-Allison Cobb
-Aaron Kunin
-Kevin Varrone

-Art from Inka Essenhigh

-A photo spread from Nick Czarnecki and a photograph from Monte McIndoe

Issue 19, September 2004

-Columnist Tom Gogola steps inside Madison Square Garden to cover the Republican National Convention.

-East Village editor Paulette Powell's beat report on investigative reporter Greg Palast.

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Joanna Sondheim, featuring reviews by:

-Valerie Deus on Susan Landers' 248 mgs., a panic picnic.
-David Vogen on Monica Youn's Barter.

Our Music section, edited by Jon Berger, features

-Berger on local Righteous Babe recording artist Hamell on Trial.

Our Poetry section, edited by Carol Mirakove, features work from:

-Ethan Fugate
-Heather Fuller
-Kim Rosenfield

-Art from Judy Simonian and Winston Smith

-A photo from Eric Lippe

*Issue 20, November 2004

-Columnist Tom Gogola on his last days as a mate helping people fish from a Sheepshead Bay party boat.

-East Village editor Paulette Powell's beat report on artist Lee Harvey, with one of his comic strips, too.

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Joanna Sondheim, featuring reviews by:

--Steve Dalachinsky on Wanda Phipps‚ Wake Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems

--Geoff Huth on Maria Damon and mIEKAL aND.’s E.n.t.r.a.n.c.e.d

Music editor Jon Berger on Coyote Shivers’ new double album

Our Poetry section, edited by Carol Mirakove, features work from:

--John Coletti
--Rob Fitterman
--hassen
--Karen Weiser

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Houston artist Robyn O’Neil

Issue 21, December 2004

-Columnist Tom Gogola documents his trouble with commuter rail cellphoners

-East Village editor Paulette Powell's beat report on comic book artist Arthur Suydam

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Joanna Sondheim, featuring reviews by:

--Katie Peterson on Eleni Sikelianos' The California Poem

--Joy Surles on Gloria Feldt's Exporting Extremism: How Anti-Choice Policies Threaten Women's Lives Around the World

Music editor Jon Berger on:
--The Dream Bitches, The Jeffrey Lewis Band, and Carter Tanton playing to help save Bronx community center Casa Del Sol from closure
--Shift, the new release from Just Jill

Our Poetry section, now edited by Dana Ward, features work from:

--Tanya Brolaski
--Jordan Davis
--Stacy Szymaszek

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from artist Ricardo Mbarak of France and Lebanon

A comic from Lee Harvey

Issue 22, February 2005

-East Village editor Paulette Powell's beat report on multimedia artist Fly, featuring some of her work.

Columnist Greg Fuchs on the late John Fisk, Poetry Project broadcast consultant and much more.

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Joanna Sondheim, featuring reviews by:
--Nicholas Leaskou on Truong Tran's Within the Margin
--Eugene Lim on Brian Evenson's The Wavering Knife

Music editor Jon Berger on The Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson's "Off the Sauce Party."

Erica Kaufman on The Feverfew's debut CD Apparitions, on Eyeball Records.

Our Poetry section, edited by Dana Ward, features work from:

--Amick Boone
--Noah Eli Gordon and Sara Veglahn
--Catherine Meng
--Chuck Stebolton

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from artist Johan Nobell of Stockholm, Sweden.

A new comic from Lee Harvey.

Issue 23, March 2005

East Village editor Paulette Powell's beat report on comic book artist Sophie Crumb--daughter of Aileen and R. Crumb--featuring some of her work.

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Joanna Sondheim, featuring:
--Kathleen Peterson on Aaron McCollough's Double Venus

Our Music section, edited by Jon Berger, featuring:
--Eric Rosenfield on the end of Luna Lounge on Ludlow Street, and downtown clubs in trouble
--Berger on Angela Carlucci's two new albums, Double Deuce's Camp Candy and The Baby Skins For a Boy with a Fractious Skull

Our Poetry section, edited by Dana Ward, features work from:
--Susan Landers
--James Meetze
--Alli Warren
--Tyrone Williams

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from artist Maho Kino of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Issue 24, April 2005

Brad Will writing from Brazil where the state is waging war on the squatters of Sohno Real

Joanna Fuhrman on the late Janet Richmond, poet, artist

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Joanna Sondheim, featuring:
--Alan Sondheim on Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl

Our Music section, edited by Jon Berger, featuring:
--Berger on the piano-led pop punk of The Drew Blood

Our Poetry section, edited by Dana Ward, features work from:
--Jim Behrle
--Anselm Berrigan
--Sean Cole
--John Coletti

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from artist Roberto Harrison of
Milwaukee.

