This issue of Big Bridge is dedicated
to the memory of
Ira Cohen
Spring 2011: Big Bridge 15
100 Thousand Poets for CHANGE !
Features
The Flame is Ours
The Letters of Stan Brakhage and Michael McClure 1961–1978
Edited by Christopher Luna
Out Looking For Lew: Bioregional Poetics & The Legacy Of Lew Welch
Jerry Martien
from 'Kyoto Notebooks' by Philip Whalen
A Selection by Brian Unger
An Unheard Melody: The music of Annapurna Devi
by Louise Landes Levi
Featured Poets
Bring it Home by Basil King
with an introduction by Laurie Duggan
The Receptive: A Radio Play
(a monologue in the person of the elderly C.G. Jung)
Rick London
Orange and Raw
A collaboration by Pat Nolan and Sandy Berrigan
Frank Parker: A Collection of Broadsides
Road Ghosts by John Roche
Complete Book (PDF)
Poetry Features
Divigations
A Chapbook by Jerome Rothenberg
Drawings by Nancy Victoria Davis
Twelve Poets
Edited by Jason Blickstein
Poems by:
J. J. Blickstein
David Chirico
Clayton Eshleman
Anne Gorrick
Greg Grummer
Robert Kelly
Heller Levinson
Susan McKechnie
John Olson
Richard Rizzi
Anthony Seidman
Ryan G. Van Cleave
Fusion:
A Tapestry of
Beat Poets, Slam Poets, Black Arts Poets and Hip Hop Poets
Woven by Jason Braun
Poetry by:
Sean Arnold Mark Bromberg Christopher K.P. Brown Wendy Brown-Baez
Chella Courington Nate Fisher Margaret Gilbert Julia Gordon-Bramer
Erin Goss Geoffrey D. Holman, A.K.A. Priest Cassandra Howard
Stephen Koritta David W. Landrum John McKernan
Tom Murphy Matthew Rambo Questionmark Maximus Parthas
John W. Sexton Mati Shemoelof Michael Shorb
Shane Signorino Jeffrey Skoblow M. K. Stallings
Daniel Suffian Joe Wetteroth Erin Wiles
Translations
Galician Poetry and Prose
Translated from Galician to Spanish by F. R. Lavandeira
and from Spanish to English by Terri Carrión
Seven Works of Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Art Beck
Ten Poems of Arthur Rimbaud
Translated by Bill Zavatsky
Six Hungarian Poets
Translated by Gabor G. Gyukics and Michael Castro
Poems of Juan Gelman
Translated by Hardie St. Martin, selected and with an introduction by Paul Pines
A Suite of Translations from Nakahara Chuya,
with a Concluding Poem In Tribute
by Jerome Rothenberg and Yasuhiro Yotsumoto
Martin Adan – Written Blindly
Translated by Katherine Silver and Rick London
Ahmed Abdel Mu’ti Hijazi – As If A Voice Were Calling
Translated by Omnia Amin and Rick London
Chan Poems
Translated by Mary M.Y. Fung and David Lunde
Rosestrikes & Coffee Grinds by Seyhan Erozçelik
Translated and with an introduction by Murat Nemet-Nejat
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 by
María Auxiliadora Álvarez, Edda Armas, Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva,
María Calcaño, Laura Cracco, Ida Gramcko, Patricia Guzmán, Veronica Jaffe,
Maritza Jiménez, 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
Featured Artists
Four Photographers
Curated by Jonathan Kane
Mosa Moradzadeh Marcin Gorski Nina Pak Christopher R. Perez
Reviews
Perks in Purgatory
by Valery Oisteanu, reviewed by David St.-Lascaux
Grief Suite
By Bobbi Lurie, reviewed by Mary Kasimor
What Hands Can Hold
by Ami Kaye, reviewed by Karen Bowles
Hidden Agendas – An Unreported Poetics
by Louis Armand, reviewed by David Vichnar
The Dancer & The Dance: A Book of Distinctions — Poetry in the 21st Century
by Jack Foley, reviewed by George Wallace and Katherine Hastings
On Rereading The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty, reviewed by Martin Rosenstock
Paul Celan and the Messiah’s Broken Levered Tongue: An Exponential Dyad
by Daniel Y. Harris and Adam Shechter, reviewed byJake Marmer
Interview with Larry Sawyer, author of Unable to Fully California
Interviewer: David Madgalene
Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds
by Seyhan Erozçelik, translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat,
reviewed by Joseph Donahue
Drowning Like Li Po
In A River Of Red Wine
by A. D. Winans; Reviewed by Neeli Cherkovski
Notebooks From The Emerald Triangle
by Bill Bradd, reviewed by Sharon Doubiago
Automatic Zygote
by Jonathan Witherspoon Huey, reviewed by Gary Parrish
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