Dear Friends of Big Bridge,
It’s that time again for our annual request for donations to help us keep Big Bridge going.
We greatly appreciate any amount you can contribute during these difficult economic times. Thanks so much to all who donated the last time we made a call for donations. Your contributions helped pay our Webmaster, and server fees.
Information on how to donate is at the bottom of this email.
Here are some highlights of what is to come in the 15th Anniversary Issue of Big Bridge due out in Spring 2012:
bridge work, a feature poetry chapbook by Andrei Codrescu, with illustrations by Nancy Victoria Davis
Voices for Change: A Contemporary Anthology of Moroccan Poets, edited by El Habib Louai
Guest Editor, Ampat Varghese will offering up a fine selection of New Wave Indian Writing
Jonathan Penton will manifest Cuyahoga Burning, a feature on current Ohio literature
We are honored to present an anthology of Tibetan Poets in Exile, from guest editor Teresa Chuc Dowell
Brian Unger will grace Big Bridge with another installation of Excerpts from the Philip Whalen Journals
Poetry from Japan, A Contemporary Anthology of Japanese Poetry will be a special guest edit by Jane Nakagawa
Guest editor, Adam Cornford will present a special feature “Neo-Surrealism and the Politics of The Marvelous”
Susan Deer Cloud will guest edit a Native American Anthology of poetry, prose, art and articles.
Thomas Devaney will be editing an exploratory anthology of contemporary tree poems.
Guest editor, Bonnie Finberg will be presenting 20 POETS, a poetry anthology dedicated to Akilah Oliver which will include poems by Jim Harrison, John Yau, Steve Dalachinsky, Bob Holman, Alice Notley, Patricia Spears Jones, Lynn Crawford, Louise Landis Levi and more.
And the compelling artist, Jim Spitzer, will be back with his tour de force project of art and text: THE BOOK: 40 PAGES
Plus! A mindbending gallery of visual splendor from Paris-Tsunami Book’s Henrik Aeshna.
As you know, Big Bridge is always free to readers. Please support Big Bridge, so we can keep giving you all we’ve got!
All donations are greatly appreciated!
BONUS: Donations of $20 dollars or more will get you a copy of Goofbook for Jack Kerouac by Philip Whalen.
Please, donate now if you can!
There are two ways to donate.
You can send a check to Big Bridge, Box 870, Guerneville, CA 95446
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or
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Thanks to our fiscal sponsor, all donations are tax-deductible.
Thank you for your support.
Love and Peace,
Michael & Terri
www.bigbridge.org
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Poem for Roberto Vargas...
A.D. Winans:
Poem for Roberto Vargas
and the Nicaragua Freedom
Fighters, the outlaw poetry
Poem for Roberto Vargas
and the Nicaragua Freedom
Fighters, the outlaw poetry
Friday, October 14, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Friday, October 07, 2011
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
hello tiny bird brain
Poetry at the Soho Curzon
Wednesday August 31st 2011~ 7pm ~ Entrance free
Marcus Slease launches ‘hello tiny bird brain’
Wayne Clements launches ‘western philosophy’
collections published by Knives forks & Spoons press
also readings by
Tim Atkins - Elizabeth Guthrie- Michael Zand
Linus Slug - Patrick Coyle & SJ Fowler
the Soho Curzon cinema, Mezzanine bar
99 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1D 5DY 0871 703 3988
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Sunday, August 07, 2011
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Friday, July 01, 2011
100 Thousand Poets
Dear Friends of Big Bridge,
I am writing to find out if you would be interested in organizing an event on September 24 for 100 Thousand Poets for Change in your community.
So far 100 Thousand Poets for Change has over 230 cities and 54 countries signed on to organize events, as part of a global initiative to celebrate/demonstrate poetry and address issues of peace and sustainability.
We have set up an event page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106999432715571
and a blog/website for the event at http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange
The website discusses the concept of the event in more detail on the ABOUT page, but the bottom line is that this is a global event, with the overall theme of peace and sustainability, in which each local community can address its specific concerns.
I am very excited by this project, there seems to be a groundswell. I live in the San Francisco area and originally hoped to have 1 big event but it has evolved into 11 events in the SF/Bay Area, with City Lights bookstore tweeting the event and posting flyers around the store, Oakland Slam poets will be putting on a SLAM FOR CHANGE, Word Party will organize an event of poetry and music, Free University of San Francisco will have a day of lectures by poets about poets and their art, The North Beach Annual Poetry and Art Walk located at The Beat Museum has dedicated their event to 100 Thousand Poets for Change, and there will be a 100 Thousand Poets for Change reading at the Oakland Public Library sponsored by PEN Oakland. Other groups have indicated their interest in fundraisers to help projects they care about. I like the idea that so many poets of so many styles and inclinations have seen their way through this initiative to join with each other.
Also, the website provides each individual event an EVENT LOCATION page, which is also a community page blog, that allows participants to post particular event details and also to post poems, photos, documentation to share with all the other participants around the world. Poets and writers around the world need to know each other better and these events pages will facilitate and initiate communication.
After September 24th, these event pages as a whole will become a major document of contemporary world poetry.
