Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 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 December 31, 2025. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

Delighted to publish two marvelous poems by Antonio Gamoneda, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/09/22/t... Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Delighted to publish a folio of poems by Hungarian poets Virág Erdős, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ottó Orbán, and Anna Terék translated by George Szirtes in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/09/18/h... Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams! bigother.com/2025/09/17/w... #WilliamCarlosWilliams

R.I.P., Dan Wickett, small press hero and literary citizen extraordinaire. Founder of the Emerging Writers Network, co-founder of the Dzanc Books, strong supporter of BIG OTHER, Dan supported many artists in innumerable ways. Big thanks to Dan. I will miss him. Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Kudos, Arthur Sze, who was named the twenty-fifth U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress today! Such an honor for us to have published some of his wonderful poems in BIG OTHER! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Avid readers of Hungarian literature translated into English, like me, are indebted to exemplary translator George Szirtes, so you can imagine my delight to soon publish a folio of contemporary Hungarian poetry translated into English by Szirtes in BIG OTHER! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

Delighted to publish "Young Tide," a marvelous short story by Can Xue translated by Karen Gernant, in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/09/11/y... Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Delighted to publish Jeff Bursey's astute review of Gabriel Josipovici’s Partita / A Winter in Zürau in Big Other today! bigother.com/2025/09/10/c... Cc: @carcanet.bsky.social and @bigothermag.bsky.social

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Dawn Raffel! Celebrate by reading these Raffel fictions I published in the journal in 2020! bigother.com/2025/09/10/f... Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Acquired today: Michael Martone's TABLE TALK & SECOND THOUGHTS (Cornerstone Press), which features five sections I previously published in BIG OTHER! Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 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 December 31, 2025. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Ted Morrissey! Celebrate by reading this Morrissey essay on Robert Coover's NOIR I published in the journal in 2021! bigother.com/2025/09/05/f... Cc: @tedmorrissey.bsky.social

Delighted to publish a marvelous quartet of new poems by Lisa Russ Spaar in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/09/04/f... Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor David Ohle! Celebrate by reading this Ohle fiction I published in the journal in 2023! bigother.com/2025/09/02/f...

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 published in Lopez's The Best People in 2025! bigother.com/2025/08/31/f... Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." ―Charlie Parker (Image: René Magritte's Le plagiat (1940))

Stay tuned for a beguiling liminal fiction by Can Xue, which was luminously translated Karen Gernant, in BIG OTHER! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_Xue Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Marc Vincenz! Celebrate by reading this sextet of Vincenz poems I published in the journal in 2024! bigother.com/2025/08/26/f... Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Happy birthday, Julio Cortázar! bigother.com/2025/08/26/j...

Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 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 December 31, 2025. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

Kudos, Elaine!

Delighted to publish a marvelous quintet of new poems by Elaine Equi in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/08/24/f... Cc: @elaineequi.bsky.social and @bigothermag.bsky.social

Happy birthday, Annie Proulx! 90, today! bigother.com/2025/08/22/a...

Happy birthday, Annie Proulx! 90, today! bigother.com/2025/08/22/a...

Happy birthday, Michael Martone! Celebrate by reading two Martone fictions I published in BIG OTHER in 2019! They were subsequently published in The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone (BOA Editions)! bigother.com/2025/08/22/f...

Delighted to publish Angus Stewart's interview with Lyu Guangzhao about The Boom & The Boom: Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/08/19/p... Cc: @lyuguangzhao.bsky.social and @bigothermag.bsky.social

Stay tuned for a superb suite of poems by Elaine Equi in BIG OTHER! In the meantime, read Equi's "Three Poems," which I published in the journal in 2024! bigother.com/2025/07/24/f... Cc: @elaineequi.bsky.social and @bigothermag.bsky.social

Delighted to publish Helen E. Mundler-Arantes's review of Charles Holdefer’s DON'T LOOK AT ME in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/08/18/l... Cc: @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

Happy birthday, John Hawkes! bigother.com/2025/08/17/j...

Delighted to publish marvelous new fiction by Chris Vaughan in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/08/16/d...

Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 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 December 31, 2025. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

Delighted to publish a superb quintet of poems by Tony Leuzzi in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/08/09/d...

Delighted to publish Paul Hoover's "The Memory of a Poem" in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/08/08/t... Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Delighted to publish "Some Chairs at the Art Museum," a mockumentary by David M. Sheridan, in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/08/07/s... Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Another benefit of coming out of "retirement" from reviewing to review what has proven to be a marvelous book of poetry is being inspired to return to my own poems with an eye toward sending out a collection of them for publication consideration.

Make a difference by doing what you can do; e.g., daily support the worthy creative effort(s) of someone who is more or less unknown. Do this every day for a year and you won't run out of people to support. Plus, you will have helped build and sustain community and more besides.

Happy birthday, James Baldwin! bigother.com/2025/08/02/j... #JamesBaldwin

Delighted to publish an eerie short story by Michel Vachey (translated by S. C. Delaney and Agnès Potier) in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/08/01/t... Cc: @bigothermag.bsky.social

Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 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 December 31, 2025. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

My Eco-fiction fungi-horror speculative “Tree Ears & Velvet Feet,” where a meat substitute crosses fungal-human mushroom caps of girl faces impaled on spongy, glabrous stems' haunted lollipops @bigothermag.bsky.social @johnmadera.bsky.social @writingcommunity.bsky.social bigother.com/2025/07/30/t...

Delighted to publish marvelous new fiction by Aimee Parkison in BIG OTHER today: bigother.com/2025/07/30/t... Cc: @aimeeparkison.bsky.social and @bigothermag.bsky.social

Happy birthday, William H. Gass! bigother.com/2025/07/30/w...

My new fiction--a series of #flashfiction stories #LethalConversations about what happens to women in war was just published by @bigothermag.bsky.social bigother.com/2025/07/27/l... @johnmadera.bsky.social @writingcommunity.bsky.social #literaryfiction @unboundedition.bsky.social #LiteraryFiction

Delighted to publish powerful new fiction by Aimee Parkison in BIG OTHER today! bigother.com/2025/07/27/l... Cc: @aimeeparkison.bsky.social and @bigothermag.bsky.social

Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley! bigother.com/2025/07/26/a... #AldousHuxley

Happy birthday, Elias Canetti! bigother.com/2025/07/25/e... #EliasCanetti

Stayed tuned for new fiction by Aimee Parkison in BIG OTHER! In the meantime, read Parkison's "What Goes on Near the Water," which I published in the journal in 2019, & which was subsequently published in Parkison's SUBURBAN DEATH PROJECT (Unbound Edition Press, 2022)! bigother.com/2019/02/19/f...

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Elaine Equi! Celebrate by reading the three Equi poems I published in the journal in 2024! And then go read the Equi poems I published in 2019, 2021, and 2023! bigother.com/2025/07/24/f... Cc: @elaineequi.bsky.social and @bigothermag.bsky.social