Contributors

This list includes links to contributors in the current and all past issues of Big Bridge. Many links will take you into our archives.

 

Keith Kumasen Abbott

            Non-fiction: Satori Kitty Roshi Style (Or, Enlightenment Practices For Stones)

            Art and calligraphy of Beat poetry

            Non-fiction: Jim in Bolinas: A Memoir of Jim Gustafson

 

Sam Abrams

            Poetry: The Purpose

            Poetry: Trick or Treat

            Poetry: Flip Flop Flip

            Poetry: The Test

 

Seth Abramson

            Poetry: 1969

 

Alja Adam

            Poetry: This Time

 

Anna Akhmatova

            Poetry: The Last Toast

            Poetry: Censure

 

Adam Aitken

            Poetry: Hybrid Heaven

 

Stew Albert

            Essay: What Goes Around

 

Jordie Albiston

            Poetry: Collectables

            Poetry: Things to Do (Suburbia)

 

Ammiel Alcalay

            Non-fiction: For David

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

            Non-fiction: Israel-Palestine 101: A Letter to Robert Creeley

 

William Allegrezza

            Poetry: red

            Poetry: dark ships

 

mIEKAL aND

            Poetry: UNWAR MANIFESTO

            Poetry: Animal Poetry

            Elegy: Dark Times Make for New Places

            Elegy: Hello Below the Serif

            Poetry: Turtlephone

 

Alonso

            Poetry: The 4 Noble Truths of Buddha – Jaded, Updated, and Serrated

            Poetry: the corpse

            Poetry: On Icarus' Wings

 

Anonymous

            Fiction: Lingerie

 

Bruce Andrews

            Poetry: Pink Hints

 

Alina Antonetti

            Poetry: For a Dead Poetess

 

Louis Armand

            Poetry: Abject Relations

            Poetry: Sleeping Positions

 

Carson Arnold

            Essay: If There's a Smile on My Face

 

Geer Austin

            Poetry: Sri Lanka

 

Aya

            Non-Fiction: Knowing David Meltzer

 

noelle b.

            chrome bones

 

Rodney Artiles

            Art selections in issue 12

 

Glenn Bach

            Poetry: from "Atlas Peripatetic," 360

 

Petra Backonja

            Poetry: Portrait: With Pearls

            Poetry: Afterswarm

            Poetry: Underwatch

            Poetry: What Continuum

 

Ed Baker

            Poetry & Art: The Nuances, 1 through 8

 

Micah Ballard

            Poetry: Anonymous

            Poetry: Last Rites

            Poetry: Liturgy

            Poetry: David Meltzer

            Poetry: Teaching the Young

            Poetry: Black Ghost

 

Anny Ballardini

            Elegy: To Suor Maria Pozzi

 

David Baratier

            Poetry: Howdy

            Poetry: after Celan #7

            Poetry: What is right will never be lost or taken

 

Todd Baron

            Poetry: Sefiroth (w  ar)

 

Jean Baudrillard

            Interview by Nina Zivancevic

 

Brent Bechtel

            Poetry: Failing to gnaw on the plastic straw.

 

Susan Bee

            contribution to Your New Face


John Beer

            Review of Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz by Kent Johnson

            Poetry: Total Information Awareness

            Poetry: Swift Boat Veteran for Beauty

 

Luke Beesley

            Poetry: Fellini's Roma

            Poetry: Q

 

Franco Beltrametti

            Elegy: To Jack Spicer

 

Steve Ben-Israel

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

Pip Benveniste

            Art: Energy 3

 

John M. Bennett

            Poetry: Fooled

            Poetry: Esuac

 

F. J. Bergmann

            Poetry: Sequitur

 

Bill Berkson

            contribution to Your New Face

            CHAPBOOK: Same Here

            Collaborative Non-Fiction: from What's Your Idea of a Good Time?: Interviews & Letters 1977-1985

