Poetry:
Daylight Savings, Lucky Hours: This Spring’s collection, guest-edited by Martin Mitchell, includes work by Clifford Browder, Suzanne Cleary, Greg Delanty, Allen C. Fischer, Gabrielle LeMay, Kate Light, Gardner McFall, Samuel Menashe, Philip Miller, Holly Posner, Ron Price, Bertha Rogers, Stephen Stepanchev, Mervyn Taylor, Rachel Wetzsteon, Alison Woods, Robert Wrigley, and Michael T. Young.
Twelve features the poetry of Lorna Knowles Blake.
Big City, Little:
Hudson, Lori Desrosiers
Fiction:
Careen by Margaux Fragoso
What you might say to her: Thaddeus Rutkowski's Daughterly Advice
Essays:
Robert Klein Engler, The Architecture of Servitude in Chicago
The Left Bank Draws Those Going Against the Stream: An extract from Contributing Editor
Patrick Henry's autobiography A LIFE AD-LIB
Articles:
A Self-Interview by poet & songwriter David Francis: Utterance and Hum: The Difference Between Poem and Song
"Verse Rooted Like a Tree": The Cumbrian Poetry of Norman Nicholson, David Boyd
Reviews:
The Matter of the Casket, Poems by Thom Ward, reviewed by Donald Zirilli
Larissa Shmailo on Margo Berdeshevsky's But a Passage in Wilderness
Brant Lyon on JoAnne McFarland's Fossil Fuel
Caroline Noble Whitbeck's Our Classical Heritage: A Homing Device, reviewed by Kristina Marie Darling
Katherine E. Young's Gentling the Bones, reviewed by Janet McCann
Bookshelf:
A Cure For Suicide, Larissa Shmailo
Cynthia Atkins Psyche's Weathers, Suzanne Cleary Trick Pear
The Same (Philip Miller, Editor)
Pomegranate Seeds (Dean Kostos, editor), an anthology of Greek-American poetry
Three from Finishing Line Press: new books by Katherine E. Young, Maggie Schwed and Melinda Thomsen
CDs:
Music and spoken word by David Francis, Brant Lyon, and Barry Wallenstein.
Events:
Monday, November 24, 2008 6:00 PM
BigCityLit Reading
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
b/t Bleecker & West 4th)
Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
Featuring poets from the Fall 2008 issue, including Bertha Rogers, Marion Brown,
Gregory Crosby, George Dickerson, R. Nemo Hill, Richard Levine, Philip Miller,
Frank Murphy, Jane Ormerod, Ellen Peckham, John Marcus Powell, Sarah Sarai,
Larissa Shmailo, Hilary Sideris, Melinda Thomsen and Barry Wallenstein
Sunday, June 22, 2008 6:00 PM
BigCityLit Poets
Martin Mitchell, Host
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
b/t Bleecker & West 4th)
Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
Featuring poets from the Spring 2008 issue, including Lorna Knowles Blake, Clifford Browder, Suzanne Cleary,
Greg Delanty, Allen C. Fischer, Gabrielle LeMay, Kate Light, Gardner McFall, Philip Miller, Holly Posner,
Ron Price, Bertha Rogers, Stephen Stepanchev, Mervyn Taylor, Rachel Wetzsteon, Alison Woods, and Michael T. Young
Letters:
Big City Lit welcomes letters from its readers. Address correspondence to Editors@nycBigCityLit.com
Print Series:
All Print Series Suspended
Contests:
For the present, all Contests suspended.
Masthead Notes:
As we say good-bye to those no longer with us, we are pleased to announce new contributing editors Martin Mitchell, George Wallace and Barry Wallenstein; regular contributor Allen C. Fischer; and Associate Editor Elena Kondracki.
Contributing Editors:
Martin Mitchell, Barry Wallenstein, James Ragan, Patrick Henry (UK), Diana Manister, Philip Miller, Margo Berdeshevsky, George Wallace, Larissa Shmailo
