Complete
New Orleans Tribute Issue
2010 SUPPLEMENT
FEATURED POETS OF 2010
Wendy
Babiak Jim Christy Hans
Plomp Robert
Priest
FEATURED ARTISTS
Ed Coletti Jeff
Crouch Diana Magallon
and Jeff Crouch John Martone Spencer
Selby
FICTION
edited by Vernon Frazer
Tom Bradley Seth
Phelps Stefani
Christova Jordan
Zinovich
Jefferson
Hansen Joe Clifford Christopher
Brookhouse Andy Stewart
REVIEWS
Allan Graubard reviews Gherasim Luca
Paul Martinez Pompa reviews Francesco
Levato's translation of Tiziano Fratus
Jack Foley reviews Katherine Hastings
Roberts French reviews Anne Valley-Fox
Art Beck reviews Neeli Cherkovski
Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo review
Gerald Nicosia
Billey
Rainey reviews Stephen Bett
Wanda Phipps reviews
a performance by Delirious Dances
An
Interview with Choreographer Edisa Weeks
Interviewer: Wanda Phipps
FEATURES
Photographing
the Ninth Ward
Images of New Orleans After Katrina by John
Rosenthal
Diane di Prima
A Retrospective Collection of Essays
Home
Again, Home Again
A Memoir by Ron Loewinsohn
Perfiles de la Noche / Profiles of Night
Mujeres poetas de Venezuela/Women Poets of Venezuela
A Selection from the Bi-lingual Anthology
Original complete text selected and translated by Rowena Hill
Co-edited by Pen de Venezuela and bid & co.
Selection for online edition by Terri Carrion
Poetry
and the Social Gospel,
The Captivity and Liberation of a Language
by Linda Rogers
Poetry by
María Auxiliadora Álvarez, Edda Armas, Enriqueta
Arvelo Larriva,
María calcaño, Laura Cracco, Ida Gramcko, Patricia
Guzmán, Veronica Jaffe,
Maritza Jiménez, Rowena Hill, Martha Kornblith, Luz machado,
María Isabel Novillo,
Cecilia Ortiz, Hanni Ossott, Yolanda Pantin, Emira Rodríguez,
Margara Russotto,
María Clara Salas, Elizabeth Schön, Blanca Strepponi,
Ana Enriqueta Terán,
Alicia Torres, Elena Vera, Carmen Verde Arocha, Miyo Vestrin
2009 ISSUE
CHAPBOOK:
A Time in Fragments
Poem by Clark Coolidge; Drawings by Nancy Victoria
Davis
FEATURES
Big Bridge
New Orleans Sturm und Drang Anthology
edited by Dave Brinks and Bill Lavender
Slow Poetry
Edited by Dale Smith
One of the most refreshing and promising developments in poetry
in recent years,
Slow Poetry does not propose another sectarian or clique position,
but rather methods
of reading and attitudes toward production which could apply to
most genres in the
current scene or likely to emerge in the near future. The approach
has a strong base
in concepts and needs made more apparent than ever by current
ecological and
economic concerns.
Beauty Came Groveling
Forward:
Selected South African Poems and Stories
edited by Gary Cummiskey
This collection was meant to show the diversity and spirited character
of current
South African writing. It contains work by some celebrated writers,
and some whose
work has not received wide circulation even in its home country.
Without the
problems caused by canon formation or trying to be totally comprehensive,
this
group of poems and stories is free to work outside the stereotypes
and preconceptions
of South Africa and allow the participants to show what they can
do as individuals.
All This
Strangeness:
A Garland for George Oppen
Edited by Eric Hoffman
Commentary on Oppen has grown slowly, unobtrusively, and steadily,
until it now forms
a major body in itself. This collection of essays evaluates that
body of criticism in less partisan
terms than many of its predecessors, seeking to focus on individual
poems and prosody in
a broad historical context, going beyond the dichotomies that
dominated the 20th Century and
making room for further types of relevance in current literary
and social dispensations.
Sephardic
Proverbs
Collected and translated by Michael Castro
Proverbs act on many of the same principles as other miniatures,
such as haiku. Like stand-alone
couplets and quatrains used in everything from toasts to insults,
they also include a strong element of
collaboration and evolution. As a look at a tradition or a type
of poem, this collection can stay with a
reader a long time.
Post-Beat
Anthology
Reprint from the Chinese anthology, with brief intro
Edited by Vernon Frazer
How would you edit a collection of poems with that title for a
Chinese audience? Probably not the
same way Frazer has. That's one of the things that makes it interesting
and refreshing.
as per
Le Roman de la Rose, for example
An Anthology of Middle East Genocide Edited by Arpine Konyalian
Grenier
How does the cruel and unusual work for you through art, whether
it comes from
direct experience or direct/indirect memory. Be Genet, for example;
lemon to lemonade,
for example. How does one turn to Le Roman de la Rose (a Middle
Ages Poem) when
one is mired in or sorting out or faced with what happened or
what is happening that is
cruel and unusual due to human intolerance: racial religious cultural
gender related and other.
