BigCityLit.com

Spring 2008

 

ISSN 1542-3123

 

Whoever is here should be quiet now.
Whoever's thoughts have drawn up a chart
to the headwaters of the self's image
should set it down.
Look - what if we're going nowhere?
What if time is our most famous fabrication?
Up there, somewhere, all our longings...

—Anne Coray, "Of the North"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, June 22, 2008 6:00 PM

BigCityLit Poets
Martin Mitchell, Host
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
b/t Bleecker & West 4th)
Cover $7 (includes one house drink)

Featuring poets from the Spring 2008 issue, including Lorna Knowles Blake, Clifford Browder, Suzanne Cleary,
Greg Delanty, Allen C. Fischer, Gabrielle LeMay, Kate Light, Gardner McFall, Samuel Menashe, Philip Miller, D. Nurkse,
Holly Posner, Ron Price, Bertha Rogers, Stephen Stepanchev, Mervyn Taylor, Rachel Wetzsteon, Alison Woods, and Michael T. Young

 

Monday, August 25, 2008 8:00 pm

Lyric Recovery & BigCityLit
The Living Theatre
21 Clinton Street Street
b/t Stanton & Houston)
New York, NY 10002
212-792-8050
George Dickerson, Nick Johnson, Diana Manister and Mark Nickels

 

Call for submissions: Fall 2008

(Note: List is not restrictive nor preclusive of other themes.)
Epigrams; Moving/Motion; Dust; Corridors; Insects; Cemeteries; Smoking; Infanticide; Surrealism; Timepieces; Kites; Suicide; 'Lovesick'; Hands and Gloves; Wells; Windmills; and Small Town Wherewithal.  (Bolding indicates features which are scheduled to appear very soon.)

Consult Submissions for guidelines, Masthead for editorial policy.
Please query first on articles over 750 words.
Email: editors@nycBigCityLit.com.