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From the Archives: This Boy’s Tongue, by Peter Markus Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Peter Markus! Celebrate by reading Markus’s “This Boy’s Tongue,” which we published in 2019 and was subsequently selected for inclusion in The Best Small…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Peter Markus! Celebrate by reading Markus's “This Boy’s Tongue,” which we published in 2019. And then go read "In This Tree," a Markus fiction we published in 2019!

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From the Archives: Five Poems, by Brendan Lorber Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Brendan Lorber! Celebrate by reading these Lorber poems we published in 2022! After that, go read Lorber’s “How a Poem Happens to Happen”! An…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Brendan Lorber! Celebrate by reading these Lorber poems we published in 2022! After that, go read Lorber’s “How a Poem Happens to Happen”! And then go read the ten Lorber poems we published in 2019!

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From the Archives: Centralia Mine Fire, by Sarah Blackman Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Sarah Blackman! Celebrate by reading this Blackman fiction we published in 2021! Following that, read Blackman’s “The County Coroner,” which …

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Sarah Blackman! Celebrate by reading this Blackman fiction we published in 2021! Following that, read Blackman's "The County Coroner," which we published in 2019!

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And One by One They Disappeared, by Stephen O’Connor Here in the snow, in the woods, there is black, there is white, and endless shades between, but none of the colors have names. This tree trunk: a burgundy-infused pigeon gray. And this one: …

Published today: superb new short fiction by Stephen O’Connor!

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Weekend Bites: Lucy Sante Nonfiction, Naujawanan Baidar’s Music, Tayari Jones’s Latest, and More In our weekend reading: writing from Lucy Sante, thoughts on books by Tayari Jones and Ruyan Meng, and more.

Big thanks to Volume 1 Brooklyn for reading and sharing the marvelous Jennifer Maritza McCauley poems we recently published!

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Stay tuned for new short fiction by great author Stephen O'Connor in BIG OTHER!

In the meantime, go discover more of O'Connor's marvelous writing!

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David Foster Wallace on Writing, Fiction, Freedom, and More Happy birthday, David Foster Wallace! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”   “I am someone who t…

Happy birthday, David Foster Wallace!

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Anaïs Nin on Life, Art, Writing, Death, and More Happy birthday, Anaïs Nin! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing to…

Happy birthday, Anaïs Nin!

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Audre Lorde on Poetry, Politics, Feminism, and More Happy birthday, Audre Lorde! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat hi…

Happy birthday, Audre Lorde!

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Four Poems, by Jennifer Maritza McCauley How to Love a Mango Girl Crack open her chestwall with surgical loveliness, remove the slippery, heaving Thing inside, and let her see what spurts out. She’ll tell you the Thing is gorgeous,…

Published today: a marvelous quartet of poems by Jennifer Maritza McCauley!

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History of Human Migrations, by Luis Othoniel Rosa Translated by Katie Marya   Humans are born one hundred ninety-six thousand four hundred eighteen years ago in East Africa. We begin expanding throughout the African continent one hundred twen…

Read Rosa's writing in BIG OTHER:
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Animal Spiral Check out Animal Spiral - <p><strong>The post-colonial birth, life, and death of the collective consciousness known as the Animal.</strong></p><p>Middle-aged streamer twins in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, ar...

Delighted to share that Luis Othoniel Rosa's ANIMAL SPIRAL (translated by Katie Marya), which is forthcoming from Charco Press, features writing we originally published!

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Gordon Lish on Writing, Art, Language, and More Happy birthday, Gordon Lish! 92, today! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “Do not confine your work to plodding plot. Rather, let your work go where it will and your heart will lea…

Happy birthday, Gordon Lish! 92, today!

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Gerhard Richter on Art, Painting, Meaning, and More Happy birthday, Gerhard Richter! 94, today! Here are some quotes from the artist:   “Art is the highest form of hope.”   “To be alive is to engage in a daily struggle fo…

Happy birthday, Gerhard Richter! 94, today!

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Five Poems, by Kathryn Weld To a Slide of The Temptation of Eve in a Lecture on Medieval Art I was twenty when I first saw you—languid, almost luxuriating in the shrubbery, an Eve as slender as I was then; I saw you wh…

Published today: a superb quintet of poems by Kathryn Weld!