Issue 25, May 2005

Photographer Mariah Aguiar reminisces about the early days of CBGB's to East Village editor Paulette Powell.

Roger Hitts on his CBGB's.

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Joanna Sondheim, featuring:
--Katie Peterson on Tomaz Salamun's Blackboards

Our Music section, edited by Jon Berger, featuring:
--Berger on the unclassifiable Kathy Zimmer
--Where You Should Be picks Kirk Kelly's Go Time! Benefit

Our Poetry section, edited by Dana Ward, features work from:

--Noah Falk
--Rodney Koeneke
--Cynthia Sailers

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from artist Lisa Kereszi of
Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Issue 26, June 2005

East Village editor Paulette Powell on the life of her friend, the late poet and curator Micki Siegel, with a poem by Micki and a tribute poem by Bruce Weber.

Our Printed Matter section, edited for the last time by the illustrious Joanna Sondheim, featuring:
--Nicholas Leaskou on Alice Jones' Gorgeous Morning

Our Music section, edited by Jon Berger, featuring:
--Morgan Roddick on The Mattoid and Talk Engine
--Where You Should Be picks Cross-Pollination

Our Poetry section, edited by Dana Ward, features work from:
--Joshua Corey
--Drew Gardner
--Steven Vincent
--Stephanie Young

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from artist Pali Kashi of
Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Issue 27, August 2005

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger, featuring:
--Berger on downtown musician, and member of the band Cheese On Bread, Dan Fishback
--Where You Should Be picks The Fort at the Sidewalk Cafe

Our Printed Matter section, edited for the first time by Jean-Paul Pecqueur, featuring:
--Erica Kaufman on Gary Sullivan's comic Elsewhere
--Joshua Corey on the debut issue of the poetry journal The Tiny

Our Poetry section, edited by Dana Ward, features work from:
--Bruce Covey
--Ange Mlinko
--Mark Tardi
--Matvei Yankelevich

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from artist Johannah Rodgers of
Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Issue 28, September/October 2005

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger, featuring:
--Berger on Curtis Eller's American Circus and Don McCloskey's Bombs Over Bristol
--Roger Hitts on all that is his Courtney Love

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Jean-Paul Pecqueur, featuring:
--Nick Bredie on Maria Damon and mIEKAL aND's pleasure-TEXT-possession
--Pecqueur on John Olson's Oxbow Kazoo

Our Poetry section, edited by Dana Ward, features work from:
--Julia Cohen
--Michael Cross
--Dylan Michel
--K. Silem Mohammad

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from artist Anna Tsouloufi of Chicago.

Issue 29, November 2005

Our Features section, edited by Paulette Powell, featuring:
--Kelli Bickman on her pilgrimage to India
--Powell on yoga instructor Pahztrami

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger, featuring:
--Berger on Tamara Hey's Right This Minute and The Paula's Chamar a si Mesmo de Eu

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Jean-Paul Pecqueur, featuring:
--Matt Briggs on Sharon Mesmer's In Ordinary Time

Our Poetry section, edited by Dana Ward, features work from:
--Evan Commander
--David Pavelich
--Erik Sweet
--Rodrigo Toscano

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from artist Anne Diggory of
Saratoga Springs, NY.

Issue 30, December 2005

Our Features section, edited by Paulette Powell, featuring:
--Powell on Sarah and Nick and the Misled Youth Network
--Charles Laurence on the Johnny Cash he knew

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger, featuring:
--Berger on new releases from past feature subjects: Brer Brian, Dibs, John Hodel, Misterlee, Alan Semerdjian, and Soce the Elemental Wizard

Our Printed Matter section, featuring:
--Brian Clements on Sandy McIntosh's The After-Death History of My Mother and SleepingFish, issue 0.75, edited by Derek White
--Michael Cross on Sasha Steensen's A Magic Book
--Adam Fieled on Jennifer Moxley's Often Capital
--Noah Eli Gordon on Christopher Stackhouse's Slip and
Joshua Marie Wilkinson's Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms

Our new Politics section, edited by Deanna Zandt, features work from:
--Matt Levy on the socio-cultural history of the bicycle in NYC
--Poems from Shappy and Sparrow

Our Poetry section, edited by Dana Ward, features work from:
--Jack Kimball
--Tanya Larkin
--Jon Leon
--Christina Strong

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from artist Florencia Böhtlingk of Buenos Aires and Misiones Jungle, Argentina.

