BigCityLit.com
Spring 2009
ISSN 1542-3123
"Humanesque"
Peter Schwartz
Somewhere I'll find a butchered grove of trees,
And pray to a father I've hardly known;
I'll sharpen my spade and begin to dig:
There's a field to be cleared, and loss endured.
—George Dickerson, "The Empire of the Stumps"
Fund for Sam Hamill and Gray Foster
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009 6:00 pm
The Same
Martin Mitchell, Host
The Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street
(b/t Bleecker & West 4th)
Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
Editor Mitchell's friends & readers include Michele Battiste, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Kurt Brown, Theresa Burns, Michael Carman, Dean Kostos, Ann Lauinger, Amy Lemmon, Suzanne Noguere, Allison Cay Parker, Lynn Patmalnee, Margaret Ryan, Hilary Sideris, Mary Austin Speaker, Ilene Starger, Mervyn Taylor, Maria Terrone, Estha Weiner, Carolyn Whittle, Anne Pierson Wiese, Michael T. Young.
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009, 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 Spring 2009 issue, including Patricia Carragon,
Allen C. Fischer, Deborah Flanagan,
Joanne Grumet, Ann Lauinger,
Linda Lerner, Charlotte Mandel, Mark Nickels, D. Nurkse, eve packer,
Ron Price, Kryssa Schemmerling, Peter Schwartz, Maggie Schwed,
Barry Wallenstein, Rob Wright and Angelo Verga
Call for submissions: Fall 2009
(Note: List is not restrictive nor preclusive of other themes.)
Epigrams; Moving/Motion; Dust; Corridors; Insects; Cemeteries; Smoking; Infanticide; Surrealism; Timepieces; Kites; Suicide; 'Lovesick'; Hands and Gloves; Wells; Windmills; and Small Town Wherewithal. (Bolding indicates features which are scheduled to appear very soon.)
Consult Submissions for guidelines, Masthead for editorial policy.
Please query first on articles over 750 words.
Email: editors@nycBigCityLit.com.
In This Issue: Spring 2009
Poetry:
Rushes East Above Us: This Spring's collection includes work by Patricia Carragon, Allen C. Fischer, Deborah Flanagan, John Grey, Joanne Grumet, Patrick Henry, Ann Lauinger, Linda Lerner, Richard Levine, Charlotte Mandel, Philip Miller, Michael Morical, Mark Nickels, D. Nurkse, Eve Packer, Ron Price, Jacob Scheier, Kryssa Schemmerling, Peter Schwartz, Maggie Schwed, Hugh Seidman, Jared Smith, Kristen Spears, Angelo Verga, Barry Wallenstein and Rob Wright.
Twelve:
Angelo Verga, PRAISE FOR WHAT REMAINS
Big City, Little:
City to a Small Person, Kristen Spears
Fiction:
Mad Diamond, the first chapter from Jill Hoffman's novel, Stoned
Margo Berdeshevsky, Room
Essays:
Renamed and Deleted, by Natasha Lvovich
The Barber of Timbuktu, the third extract from Patrick Henry's autobiography, A Life Ad-Lib
Articles:
War Jokes Wanted: No Laughing Matter, by Marc Levy and Susan Erony
Reviews:
Martin Mitchell on Philip Appleman's Darwin's Ark
Donald Lev, The Darkness Above, reviewed by Jared Smith
Diana Manister on Janet Hamill's Body of Water
Elaine Sexton's Causeway, reviewed by Alison Woods
More Than a Memory: Reflections on Vietnam, reviewed by Susan Moger
Bookshelf:
Word Comix, Charlie Smith
The Russian Tortoise, Gardner McFall
CDs:
Frank Tedesso: Untitled (Fallen Leaves)
Events:
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009, 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 Spring 2009 issue, including Patricia Carragon,
Allen C. Fischer, Deborah Flanagan, Joanne Grumet, Ann Lauinger,
Linda Lerner, Charlotte Mandel, Mark Nickels, D. Nurkse, eve packer,
Ron Price, Kryssa Schemmerling, Peter Schwartz, Maggie Schwed,
Barry Wallenstein, Rob Wright and Angelo Verga
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, Brant Lyon
