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

 

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

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

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

 

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

 

noelle b.

            chrome bones

 

Petra Backonja

            Poetry: Portrait: With Pearls

 

Jean Baudrillard

            Interview by Nina Zivancevic

 

Brent Bechtel

            Poetry: Failing to gnaw on the plastic straw.

 

Luke Beesley

            Poetry: Fellini's Roma

            Poetry: Q

 

Steve Ben-Israel

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

Bill Berkson

            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

 

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

            Poetry: Pink Dialogues

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

Hal Bohner

            EXHIBIT: The Whacky World of Alfred Chester

 

Ken Botto

            Art selections in issue 3

 

Peter Boyle

            Poetry: To J

            Poetry: The Unknowable

 

Tom Bradley

            Fiction: I Was a Teenage Rent-A-Frankenstein

 

John Brandi

            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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Michael Castro

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

Joel Chace

            Poetry: polydicks poke her producks

 

C. E. Chaffin

            Poetry: Nocturne

 

Alfred Chester

            Fiction: from Exquisite Corpse

 

Justin Chin

            26 Acts

 

Josephine Clare

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

Tom Clark

            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

            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: 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

 

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

 

Robert Creeley

            CHAPBOOK: People

 

MTC Cronin

            from <More or Less Than> 1-100

 

Del Ray Cross

            from Anachronisms

 

William Curtis

            Essay: My Association with Phil Ochs

 

Nancy Victoria Davis

            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

 

Adam DeGraff

            Review: Bill Berkson's Fugue State

 

Albert DeSilver

            Poetry: Letter Fifty Three

 

Tom Devaney

            Poetry: Song for Shaky Youth

            Poetry: Everyone I know

            Poetry: Man in a Hole

 

B. R. Dionysus

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

 

Eric Drooker

            Art selections in issue 1

 

Maggie Dubris

            Fiction: The Mighty Up

 

John Dufresne

            Fiction: Situating the Parents

            Fiction: Bridle

            Fiction: Breaking it Down for You

 

Laurie Duggan

            Poetry: Difference and repetition

            Poetry: Pastoral

            Poetry: The vocation of doubt

 

Denise Duhamel

            Poetry: GIRL SEX GIRL SEX GIRL (a poem written in p)

            Poetry: Slangster Cult

            Poetry: Omphaloskepsis

            Poetry: Self Portrait without Glasses

 

kari edwards

            Poetry: Hawaii 5-o

 

Rebecca Edwards

            Poetry: At Yoshinoya

            Poetry: Plague Animals

 

Mauro Efef

            Art selections in issue 2

 

Amanda Eicher

            Art selections in issue 9

 

Stephen Ellis

            Review of Cosmopolitan Tremble by Mark DuCharme

            Review of Scratch Sides by Kristen Prevallet

 

Brad Evans

            Poetry: their poetry is driving us crazy

 

Steve Evans

            Review of Serenade by Bill Berkson

 

Jane Falk

            Poetry: Permutation Poem for Philip Whalen

 

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

Liam Ferney

            Poetry: Bagged

            Poetry: Ode to Place

            Poetry: Sonnet 1000002

 

Michael Ferrell

            Poetry: cabbage damage

            Poetry: dramaque

            Poetry: the guys on the roof

            Poetry: rhubarb

 

Paco Ferrer

            contributions to Poetry & Eroticism

 

Vincent Ferrini

            Poetry, Art, and Interview: The Initiations

 

Norman Fischer

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

            Review: Overtime: The Selected Poems of Philip Whalen

            Essay: Do You Want to Make Something of It?

 

Merry Fortune

            Poetry: Church Avenue

            Poetry: Civilization

            Poetry: Love Poem/July 24, 1996

            Poetry: "A Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus train has derailed this morning. No word on the fate of the animals…"

 

Brently Frazer

            Poetry: Theory of fabricated Situations

 

Vernon Frazer

            Fiction: two excerpts from Relic's Reunions

            Poetry: Consonantal Breakfasts

            Poetry: Eastern Lights

            Poetry: from Improvisations

 

Gloria Frym

            Poetry: Out

            Fiction: Crime and Punishment

 

Tova Gabrielle

            Poetry: Jewish Woman Finds Rebirth in California after Running

 

Lisa Galli

            Art selections in issue 1

 

Gwynne Garfinkle

            Poetry: ode

            Poetry: But that is not a small wound

            Poetry: apt apartment

            Poetry: A spate of lewdness

            Poetry: Thaw

            Poetry: The Museum of At

 

Dick Gallup

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

Drew Gardner

            Poetry: The Loop

 

Ricky Garni

            Poetry: The Finest Truffle Assortment

            Poetry: Walking on the Wall

            Poetry: Charms

            Poetry: There's a Drawing of a Beautiful Woman in My Room

 

Ellen Geist

            Poetry: Car Trouble

            Poetry: Boy Watching

 

Robert Gibbons

            Fiction: Make it New, in Oku, Boston, or Miami

            Fiction: The Internal & External are One: I'd Love to Go to the Keys

 

David Gitin

            Poetry: Estate

            Poetry: Passing Through

            Poetry: Woke Up One Morning

            Poetry: Muir Beach Rockfest

 