Issue 31, March 2006

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger featuring:
--Dan Fishback on anti-folk musician Casey Holford.

Our Features section, edited by Paulette Powell featuring:
--Powell on Sweden’s premier cartoonist, Martin Kellerman.

Our Printed Matter section, now edited by Mark Lamoureux featuring:
--Mackenzie Carignan on Jill Magi's Cadastral Map (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs).
--Laura Carter on Dorothea Lasky's Alphabets & Portraits (Anchorite Press).

Our Politics section, edited by Deanna Zandt features work from:
---Zandt on My Wish List for 2006.

Our Poetry section, edited by Dana Ward features work from:
-- Michael Carr
-- Brandon Brown
---Logan Ryan
---Nada Gordon with Porpo-Thang

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Sue Coe, who has pieces in the collections of many major museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Boog City 32, April 2006

Our Politics section, edited by Deanna Zandt, featuring:
Zandt’s interview with Nathaniel Siegel

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger, featuring:
---Jonathan Berger on Musician-Poet Belowsky
--- Eric Rosenfield on Pop Lyrics as Poetry and Vice Versa by

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring:
--Erica Kaufman on Jen Benka's a box of longing with fifty drawers
(Soft Skull Press).
--Scott Glassman on Christopher Rizzo's Zing (Carve Editions)

Our Poetry section, edited one last time by the stellar Dana Ward, featuring work from:
-- Anne Boyer
-- Jeremy Bushnell
-- Pat Clifford
-- Karen Weiser

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Laura Cinti's The Cactus
Project (2001 - ), a collaborative biotechnological art project resulting in
cacti expressing human hair.

and photos from Melanie Einzig, Ragan McNeely, and Stacy Syzmacek.

Boog City 33, May 2006

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger, featuring:
-- Bergeron The Incredibly Strange Saga of Christopher X. Brodeur by Brian Homa
-- Berger on What You Should See: Schwervon! New CD Party

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring:
--Ellen Baxt on Jessica Smith's Organic Furniture Cellar (Outside Voices)
--John Mulrooney on Michael Carr's Platinum Blonde (Fewer & Further Press)

Our Features section, now edited by Stephen Dignan, featuring:
--Dignan on Novelist and Curator Amanda Stern.

Our Politics section, edited by Deanna Zandt, featuring:
-- New York State Green Party Co-Chair Ian S. Wilder on ‘Warmed-over Issues: Two Years Later, What¹s the Most Important Issue in the Election, Again’

Our Poetry section, edited for the first time by Laura Elrick and
Rodrigo Toscano featuring work from:
-- Renee Gladman
-- Bob Perelman
-- Chris Alexander

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Bushwick, Brooklyn's
Sean McCarthy.

And photos from Martin Hägglund, Andy Nunn, and Steve Wiley.

Boog City 34, June 2006

Our Politics section featuring:
--Sander Hicks on Media Activist Hicks on the Green Party Trail

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring:
--Lamoureux on Sandra Simonds's Steam
--Scott Glassman on Daniel Nester's The History of My World Tonight (Blazevox)

Our Music section, edited by Jon Berger, featuring
-- Phoebe Kreutz’s Anarchy in the Phoebe (Kreutz, That Is): Our Hardcore Folk Singer Makes it to England--And Back!

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Chelsea's Sook Jin Jo***

Our Poetry section, edited by Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano, featuring work from:
--Sally Silvers
--Harlem's LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
--Jill Magi

And photos from Sander Hicks and Phoebe Kreutz.

Boog City 35, July 2006

Our Politics section, now edited by Christina Strong, featuring:
--Strong on Stepping into Another Up-and-Coming Neighborhood

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux featuring:
-- Susana Gardner on Dusie's DIY Chapbook Exchange Project

Our Music section, edited by Jon Berger, featuring:
--Berger on Grey Revell's return after three years
-- Eric Rosenfield onSong and Void's Beautiful; Multi-Instrumentalist Abesamis

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from DUMBO's Sarah Trigg

Our Poetry section, edited by Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano, featuring work from:
-- Dan Machlin
-- Paolo Javier
-- Kristen Gallagher

And photos from Mark Lamoureux and Christina Strong.

