Un name able Greetings Readings SPRING 2019 Season

What does it mean to Spring forth? Green as the Bard says. Gold the painters. Nothing or no one. Each & every one. Glenn Gould greed. Nothing mean. Both this & that. Bricks. The 20th season. Really. So what. Some say the 21st? A Spring can be a thousand years. Maiden, Bankhead, Robeson, Muse... & lovers of, please note the Lineup, often (but not always) on alternating Thursdays, taking place at Unnameable Bokes, 600 Vanderbilt Ave., near the corner of St. Marks, in burgeoning Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. All events start at 8pm with a meet n’ greet. Performances begin 8:30ish in the white rock stone garden or according to the whims of the weather, in the comfortable book-lined basement. All events are free. March 21st: Karen Lepri, Madeleine Braun & Peter Bushyeager with music by Other Ark April 4th: Rachael Guynn Wilson, Anastasios Karnazes & Andrea Abi-Karam with music by Downtown Girls May 2nd: Alexis Ameida, Marisa Crawford, Nathaniel Farrell & Colby Somerville with music by The Superintendents (hopefully) May 16th: Sarah Wang, Rachel Galperin, Filip Marinovic & the Dan Veksler Experience May 30: Lisa Rogal, Denise Milstein, Rachel Pearl & Dan Poppick with Spotless Leopards June 13th: Kelsa Trom, Matt Longabucco, Marie Buck & Amy Matterer with Other Arc Ensemble Thank you all so much for your gracious support of Unnameable Greetings Readings in the past! Hope to see as many old & new faces during this upcoming season. If any other information is needed please email Jeffrey Joe Nelson: jeffreyjoenelson@gmail.com or Jed Shahar: jedshahar@gmail.com

FEB 27 Conjunctions: 71 - A Cabinet of Curiosity Reading

 

On Wednesday, February 27, at 7:00pm, Conjunctions celebrates its current issue, Conjunctions: 71, A Cabinet of Curiosity, with readings by contributors Martine Bellen, Greg Jackson, Lynn Schmeidler, & Dave King, introduced by senior editor Michael Sarinsky. 

MARTINE BELLEN is the author of nine collections of poetry and three opera libretti. Her most recent poetry collection is This Amazing Cage of Light: New and Selected (Spuyten Duyvil).

GREG JACKSON is the author of Prodigals (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), for which he received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, the 2019 Bard Fiction Prize, and was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, VQR, Tin House, and Vice, among other places. In 2014, he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction.

LYNN SCHMEIDLER is a prose writer and poet. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Awl, Barrow Street, Boston Review, Fence, The Georgia Review and The Southern Review, as well as numerous anthologies. Schmeidler has published one poetry book, History of Gone (Veliz Books, shortlisted for the 2016 Sexton Poetry Prize) and two chapbooks, Curiouser & Curiouser (winner of the 2013 Grayson Books Chapbook Contest) and Wrack Lines (Grayson Books). She received a Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction from The Sewanee Writers’ Conference, is a Pushcart Prize nominee in fiction, a Best of the Net nominee in poetry, and has had work listed under Other Distinguished Stories in Best American Short Stories. She is currently completing a novella and short story collection.

DAVE KING’s novel The Ha-Ha (Little, Brown) won the 2006 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His poems and stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Fence, and other venues; and his story “The Stamp Collector” is included in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018. A memoir about his 1974 travels is in the works.

In addition to work by the readers, the Curiosity issue includes contributions by Laura van den Berg, Ann Beattie, Brandon Hobson, Eleni Sikelianos, Julianna Baggott, Jeffrey Ford, Joyce Carol Oates, William Lychack, Joanna Scott, Catherine Imbriglio, Lauren Green, Can Xue, Nathaniel Mackey, Adam D Jameson, Quintan Ana Wikswo, Samuel R. Delany, Kelsey Peterson, Sarah Blackman, Gerard Malanga, Maud Casey, Greg Bossert, Stephen O'Connor, Matt Bell, Madeline Kearin, Bin Ramke, Diane Ackerman, and Liz Hand.

Conjunctions, edited by novelist Bradford Morrow and published by Bard College, has been a living notebook for provocative, risk-taking, rigorously composed fiction, poetry, and narrative nonfiction since 1981.    

