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 Abbott

            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: 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

 

Aya

            Non-Fiction: Knowing David Meltzer

 

noelle b.

            chrome bones

 

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.

 

John Beer

            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: Esuac

 

F. J. Bergmann

            Poetry: Sequitur

 

Bill Berkson

            CHAPBOOK: Same Here

            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

 

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

 

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

 

Ken Botto

            Art selections in issue 3

 

Kristy Bowen

            Poetry: Hazards

 

Peter Boyle

            Poetry: To J

            Poetry: The Unknowable

 

Tom Bradley

            Fiction: I Was a Teenage Rent-A-Frankenstein

 

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

 

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

            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

 

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

 

Josephine Clare

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

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

 

Andrei Codrescu

            Poetry: Nickelodeon

            Poetry: No Terror Natives Upset

 

Ira Cohen

            EXHIBIT: electronic multimedia shaman

            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

 

Lakshmi Cohen

            Art: My Father

 

John Colagrande Jr.

            Fiction: The Sea Lion

            Fiction: Diamond and Dolly

 

Todd Colby

            Poetry: The Incidents

 

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

 

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

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

 

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