Blue Mesa Review Number Eight: Approaching the Millennium

Pay no attention
to the passing of the millennium
it's just another gimmick
to make us watch try-hard comedians on TV
and buy stuff
like greeting cards, gold leaf plates
special issue mags
cars
Speechwriters are busy already

From "Get Ready For 2000" by Enid Osborn

The Millennium. Is it an end? A beginning? Do we reflect? Do we expect? How does it affect our thoughts, our feelings, our art, our lives?

In this latest edition of the literary annual "Blue Mesa Review," these issues are explored through poerty, fiction, essays, and photographs representing more than sixty writers, including Virgil Suarez, David Axelrod, Harvena Richter, and Lyn Lifshin, with photographs by Miguel Gandert.