BoogWork Features Adeena Karasick, Jake Marmer, and Rogue Beats in New Series Tonight

By: Mar. 05, 2013
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BoogWork will feature two poets reading, a musical act performing, and then one of the poets will give the gathered a poetry workshop (don't forget to bring a pen and paper).
http://boogcity.com/
T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664)
Tues., March 5, 6:00 p.M. Sharp
(Note new, earlier start time)
$5 suggested
Adeena Karasick
Adeena Karasick is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet, media-artist, and author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory, most recently, This Poem and Amuse Bouche: Tasty Treats for the Mouth (both from Talonbooks) as well as four videopoems regularly showcased at film festivals worldwide. All her work is marked with an urban, Jewish, feminist aesthetic that continually challenges linguistic habits and normative modes of meaning production. Engaged with the art of combination and turbulence of thought, it is a testament to the creative and regenerative power of language and its infinite possibilities for pushing meaning to the limits of its semantic boundaries.
Her writing has been described as "electricity in language" (Nicole Brossard), "plural, cascading, exuberant in its cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory" (Charles Bernstein), "a tour de force of linguistic doublespeak" (Globe and Mail), and "opens up the possibilities of reading" (Vancouver Courier). She is co-founding director (Minister of Semiotic Turbulence) with Jake Marmer for KlezKanada Poetry Festival and Retreat: Three Millennia of Poetic Subversion and professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University.
Jake Marmer
Jake Marmer is a poet and performer. His first poetry collection, Jazz Talmud, was published by the Sheep Meadow Press, and has explored, among other themes, the polyrhythmic, multi-vocal, and hermeneutic nature common to jazz and the Talmud. Consequently, a performance based on these poems has premiered live, accompanied by the Ayn Sof Arkestra, a klezmer big band under the direction of Greg Wall and Grammy-winning trumpet player Frank London. Jake often collaborates with musicians, exploring the improvisational and performative aspect of poetry.
Currently a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, in 2008-2009 he was a Dorot Fellow in Jerusalem. He frequently contributes to the Forward and Tablet Magazine, and has lectured and performed at Adelphi University, Stern College, Touro College, Mechon Hadar, The Bowery Poetry Club, Joe's Pub, Vision Festival, and Limmud UK, among numerous other venues. Recently, he has co-hosted North America's first Jewish Poetry retreat at the KlezKanada Festival. He lives in New York with his wife and son.
Rogue Beats
Rogue Beats is Melissa Menake and Alan Semerdjian, two NYC educators/artists with a mutual love for great songs, ukuleles, and singing at the top of their lungs while cooking breakfast together. For information and totally free downloads, please visit the above url.

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