Philip Good

            Poetry: Skylands

 

Daphne Gotlieb

            Poetry: Nocturnal Missions

 

James Graham

            Poetry: The Runner

 

Taylor Graham

            Poetry: The Loons are Thundering Their Lake

            Poetry: Horse Dance

 

Renee Gregorio

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

            CHAPBOOK: Hungry 'Til I Learned the Word for Corn

 

Claudia Grinnell

            Art and Poetry: As I Say This

            Art and Poetry: In the Wildest Sense, Everything

            Art and Poetry: Advice for Getting it Done

            Art and Poetry: Skinner Box

            Art and Poetry: What You Will Find Here

 

Jay Gumm

            contributions to Poetry & Eroticism

 

Jef Gunn

            Art selections in issue 1

 

Roxanne Poormon Gupta

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

Donald Guravich

            Art, Poetry, and Fiction: A Donald Guravich Retrospective

            Art selections in issue 1

 

Hammond Guthrie

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

Tony Guzman

            Poetry: a life of one's own

            Poetry: I won't care

            Poetry: high coups

 

Gabor Gyukics

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

Yacine Hachani

            Art selections in issue 8

 

Paul Hardacre

            Poetry: from The river is far behind us (parts xxvii – xxxiii)

 

Kimberly Harrison

            contribution to War Is Over

 

Jim Hayes

            Art selections in issue 2

 

Jonathan Hayes

            Poetry: The Killing Jar

            Poetry: Diamonds and Sneakers

 

Janie Heath

            Fiction: Ditch

 

Lyn Hejinian

            Poetry: from The Fatalist

 

Michael Heller

            Non-fiction: from Living Root: A Memoir

 

Michael Hettich

            Poetry: There Was a Mother

            Poetry: Memorable Food

 

Allen Hibbard

            EXHIBIT: The Whacky World of Alfred Chester

 

Tom Hibbard

            Review: Edward Weston: Philosophy of the Visible

            Review: Brett Evans' Autograph: After School Session

            Review: Prokofiev's Cinderella: Purity of Imagination

 

David Highsmith

            Poetry: from Petroglyph

 

Ernie Hilbert

            Poetry: Accession

            Poetry: Demonica

            Poetry: Heraklitus Wanders

 

Richard Hillman

            Poetry: The Blacksheep Says It All

            Poetry: Can't Say No

            Poetry: I'm Ready

 

Jack Hirschman

            Poetry: Something Basic for Local 87 AFL-CIO

 

Anselm Hollo

            CHAPBOOK: Ancient Land Animal

 

Amy Hollowell

            Poetry: Today

            Poetry: Along Arapahoe

 

Bruce Holsapple

            Essay: A Dirty Bird in a Square Time: Whalen's Poetry

 

Scott Holstad

            Poetry: Hypomaniac

 

Coral Hull

            Poetry: Guns, Dead Goats & My Black Heart

 

Stefan Hyner

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

 

Andy Jackson

            Poetry: Mantra for the target market

            Poetry: Youth group camp

 

JeanPaul Jenack

            Poetry: One Last Dance

            Poetry: In the Event

 

Halvard Johnson

            Poetry: ATM in Lobby

 

Pilar Erika Johnson

            Art selections in issue 1

 

Jill Jones

            Poetry: Elsewhere

 

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

            Poetry: The Second Time

            Poetry: Heart Failure

            Poetry: Neither You Nor I

 

RhondaK

            Fiction: Pervasive

            contribution to The Language of War and Peace

            Fiction: Indolence

            Fiction: Closet>

 

Britta Kallevang

            from Mind

 

Jonathan Kane

            Art selections in issue 9

            Art selections in issue 8

            Art selections in issue 2

 

Michele Kaplan

            Art selections in issue 1

 

Alan Kaufman

            Poetry: I Know How It Feels

 

Anthony Kaufman

            Essay: Street Films

            Essay: Erotic Foreign Film Moments

 

Marie Kazalia

            Poetry: Communication Pressures in Hong Kong

 

Larry Kearney

            Fiction: chapter 5 of Power & Misery

            Fiction: Power & Misery, complete in .pdf

 

Cralan Kelder

            Poetry: Prissy Sign

            Poetry: In the Museum (girls)

            Poetry: The Geisha Exchange

            Poetry: On Using the Word 'Important' to Describe Poetry

 

S. K. Kelen

            Poetry: Bon Voyage

            Poetry: Down Time

            Poetry: Drafting: Don Juan in the Shopping Mall

 

Ward Kelley

            Fiction: from Divine Murder

            Poetry: Messiah

 

Kevin Killian

            Non-fiction: What I Saw at the Orono Conference 2000

 

Syrie Kovitz

            Art selections in issue 9

 

Paul Krassner

            contribution to War Is Over

 

mark s. kuhar

            contribution to War Is Over

            Poetry: the blueprint for a whirling tourniquet

            Poetry: the royal order of the stoned locomotive

            Poetry: a thumbnail sketch from north of the kaleidoscope tree

            Poetry: junk angel of the evaporating night

 

Donna Kuhn

            Poetry: cutlets

            Poetry: ball of fire star