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BigCityLit.com
Spring 2013
ISSN 1542-3123
…dipping through
Glenn Miller Memorial Park,
where the grass looked painted green,
its streams minnowy slivers
of running silver we watched…
—Philip Miller, from “Mt Union, PA: 1991”
Philip Miller Tribute,
Thursday, October 31 st, Halloween, 6 pm
Hosts: Patricia Brody and Nick Johnson
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
(b/t Bleecker & West 4th)
$8 cover includes one drink
Saturday, November 2 at 2:30 pm
Brownstone Poets presents readings by
Patricia Eakins, Chad Parenteau and Nick Johnson
Park Plaza Restaurant in Brooklyn Heights
220 Cadman Plaza West near Clark Street
Take the A or C to High Street, 2 or 3 to Clark Street/
4 or 5 to Borough Hall.
$4 Donation – plus Food/Drink
Curated by Patricia Carragon
Ronnie Norpel’s Tract 187 Culture Clatch
First & third Wednesdays
7-9:30 p.m. at
Ding Dong Lounge
929 Columbus Avenue (105/106th Sts.)
Trains: #1/B/C
The Same
Anti-fracking songs:
The Talkin’ Frackin’ Blues by Preston Hollow
Barry Wallenstein, Lucky These Days CD
Call for submissions: Fall 2013
(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.
In This Issue: Spring 2013
Poetry: Martin Mitchell, Guest Editor
Eye to Eye, Notwithstanding:
This spring’s collection includes work by
Ned Balbo, Clare Best, Andrea Carter Brown, Julie Bruck, Robert Cording,
C. L. Dallat, Moyra Donaldson, Maura Dooley, Meg Kearney, Tim Liardet,
Christopher Locke, Andrea M. Lockett, Marjorie Maddox, Robert Minhinnick,
Miles David Moore, Rick Mullin, Linda Stern, Maria Terrone, Jim Tilley, Alison Woods and
Howard Wright.
Twelve:
Poems by Philip Miller
Selected by Martin Mitchell
Big City, Little:
Stephen Massimilla: To a Petal South of This Coast
Fiction:
Paul Oppenheimer, Killing Time
Bonnie Walker, Fairy Tales My Father Told Me
Articles:
Patricia Lynne Duffy: The Art of Miss.Tic: from the Paris streets to Gallery Chic
(and even to a series of French postage stamps):
The artist who refuses to let fear interfere
Valery Oisteanu, An Un-alphabetic Encyclopedia of Dada and Surrealist Suicides
Essays:
Marc Levy, Medic in the Green Time
Patrick Henry, Ghost Train: Transylvania to Bucharest
Carl Rosenstock, A Gathering: The Poets Laureate Anthology
Reviews:
Richard Levine on Michael T. Young’s Living in the Counterpoint
Mary Noonan’s The Fado House, reviewed by Hilary Sideris
Bookshelf:
Stephen Massimilla, The Plague Doctor In His Hull-Shaped Hat
Ann Lauinger, Against Butterflies
Marjorie Maddox, Local News From Someplace Else
Susana H. Case, Salem in Séance
CDs:
Field Report: Field Report
Events:
Philip Miller Tribute,
Thursday, October 31 st, Halloween, 6 pm
Hosts: Patricia Brody and Nick Johnson
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
(b/t Bleecker & West 4th)
$8 cover includes one drink
Ronnie Norpel’s Tract 187 Culture Clatch
First & third Wednesdays
7-9:30 p.m. at
Ding Dong Lounge
929 Columbus Avenue (105/106th Sts.)
Trains: #1/B/C
Letters:
Big City Lit welcomes letters from its readers. Address correspondence to Editors@nycBigCityLit.com
Print Series:
All Print Series Suspended
Contests:
For the present, all Contests suspended.
Masthead Notes:
We welcome Melinda Thomsen as a Contributing Editor of the magazine.
Contributing Editors:
Martin Mitchell, Barry Wallenstein, James Ragan, Patrick Henry (UK), Diana Manister,
Margo Berdeshevsky, George Wallace, Larissa Shmailo, Brant Lyon, Melinda Thomsen