Not to go on too much—I would be honored to have you set up an event in your country, city, town, or neighborhood on September 24 for 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Please let me know if you are interested.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincere regards,
Michael Rothenberg
100 Thousand Poets for Change
walterblue@bigbridge.org
ps. you can learn more about me at Big Bridge online magazine. I am the editor and publisher. http://www.bigbridge.org/BB15/2011_BB_15_EDITORS/bioroth.htm
pss. Here is a very short list of some of the events that will be taking place:
In Vancouver, BC Fraser Riverkeeper will lead a TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup at False Creek East, near some of the dirtiest waters in Canada. Mary Woodbury of Moon Willow Press is working with community poets and artists to develop a poetry reading later that afternoon or evening.
In Philadelphia, there will be a PACE action, which is a wandering participatory reading through the streets.
In a Seattle, a 12 hour skype session, poets skypeing poems in from around the world.
In Kathmandu, Nepal there will be an all day school project which involves discussion of peace and sustainability, writing poems, a contest, and inclusion of the poems in a book to commemorate the event.
In Milwaukee poets who are active in the Labor Union demonstrations will give a reading.
In Guatemala, Mexico City, Lisbon, Portugal, Sydney, Australia, Austin, TX, Oakland, CA, Spokane, WA, Hilo, HI, Accra, Ghana and Athens, Greece there will be a Slam for Change!
Bancroft, Ontario, has the distinction of being known as, 'Ontario's Most Talented Town,' and this year is Bancroft's 150th anniversary so, on September 24th, they'll be celebrating their thriving arts community and a birthday with poetry, music, and, possibly, theatre. For change, their focus will be on creating more awareness about their natural environment.
In Mentone, AL for Sept 24. It will be an outdoors/picnic event with poets, speakers and music/singers/artwork. We will use the event to call attention to environmental issues and citizen action for change.
In Nigeria they will have a peace rally against gang violence with a poetry reading.
(The list goes on. And it is early yet so people are still formulating their programs).
I am writing to find out if you would be interested in organizing an event on September 24 for 100 Thousand Poets for Change in your community.
So far 100 Thousand Poets for Change has over 230 cities and 54 countries signed on to organize events, as part of a global initiative to celebrate/demonstrate poetry and address issues of peace and sustainability.
We have set up an event page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106999432715571
and a blog/website for the event at http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange
The website discusses the concept of the event in more detail on the ABOUT page, but the bottom line is that this is a global event, with the overall theme of peace and sustainability, in which each local community can address its specific concerns.
I am very excited by this project, there seems to be a groundswell. I live in the San Francisco area and originally hoped to have 1 big event but it has evolved into 11 events in the SF/Bay Area, with City Lights bookstore tweeting the event and posting flyers around the store, Oakland Slam poets will be putting on a SLAM FOR CHANGE, Word Party will organize an event of poetry and music, Free University of San Francisco will have a day of lectures by poets about poets and their art, The North Beach Annual Poetry and Art Walk located at The Beat Museum has dedicated their event to 100 Thousand Poets for Change, and there will be a 100 Thousand Poets for Change reading at the Oakland Public Library sponsored by PEN Oakland. Other groups have indicated their interest in fundraisers to help projects they care about. I like the idea that so many poets of so many styles and inclinations have seen their way through this initiative to join with each other.
Also, the website provides each individual event an EVENT LOCATION page, which is also a community page blog, that allows participants to post particular event details and also to post poems, photos, documentation to share with all the other participants around the world. Poets and writers around the world need to know each other better and these events pages will facilitate and initiate communication.
After September 24th, these event pages as a whole will become a major document of contemporary world poetry.
Not to go on too much—I would be honored to have you set up an event in your country, city, town, or neighborhood on September 24 for 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Please let me know if you are interested.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincere regards,
Michael Rothenberg
100 Thousand Poets for Change
walterblue@bigbridge.org
ps. you can learn more about me at Big Bridge online magazine. I am the editor and publisher. http://www.bigbridge.org/BB15/2011_BB_15_EDITORS/bioroth.htm
pss. Here is a very short list of some of the events that will be taking place:
In Vancouver, BC Fraser Riverkeeper will lead a TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup at False Creek East, near some of the dirtiest waters in Canada. Mary Woodbury of Moon Willow Press is working with community poets and artists to develop a poetry reading later that afternoon or evening.
In Philadelphia, there will be a PACE action, which is a wandering participatory reading through the streets.
In a Seattle, a 12 hour skype session, poets skypeing poems in from around the world.
In Kathmandu, Nepal there will be an all day school project which involves discussion of peace and sustainability, writing poems, a contest, and inclusion of the poems in a book to commemorate the event.
In Milwaukee poets who are active in the Labor Union demonstrations will give a reading.
In Guatemala, Mexico City, Lisbon, Portugal, Sydney, Australia, Austin, TX, Oakland, CA, Spokane, WA, Hilo, HI, Accra, Ghana and Athens, Greece there will be a Slam for Change!
Bancroft, Ontario, has the distinction of being known as, 'Ontario's Most Talented Town,' and this year is Bancroft's 150th anniversary so, on September 24th, they'll be celebrating their thriving arts community and a birthday with poetry, music, and, possibly, theatre. For change, their focus will be on creating more awareness about their natural environment.
In Mentone, AL for Sept 24. It will be an outdoors/picnic event with poets, speakers and music/singers/artwork. We will use the event to call attention to environmental issues and citizen action for change.
In Nigeria they will have a peace rally against gang violence with a poetry reading.
(The list goes on. And it is early yet so people are still formulating their programs).
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