Fall 2010
ISSN 1542-3123
Time back, country parts gave names to ways we act:
Power, the sun. Moon, mystery. Stars, arrays of hope.
Clouds, doubt. Mist, evasion. Rain, relief
For thirst in throats, and the land's need to grow.
—Patrick Henry, "Metaphorisms"
BigCityLit Reading
Contributors to the 2011 Spring Issue
Host: Guest-Editor Martin Mitchell
The Bloomingdale branch
of the NYPL
150 West 100th Street
(b/t Amsterdam & Columbus)
Free admission
Featuring work by Mary Legato Brownell, Gretl Claggett, Margot Farrington,
Lesleigh Forsyth, David M. Katz, Gerry LaFemina, Lynn McGee, Charles Pierre,
M.A. Schaffner and Wendy Sloan
Philip Winn Miller, teacher, poet, husband and father, age 67, of Mt. Union, Pennsylvania, passed peacefully early Monday morning, February 14, 2011, at home with his family. Read more
Phil Miller was the kind of literary figure who'd walk into a restaurant thinking not about the menu but how he could rearrange the tables and chairs for a poetry reading. Read more
BigCityLit Reading
Contributors to the 2010 Fall Issue
Host: Nick Johnson
The Bloomingdale branch
of the NYPL
150 West 100th Street
(b/t Amsterdam & Columbus)
Free admission
Featuring: work by Cynthia Atkins, Patricia Brody, Marion Brown,
Patricia Eakins, Allen C. Fischer, David Francis, Wilda Gallagher,
Joanne Grumet, Caroline Holme, Kate Irving, Dean Kostos,
Richard Levine, Brant Lyon, Quitman Marshall, Stephen Massimilla,
Philip Miller, Karen Neuberg, eve packer, Lynn Patmalnee, Jo Pitkin,
Ron Price, Hilary Sideris, Barry Wallenstein, Carolyn Whittle and Michael T. Young
(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.
Local Intimacies: This Fall's collection includes work by CThis Fall's collection includes work by William L. Alton, Cynthia Atkins, Patricia Brody, Evelyn Duncan, Graham Duncan, Robert Klein Engler, Allen C. Fischer, David Francis, Wilda Gallagher, JoAnne Growney, Joanne Grumet, Patrick Henry, R. Nemo Hill, Caroline Holme, Kate Irving, Helen Ivory, Dean Kostos, Richard Levine, Brant Lyon, Quitman Marshall, Stephen Massimilla, Philip Miller, Karen Neuberg, eve packer, Lynn Patmalnee, Jo Pitkin, Ron Price, Ryan, Hilary Sideris, Ian C. Smith, Raleigh Thompson, Barry Wallenstein, and Michael T. Young
The Best Cigarette, Rebecca Lucente
Notes of a New York Son: Eric Darton Interview by Susan Tepper
Carolyn Whittle, On Shinnecock Beach
Patricia Eakins, The Children's Army
Patrick Henry, Prague Springs Gates Open
Valery Oisteanu, Paul Delvaux: Sleepwalker or Daydreamer?
My Helpmate by Talia Carner
Burning of the Three Fires by Jeanne Marie Beaumont, reviewed by Kryssa Schemmerling
Grassroots: Poems by Jared Smith, reviewed by George Wallace
Mosquito Operas: New and Selected Short Poems, by Philip Dacy, reviewed by Jared Smith
Tony's World by Barry Wallenstein, reviewed by Steve Koenig
Burning of the Three Fires, Jean Beaumont
Lance Whalen: Civil Twilight
BigCityLit Reading
Contributors to the 2010 Fall Issue
Host: Nick Johnson
The Bloomingdale branch
of the NYPL
150 West 100th Street
(b/t Amsterdam & Columbus)
Free admission
Featuring: work by Cynthia Atkins, Patricia Brody, Marion Brown,
Patricia Eakins, Allen C. Fischer, David Francis, Wilda Gallagher,
Joanne Grumet, Caroline Holme, Kate Irving, Dean Kostos,
Richard Levine, Brant Lyon, Quitman Marshall, Stephen Massimilla,
Philip Miller, Karen Neuberg, eve packer, Lynn Patmalnee, Jo Pitkin,
Ron Price, Hilary Sideris, Barry Wallenstein, Carolyn Whittle and Michael T. Young
Big City Lit welcomes letters from its readers. Address correspondence to Editors@nycBigCityLit.com
All Print Series Suspended
For the present, all Contests suspended.
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.
Martin Mitchell, Barry Wallenstein, James Ragan, Patrick Henry (UK), Diana Manister, Philip Miller, Margo Berdeshevsky, George Wallace, Larissa Shmailo, Brant Lyon