[Brooklyn]

UDP at the Welcome to Boog City Poetry and Music Festival
August 4, 2012, 11:00 am
at Unnameable Books

From Thurs., Aug. 2 through Sun. Aug. 5, we'll be celebrating Boog's 21st anniversary by putting on the sixth annual Welcome to Boog City poetry and music festival. It will feature 51 poets, 12 musical acts, 6 political and radio talks, 7 poets theater plays, 1 workshop, and 1 panel over the four days. A hearty thanks to all the poets and our music editor Jonathan Berger who suggested many of the poets and musicians who are taking part, and Sean Cole, Eliot Katz, and Ian Wilder for connecting us with the political and radio speakers who we were fortunate enough to get to take part in the festival. And Brenda Iijima for organizing this year's panel and Roxanne Hoffman the latest incarnation of The Boog Poets Theater. Among the festival highlights are: —our d.a. levy lives series kicks off its 10th season devoting a night to Philadelphia's Turtleneck Press; —The Prose Pros Corpse is Exquisite! has Elinor Nauen and Martha King's Prose Pros series joining the festival for the first time with a special edition event featuring mystery readers from the first five years of the series; —Our 39th Classic Album Live show has Sleater-Kinney's, Dig Me Out, performed live by five local musical acts for its 15th anniversary; —Our 9th annual small, small press fair, with exhibits from a host of small presses, and readings by their authors; —Never-ending Participation: Activism and Occupy Wall Street, a panel curated and moderated by Brenda Iijima —Our BoogWork series, featuring poet Tyrone Williams reading and then giving the gathered a poetry workshop; —and our Third Poets' Theater night, featuring a host of short plays.