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BigCityLit.com

Fall 2009

ISSN 1542-3123

Roads run forever
Under feet forever
Falling away
Yet it may happen that you
Come to the same place again
Stay! You could not do
Anything more certain—
Here you can wait forever
And rejoice at your arrival

—Samuel Menashe

Saturday, November 21st, 2:00 pm

BigCityLit Reading
Martin Mitchell, Host
The Bloomingdale branch of
the New York Public Library
150 West 100th Street
(b/t Amstersdam & Columbus)
Free admission

Guest Editor Mitchell's featured readers: Elena Alexander, Indran Amirthanayagam, Renée Ashley, Rachel Bennett, Lorna Knowles Blake, Mary Legato Brownell, Susana H. Case, Elizabeth Haukaas, Marilyn Johnson, Samuel Menashe, Philip Miller, Madeleine Mysko, Maria Terrone, Alison Woods

Fund for Sam Hamill and Gray Foster

Dear friends of Sam Hamill and Gray Foster, Copper Canyon Press, and Poets Against the War:

You may have heard that Sam and Gray have had some financial reverses lately. Both have also have had recent hospital stays and still need treatment not covered by insurance.…Read more

Call for submissions: Spring 2010

(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: Fall 2009

Poetry:

Lines of Thought: This Fall's collection, guest-edited by Martin Mitchell, includes work by Kelli Russell Agodon, Liz Ahl, Elena Alexander, Indran Amirthanayagam, L. S. Asekoff, Renée Ashley, Ros Barber, Rachel Bennett, Mary Legato Brownell, Susana H. Case, Cortney Davis, Graham Duncan, David Graham, Elizabeth Haukaas, Marilyn Johnson, William Jolliff, Deena Linett, P. H. Liotta, Cleopatra Mathis, John Minczeski, Madeleine Mysko, Michael Palma, Andrea Porter, Jack Ridl, M. A. Schaffner, Elaine Sexton, Maria Terrone, Lee Upton, Jeanne Murray Walker, and Alison Woods

Twelve:

Work by Samuel Menashe and Philip Miller

Big City, Little:

Clouds on Museum Street, Patrick Henry

Fiction:

Shampoo, by Jim Story

The Lucidity of Sunlight, by Justin Phillips

Essays:

Jane Churchman, An Amiable Child

In the Steps of Egyptians: the fourth extract from Patrick Henry's autobiography, A Life Ad-Lib

Articles:

Valery Oisteanu, Eugene Ionesco (1909-1988): The Avant-God of Absurdistan

Reviews:

Laurie Byro, The Bird Artists, reviewed by Diana Manister

Carl Rosenstock on Patricia Carlin's Original Green

Keith Waldrop's Several Gravities, reviewed by Sarah White

Patricia Brody on Mary Kaiser's Falling Into Velazquez

Charlie Smith, Word Comix, reviewed by Hilary Sideris

George Wallace's Poppin' Johnny, reviewed by Angelo Verga

Bookshelf:

New Additions:

The Book of Hopes and Dreams, Dee Rimbaud, Editor

Beautiful Soon Enough, Margo Berdeshevsky

Recreational Vehicles on Fire, Jane Ormerod

Michele Battiste, Slow the Appetite Down

CDs:

Robert Minhinnick: Reading from His Poems

Events:

Saturday, November 21st, 2:00 pm

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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