Table of Contents

Big Bridge New Orleans Anthology

Sturm und Drang

I. Letter from the Editors

II.

Old School Poets and Poetrics

III. Artists’ Works

IV.

Essays and Discourse

V.

Fictionistas

VI. Interviews

VII.

Translations

VIII. Book Reviews

IX.

News and Media

X. Photo Gallery:

17 Poets! Literary & Performance Series

XI. Trembling Pillow Press

Table of Contents

Big Bridge New Orleans Anthology

Sturm und Drang

I. Letter from the Editors

[Flagship Image – Zulu Landing at the River by Megan Burns]

Death Interrupted: a Colloquy of Words from New Orleans by Dave Brinks and Bill Lavender

II. Old School Poets and Poetrics

[Flagship Image for Poetry Section]

Alive by Herbert Kearney

Hole in the Sky and other works by Paul Chasse

The Lost Traveler Wonders If It’s Just the Devastation

and other works by Bill Myers

The Gutting and other works

by Jonathan Kline

This City Will Not Die and other works by Niyi Osundare

In the Dance Hall of the Mind

by Lee Meitzen Grue

I See George W. Presidential Motorcade and other works by Chris Sullivan

Selections from Poems for New Orleans

by Edward Sanders

Hello from Hades by Katya Apekina and David Weinberg

Anatomy of Depression and other works

by Megan Burns

Wind Event and other works by Rodger Kamenetz

Waterlogged, Nomadic Katrina Songs

by Quo Vadis Gex Breaux

The New Atlantis and other works by Michael Ford

The Prosthetic Miracles of St. Roch and other works

by R. Moose Jackson

Selections from Transfixion by Bill Lavender

Smells Like Sulfur Here and other works

by John Sinclair

Reading Julia Kristeva and other works by Jerry W. Ward, Jr.