            Poetry: Art Diary

            Poetry: Tango

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

            Poetry: Sir Francis Dark

            Poetry: Another Coffee, After Saint Augustine

            Poetry: Most Valuable Person

            Poetry: The Reader's Lover

            Poetry: Dichotomy Times, or How to Assuage Political Grieving

            Elegy: Baby’s Awake Now

 

Charles Bernstein

            Poetry: The Ballad of the Girlie Man

 

Robert James Berry

            Poetry: The Maker

            Poetry: Growing

            Poetry: Thoughts

 

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

            Poetry: Susie, Kiki, Annie

 

Eve West Bessier

            Review: Richard Denner's Collected Poems 1961-2000


Stephen Bett

            Poetry: News from the Frontal Lobe II

            Poetry: News from the Frontal Lobe III

 

Ken Bolton

            Poetry: American Friends

            Poetry: Horizon

            Poetry: Some Thinking

 

Jennifer Birkett

            Elegy: Pinked to the Tate

            Poetry: Pink Dialogues

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

Sara Birl

            Poetry: Upon Seeing My Brother's Death Certificate


John Bloomberg-Rissman

            Poetry: Totally Entirely Quite Completely Not At All

            Poetry: Grenadine Szorora: Some Poems

 

Ann Bogle

            Fiction: Primary Creative

 

Hal Bohner

            EXHIBIT: The Whacky World of Alfred Chester

 

Charles Borkhuis

            Poetry: from Afterimage

 

Ken Botto

            Art selections in issue 3

 

Juan Manuel Bonet

            contribution to Your New Face


Kristy Bowen

            Poetry: Hazards

 

Peter Boyle

            Poetry: To J

            Poetry: The Unknowable

 

John Bradley

            Essay: Why War Poetry


Tom Bradley

            Fiction: I Was a Teenage Rent-A-Frankenstein

 

Allen Bramhall

            Poetry: jerking goshawks from the sky

 

John Brandi

            Poetry: I Lift the Wine

            Poetry: Time Is Short

            Poetry: It's Happened

            Non-fiction: Cuba Journals, 2002

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

            Art and Poetry: Glyph Poems

 

Mary-Anne Breeze

            Poetry: _Boxed A[rray]ndrogynous_ Force:[Mission Parameters]

            Poetry: [Buyo]_Logical Pop_

 

Scott Brennan

            Poetry: Contentment

            Art selections in issue 8

 

Robert Briggs

            Non-Fiction: Knowing David Meltzer

 

David Bromige

            Poetry: The Petrarch Project: Cantos 34-37

 

James Brook

            Essay: Copy for David

            Poetry: Television: A Letter to Robert Duncan, with a Thought for Jess

            Poetry: Waiting Room

            Poetry: Cold Water Motor Court

            Poetry: Hermetic Poem

            Poetry: Coda Wags Dog

 

Arthur Davis Broughton

            Art selections in issue 9

 

Robert Brown

            Art selections in issue 7

 

Bob BrueckL

            Poetry: Ecce Homo

 

Janet I. Buck

            Poetry: The Wake Up Call

 

Ronnie Burk

            Poetry: eagle beneath the sea

            Poetry: Automatic comic strip

            Poetry: cracked mirror

            Poetry: Optic Nerve

            Poetry: Words Written in Blue Flame

            Poetry: Sky*Boat

 

Nicole Burrows

            Poetry: Ode to Kenward Elmslie

            Poetry: Ode to Joseph Caravolo

 

Christina Butcher

            Poetry: all around the mulberry bush

            Poetry: museum of wax

 

Mairead Byrne

            Poetry: Touch

 

Jennifer Calkins

            Poetry: Start Here

 

Nick Carbo

            Poetry: Typhoon Signal No. 1

            Poetry: Speech Impediments

            Poetry: Grammarotics

 

Tom Carey

            Poetry: To Elio

            Poetry: On Dissolution

            Poetry: Mood Swing

 

