Spring 2009
ISSN 1542-3123
Somewhere I'll find a butchered grove of trees,
And pray to a father I've hardly known;
I'll sharpen my spade and begin to dig:
There's a field to be cleared, and loss endured.
—George Dickerson, "The Empire of the Stumps"
Dear friends of Sam Hamill and Gray Foster, Copper Canyon Press, and Poets Against the War:
You may have heard that Sam and Gray have had some financial reverses lately. Both have also have had recent hospital stays and still need treatment not covered by insurance.…Read more
The Same
Martin Mitchell, Host
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
(b/t Bleecker & West 4th)
Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
Editor Mitchell's friends & readers include Michele Battiste, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Kurt Brown, Theresa Burns, Michael Carman, Dean Kostos, Ann Lauinger, Amy Lemmon, Suzanne Noguere, Allison Cay Parker, Lynn Patmalnee, Margaret Ryan, Hilary Sideris, Mary Austin Speaker, Ilene Starger, Mervyn Taylor, Maria Terrone, Estha Weiner, Carolyn Whittle, Anne Pierson Wiese, Michael T. Young.
BigCityLit Reading
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
(b/t Bleecker & West 4th)
Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
Featuring poets from the Spring 2009 issue, including Patricia Carragon,
Allen C. Fischer, Deborah Flanagan,
Joanne Grumet, Ann Lauinger,
Linda Lerner, Charlotte Mandel, Mark Nickels, D. Nurkse, eve packer,
Ron Price, Kryssa Schemmerling, Peter Schwartz, Maggie Schwed,
Barry Wallenstein, Rob Wright and Angelo Verga
(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.
The Road and the Sky:This Spring's collection includes work by Joel Allegretti, Max Blecher (Valery Oisteanu and Nadia Brunstein, trans), Laurel Blossom, Philip Dacey, Stephanie Dickinson, Allen C. Fischer, Joanne Grumet, Pamela Hart, Kate Irving, Dean Kostos, Richard Levine, Nicole Martinez, Philip Miller, Michael Morical, Richard Pearse, Ellen Peckham, Bertha Rogers, Carl Rosenstock, Anna Soo-Hoo, Susan Tepper, Matthew J. Spireng, Melinda Thomsen, George Wallace, Barry Wallenstein, Chocolate Waters, Estha Weiner, Martin Willets, Jr., and Rob Wright
Lust Series, Stephanie Dickinson
Having Almost Forgotten Why I Was Here,, Jared Smith
A discussion with Maya Pindyck by Kristina Marie Darling
Richard Pearse,Compromise, I Tell My Flock
Sarah White,For Want of Fish
Richard Thieme, Northward into the Night
Patrick Henry, The Conscience of Vienna
Max Blecher (1909-1938): A Centenary Remembrance by Valery Oisteanu
Peering Through Perfect Dark: New Poems by Susan Maurer, reviewed by George Wallace
Psyche's Weather by Cynthia Atkins, reviewed by Philip Miller
Thrum, Joel Allegretti
That Country's Soul, Richard Levine
Matthew Ryan: Dear Lover
BigCityLit Reading
Host: Nick Johnson
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
(b/t Bleecker & West 4th)
$7 admission includes one drink
Featuring: work by Joel Allegretti, Allen C. Fischer, Joanne Grumet, Pamela Hart, Kate Irving, Dean Kostos, Richard Levine, Philip Miller, Ellen Peckham,
Bertha Rogers, Carl Rosenstock, Anna Soo-Hoo, Susan Tepper, Melinda Thomsen, Barry Wallenstein, Chocolate Waters, Estha Weiner and Rob Wright
Big City Lit welcomes letters from its readers. Address correspondence to Editors@nycBigCityLit.com
All Print Series Suspended
For the present, all Contests suspended.
As we say good-bye to those no longer with us, we are pleased to announce new contributing editors Martin Mitchell, George Wallace and Barry Wallenstein; regular contributor Allen C. Fischer; and Associate Editor Elena Kondracki.
Martin Mitchell, Barry Wallenstein, James Ragan, Patrick Henry (UK), Diana Manister, Philip Miller, Margo Berdeshevsky, George Wallace, Larissa Shmailo, Brant Lyon