bfr's best of the web 2010 nominations...

Blue Fifth Review’s nominees for the Best of the Web 2010 (Dzanc Books) are Yun Wang, Eileen Tabios, and George Moore

Follow the Best of the Web nominations link at Blue Fifth Review and read their works.

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.

code-switching at bfr...

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.

new from blue fifth review...

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

new from blue fifth review...

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.

latest issue of blue fifth review...

Now online...

The Spring 09 issue is devoted to collaborative works of poetry and art, and features works by Eileen Tabios, Dana Guthrie Martin, Askhold Skalsky, Bob Bradshaw, Jill Wickham, Martin Willitts, Jessy Randall, Li Chevalier, Orly Orbach, Scott Owens, Rachel Lehrman, Moira Richards, Pris Campbell, Erena Rae, Daniel Shaprio, Carolee Sherwood, Jo Hemmant, Leslie Marcus, Barbara Taylor, and Diana Woodcock


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Broadside #14, a poem by Jill Wickham, will be released in July


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I am now reading submissions for the Fall 09 issue, an unthemed issue that is due online in October.

new from blue fifth review ...

Broadside #12, “Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra,” a poem by Amy Lemmon, now online.



Lemmon is the author of two poetry collections: Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2009). Her poems and essays have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Court Green, Marginalia. She is Associate Professor of English at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and lives in Astoria, New York.


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Coming in late May, the Spring 2009 Issue - Collaborations in Poetry and Art.

This issue will feature new work by by Eileen Tabios, Dana Guthrie Martin, Jo Hemmant, Erena Rae, Orly Orbach, Rachel Lehrman, Jessy Randall, Daniel Shapiro, Scott Owens, Pris Campbell, Diana Woodcock, Li Chevalier, Barbara Taylor, and Moira Richards.

broadside #12...

News from Blue Fifth Review...

Follow the link to blue 5.

pushcart nominations from blue fifth review

The 2008 Pushcart nominations are posted at blue 5, the blog for Blue Fifth Review. Details and links to each poem posted there.

Congratulations to these fine poets: Collin Kelley, Jeff Mann, Felicia Mitchell, Oliver Rice, Amy Riddell, and Susan Terris.

new from bfr...

The latest issue of Blue Fifth Review, Fall 2008, is now online.

Read the blue 5 blog for more details.

new blog...

Just letting you know about a new blog - blue 5.