Ric Carfagna

            An Interview with Vernon Frazer

            Review: Improvisations: Book 3 by Vernon Frazer

 

Andie Carpenter

            Poetry: Deconstruction

            Poetry: Seven Reasons to Smoke Cigarettes

            Poetry: Concerto

            Poetry: Hearing Neruda

            Poetry: Read This To Reporters When They Ask Why I Went Mad

 

Terri Carrion

            Poetry: Wandering through the Big Picture

            Poetry: Cerebral Parsley

            Poetry: Quantum foam

 

Daniel Cassidy

            Poetry: Song of the Spailpín

 

Michael Castro

            Poetry: The Poet's Telephone

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

            Poetry: Song of the Golden Harp

            Poetry: Collateral Damage

            Poetry: The Monsters

 

James Cervantes

            Poetry: Bunny Wars


Joel Chace

            Poetry: polydicks poke her producks

 

C. E. Chaffin

            Poetry: Nocturne

 

Robin Chapman

            Poetry: The Hill in Marquette County

 

Neeli Cherkovski

            Poetry: A Poem with Lines by David Meltzer

            Poetry: Three Green Stalks

            Poetry: Poor Democracy…

            Poetry: The Elegy

 

Maxine Chernoff

            Non-Fiction: Travels with David

 

Alfred Chester

            Fiction: from Exquisite Corpse

 

Justin Chin

            26 Acts

 

David-Baptiste Chirot

            Essay: RAW WAR


Josephine Clare

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

Peter Ciccariello

            Poetry: Weapons of Mass Destruction


Tom Clark

            Poetry: Adversary

            Poetry: The Two Lords

            Poetry: As If Anything Could Happen

            Poetry: In the Time of the Smoking Mirror

            Poetry: The Course of Empire Unwinds

            Poetry: Sunflowers

            Essay: Anatolian Expedition

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

            Poetry: The Hero Sacks Out At the Millennium Motel

            Poetry: Nivene's Dream

            Poetry: The Hero's Dream of the Postman and Nivene

 

Andy Clausen

            Poetry: Phone with Mom

            Poetry: Access Us

 

Jan Clausen

            Poetry: 30 Seconds over Tokyo


Joe Clifford

            Fiction: Killing Time

            Poetry: One Very Important Letter


Andrei Codrescu

            Poetry: Nickelodeon

            Poetry: No Terror Natives Upset

 

Ira Cohen

            EXHIBIT: electronic multimedia shaman

            EXHIBIT: Poetry and Art selections in Issue 12

            CHAPBOOK: Millennium

            Art and Poetry: Angkor 2003, First Trip

            Art and Poetry: Tribute to Ronnie Burk

            Art and Poetry: Seven Postcards

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

            Essay on JILALA: Sufi Trance Music From Morocco


Lakshmi Cohen

            Art: My Father

 

John Colagrande Jr.

            Fiction: The Sea Lion

            Fiction: Diamond and Dolly

 

Todd Colby

            contribution to Your New Face

            Poetry: The Incidents

 

Norma Cole

            contribution to Your New Face


Jack Collom

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

            Poetry: Zeno I

            Poetry: Zeno II

            Poetry: Zeno III

            Poetry: King David Suddenly

            Poetry: Ezra Pound

            Poetry: Negative Capability

            CHAPBOOK: Slice

 

Clark Coolidge

            Videos: Readings from David Meltzer's Beat Thing

            Poetry: L.A. in Time

 

Alejandro Corujeira

            contribution to Your New Face


Aaron Couch

            Poetry: The Box

            Poetry: Global Language II: Thug Life the Movie

            Poetry: Global Language III: The Sleeping Beggar

 

Clayton A. Couch

            Poetry: Trilateral Commission

 

Jeff Conant

            Poetry: Poems from Twenty (Survey) Questions (on corporate globalization) and a Statement of Hope

 

Bruce Covey

            Elegy: 77

 

Ray Craig

            Elegy: as before, he will collapse in nurse

 

