Even if I have a piece in the Big Bridge, I am not going to hold back from a
hearty congratulations to Michael Rothenberg (back from the burn!) and his
four associate editors for putting together a great issue, made the more so
by the fact of its very readable, attractive design. I do believe Michael
and company are really working out the graphic issues that make the web a
genuine medium for the visual (design/typographic) challenge of "reading on
line." Compared to this - yes, what you are reading - Bridge is pure visual
/ 'lisable' luxury.

Just getting into much of it. Joanne Kyger's elegy for Don Allen is quickly
worth the non-price of cracking the 'http://www....'

Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
Where 'Crossing the Millennium, 1999" is currently
courting 'cosmetic heraldry' as found in persons, places & things.

>     The Brand New Big Bridge Vol 3 No 2 is online now!
>
> http://www.bigbridge.org
>
> Feature Poetry Chapbook
>
> Parto by Louise Landes Levi illustrated by Nancy Victoria Davis
>
> Poetry
>
> Petra Backonja, Christina Butcher, Steve Finbow, Marie Kazalia, Kryna McGlynn,
> Andrew Nightingale, Thomas Lowe Taylor, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Mairead Byrne,
> Michael Gizzi, Michael Lally, George Manka, Simon Pettet, Guatam Verma, James
> Brook, Ira Cohen, Lynne Hjelmgaard, Bill Lavender, David Meltzer, Belinda
> Subraman, Lawrence Welsh
>
>
> Fiction & Non-Fiction
>
> Maggie Dubris, john colagrande jr, Patricia Christina Engel, Allan Graubard,
> Kendra Dwelley Guimaraes, Gretchen McCullogh, Mark Mazer, Rodney Nelson,
> Michael J. Vaughn
>
> Reviews
>
> Karl Young on Beat Thing by David Meltzer
> Jonathan Penton on Beat Thing by David Meltzer
> Allan Graubard on Chaos & Glory by Ira Cohen
> Bill Lavender on Normahl Welkings by Zac Denton and USA Patriot Acts by Mark
> Prejsnar
> Bill Lavender on Elegies & Vacations by Hank Lazar
> John Lowther on Handbook of Inaesthetics by Alan Badiou
>
> Elegies
>
> Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure, Anny Ballardini, Franco Beltrametti, Bill
> Berkson, Bruce Covey, Ian Randall Wilson, Ray Craig, Maria Damon, Pierre
> Joris, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Kevin Opstedal, Shin Yu Pai, Rodney Koeneke,
> Marth L. Deed, Stacey Duff, Gwynne Garfinkle, Larry Kearney, mIEKAL aND, Jeff
> Harrison, Mark Lamoureux, Sheila E. Murphy, Millie Niss, Gerald Schwartz,
> Steve Shoemaker, JodiAnn Stevenson, Tony Trigiliol, Stephen Vincent, Joel
> Weishaus, Frank Sherlock
>
> An Open Letter to America w/ Guest Editor Larry Sawyer
>
> Anne Waldman, Micah Ballard, John Beer, Bill Berkson, Charles Bernstein,
> Michael Castro, Neeli Cherkovsky, Steve Dalachinsky, Jeff Encke, Hammon
> Guthrie, Amari Hamadene, Jack Hirschman, jUStin!katKO, Tuli Kupferberg, Lina
> ramona VitKauskas, Michael McClure, Joel Weishaus, Judith Malina & Hanon
> Reznikov, Tim Martin, David Meltzer, Jonathan Penton, Jerome Rothenberg, Larry
> Sawyer, Charles Shaw, AD Winans, Danny Shot, Ron Silliman, Dale Smith, Alan
> Sondheim, Chris Stroffolino, ShaunAnne Tangney, Jeff Conant
>
> Export: Writing the Midwest w/ Guest Editor Andrew Lundwall
>
> William Allegrezza, Petra Backonja, John M. Bennett, Kristy Bowen, Garin
> Cycholl, Helyn Dell,
> mIEKAL aND, David Baratier, F. J. Bergmann, Robin Chapman, Larry O. Dean, John
> Doe, Robert Klein Engler, Skip Fox, Caroline Gauger, Zlex Gildzewn, Mark
> Kanak, jUStin!katKO, Tim Lane, Mark DuCharme, Clayton Eshelman, Daniel Gallik,
> Michael Gause, Jesse Glass, Mary Kasimor, mark s. kuhar, Kimberly Lojek, Ben
> Miller, Cynthia Plum, Andrew Lundwall, Sheila E. Murphy, Charles P. Ries, Sam
> E. Robinson, Mark Spitzer, ShaunAnne Tangney, Brian Thao Worra, Gerlad
> Schwartz, Jodiann M. Stevenson, John Tyson
>
> Beat Meets East
>
> Vernon Frazer
> Lucas Klein
>
> Continuous Flame: A Tribute to Philip Whalen
>
> Clark Coolidge on Philip Whalen
> Robert Creeley on Philip Whalen
> Donald Guravich on Philip Whalen
> David Meltzer on Philip Whalen
>
> Art
>
> Jose Manuel dos Santos Cross
> Pamela Dewey
> Cyrill Duneau
> Tom Ferguson
>
> Recommended Reading
>
> I Like Your Eyes Liberty: Michael McClure and Terry Riley
> Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry: Murat Nemet-Nejat, ed.
> Looking for a Sign in the West: Peter Tuttle
> Genesis, Structure, and Meaning in Gary Snyder's
>                    Mountains and Rivers Without End:Anthony Hunt (coming soon)
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> Editor: Michael Rothenberg
> Assitant Editor: Terri Carrion
> Contributing Editor: Jonathan Penton, Larry Sawyer, Andrew Lundwall
> Art Editor: Nancy Victoria Davis
> Webmaster: Jonathan Penton