Charles Olson and the Nature of Destructive Humanism
by Craig Stormont
One Man
Blues:
Remembering Thomas Chapin
Reminiscence by Vernon Frazer
Excerpt from
Autobiography
by David Bromige
The India
Journals
by John Brandi
Genius and
Heroin:
by Michael Largo
In this essay, the author reviews his own book. The themes of
psycho-chemistry may
stretch back to pristine civilizations in China, Egypt, and Mexico,
but they seem inexhaustible.
Perhaps associate chemicals with genius is because our brains
produce such sophisticated
bases to start with, and self-review also finds a base in that
phenomenon.
WAR PAPERS
(3)
Poems and essays against war.
Sub-features by John Bradley, Joel Lewis, Philip Metres, Vincent
Katz, Francesco Levato, and
Louise Landes Levi, plus reflections from around the world on
the election of Barack Obama,
and, of course, Halvard Johnson's continuing anthology of anti-war
poems.
A Retrospective
of the Publication Work of Karl Young
ART
Enigmas
paintings by Jim Spitzer
As a regular contributor to Big Bridge, these paintings, variations
on an enigmatic
theme, show Spitzer's continuing evolution, as well as being koan-like
meditations
in their own right.
The Kingdom of Madison:
Photographs from Madison County, North Carolina
by Rob Amberg
Selections from three sets of photos, exploring a still relatively
isolated place,
where landscape still has functional meaning. When Amberg arrived,
not as a tourist,
but as one seeking community "Planting was still done by
the signs of the moon.
Water came from springs and heat from forests" and traditional
music still part of
daily life. These photos add to the tradition begun in the WPA
projects of the
Great Depression, but decidedly retain an identity of their own.
These Are My Angels
by Tasha Robbins
Small paintings done in Brooklyn on found cardboard by one of
the Post-Katrina
diaspora. Celebrating the C-Train stop at Franklin + Fulton Avenues,
as the artist writes,
they "kept my heart, eye + hand moving with a spirit of life
close to the timbre and
vibration of the Crescent City, still healing. . .
Lectura en Tránsito
Project Created and Directed by Carmen Gloria Berríos
Set based on combination of public art and poetry from Santiago
de Chile.
Poems translated by Terri Carrion and Carmen Gloria Berríos.
Animal Night Photography
by Felicia Murray; notes by Louise Landes Levi
New techniques in photography allow us to make photographic images
of phenomena
we could only imagine in previous eras. We might debate whether
the nature of cameras
and software brings us any closer to the spiritual world, but
these haunting images of
animals should make us feel less alone, and more in touch with
the continuum of life.
12 Collages
by John Brandi
These colages can be read as a non-verbal counterpart and extension
of his India Journal
and related work.
FICTION
Fiction by
Mel Freilicher, Eric Beeny, Stefani Christova, Lynda Schor, David
Madgalene,
Stephen-Paul Martin, Mark Wallace, Susan Smith Nash, Bart Plantenga
Richard Martin, Peter Conners, Ann Bogle, Jeffrey Hansen, Carol
Novack
REVIEWS
Reviews of:
Wanda Phipps, Lewis Warsh, Simon Pettet, Larissa Shmailo, Bobbie
Louise Hawkins, Ed Sanders,
Bill Berkson, Colter Jacobsen, Mark Young, John Roche, Philip
Gounis, Rich Kruse, Michael Rumaker,
Annie Le Brun, George Kimball, and Ashis Gupta.
Reviewed by:
Kirpal Gordon; Svitlana Matviyenko, Garry Parrish, Jackie Sheeler,
Jim Feast, Allan Graubard,
Charles Thorne, Barbara Henning, Tom Hibbard, Steve Elmer, Stephen
Lewandowski
Joe Wetteroth, Vernon Frazer, Leverett T. Smith, and Katherine
Hastings.
LITTLE
MAGS
Plastic Ocean
Green Dragon
Untamed Ink
ROCKPILE
ROCKPILE is a collaboration
between David Meltzer -- poet, musician, essayist,
and more — and Michael Rothenberg of Big Bridge Press. David
and Michael will
journey through eight cities in the U.S. to perform poetry and
prose, composed while on the
road, with local musicians and artists in each city. ROCKPILE
will serve to educate and
preserve as well as to create a history of collaboration. It will
help to reinforce the tradition of
the troubadour of all generations, central to the cultural upheaval
and identity politics that
reawakened poets, artists, musicians, and songwriters in the mid-1960s
through the 1970s.
The project will end with a final multimedia performance in San
Francisco.
Check out the ROCKPILE Blog for calendar and
discussion!