Big Bridge, www.bigbridge.org is pleased to announce its 2006 Issue.
FOR DAVID, Tribute to David Meltzer A Festschrift on the Occasion of the Publication of David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer (Penguin Books, 2005) Guest-edited by James Brook Reflections, criticism, poetry, visual art, photos, music, video clips, and a complete bibliography -- the works! Contributors include Ammiel Alcalay, Aya (with a poem by David Meltzer), Micah Ballard, Todd Baron, Bill Berkson, John Brandi, Robert Briggs, Daniel Cassidy, Michael Castro, Neeli Cherkovski, Maxine Chernoff, Clark Coolidge, Sophie Dannenmuller, Steve Dickison, Sharon Doubiago, Gary Gach, Gloria Frym, Jesse Glass, Tiffany Higgins, Owen Hill, Jack Hirschman, Josh Kun, Joanne Kyger, Marina Lazzara, Joel Lewis, Christopher Longoria, Michael McClure, Duncan McNaughton, Gerald Nicosia, Michael Perkins, Daniel Pupko-Maizel, Ishmael Reed, Judith Roche, Jerome Rothenberg, Michael Rothenberg, Victoria Sanchez, Steve Sanfield, Gerald Schwartz, Howard Schwartz, Cedar Sigo, Dan Smith, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Christopher Winks, Will Yackulic, and Karl Young. Video clips (by Mark Palmer) include David Meltzer reading from "Shema," Gloria Frym reading from "Shema" by David Meltzer, Duncan McNaughton reading "Morning Glories" by Shiga Naoya (translated by Allen Say and David Meltzer), Joanne Kyger reading "Lamentation for Jack Spicer" by David Meltzer, Diane di Prima reading "15th Raga / for Bela Lugosi" by David Meltzer, Clark Coolidge reading from Beat Thing by David Meltzer, Michael McClure reading "Nature Poem" by David Meltzer, and Michael Rothenberg reading "The Blackest Rose" by David Meltzer. And from the audio vaults, Serpent Power (with David and Tina Meltzer) performing "Endless Tunnel" ... Feature Chapbook: Same Here by Bill Berkson with Illustrations by Nancy Victoria Davis Blue Poets in a Red State: A Linked Verse--Hank Lazer, Jake Berry, Nathaniel Mohatt, Derek Burleson, Billie Wilson, Charles Alexander, Sheila Murphy, Lisa Cooper, Adam Clay, Michael Heffernan, Anne Waldman, Anselm Hollo, Jack Collom, Randy Roark, Michael Rothenberg, Vernon Frazer, Terri Carrion, John Lowther, Randy Prunty, Crag Hill, Francisco Aragon, Dan Grossman, Cole Swensen, Jonathan Mayhew, Jim McCrary Justin Katko, Andrei Codrescu, Claudia Grinnel, Skip Fox, Beth Ann Fennelly, Selah Saterstrom, Aaron Belz, Jonathan Minton, Lois Grace Bauer, Matthew Mason, Claudia Keelan, Jeff Bryant, Miriam Sagan, Patrick Herron, Chris Vitiello, Heather Nagami, Rodney Nelson, Karen Joan Kohoutek, Mark Kuhar, Marcus Bales, Jane Falk, Grant Mathew Jenkins, Clayton Couch, John Lane, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Mark Sroggins, J P Craig, Douglas Basford, Brad Elliot, Caki Wilkinson, Joe Speer,Jonathan Penton, Dale Smith, Donald Revell, Andy Neely, Joel Long, Paisley Rekdal, Jennifer Tonge, Cheryl Pallant, Amy Ritchie, Racquel Yerbury, David W. Romtvedt Some Volumes of Poetry: A Retrospective of Publication Work by Karl Young First installment in a series of multi-genre essays based on publications and organizational activities over 40 years of publishing, from mimeo to the web. This installment covers apprentice work in printing; books by Toby Olson, Jackson Mac Low, bpNichol, John Taggart and others; creating The Water Street Arts Center (parent of Woodland Pattern); Margins magazine and symposiums on Guy Davenport, Rochelle Owens, Diane Wakoski, Michael McClure, Clark Coolidge, Theodore Enslin, Tom Phillps, Ian Tyson, and Joe Tilson. Prelude, Investigation of the Recent Work of Vernon Frazer guest edited by Jonathan Penton includes interview, vispo, reviews by Jonathan Penton, Kirpal Gordon, Stephen-Paul Martin, Ric Carfagna, and Dan Waber The World Begins, A Visit With Tom Clark, guest edited by Dale Smith includes poems, letter exchange between Clark and Dale Smith, critical work by Dale Smith and David Hadbawnik Mother Slovenia, Anthology of Slovenian Poetry guest edited by Andrew Lundwall includes Alja Adam, Primoz Cucnik, Svetlana, Makarovic, Novica Novakovic, Iztok OsojnikGregor Podlogar, Tone Skrjanec, Jana Putrle Srdic, Uros Zupan Wales Song, Anthology of Welsh Poetry guest edited by Graham Hartill includes Ian Davidson, Lyndon Davies, Peter Finch, Penny Hallas, Graham Hartill, Ric Hool, John Jones, Phil Maillard, Ian McLachlan, Fiona Owen, lloyd robson, Zoe Skoulding, Zoe Skoulding and Ian Davidson, Chris Torrance, Christopher Twigg Iraqi Ice Tea, Tom Hibbard's Epic Journal of The Second Iraqi War Seven Samplings of Minimalist Infraverbal Poetry guest edited by Bob Grumman featuring Richard Kostelanetz, endwar, Karl Kempton, LeRoy Gorman, mIEKAL aND, lyx ish, Geof Huth, and Jonathan Brannen Poetry: Nate Mohatt, Rodney Nelson, David Plumb, John Roche, Lynn Strongin, Erik Sweet, Anne Tardos, Mike Topp, a. d. winans, David Bromidge & Rychard Denner, Ed Baker, Ira Cohen, Norman Fischer, Christien Gholson, Giles Goodland, Michelle Greenblatt, Julia Istomina, Tim Keane, Joel Lewis Fiction/Non-Fiction with Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Michael Hettich; Halvard Johnson FjordAnn Bogle, Shira Dentz, Kirpal Gordon, Stephen-Paul Martin, Stephen Moran, Carol Novack, Seth Phelps, Lynda Schor, Steve Starger, Mark Wallace, Reviews and Reflections: Maggie Dubris reviews Not Only Love: New and Collected Poems 1975-2003 by Richard McMullen; Kirpal Gordon: Entering the 'Clear Pool School' of Poetry: Reviews of Eric Paul Shaffer's Lahaina Noon and Jordan Jones's The Wheel; Anthony Hunt: Commentary on the writing of Genesis, Structure, and Meaning in Gary Snyder's 'Mountains and Rivers Without End'; Marie Kazalia: sameness in the luxury of being: A review of Suckers by Joseph Farley; Sheila E. Murphy on brain:storm by Michelle Greenblatt; Charles P. Ries on The Babarians of San Francisco - Poets from Hell; Big Bridge recommends Jack Collom's exchanges of Earth and Sky; Apikoros Sleuth; Derek Whites, The Singing Fish Art: Collage Retrospective from Paul Grillo, Photography by Darren Holmes and Marcela L. Little Mags: Features ART:MAG; Black Spring; Clara Venus; Court Green; Factorial; Golden Handcuffs Review; new, International Visual and Verbal Communication; small town; Spore; Vanitas; Wandering Hermit Review; Wildflowers,Woodstock mountain poetry anthology