Robert Creeley

            CHAPBOOK: People

 

MTC Cronin

            from <More or Less Than> 1-100

 

Del Ray Cross

            from Anachronisms

 

Primož Cucnik

            Poetry: For your name

            Poetry: Chords

           

William Curtis

            Essay: My Association with Phil Ochs

 

Garin Cycholl

            Poetry: Notes

            Poetry: Midwestern Landscape #13

            Poetry: Domestic Scene #3

            Poetry: Jesus Christ in his Off-Hours

            Poetry: Der Knochenlieder (Three Investigations)

 

Steve Dalachinsky

            Poetry: these wild days

            Poetry: the seasons: fragments from the journals of CACTUS HEAD {PRIVATE}

            Poetry: the 10 plagues thru eyes of a working class Egyptian {PRIVATE}

 

Catherine Daly

            Poetry: Home/Front

 

Maria Damon

            Elegy: Lyx Ish Memorial Celebration

 

Sophie Dannenmüller

            Non-fiction: Homage to David Meltzer

 

Diane DiPrima

            Video: Reading from David Meltzer's 15th Raga/ For Bela Lugosi

 

Ian Davidson

            Poetry: A Moment 2

            Poetry: Dream Boat

            Poetry: Assumed Position

            Poetry: Collaboration Number 19

 

Lyndon Davies

            Poetry: From the Battlements

            Poetry: Quitting the Premises

            Poetry: Radioactive

 

Nancy Victoria Davis

            CHAPBOOK: Low Coups and Haut Coups

            CHAPBOOK: Same Here

            CHAPBOOK: HO

            CHAPBOOK: All along the Tigris River bend

            CHAPBOOK: Ancient Land Animal

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

            CHAPBOOK: Hungry 'Til I Learned the Word for Corn

            Art: Lisbon Indian Summer

            CHAPBOOK: It Was the Bomb

            CHAPBOOK: Engravings of Snakes

            CHAPBOOK: The Real News

            Art selections in issue 3

            CHAPBOOK: Slice

            CHAPBOOK: Mark Other Place

 

Alison McParlin Davis-Murphy

            Poetry: The Smell of My Death

 

Augusto de Campos

            contribution to Your New Face


Larry O. Dean

            Poetry: Potholes of Chicago

            Poetry: I Ate Chocolate and Lost 20 Lbs.

 

Martha L. Deed

            Elegy: Year Three

 

Richard Denner

            EXHIBIT: excerpts from The Collected Books of Richard Denner

            Fiction: Now That Spalding Grey Is Gone, I've Heard There's an Opening for Best Standup Memoirist, and I've Decided to Apply

            Fiction: What Comes Next?

            Fiction: What Happens Next


Adam DeGraff

            Poetry: Sails in milk/ Cream

            Review: Bill Berkson's Fugue State

 

Helyn Dell

            Poetry: Zephyr

 

Donna Dennis

            contribution to Your New Face


Shira Dentz

            Fiction: Life as an Abstract

 

Albert DeSilver

            Poetry: Letter Fifty Three

 

Tom Devaney

            Poetry: Song for Shaky Youth

            Poetry: Everyone I know

            Poetry: Man in a Hole

 

Pamela Dewey

            ART: photography exhibit in Issue 10

 

Steve Dickison

            Poetry: from Schallplattenspieler, or Nights at the Turntable

            Poetry: Live at Don Mupo's Gold Nugget in Oakland

            Poetry: Mr. LACY

 

B. R. Dionysus

            Poetry: The Negativity Bin – (ix) The Ladder of Creation

 

Ray DiPalma

            Poetry: Promise the Perverse and Offer a Chinese Pillow


John Doe

            Three Poems and a Song: On the Road with Doe

 

Ed Dorn

            CHAPBOOK: Low Coups and Haut Coups

 

Jose Manuel dos Santos Cross

            ART: sculpture exhibit in Issue 10

 

Sharon Doubiago