May 2019 – BIG OTHER

Every Fly’s Ascendant, by Debra Di Blasi

In the end, silence reigned. It settled over dry fields and skeletons—trees black obelisks in risen waters. Finally, children…

“The Big One was obviously one of those epoxy-and-metal eggs produced by itself—the Platonic Idea of a pebble turned inside…

Happy birthday, Lorraine Hansberry! Here are some quotes from the great playwright. “Look at the world that awaits you!” “Write…

Happy birthday, El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, aka Malcolm X! Here are some quotes from the civil rights and human rights…

Happy birthday, W. G. Sebald! Here are some quotes from his writing. “‘It is thanks to my evening reading…

this old house as something still blooming such dust — these dandelion seeds orb my vision cobwebbed. optometrists say if…

Violet Madrigal No bigger than horse-flies, the lawns smalt with them, each tri-heart bloom a giant’s head afloat a thread…

Happy birthday, Diane Arbus! Here are some quotes from the photographer. “The thing that’s important to know is that you…

Top of the World Roaring torrents of snow, trumpeting white, flailing, sifting, piling on, fleecing the town, and—not to be…

“I commute all sentences.” —from Don Delillo’s The Names (p.32) This is lifted from a paragraph where a father, after a…