Mark Boccard

Mark Boccard is a writer and musician living in Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared in Infinity’s Kitchen, Switchback, and The Walrus. He received his MFA in poetry from Mills College in Oakland, California. He is a sucker for conceptual writing, dusty things, the twentieth-century avant-garde, coffee, biographical notes, and all things ’pataphysical.

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Lithic Press, 2024, 67 pages, $20.00, ISBN 978-1-946583-30-7