Selections from 7 Hells—Variations

by Jerome Rothenberg

Property is Robbery and other works by Bernadette Mayer

Selections from The Caveat Onus

by Dave Brinks

Still Life w/ Creole Tomatoes and other works by Nancy Harris

Exhibition and other works

by Joseph Bienvenu

Flying J Travel Center by Joel Dailey

Kalistae and other works

by Jackqueline Frost

Rhythm of a City Drowned and other works by Elizabeth Garcia

Selections from æpoetics

by Thaddeus Conti

Spider Webs and other works by Jenna Mae

Selections from The Forgiven Submarine

by Andrei Codrescu and Ruxandra Cesereanu

Mongus and Mink and other works by Daniel Kerwick

Jazz for My Baby and other works

by Arthur Pfister

Hiding in Librairies and other works

by Jimmy Ross

Poem on Becoming and other works by Laura Mattingly

The Horse and other works

by Anselm Hollo

For the Heart of the Second Floor by Bill Berkson

Angst Alfresco and other works by

David Rowe

Dramatization and other works by Phil Johnson

The Tribe Has Gone Awry and other works

by Kelly Gartman

Recollected Conversation with Barbara and other works by Lee Ann Brown

The Bougainvillea Will Be Forgiven and other works

by Andy Young

The Poet & Her Sky and other works by Kelcy Wilburn

Selections from

Untitled Writings from a Member of the Blank Generation by Philip Good

The Depths of Bone and other works

by Gina Ferrara

Spring and other works by Vincent Farnsworth

Coca-Cola

by Chris Champagne

Some Ancestor of Mine by Edmund Berrigan

Cannibal Affections and other works by Richard Collins

4X4X4’s and other works

by Jack Collom and Maureen Owen

Oracle by Margot Douaihy

Things to Ask About and other works

by Ben Luton

Silence and other works by Lewis Schmidt

Light on Mind and other works

by Pierre Joris

Child That Did Not Come by Gordon Walmsley

Cleaning Up Al’s Apartment and other works

by Vincent A. Cellucci

Haiku by Johnette Downing

Cake Fight

by Brett Evans

Letters to the Road Scholar by Amy Ouzoonian

Map Readers and other works

by Jean-Mark Sens

Talkin’ Dead Man Blues and other works by Bill Zavatsky

Nostalgia for the New and other works

by James Nolan

Crack House and other works by Chuck Perkins

What the Vortex Said and other works by Skip Fox

Flattery

by John Gery

Portion of a Sutra of Days and other works by Louis Braquet

Sonnet to Heal a Fractured Knee and other works

by Eero Ruuttila

Things to Know on Earth and other works by Harris Schiff

U.S. Life Expectancy Increases As Cities Clear Air

by Jennifer Stewart

Location and other works by Hank Lazer

Upper Ideas and other works

by Jamey Jones

Jet-Legged by Biljana Obradovic

The Howl and other works

by Khaled Hegazzi

Parachute Game and other works by Kevin Johnson

Field Camp

by Stuart Strum

Benedict Sows Habeas Corpus by Ralph Adamo

Why do you want our text messages and other works

by Christopher Shipman

Bill Murray Chocolates, Part I and other works by Eric Sweet

At this Stage (and a collaboration with Amy Trussell) by Andy di Michele

No Such Thing as Unchanged Value

by Frank Sherlock

Narratives by Brad Elliott

Flight Pattern and other works

by Benjamin Lowenkron

Singles Ad and other works by Karen Finnigan

Antique Shops and other works

by Lenny Emmanuel

The Personal Connection and other works by Hal Sirowitz

Los Olvidados and other works

by Jonathan Cott

End of Forever by Valentine Pierce

Of the River and other works

by Quess

III. Artists’ Works

[Flagship Image – Bob Kaufman by Kristen Wetterhahn]

Joshua Walsh

Romano Zamprioli

Herbert Kearney

Michael Fedor

Daniel Finnigan

William Warren

Jim Sohr

Eddie Phalen

Beth Chasse

Thaddeus Conti

Jamie Chiarello

Louis Braquet

Miriam Waterman

Alex Haverfield

Johnathan Kline

Kristen Wetterhahn

Bill Lavender

Joseph Makkos

Mina Brinks

Dave Brinks

Dave Brinks and Megan Burns

Pat Kaschalk

IV. Essays and Discourse

[Flagship Image – Deep Play in the City by Max Cafard]

Deep Play in the City Surre(gion)al Explorations

by Max Cafard

Surrealismo Objetos Animados and other works by Ruxandra Cesereanu

Selections from Great Moments in New Orleans History

by Bud Faust

On Cultural Work by Jerry W. Ward Jr.

Playing Chicken with Reality

by Lisa Suarez

A Meditation on New Orleans by Ralph Adamo

V. Fictionistas

[Flagship Image – New Orleans Plaque]

Selections from Wandering Ghost: the Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn

by Jonathan Cott

Lazarus Testimony from Elysiana by Moira Crone

Lion of Judah and Last Sunny Day

by Summer Brenner

Fairy Story and Toothy Doll by Susan Kirby-Smith

Hole Punching and The Wedding

by Katya Apekina

Bye Bye Blackbirds by J. Patrick Travis

Momentum

by Dave Parker

Ramikins-Slammikins at the Neutral Ground by Marci Davis

VI. Interviews

[Flagship Image – Portrait of Niyi Osundare

by Joshua Walsh]

Portrait of Niyi Osundare by Joshua Walsh

Rebirth and Emergence of The New

Interview with Dave Brinks by Peter Anderson

The Rags of Time

Interview with Niyi Osundare by Dave Brinks

Turning People On Interview with John Sinclair

by Dave Brinks

Picking up the Mask and Dropping it Interview with Bill Zavatsky

by Dave Brinks

The Literary Edge Interview with Joe Phillips of Black Widow Press

by Chris Faatz of Powell’s Books

I Am a Humanist Interview with Niyi Osundare

by N. F. Ogoanah

VII. Translations

[Flagship Image – The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth]

The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth

by Valery Larbaud translated by Ron Padgett and Bill Zavatsky

VIII. Book Reviews

[Flagship Image – Dave Brinks in Front of the “x” on His Home

After the Flood] photo by Eero Ruuttila

Sonic Sonnegrams Review of Dave Brinks’ The Caveat Onus

by Adam Peltz

On What Cannot Be Written Review of Ed Sanders’ Poems for New Orleans

by Megan Burns

Triumph of the Waters Review of Jerry W. Ward Jr.’s The Katrina Papers

by Reginald Martin

What Happens When Everything Changes Review of Bill Lavender’s I of the Storm

by William Allegrezza

The Messiness of Life Review of Skip Fox’s For To

by Megan Burns

IX. News and Media

[Flagship Image – Nancy Dixon and Bill Lavender, Exiled in

the Wake of the Storm]

‘We’re getting Out of Here’: Poet Bill Lavender’s account of escaping New Orleans

As Told to John Gravois

PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer Special Feature on New Orleans Poets

NPR’s All Things Considered: Hearing Voices

The Poetry Combine with Andrei Codrescu

NPR’s All Things Considered: Hearing Voices

New Orleans’ Yawps

Ed Sanders’ Woodstock Journal: Report on New Orleans

Z Magazine

Love in the Ruins

ZeeNews New Zealand: New Writers Struggle to Pen Rebirth Story

Toxic Art:

This Exhibition Will Kill You Homage to the Ninth Ward

New Orleans Slate

A Post-Katrina Chronicle

Busted Flat in New Orleans Hidden Treasures at the Gold Mine Saloon

Letters from New Orleans

September. 2005 – December 2005 by Dave Brinks

X. Photo Gallery:

17 Poets! Literary & Performance Series

[Flagship Image –Gold Mine Saloon in the French Quarter]

XI. Trembling Pillow Press

[Flagship Image]