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From the Archives: Five Poems, by Micah Zevin Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Micah Zevin! Celebrate by reading these Zevin poems we published in 2019! Four of these poems were subsequently published in Metal, Heavy, Zevin’s debut …

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Micah Zevin! Celebrate by reading these Zevin poems we published in 2019!

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From the Archives: Five Poems, by John Schertzer Happy birthday, Big Other contributor John Schertzer! Celebrate by reading these Schertzer poems we published in 2024! And then go read the Schertzer poems we published in 2021, which were subseque…

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor John Schertzer! Celebrate by reading these Schertzer poems we published in 2024!

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Four Poems, by Michael Lee Rattigan Underland “If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.” —Walt Whitman Where stalactite meets bone (in God’s childhood) a votive syllable grows. A compound creature’s vertebral mo…

Published today: a superb quartet of poems by Michael Lee Rattigan!

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From the Archives: Big Other Folio: Robert Coover Happy birthday, Robert Coover! Celebrate by reading Big Other’s folio dedicated to Coover, which we published in 2021! It features fiction by Coover, as well as appreciations of his wr…

Happy birthday, Robert Coover! Celebrate by reading BIG OTHER's folio dedicated to Coover, which we published in 2021! It features fiction by Coover, as well as appreciations of his writing from a host of great writers.

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Gertrude Stein on Art, Writing, Reading, and More Happy birthday, Gertrude Stein! Here’s a selection of quotes from her marvelous writing:   “Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.”   “Why s…

Happy birthday, Gertrude Stein!

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From the Archives: Seven Poems, by Roberto F. Santiago Happy birthday, Roberto F. Santiago! Celebrate by reading the suite of Santiago poems we published in 2022 as part of Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology!   Selfie at a Gift Shop in Old S…

Happy birthday, Roberto F. Santiago! Celebrate by reading the suite of Santiago poems we published in 2022 as part of Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology!

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From the Archives: Six Poems, by Shira Dentz Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Shira Dentz! Celebrate by reading these Dentz poems we published in 2019!   Spring, mid-afternoon I turn on the laughter up & over Small fireba…

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Shira Dentz! Celebrate by reading these Dentz poems we published in 2019!

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From the Archives: From STORY, by Jennifer Firestone Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Jennifer Firestone! Celebrate by reading this Firestone poetic sequence we published in 2020!   The bar man prepared several ornate tropical drinks…

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Jennifer Firestone! Celebrate by reading this Firestone poetic sequence we published in 2020!

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Four Poems, by Paul Stubbs The Religious Mood “Where does religious feeling come from? From the fact there is a world.” —Simone Weil   —Beginning on the day when, upon a furious terrain, God trialed the first of his swi…

Delighted to share the news that Paul Stubbs's PREPARATIONS FOR THE AFTERLIFE: SELECTED POEMS, 1992-2025 will be published by Broken Sleep Books later this year. It features four Stubbs poems we published last year!

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Seven Poems, by Andrew Joron First Thing Found An un- taught taut tau- tology. Stepwise argument— a story Never told, damaging no image. Some arrangement of rust, or dust. To any caller, a Corollary, a word to repeat what neve…

Delighted to learn today that Andrew Joron's WRITTEN ON THE TONGUE, which will be published by Flood Editions later this year, will feature poems we published first in the journal! Here are the most recent of the Joron poems!

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Four Poems, by Gillian Cummings Hour of the Puppets “We’re surrounded by different realities, one on top of the other…Even the smallest pebble has a life of its own.” —Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander Touch the color on…

Published today: a superb quartet of poems by Gillian Cummings!

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More from “Disorientations,” by Michael Leong only an instant: the time that it takes for their faces to fall apart () oh, the distance that echoes superimpose on the chiseling sound that is history () blossoming cherry trees open their…

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From “Disorientations,” by Michael Leong My teacher said nothing is never not entangled in emptiness. Even the perpetual “bullet-like” trajectories of the sacred. Or the divided invisibility of the most visible pyre. The energetic …

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Acquired today: Michael Leong's DEAR VASE ALREADY SHATTERED AGAINST THE FRAGILE FLOOR (Black Square Editions), which features two of Leong's "Disorientations" pieces, which we originally published!