Boog City 36, Sept. 2006

Our Music section, edited by Jon Berger, featuring:
---Nicole Chin on Musician Erin Regan
--Jon Berger on Larissa Shmailo¹’s CD

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring:
-- Lamoureux on Gary Sullivan’s A Walk Down Amnesia Lane, Elsewhere #2
-- Jennifer Firestone on Kate Greenstreet’s Mind Over Over-Mind, Learning the Language

Our Politics section, edited by Christina Strong, featuring:
--Strong on street festivals: ‘No Fried Dough or Sausages’

Our Features section, edited by Stephen Dignan, featuring:
-- Digman on Visiting the Union Square Farmers’ Market

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from The Bronx's Johnathan
Neal

Our Poetry section, edited by Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano featuring work from:
--James Cook
--Jeremy Gardner
--Urayoán Noe
--Zhang Er

And photos from Raymond Doherty, Mark Lamoureux, and Christina Strong

Boog City 37, Oct. 2006

About this month's paper:

Boog City 37 is the press's latest baseball issue. I assembled 25
poets, the number of people on a baseball roster. Each poet was then
assigned a different position on the team and asked to pick anyone who
had ever played their position, be they in Major League Baseball, the
Negro Leagues, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League,
the minor leagues, college, the schoolyard, or anywhere else, and
write a poem about them.

This issue is 50% larger than our usual size

Here's our team:

Starters

Pitcher George Bowering Satchel Paige
Catcher Ammiel Alcalay Bob Tillman
First Base Elinor Nauen Buck O’Neil
Second Base Bill Luoma Robinson Cano
Third Base Susan Schultz Albert Pujols
Shortstop Douglas Rothschild Marty Marion
Left Field Bob Holman Frank Robinson
Center Field Anselm Berrigan Bernie Williams
Right Field Marcella Durand Paul O'Neill

Reserves

Starting Pitcher Jim Behrle Fernando Valenzuela
Starting Pitcher Basil King Sandy Koufax
Starting Pitcher Jill Magi Laura Rose
Relief Pitcher Joel Kuszai John Hiller
Relief Pitcher Edmund Berrigan Jack Warhop
Relief Pitcher Lee Ranaldo Hoyt Wilhelm
Relief Pitcher Joanna Sondheim Steve Howe
Relief Pitcher Alli Warren Rollie Fingers
Closer Jean-Paul Pecqueur Kazuhiro Sasaki

Catcher Spike Vrusho Jerry May
1B/OF Maureen Thorson John Olerud
2B/SS Amy King Dorothy “Dottie” Schroeder
2B/SS/3B Lauren Russell Bud Fowler
LF/CF David Hadbawnik Barry Bonds
CF/RF Scott MX Turner Curt Flood
OF Nathaniel Siegel Glenn Burke

And baseball-themed art from Melissa Zexter.

Boog City 38, Dec. 2006

Our Politics section, edited by Christina Strong, featuring articles on

Brad Will Presente!
-- Mark Read in ‘Brad Will Presente!’
--Brenda Coutlas on his New Year¹s Day 2006, Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church Marathon Reading
-- Chuck Collins on Brad Will Presente and Govenor Ulises Ruiz
-- Marcella Durand in ‘Remembering A Passionate Life’

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring:
-- Maureen Thorson on 31 Flavors of Paradigm Subversion, Cornstarch Figurine by Elizabeth Treadwell (Dusie Press)
--Hugh Oster on Look Inside, Look Inside; Razor Love by John Duvernoy (Unlock the Clockcase)

Our Music section, edited by Jon Berger featuring:
-- Mike Ferraro’s interview with Brook Pridemore: ‘Singing for His Life’

Our Features section, edited by Stephen Dignan
--- Dignan on the The Fulton Fish Market

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Chicago’s Tiffany Holmes

Our Poetry section, edited by Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano featuring work from:

--Jeff Conant
--Shanxing Wang

And photos from Indymedia Brazil and Lauren Terilli.

