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BOOG City FestivalSUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2008 3:00 P.M.Unnameable Books456 Bergen St.Brooklyn, NY3:00 p.m.- Race and Poetry: Integrating the ExperimentalAmy King (curator and moderator)Tisa BryantJennifer FirestoneTimothy LiuMendi ObadikeMeghan PunschkeChristopher StackhouseMathias Svalina **Amy Kinghttp://www.amyking.org Amy King is the author of I'm the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi (BlazeVOX Books), and, most recently, Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country (Dusie Press). She is the moderator for the Poetics List and the Women's Poetry Listserv, and teaches English and creative writing at Nassau Community College. She is currently editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School. **Timothy Liuhttp://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/114 Timothy Liu has two new books of poetry forthcoming, Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse (Talisman House Press) and Polytheogamy (Saturnalia Books). He lives in Manhattan. **Tisa Bryanthttp://www.themagicmakers.blogspot.com/2007/03/tisa-bryant-authorscholar-tisa-bryant.html Tisa Bryant makes work that often traverses the boundaries of genre, culture, and history. Her first book, Unexplained Presence (Leon Works), is a collection of original, hybrid essays that remix narratives from eurocentric film, literature, and visual arts and zoom in on the black presences operating within them. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of places, including Abraham Lincoln, The Believer, 1913: A Journal of Forms, Sustainable Aircraft, and with the paintings of visual artist Laylah Ali. She is also author of the chapbook, Tzimmes (a+bend Press). She is assistant professor of writing at St. John's University, Queens; lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn; and is a founding editor/publisher of the hardcover annual The Encyclopedia Project. **Jennifer Firestonehttp://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_2/mentoring/interview_firestone_myles.html Jennifer Firestone is the co-editor of Letters To Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community (Saturnalia Books), forthcoming in October. She is the author of Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and From Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books). Her work has appeared in HOW2, LUNGFULL!, Xcp: Streetnotes, Fourteen Hills, Dusie, 580 Split, and Saint Elizabeth Street, among others. She is an assistant professor teaching poetry at Eugene Lang College at The New School for Liberal Arts, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their infant twins. **Mendi Lewis Obadikehttp://www.blacknetart.com Mendi Lewis Obadike is the author of Armor and Flesh: Poems and the libretto for the internet opera The Sour Thunder. The Whitney Museum of American Art, Yale University, and the New York African Film Festival and Electronic Arts Intermix, are among the institutions that have commissioned her text-based new media art. She received a Rockefeller New Media Award to develop TaRonda, Who Wore White Gloves, an opera which explores black codes of conduct. She developed Four Electric Ghosts (an opera based on Amos Tutuola's novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and the video game Pac-Man) in Toni Morrison's Atelier at Princeton in the fall of 2005. Mendi lives and works with her husband Keith in the New York metropolitan area. **Ana Božičevićhttp://www.quoileternite.blogspot.com Ana Božičević is a poet living in North Massapequa. She's the author of Document (Octopus Books). **Meghan Punschkehttp://www.megpunschke.com Meghan Punschke is the author of Stratification (BlazeVOX Books). She resides in New York City, and has an M.F.A. in poetry from The New School. She is the curator and host of Word of Mouth, a reading series dedicated to poets and fiction/non-fiction writers. She is also the managing editor for the literary journal Oranges & Sardines. Her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2007, and it can be found in MiPO, No Tell Motel, Coconut, Sawbuck, and OCHO, among others. **Christopher Stackhousehttp://www.readab.com/cstackhouse.html Christopher Stackhouse is the author of the poetry collection Slip (Corollary Press) and co-author of Seismosis (1913 Press), which features a collaboration of Stackhouse's drawings with text by writer/author/professor John Keene. He is a Cave Canem Writers Fellow, and, a 2005 Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has recently successfully completed studies, granting him an M.F.A. in writing/interdisciplinary studies from Bard College in 2009. **Mathias Svalinahttp://www.mathiassvalina.blogspot.com Mathias Svalina is a co-editor of Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. He is the author of the chapbooks Why I Am White (Kitchen Press), Creation Myths (New Michigan Press), and The Viral Lease (Small Anchor Press). He is the co-author of the collaboratively written chapbooks Or Else What, Asked the Flame, with Paula Cisewski (SC Press), When We Broke the Microscope (Small Fires Press), and Chugwater (Transmission Press), which were both written with Julia Cohen. His first book, Destruction Myth, is forthcoming from Cleveland State University Press next year.

• Release Date

  Sep 22, 2008

• Runtime

  13:25