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Boni Joi

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Poet, writer, editor

Education

Experience: Writing & Editing

EXPERIENCE: Readings

Master of Library Information Science/Archives Certificate (ALA accredited) 

with Distinction, 

George Simor Merit Award in Archival Management, 

Pratt Institute, New York, NY


Master of Fine Arts, 

Creative Writing: Poetry

Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY


Bachelor of Fine Arts, Costume Design: Theater  Rutgers University, 

New Brunswick, NJ 

EXPERIENCE: Readings

Experience: Writing & Editing

EXPERIENCE: Readings

2024


Online International Dada Festival hosted by the 

New York Public Library 

Maintenant 18


Cut-Up Project/Performace

with Hausfrau 

for Club Literature, 

Soso Space, Bern


Text Safari with Daniel Klein

Gwaberhalle, Luzern


LOGOS Plus at Gwaberhalle, Luzern with Daniel Klein


2023


33 Checklist Reading by

Edition Haus Am Gern with Fork Burke, Gabriella Disler, Alex Herzog, Pearl Ramsy, Jason Stoneking, Anna Wiget, and Sharon Mesmer

Special guest Kevin Chesham on drums, Atomic Cafe Biel, Switzerland


Online International Dada Festival hosted by the 

New York Public Library 


Dada Festival Maintenant 17:

Paris, France & 

Zurich, Switzerland


Word Flex: Poetry Book Launch by Peter Carlaftes & Kat Georges featuring Fork Burke

Atomic Cafe

Biel, Switzerland


The Great Sunday Night Disaster Show with Tobi Joi

Bern, Switzerland


Züricher Theater Spektakele

In Bed with Klub Literatur

with Fork Burke, X Schneeberger, Nora Osagiobare, & Deborah Lara Schaefer

Zurich, Switzerland


Züricher Theater Spektakele

A Reason a Season a Lifetime and All the Voices in Your Head that are Missing with Heidi Fonseka, Myriam Diarra & Fork Burke

Zurich, Switzerland


2022

Performance with Fork Burke & Max Usata (Puts Marie):

Le Solapard

Biel, Switzerland


Dada Festival Maintenant 16:

Virtual  


Biestival: Festival of Free Arts with Tobi Joi 

Naturefreudehaus, 

Brünig, Switzerland


ClubLiterature presents The Dream Machine with Fork Burke hosted by Kris Kiss, : SoSo Space

Bern, Switzerland


Performance with the band Fluxius: System Irrelevant Fischerman's Werft, N49 Emmen, Switzerland


2021 

Anthology book launch for Silver Tongued Devil: Virtual 


Dada Festival Maintenant 15:

Virtual  


2020  

Dada reading Maintenant 14: Virtual


2019  

Paris Spoken Word at Le Chat Noir, with Fork Burke

Paris, France 


Edicion 19, Checklist 33, with Fork Burke, Alex Herzog in Biel, Switzerland


Conversation in poems with Fork Burke and musical guest Tobi Joi

Magdelena Bar

Luzern, Switzerland


Bell Park Museum Nacht  performance with ADO, 

Bell Park Museum

Kriens, Switzerland


Poetry Night

Wall & Stage

Zurich, Switzerland


6½ Ausstellung & Finnessage Der Verwaschene Ort

Zurich, Switzerland


Hugo Panzer Trio Festival, Biel, Switzerland



2018 

Launch of Maintenant 12: Journal of Contemporary Dada: Paris, France


Launch of Maintenant 12: 

SACI College

Florence, Italy


Paris Lit Up with Dallas Athent, Ronna Lebo, & Daniel R. Adler 

Break Art Mix Rue

Paris, France 


Reading with Fork Burke

Setpember Vin & Vinyl  Luzern, Switzerland


2017

Black Panther Got Loose, American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History, NY, NY


Talking Paper Podcast with Ronna Lebo by Christian Neidan 


Sparrow, Eve Packer, & Friends 

Unnamable Boox

Brooklyn, NY


Four Horseman Quarterly Reading Cornelia Street Café New York, NY


Gamba Forest Performance Brooklyn, NY


Nomadic Press at Great Weather for Media, 

Parkside Lounge, NY, NY


Alternative New Year's Day Spoken Word Extravaganza Nuyorican Poet’s Café, NY, NY


2016

Nomadic Press Reading, Stories from the City with

Nick E. Finn, Dallas Rico, & Jennifer Harmon, Parkside Lounge NY, NY


Sparrow, Eve Packer, & 

Friends Unnamable Boox, Brooklyn, NY


Four Horseman Quarterly Reading 

Cornelia Street Café NY, NY


Alternative New Years Day Spoken Word Extravaganza, New York, NY


2015 

Segue Series presents the Flarf Orchestra with Drew Gardener 

Zinc Bar, New York, NY


Book launch for I Don't Poem,

Off the Park Press

Abrons Art Center, NY, NY


Four Horseman Quarterly Reading 

Cornelia Street Café NY, NY


Silver Tongued Devils Reading, Three of Cups, NY, NY


Mortified, NY, NY


Alternative New Years Day Spoken Word Extravaganza, NY, NY 


2014

Four Horseman Quarterly Reading Cornelia Street Café, NY, NY


Beauties & the Beast at the Loge, Luzern, Switzerland


Alternative New Years Day Spoken Word Extravaganza, NY, NY















Experience: Writing & Editing

Experience: Writing & Editing

Experience: Writing & Editing

2024


Untitled Manuscript by

Philip Meersman



2022 Nov: Volumes Book Fair

Bookbinding & Poetry generating workshop


2022-Present

Editing & screenwriting projects with Danna Davis & Candis Cayne (Mary It's Mary Productions)


2020

Nov: Wrote & edited the song 

My Life Inside a Palindrome with the band Ado


Sept:  Edited songs by DiDi Kalman for his new album


May: Edited for continuity & punctuation, There is Blue Somewhere, a collection of poems by Philip Meersman


January: Edited script for screenplay by Molly Rodgers & Danna Davis


2017 

Edited for continuity & punctuation, Theia Mania by Dallas Athent

 

2016 

Project managerThe Song of the Dead translated by Dan Bellum published by Black Square Editions


2009-2023

Editor, project manager, & webmasterfor a small press publishing house.

Black Square Editions 

New York, NY




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