Copies of the issue will be available for sale and signing.

For more information, call 845-758-7054, e-mail conjunctions@bard.edu,
or visit http://www.conjunctions.com.

February Events

Feb 15 - 17 Book Buying

We will not be buying books this Friday and Saturday during the Boog City Festival. Call Sunday to see if we've recovered. Thanks so much!

Feb 16 Boog City Line-up

1:00 p.m. E.J. McAdams 1:10 p.m. Tai Nissen-Maag 1:20 p.m. Evelyn Reilly 1:30 p.m. Debrah Morkun 1:45 p.m. Betsy Andrews 1:55 p.m. Brittany Billmeyer-Finn 2:10 p.m. Eve Blackwater (music) 2:40 p.m. Aldon Nielsen 2:55 p.m. Carol Mirakove 3:05 p.m. Zoe Tuck 3:20 p.m. Toni Simon 3:30 p.m. Nada Gordon 3:40 p.m. break 3:50 p.m. d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press Clash Books (Claremont, N.H.) Christoph Paul, managing editor Lisa Marie Basile Chris Campanioni Leza Cantoral Ariel Francisco Christoph Paul Christine Sloan Stoddard Joanna C. Valente Stephanie Valente Dionysus Effect (music) 5:20 p.m. break 6:20 p.m. Jared Daniel Fagen 6:30 p.m. Ashna Ali 6:40 p.m. Erin Fleming 6:50 p.m. Michael Peters 7:05 p.m. Sam Cha 7:20 p.m. Sourdoe (music) 7:50 p.m. David Miller 8:05 p.m. Kevin McLellan 8:15 p.m. Alifair Skebe 8:30 p.m. Elizabeth Primamore 8:40 p.m. Corey Thuro (music)

Feb 15 Boog City line-up

6:00 p.m. Steven Seidenberg 6:10 p.m. Zane Koss 6:20 p.m. Eileen Cleary 6:35 p.m. poetry talk talk, with Joe Elliot and Stephen Paul Miller reading and in conversation, part 1 7:05 p.m. Brooke McGowan (music) 7:35 p.m. break 7:45 p.m. poetry talk talk, Joe Elliot and Stephen Paul Miller, part 2 8:05 p.m. Mark Gurarie 8:15 p.m. Sophie Malleret 8:25 p.m. Dimitri Reyes 8:35 p.m. Aditya Bahl 8:45 p.m. John Murillo 8:55 p.m. Todd Carlstrom (music)

Feb 15 - 17 Boog City

This Fri., Feb. 15 through Sun. Feb. 17, we'll be celebrating our annual Presidents Day weekend event, Welcome to Boog City 12.5 Arts Festival: Poetry, Music, Theater, and Film. It will feature 34 poets, 11 musical acts, 11 poets theater plays, 1 d.a. levy lives visiting press, and film screenings over the four days. Here's the illustrated program: https://boogcity.com/boogpdfs/bc126.pdf And here's who put together Welcome to Boog City 12.5: I'm the festival director; logo Nathaniel Siegel; fest curators: poetry-Brenda Iijima, Suzanne Mercury, Mike Wendt, and myself; and music-Todd Carlstrom and myself. The illustrated program features: —Write-ups on festival performers Brooke McGowan and Jason Trachtenburg by music editor Jonathan Berger, and John S. Hall on Sourdoe; Zoe Tuck by printed matter editor Debrah Morkun, Ellen Bluestone on Dorothea Lasky, and Anne-Adele Wight on Lauren Russell. —Poems from festival performers Sam Cha, Lauren Russell, Alifair Skebe, and Zoe Tuck —Small press editor Michael Wendt interviews d.a. levy lives renegade press Clash Books managing editor Christoph Paul —all performers images, bios, and urls. Among the festival highlights are: —Boog's d.a. levy lives series devotes an afternoon to Claremont, New Hampshire's Clash Books; —our 11th Poets' Theater event, featuring short plays. —our Poetry Talk Talk, this time with Joe Elliot and Stephen Paul Miller reading and in conversation The full schedule for the event is also below this note, followed by performer bios and websites. If you need any additional information you can reach me at 212-842-BOOG (2664) or editor@boogcity.com. as ever, David We will not be buying books during the festival.