New World Writing

Meg Pokrass was pleased to get a cou­ple of new poems from Dorianne Laux, so we added those to our BLIP WEEKLY page, which com­bines our This Week and Features pages into one con­stant­ly updat­ing selec­tion of new work. Click here to go to that page now.

Recently to be named one of Flavorwire’s “10 Online Lit Mags You Should Be Reading.” We are.  You should. Read all about us (and the oth­er 9) here.

Django Reinhardt New York City Festival — Dark Eyes

Live at Birdland on Nov. 10, 2005
Personnel: Dorado Schmitt, Angelo Debarre, Ludovic Beier, Pierre Blanchard, Brian Torff, Samson Schmitt, Gordon –more

We’re delight­ed to pub­lish a small selec­tion of poems by Bob Hicok, recip­i­ent of five Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim and two NEA Fellowships, whose poet­ry has been includ­ed in six vol­umes of Best American –more

Here are three tasty music units, one by Meredith Monk, one by the extra­or­di­nary Moondog, and a duet with Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) and Archie Schepp. We hope you enjoy.

For extra plea­sure play all three at once.

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As of today we are offi­cial­ly BLIP, an inde­pen­dent lit mag heir to MississippiReview.com. As is men­tioned else­where, we have the same edi­to­r­i­al group plus some new addi­tions, and we will pub­lish a quar­ter­ly mag­a­zine as a struc­tured pub­li­ca­tion –more

We’re invit­ing sub­mis­sions for the fall issue of BLIP, edit­ed by Gary Percesepe and Sara Lippman. It is pri­mar­i­ly a fic­tion issue, but if you hap­pen to have a splen­did essay, who knows? Click for details.