T HE C ENACLE / A PRIL - The ElectroLounge

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In September 1999, back from Burning Man, there was a Jellicle
Guild meeting at Mark Shorette’s home in Plainville, CT—not Roma
Restaurant because its new owner had closed it for renovations. At
that meeting Ric Amante’s book was debuted.
Finally, in October of 1999, Cenacle 36-37 Summer 1999, an
issue devoted to the sights, sounds, & words of Burning Man was
produced.
This is the fifth in an annual series of summer issues of
The Cenacle. Instead of devoting this installment’s pages to a
single author, this year the focus is an event: The Burning Man
Arts Festival, which took place August 30-September 6, 1999 in
Black Rock Desert, Nevada. That is to say, Black Rock City,
Nevada, for Burning Man is an event and a place. And a state
of mind. And a mystery. And a miracle. And so on.
It was debuted on 10/23/99 at the Jellicle Literary Guild meeting held
at Curious Liquids Cafe in Boston, where I’m happy to report there
were more people in attendance than in a long time: Amante, Burke,
Brannon, Cohen, Dillon, Shorette, & Soulard—and onlookers attracted
by the poetry & music being performed joined in as audience &
participants. I also received a Power Macintosh from Barbara
Brannon as a gift, & have decked it out with laser writer, CD burner,
The Cenacle / 50 / December 2003