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Poetry Book Reviews
William Considine served for one year, through April 2021, as printed matter editor for Boog City, the arts community online periodical, writing four reviews as well as editing ten others. He has also written reviews for Sensitive Skin and The Operating System. Find his reviews below:
Iovis is a Mythopoetic Epic – Boog City
on Anne Waldman’s Iovis
Rescue Me Maggie Dubris’ Engrossing, Moving Memoir of Being a Paramedic – Boog City
on Maggie Dubris’ Brokedown Palace
Charles in Charge: Olson’s Poetry in Sanders’ Historical Reality – Boog City
on Ed Sanders’ A Life of Olson
O Say What We See: Michael Ruby’s New National Anthem – Boog City
on Michael Ruby’s The Star-Spangled Banner
includes, on page 6, Considine’s essay, Honoring Kevin Killian, an overview of Killian’s life and work.
Three Poets, Three Books — Café Crazy, We Became Summer, and Blue Lyre - William Considine - Poetry - Sensitive Skin Magazine, a review of new poetry books by Francine Witte, Amy Barone and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Hosting Boog City Poets Theater 2019 at Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, in video taken by Mitch Corber
Videos
William Considine has made numerous poetry videos, including designed videos as well as recordings of readings, starting in the mid-1980’s. He has worked with video artists Mitch Corber, Edmond Chibeau and Franz Vila, as well as musical artists including Gerry Hemingway, Ambrose Bye and Cosmo D, and the painter John Shaw. His video of his long poem Lincoln in Queens won the Hometown USA Award in 1990 from the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers, for excellence in video art produced on public access facilities. Videos are available on his YouTube site.
They include a rare glimpse inside No Se No social club in 1983, a performance excerpt from his verse play Electra in the Brooklyn Army Terminal in October 1983, a sonnet to the poet and artist William Blake, the comic video “My Life Underground with Dobie Gillis,” and an ode to Gowanus from 2012.
Also on the YouTube site is a video of his online performance in February 2021 of My President’s Day Address for 2021.
The collection also includes plays from the Boog City poets theater festivals that he curated in September 2019, December 2020 and February 2021, and a low-tech video excerpt of a rare acting performance, decades ago at LaMama, as the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in Nina Zivancevic’s play, Mayakovsky’s Dialogue with His Mother.
Not included are videos made by others of numerous public readings of his poems (for a sampling, please see the Poetry page on this website), as well as his early participation in Mitch Corber’s groundbreaking videos, including a voiceover reading of Corber’s poetry in the classic Quiver City.