Happy birthday, Gilles Deleuze! bigother.com/2026/01/18/g... #GillesDeleuze

Happy birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.! bigother.com/2026/01/15/m...

"How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious." —Edmund White

"Suffering does make us more sensitive until it crushes us completely." —Edmund White

"Gratitude is my chief erotic emotion." —Edmund White

"The idea has come to me that what I want now to do is to saturate every atom. I mean to eliminate all waste, deadness, superfluity: to give the moment whole; whatever it includes...Why admit anything to literature that is not poetry—by which I mean saturated?" —Virginia Woolf

“Poetry is a necessity of life. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so." —C. D. Wright

“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.” —Haruki Murakami

Happy birthday, Zora Neale Hurston! bigother.com/2026/01/07/z...

Happy birthday, Nicholson Baker! 69, today! bigother.com/2026/01/07/n...

Acquired today: Peggy Robles-Alvarado's BURN ME BACK, which features five poems I published in BIG OTHER's PUERTO RICAN WRITERS FOLIO: A HAUNTOLOGY in 2022! Cc: @fourwaybooks.bsky.social

Acquired today: Melissa Sauma‘s LUMINESCENCE (Spuyten Duyvil), translated by Ariel Francisco, which features five poems I originally published in BIG OTHER!

R.I.P., Béla Tarr. bigother.com/2026/01/06/r...

"I still hold that the State is a cold monster, and it devours everyone within its reach." —Emma Goldman

Happy birthday, C. D. Wright! bigother.com/2026/01/06/c...

Happy birthday, Umberto Eco! bigother.com/2026/01/05/u...

”The world is on fire and the arsonists are in charge.” —Naomi Klein

Join us today for the opening reception for INTERCONNECTEDNESS: an exhibition of works by Lydia Dona, Nicole Parcher, and Stephen Pusey! The event at New York Insight Meditation Center will also feature a conversation with the artists moderated by me! www.nyimc.org/event/interc...

Join us for the opening reception for INTERCONNECTEDNESS: an exhibition of works by Lydia Dona, Nicole Parcher, and Stephen Pusey! Held on January 3, 2026, the event at New York Insight Meditation Center will feature a conversation with the artists moderated by me! www.nyimc.org/event/interc...

Make art. No matter what. (Images: drawings by Eva Hesse (1962-1964))

You all made my Best of 2025 list!

“‘Merry Christmas!’ the man threatened.” —William Gaddis, THE RECOGNITIONS

The deadline for your chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award is approaching! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature in 2025 and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is 12/31/25. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

"Give yourself to loss and when you're lost you'll be at home." —from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

"Wise souls don’t hoard; the more they do for others, the more they have, the more they give, the richer they are." —from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

"All greatness is improbable. What’s probable is tedious and petty." —from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

"Knowing light and staying dark, be a pattern to the world. Being the world’s pattern of eternal unerring power is to go back again to boundlessness." —from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

"The disordered society is full of loyal patriots." —from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

"To give birth, to nourish, to bear and not to own, to act and not lay claim, to lead and not to rule: this is mysterious power." —from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin bookshop.org/a/578/978161...

In case you missed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk2K...

We must dream together, think, imagine, discern, reach, play, make, create, build, enact, reap, realize, and sustain together, in other words, love together. (Image: Alex Grey's Godself (2012))

"Without deviation, progress is not possible." —Frank Zappa (Image: Albert Oehlen's DISCOS, 1996)

"Be metaphorical, be mystical, be whatever you need." —W. H. Auden

Kathryn Rantala's "Four Letters North," which appears in BIG OTHER Anthology 2025, will be featured in TRANSLATED FROM THE ENGLISH (Sandy Press, 2026)! Be sure to buy the book when it comes out! In the meantime, read "Four Letters North" in Big Other! bigother.com/2025/07/17/f...

Delighted to publish BIG OTHER Anthology 2025 today! It features writing by a host of stellar writers, like Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein, Traci Brimhall, Rick Moody, Lance Olsen, Terese Svoboda, Cole Swensen, Can Xue, and many others! bigother.com/2025/12/17/b... Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

"To and fro and to the heart, just like a meadow, lets it all happen." —Bashō

"To know yourself is to forget yourself. To forget yourself is to be awakened by all things." —Dōgen

"Even when I do things for the sake of others, No sense of amazement or conceit arises. It is just like feeding myself; I hope for nothing in return." —Śāntideva, c. 700 CE

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Kim Chinquee! Celebrate by reading the four Chinquee fictions I published in the journal in 2025! bigother.com/2025/12/16/f... Cc: @kimchinquee.bsky.social and @bigothermag.bsky.social

Delighted to announce Big Other’s nominations for Best Small Fictions 2026 today! bigother.com/2025/12/15/a...

The deadline for your chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award is approaching! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature in 2025 and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

"If life is hard, art is harder." —William H. Gass

"Nobody will give you freedom. You have to take it." —Meret Oppenheim (Image: Meret Oppenheim's Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure), 1936)

"—what I hold fast to, grip in my fist for amulet, is my love of those who dare, who do dare to struggle, dare to reject unlived life [....] O holy innocents! I have no virtue but to praise you who believe life is possible..." —Denise Levertov, from "Staying Alive"

"Language, coral island accrued from human comprehensions, human dreams, you are eroded as war erodes us." —Denise Levertov, from "Staying Alive"

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." —Albert Einstein

"I can remember much forgetfulness." —Hart Crane (Image: Joan Mitchell’s Untitled, c. 1959)

"If, while on your way, you meet no one your equal or better, steadily continue on your way alone. There is no fellowship with fools." —The Dhammapada

"Better than a thousand meaningless statements is one meaningful word, which, having been heard, brings peace." —The Dhammapada

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity." —Edvard Munch (Image: Roberto Matta's Let Any Flowers Bloom, 1955)