nominations to the Best of the Web 2010 anthology...

I'm pleased to nominate these poets and their works to the Best of the Web 2010 anthology (Dzanc Books):

George Moore, “Survivor Tactics” (Fall 2009)

Eileen Tabios, “Alchemy at the Maykadeh: Dinner with Philip Lamantia” (Spring 2009)

Yun Wang, “Meditation on Hair” (Broadside #12, Fall 2008 - December)

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All three are gifted writers, and their works have made Blue Fifth Review a stronger venue.

fall 2009 issue now online

The Fall 2009 issue is now live, online:

Featured Poet: George Moore
Art: Ira Joel Haber

Also, new work by

Paul Hostovsky, Alan Britt, Marge Piercy, Allan Peterson, Naomi Buck Palagi, Peter Kenneally, J. B. Mulligan, Joanne Lowery

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Changming Yuan, Oliver Rice, Bryan C. Murray, marcia arrieta, Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Ben Nardolilli, Donal Mahoney, Christina Murphy

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Alan Catlin, Jessie Carty, Alison Eastley, Charles Freeland, Helen Losse, Maggie Hess, Philip Byron Oakes, Joan Payne Kincaid

Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years...

Thanks to the gifted poet - Arlene Ang - and her poem “In the Woods — A Shot — Fraught with Barking Dogs” (Winter 2007 issue), Blue Fifth Review is represented in the new anthology Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years (Snowvigate Press - this November) Ed. by Doug Martin & Kim Chinquee.


Sam Rasnake, ed.

looking ahead...

I’m pleased to announce that the poet Barbara Jane Reyes will be guest-editing the Spring Supplement 2010 issue of Blue Fifth Review.

This special issue, appearing in May, will be thematic in design – Code-switching: Poets working in multiple languages – and will be divided into two sections: poetry and essay.

Since all the work for this issue will be solicited, no unsolicited submissions will be considered.

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Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, and Diwata (forthcoming from BOA Editions, 2010). She has released two chapbooks as well - Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press) and Cherry (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs).

Looking forward to this exciting work.

broadside #15

Now online at Blue Fifth Review – Broadside #15… “Blue Mexico” – a suite of poems, focused on the life and works of Frida Kahlo, by Robert E. Wood

broadside #14...

Now online at Blue Fifth Review –

Broadside #14 – “Therese Berard, Oil on Canvas: A Still-life Speaks,”
a poem by Jill Crammond Wickham

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Broadside #15 – a poem by Robert E. Wood – will be online in late August

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The Fall 2009 issue will be online in October

best of the net nominations for 2009...

I've nominated the following poets & poems to the Best of the Net 2009 anthology from Sundress Publications - for their appearance in Blue Fifth Review:

The Linking Verbs
by Elizabeth H. Barbato (Fall 2008)

Always One Direction
by Melissa Buckheit (Fall 2008)

Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra"
by Amy Lemmon (Broadside #13, Spring 2009)

Acts Become Memory
by J. Alan Nelson (Fall 2008)

Alchemy at the Maykadeh: Dinner with Philip Lamantia
by Eileen Tabios (Spring 2009)

Meditation on Hair
by Yun Wang (Broadside #12, Fall 2008)


Congratulations to these poets, and my thanks for their sending their work to BFR.