Boog City 39, March 2007

Our Music section, edited by Jon Berger, featuring:
--Urban Barnyard on Urban Barnyard:
** Casey Holford Phoebe Kreutz’s We Gotta Go,
** Phoebe Kreutz on Art Sorority for Girls’ Alpha Sigma Gamma
** Daoud Tyler-Ameen on Dibs’ Dibs Bleeds Books
** Dibson T. Hoffweiler on Casey Holford’s January
** Berger on Urban Barnyard’s That’s the Idea,

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring
--Craig Perez on Composite Poetry, composite. diplomacy. by Padcha Tunthaobas (Tinfish)
-- Lamoureux on American Oracle, Carbon by Michael Ford (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Our Film section, guest edited by Jon Berger, featuring:
--Berger on Talkin’ New York: The Little Movie that Might

Our Politics section, edited by Christina Strong, featuring:
-- Strong in ‘Work Sucks, Life Sucks, and Then You Die’

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Belford New Jersey's Kate Greenstreet

Our Poetry section, edited by Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano, featuring work from:
-- Jonathan Skinner
-- Roger Farr
-- Deborah Meadows.

And photos from David S. Rubio and Christina Strong.

Boog City 40, April 2007

Our Politics section, edited by Christina Strong, featuring:
-- Strong on The Dinner Party and the Global Feminisms Exhibit

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring:
-- Michael Carr on from Our Thiefhood, Evangeline Downs by Micah Ballard (Ugly Duckling Presse)
-- Adam Fieled on Twisted Gems, Erased Art by Tenney Nathanson (Chax Press)

Our Music section, edited by Jon Berger***
-- Casey Holford in ‘Alliterative Albums: Acoustic Songwriters Get Their Due’

And the Relaunch of Our Comics section
-- Gary Sullivan on Jerel Elbows the Comics Envelope by Gary Sullivan
-- Freak Folk Meets Hip Hop, a comic from Jeffrey Lewis

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Greenpoint’s Brenda Zlamany

Our Poetry section, edited by Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano, featuring work from:
--Tonya Foster
--Frank Sherlock

*And photos from Aislinn Weidele and Donald Woodman.*

Boog City 41, May 2007

Our Politics section, edited by Christina Strong, featuring:
--Strong on New York City and the The Ratner Project in “Idiots Raze Villages to Raise Idiots Homogeny Escalates in New York City (Film at 11)”

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring:
-- Angela Veronica Wong on Language Trans-figured, Since I Moved In by Tim Peterson (Chax Press)
-- David A. Kirschenbaum on Whenever, Texas; ‘kadar koli’, Issue 1, Vol. 1

Our Music section, edited by Jon Berger, featuring:
-- Berger on The Veltzes New Release and Jacobson’s Family Records’ Album by Berger

And Our Comics section
-- Gary Sullivan on Come and Take a Look at Huizenga’s Sketches, Untitled and Sermons: Notes + Sketches Made While at Church by Kevin Huizenga (both self-published)
--The Development of Life on Earth, a comic from Jeffrey Lewis

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Bay Ridge’s Jill Magi

Our Poetry section, edited by Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano, featuring work from:
-- Buck Downs
-- David Micah Greenberg
-- Linda Russo

And photos from Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (http://www.dddb.net): Erica Kaufman, Grace T. Moy, and Strong.

Boog City 42, June 2007

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger, featuring
-- Justin Remer on Phoebe Kreutz live performances
-- Berger on Musician Scott Alexander

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring:
-- Sandra Simonds on Math Class, Facial Geometry by Maureen Seaton, Neil de la Flor, and Kristine Snodgrass (NeO Pepper Press)

Our Politics section, edited by Christina Strong
--Strong on New York’s Queens County

And Our Comics section
--Comics from Gary Sullivan, excerpted from his comic Elsewhere #3: “The New Life.”

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Chelsea's Stephanie Wu.

Our Poetry section, edited by Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano, featuring work from:
--K. Lorraine Graham
--Jeff Derksen
--Kristin Palm

And photos from Eric Lippe and Strong.

Boog City 43, July 2007

Our Welcome to Boog City festival issue, with work on or by performers taking part in the festival or from the East Village and Williamsburg. Inside, a special 4-page pull-out program, complete with performer bios and photos.

