Four Letters North, by Kathryn Rantala 1 This is the forest entangled the murmuring sun a gap but full flat on arroyos draws a ridge of thought coordinates of contentment bioluminescent on the maps of science and mechanics two birds of …

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Translated from the English Check out Translated from the English - Also by Kathryn Rantala <p/>"In <b><i>My Archipelago</i></b> . . . the voice, the repetitions and the surprising turns, a sense of surprise, and in the end, a s...

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Acquired today: Kathryn Rantala's TRANSLATED FROM THE ENGLISH (Sandy Press), which features Rantala's "Four Letters North," which we published in 2025!

Rikki Ducornet on Art, Life, Reading, Writing, the Imagination, and More Happy birthday, Rikki Ducornet! 83, today! Addressing “our culture’s disdain for the artist,” Rikki Ducornet in my podcast with her said, “I think it’s simply a…

Happy birthday, Rikki Ducornet! 83, today!

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From the Archives: Eight Poems, by Rae Armantrout Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Rae Armantrout! Celebrate by reading this suite of Armantrout poems we published in 2022! And then read the Armantrout poems we published in 2019, 2020, and ea…

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Rae Armantrout! Celebrate by reading this suite of Armantrout poems we published in 2022! And then read the Armantrout poems we published in 2019, 2020, and earlier in 2022, and 2025!

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Samuel Beckett on Life, Words, Silence, Nothing, and More Happy birthday, Samuel Beckett! Here are some quotes from his writing:   “Birth was the death of him.”   “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”   &#822…

Happy birthday, Samuel Beckett!

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Charles Baudelaire on Language, Poetry, Beauty, and More Happy birthday, Charles Baudelaire! Here are some quotes from his writing:   “Always be a poet, even in prose.”   “To handle a language skillfully is to practice …

Happy birthday, Charles Baudelaire!

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Donald Barthelme on Art, Writing, Problems, and More Happy birthday, Donald Barthelme! Here are some quotes from his writing:   “The writer is that person who, embarking upon her task, does not know what to do.”   “The no…

Happy birthday, Donald Barthelme!

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Announcing Big Other’s 2025 Lifetime Achievement Awardees! We are delighted to announce Big Other’s 2025 Lifetime Achievement Awardees! The award honors exemplary living writers, who have made a significant contribution to literature and are c…

Announced today: BIG OTHER's 2025 Lifetime Achievement Awardees!

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Breaking Into Blossom: Poems with Extraordinary Endings Poems with Extraordinary Endings

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Two Poems, by Cole Swensen Windows From the train window, the sheep are at peace, and who wouldn’t be, late in the sun, their light slanting the shadows into which they gradually slide, thus slipping into something larger, c…

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Recently received: BREAKING INTO BLOSSOM: POEMS WITH EXTRAORDINARY ENDINGS, which was edited by Luke Hankins and Nomi Stone, and which features Cole Swensen's "Stairs & Windows," which we published in 2023!

Breaking: “Big Five” Publishing Pivots Toward Experimental Writing By Barb Dwyer   In a move that insiders are calling “long overdue,” the major media conglomerates that command the largest market share of publishing announced today that they are actively shi…

Breaking: “Big Five” Publishing Pivots Toward Experimental Writing!

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Octavio Paz on Art, Life, Love, Writing, and More Happy birthday, Octavio Paz! Here are some quotes from his writing:   “Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.”   “Art is the opposite of dissipation, in…

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Mystery Reader, by Rodrigo Toscano Downplaying entanglements with national interests and global affairs Blurring the lines between transparency and obfuscation This poet, nonetheless seems pumped enough to flip scripts This p…

Published today: "Mystery Reader," by Rodrigo Toscano!

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Announcing: The 2025 Big Other Literary Citizenship Awardees! We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 Big Other Literary Citizenship Award. This award aims to recognize outstanding efforts toward supporting the work of innovative writers and adv…

Delighted to announce the recipients of the 2025 BIG OTHER Literary Citizenship Award!

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From the Archives: Air and Fog, Light and Flight, by Jane Ciabattari Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Jane Ciabattari! Celebrate by reading Ciabattari’s “Air and Fog, Light and Flight,” which we published in 2021! Follow that by reading Ciabat…

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Jane Ciabattari! Celebrate by reading Ciabattari's "Air and Fog, Light and Flight," which we published in 2021! Follow that by reading Ciabattari's "Acqua Alta," which we published in 2019!

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Six Poems, by Sylvia Legris “Why is it that buzzing in the ear ceases if one makes a sound? Is it because a greater sound drives out the less?” —Hippocrates   Acoustic Masking, Purple Spiny dye-murex’s silent slid…

Published today: a marvelous sextet of poems by Sylvia Legris!

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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…

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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…

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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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