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Big Other

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BIG OTHER (www.bigother.com) is an online arts and culture magazine, featuring reviews, essays, fiction, poetry, hybrid works, art, a podcast, and more. Founded in 2009. Published by @johnmadera.bsky.social.

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 2h ago

Seventeen years of unruly words, unexpected crossings, and marvelous becomings! Join us October 24, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. for a anniversary reading featuring many extraordinary writers! In person and online at New York Insight. www.nyimc.org/event/big-ot...

In-Person and Online: Artist Salon Presents - A Night of Readings Celebrating Big Other - New York Insight Meditation Center

featuring Martine Bellen, Elaine Equi, Heller Levinson, Dawn Raffel, Terese Svoboda, and Edwin Torres | with MC John Madera Saturday, October 24th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET  To celebrate seventeen ye...

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · yesterday

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde, whose wit and subversive defense of artistic freedom remain as bracing as ever! He understood that art should disturb complacency, that individuality requires disobedience, and that the world takes itself far too solemnly. bigother.com/2026/10/16/o...

Oscar Wilde on Art, Astonishment, Disobedience, and More

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! Here are some quotes from the imaginative subversive:   “[A]ll sentences are sentences of death.”   “A thing is, according to the mod…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 3d ago

Happy 70th birthday to BIG OTHER contributor Lance Olsen! A singular literary innovator, fearless experimenter, and generous intellectual force, Olsen continues to expand what fiction can do and how we see the world. bigother.com/2026/10/14/h...

Happy 70th Birthday, Lance Olsen!: 70 Reasons to Celebrate Lance Olsen

For more than seventeen years, I’ve had the extraordinary good fortune of encountering Lance Olsen’s work and, even better, knowing the extraordinary person behind it. Along the way, I’ve re…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 4d ago

Enter your book[s] published in 2026 for a chance to win a 2026 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is January 31, 2027. bigother.com/2026/07/27/a...

Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards!

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards! This marks the eighth annual presentation of the awards, which aim to recognize excellence in liter…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 5d ago

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER! 17 years of publishing work that makes the familiar strange and unsettles expectations! Thanks to everyone who's helped make this improbable adventure possible! Here’s to more unruly art and whatever comes next! Excelsior! bigother.com/2026/10/12/b...

Big Other at Seventeen: On Unruly Writing, Fruitful Dissensus, and the Art of Keeping Art Alive

What’s seventeen years in internet years? Four thousand platform migrations, twelve dead social networks, three algorithmic regime changes, and one very long CAPTCHA proving you’re still hum…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · last wk.

Published today: Martine Bellen’s marvelous poem “Too Many Ghosts”! Bones, ghosts, frogs, fossils, vessels, deep-sea creatures: the poem’s extraordinary imagery keeps metamorphosing into a fluid anatomy of grief, memory, and the self. bigother.com/2026/10/09/t...

Too Many Ghosts, by Martine Bellen

“Cinema plus psychoanalysis equals the science of ghosts.” —Jacques Derrida “Ghosts are not evil things to be feared or fought, they are suffering souls seeking their path.” —from The Eye 2 (見鬼2), …

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 2w ago

Published today: Elizabeth Robinson’s “How Would You Like to Die?,” a riverine engagement with death, its accretion of images a kind of consciousness rearranging itself at the threshold of disappearance. bigother.com/2026/10/06/h...

How Would You Like to Die? by Elizabeth Robinson

With beautiful skin, a foreign language of skin, a surface heretofore unknown and pliant—   Oh, I am pursuing two contradictory directions at once because I am curious      We woke &nbs…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 2w ago

Stay tuned for a new poem by Martine Bellen in BIG OTHER! In the meantime, read Bellen’s “The Doctrine of Notions,” a brilliantly inventive reimagining of a certain fairy tale as a meditation on confinement, self-invention, and freedom! bigother.com/2025/10/04/t...

The Doctrine of Notions, by Martine Bellen

Left alone, an empty jug will replenish, so it has been written; mirrors will cast flashes from one’s past; an apple will bleed; an acorn will swell into a giant. How dependable is the behav…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Heller Levinson! Celebrate by reading these five Levinson poems we published in 2024! The poems were subsequently featured in Levinson's CROSSFALL (Black Widow Press) in 2025! bigother.com/2026/10/01/f...

From the Archives: Five Poems, by Heller Levinson

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Heller Levinson! Celebrate by reading these five Levinson poems, which we published in 2024! The poems were subsequently featured in Levinson’s Crossfall…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 3w ago

Enter your book[s] published in 2026 for a chance to win a 2026 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is January 31, 2027. bigother.com/2026/07/27/a...

Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards!

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards! This marks the eighth annual presentation of the awards, which aim to recognize excellence in liter…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 4w ago

Delighted to publish Ann Lauterbach's "Prelude & Consequence," a marvelous poem where shifting clauses generate and disrupt meaning within a world of historical rupture and uncertainty. bigother.com/2026/09/18/p...

Prelude & Consequence, by Ann Lauterbach

1. Looming  the dark riddle repeated harbor sky an episode    gradual but less than as if scooped from blue    neither recollected nor answered     as if a laminate hovers over the dark ridd…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 4w ago

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams, whose radical proposition placed imagination at the heart of reality: a way of seeing the world with greater intensity. bigother.com/2026/09/17/w...

William Carlos Williams on Language, Writing, Reading, Poetry, and More

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams, whose radical proposition placed imagination at the heart of reality: a way of seeing the world with greater intensity. For Williams, poetry describes the w…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · last mo.

Enter your book[s] published in 2026 for a chance to win a 2026 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is January 31, 2027. bigother.com/2026/07/27/a...

Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards!

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards! This marks the eighth annual presentation of the awards, which aim to recognize excellence in liter…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · last mo.

Enter your book[s] published in 2026 for a chance to win a 2026 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is January 31, 2027. bigother.com/2026/07/27/a...

Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards!

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards! This marks the eighth annual presentation of the awards, which aim to recognize excellence in liter…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading Lopez's “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,” which we published in 2020! bigother.com/2026/08/31/f...

From the Archives: However Many Sayings to Live and Die By, by Robert Lopez

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading Lopez’s “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,” which we published in 2020, and which was subsequently selected for…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Enter your book[s] published in 2026 for a chance to win a 2026 BIG OTHER Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is January 31, 2027. bigother.com/2026/07/27/a...

Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards!

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards! This marks the eighth annual presentation of the awards, which aim to recognize excellence in liter…

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Big Other@bigothermag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Enter your book[s] published in 2026 for a chance to win a 2026 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is January 31, 2027. bigother.com/2026/07/27/a...

Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards!

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards! This marks the eighth annual presentation of the awards, which aim to recognize excellence in liter…

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