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring:
--Lamoureux on Amy King Contains Multitudes, I'm the Man Who Loves You (BlazeVOX Books) by Amy King

And Our Comics section
--Garry Sullivan on Radical Comic Artist Seth Tobocman

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger, featuring
-- Berger on Anti- Folk Musician Steve Espinola

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Williamsburg's Miki Katagiri.

Our Poetry section, edited by Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano, featuring work from:
-- Joanna Fuhrman
-- Nada Gordon
-- Nathaniel Siegel
-- Gary Sullivan

Boog City 44, August 2007

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger, featuring:
-- Nicole Chin on band, Following The Leader

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring:
-- Mark Lamoureux on Standing on the Shoulders of The Giants; The Singers by Logan Ryan Smith (Dusie Press Books)
-- Scott Glassman on Progress Report; sight progress by Zhang Er, translation from Chinese by Rachel Levitsky with the author (Pleasure Boat Studio)

Our Politics section, edited by Christina Strong, featuring:
--from Strong in ‘Ask an Aging Hipster’

And Our Comics section
-- Gary Sullivan on Blutch: France's Edgiest Comic Artist; Mitchum by Blutch (Editions Cornélius)

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Williamsburg's Lamar Peterson

Our Poetry section, edited by Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano, featuring work from:
-- Alan Davies
-- Cara Benson
-- Roberto Harrison

And photos from Nathaniel Siegel, Strong, and Yuwadee

Boog City 45

Featuring:

-- "Generations of Inspiration and Community: Poetry Project Directors Past and Present Talk”
With Stacy Szymaszek having recently begun her tenure as artistic director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, Boog City politics editor Christina Strong and I recently conducted email interviews with her and a past director, Anne Waldman, about the East Village, community, and the future of The Poetry Project. About half of the dialogue appears in the print edition (and online pdf) of the paper, while the entire dialogue is already available online:
http://about.welcometoboogcity.com/

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger featuring:
--Berger on bands Sprinkle Genies, and Bobby Perfect, and the Guilt by Association Compilation

Our d.a. levy at 65 section
---Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux*
** Gary Sullivan on D.A. LEVY: A Trbute to the Man, An Anthology of His Poetry edited by rjs (t.l. kryss/Ghost Press Cleveland, 1967; fascimile edition, 2007),
**Christina Strong on Follow the Leader; d.a. levy and the mimeograph revolution edited by Larry Smith and Ingrid Swanberg (Bottom Dog Press)
Excerpts from Gary Sullivan's in progress d.a. levy comic*
**Poetry and visual art by levy*

And photos from Greg Fuchs

Boog City 46, New York City Small Presses Issue

The issue features pages put together by six of New York City's finest small presses. It is in conjunction with a Tues. Dec. 18, 6:00 p.m. levy lives event at ACA Galleries, 529 W.20th St., 5th Flr., featuring readers from each of the presses' authors.

Inside the issue are pages from the below presses with work from some of their authors:

**Belladonna Books
--Latasha N. Nevada Diggs
--R. Erica Doyle

**Cuneiform Press
--Ted Greenwald

**Cy Gist Press
--Scott Glassman
--Carrie Hunter
--Ben Mazer
--Guillermo Parra
--Sandra Simonds

**Futurepoem Books
--Jill Magi

**Kitchen Press
--Ana Bozicevic-Bowling
--Lily Brown
--Elisa Gabbert
--Mathias Svalina
--Chris Tonelli

**Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs
--Sueyeun Juliette Lee
--Nathaniel Siegel
--Christopher Stackhouse

Boog City 47:
The Portable Boog Reader 2, An Anthology of New York City Poetry

Edited by Laura Elrick, Brenda Iijima, David A. Kirschenbaum, Mark Lamoureux, Christina Strong, and Rodrigo Toscano

Featuring work from the following 72 poets:

Bruce Andrews Ellen Baxt
Jim Behrle Jen Benka
Charles Bernstein Anselm Berrigan
Charles Borkhuis Ana Bozicevic-Bowling
Lee Ann Brown Allison Cobb
Julia Cohen Todd Colby
Brenda Coultas Alan Davies
Mónica de la Torre LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Thom Donovan Joe Elliot
Robert Fitterman Corrine Fitzpatrick
G.L. Ford Greg Fuchs
Joanna Fuhrman Drew Gardner
Eric Gelsinger Garth Graeper
David Micah Greenberg E. Tracy Grinnell
Christine Hamm Robert Hershon
Mitch Highfill Bob Holman
Paolo Javier Paul Foster Johnson
Eliot Katz Erica Kaufman
Amy King Bill Kushner
Rachel Levitsky Andrew Levy
Brendan Lorber Kimberly Lyons
Dan Machlin Jill Magi
Gillian McCain Sharon Mesmer
Carol Mirakove Anna Moschovakis
Murat Nemet-Nejat Cate Peebles
Tim Peterson Simon Pettet
Wanda Phipps Nick Piombino
Kristin Prevallet Arlo Quint
Evelyn Reilly Kim Rosenfield
Lauren Russell Kyle Schlesinger
Nathaniel Siegel Joanna Sondheim
Chris Stackhouse Stacy Szymaszek
Edwin Torres Anne Waldman
Shanxing Wang Lewis Warsh
Karen Weiser Angela Veronica Wong
Matvei Yankelevich Lila Zemborain

Boog City 48

Our Politics section, featuring:
--Jim Behrle's take on the 2008 presidential election race in comic form.
--from Kristin Prevallet in ‘The Ameritopian Dream?’

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring:
-- Alan Davies on Oatis vs. Language; from Two Percept by Martha Oatis (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs)
-- Davies on Burnham's a Man With a Van; Rental Van by Clint Burnham (Anvil Press)

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger, featuring:
-- Jocelyn Mackenzie on Life is Sweeter… by Jerry Cherry
-- Justin Remer on Welcome to the Friend Factory; The Hillside EP and Comeuppance by Friend Factory

Our Comics section, featuring:
-- Gary Sullivan on Drawing from Berlin and Tel Aviv; Cargo (Avant-Verlag)

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Thomas Fink

Our Poetry section, edited by Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano, featuring work from:
--Seán M. Dalpiaz
--Tom Orange
--Charles Rossiter
--Lisa Cohen

And photos from Jason Berger and Greg Fuchs

Boog City 49

Our Politics section, now edited by Jen Benka and Carol Mirakove featuring:
--Benka and Mirakove on ‘The Poets’ Primary’: Poets’ thoughts on the 2008 Primaries

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring:
-- John Mercuri Dooley on Covers by Susan Landers (O Books)
-- Sandra Simonds on Starsdown by Jasper Bernes (Ingirumimusnoctetconsumimurigni)

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger, featuring:
-- Jonathan Berger on The Pickens of the Litter; Turn On the Radio, When Earl Was 17 It Was a Very Good Year, and Country Music Jukebox by Earl Pickens
-- Brook Pridemore on Songs of Want and Loss by Lionel Neykov,

Our Comics section, featuring:
-- Jim Behrle's Come on, Pilgrim strip on everything from Eliot Spitzer to Facebook to turkeys..

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Fort Greene, Brooklyn’s Michael Schall

Our Poetry section, edited by Rodrigo Toscano, featuring work from:
--Kaia Sand
--Kareem Estefan
--Lauren Spohrer

And the Greg Fuchs’ photo this issue is from East 132nd Street and Park Avenue, New York City

Boog City 50

Our Politics section, edited by Jen Benka and Carol Mirakove, featuring:
--Benka and Mirakove interview Eileen Myles, ‘The Poet Who Once Ran for President’

Our Printed Matter section, edited by Mark Lamoureux, featuring
-- John Mercuri Dooley on Unprotected Texts: Selected Poems 1978-2006 by Tom Beckett (Meritage Press)
-- Lamoureux on Goldfish Kisses by Paolo Javier and Ernest Concepcion (Sonabooks)

Our Music section, edited by Jonathan Berger, featuring:
-- Berger on Off This Planet by Brian Speaker
-- Brook Pridemore on My Little Monkey Got Caught by Sounds of Greg D,

Our Comics section
--Jim Behrle's Come on, Pilgrim strip on how to pick your presidential candidate.

Art editor Brenda Iijima brings us work from Williamsburg, Brooklyn and San Francisco's Arnold J. Kemp.

Our Poetry section, edited by Rodrigo Toscano
-- Uche Nduka
-- Mark Wallace
-- Lawrence Giffin

And the Greg Fuchs photo, this issue, from East 9th Street (2nd /3rd aves.), New York City.

Boog City Bibliography