In Case of Sleep

Amy De'Ath:
In Case of Sleep,
syndicat d'initiative

Jello Biafra Interview

Girlfriend in a coma

Time

Piotr Gwiazda:
Time, Mudlark

WTO Libretto

Allegiance of the Drones:
WTO Libretto

Big Bridge

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!

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Love and Peace,

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www.bigbridge.org

Revelator

Ron Silliman:
From Revelator,
Shampoo #39

Camarade poetry

Cha

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal

Poem for Roberto Vargas...

A.D. Winans:
Poem for Roberto Vargas
and the Nicaragua Freedom
Fighters, the outlaw poetry

Important Confessions

Tomaz Salamun:
Four Poems,
Asymptote

Theme from Rawhide

Spencer Selby:
Poem, Shampoo #39

Streak Artefacts

Tom Jenks:
from Streak Artefacts,
Blackbox Manifold 7

Mike Topp: Stuyvesant Bee, Volume 1, Issue 105

The Camarade Project

The A.D. Winans Slide Show

The A.D. Winans Slide Show,
The A.D. Winans Fansite

Love Is Better Than War

Swedish Summer

Stina Kajaso:
Swedish Summer,
ACTION YES

Soho Curzon - Marcus Slease

Mike Topp: Stuyvesant Bee, Volume 1, Issue 104

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

Past Simple #10

Past Simple #10

The Other Room 27

Discovering New Lyrical Situations

Grzegorz Wróblewski:
Five Poems, 3:AM Magazine

Redneck Rampage