Caveat lector: the following pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc.—all published this year in Big Other—are feral, that is, fierce and unruly, that is, these literary artworks upset conventional norms of writing, of thinking, of envisioning and realizing what is possible in writing, in creative expression period. Here you’ll find superb writing by Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and other award winners among superb writing by a host of literary artists “established” and “emerging,” but what is an artist but someone who deliberately falls and rises, sinks and surfaces, vanishes and materializes, who continually comes into being through evolution?

Arthur Sze
Blackcap

Rae Armantrout
Three Poems

Debra Di Blasi
Otherwise (Eulogy for Diane)

Forrest Gander
Two Poetry-Films

Karen An-hwei Lee
A Ballad of the Lost Octopodes

John Yau
Four Poems

Sarah Blackman
The County Coroner

Daniel Borzutzky
Poem #1022

D. A. Powell
Kissing Rimbaud

Aimee Parkison
What Goes on Near the Water

Samuel R. Delany
Reading Díaz

Lance Olsen
169 Tweets on the Nature of Possibility

Doug Rice
A Refusal to Disappear

Ewa Chrusciel
Selections from Mental Aviary

Michael Leong
From “Disorientations”

Edwin Torres
Five Poems

Peter Markus
In This Tree

Robert Lopez
The Future Home of the Wymans

Jane Ciabattari
Acqua Alta

Rone Shavers
Four Crônicas

Lisa Russ Spaar
Five Poems

Stephanie Strickland
Two Poems

Kim Chinquee
Four Fictions

Laura Cronk
Three Poems

Albert Mobilio
Five Poems

Victoria Redel
Seven Poems

Terese Svoboda
Five Poems

Micah Zevin
Five Poems

Miranda Mellis
No Doubt Perhaps

Shira Dentz
Six Poems

Gary Sloboda
Seven Poems

Jefferson Hansen
Three Poems

Elaine Equi
Four Poems

Danielle Pafunda
Three Poems

Kailey Tedesco
Five Poems

Erika Bojnowski
Five Poems

Charles Bernstein and Ted Greenwald
Two Poems from The Course

Jessie Janeshek
Five Poems

Tom La Farge
Ode from a Mockingbird

Davis Schneiderman
Drone-Space Modulator

Laynie Browne
Poems

Joshua Marie Wilkinson
The Night Was Curiously Mild

Marjorie Welish
Bird Watching

Andrew Joron
Two Poems

Will Alexander
From On Solar Physiology

John Reed
Three Poems

William Walsh
Modes of Imitation and To the Art of Rhetoric

Brendan Lorber
Ten Poems

Joanna C. Valente
Five Poems

Tony Trigilio
Eight Poems

Nik De Dominic
Five Poems

William Lessard
Two Poems

Cole Swensen
Two Poems

Joe Milazzo
Two Poems

David Leo Rice
From Angel House

Michael Martone
Two Fictions

Debra Di Blasi
Every Fly’s Ascendant

Louis Armand
From Gagarin

Harold Abramowitz
(Our Real Limbs)

Tobias Carroll
An Oblation

Andrew Joron
Lunagrad

Roberta Allen
A Way to Go

Karen Heuler
Words, Words, Words, in Other Words

Cris Mazza
Cliché Alert

Joe Pan
JFK Reconsidered

J. A. Tyler
Strange Weather: Dispatch #X24

Michael Joyce
From Remedia: A Picaresque

Olivia Kate Cerrone
Where They Bury the Waste

Alissa Hattman
Three Fictions

John Domini
Fish Story, Hoodie Howl

Osama Alomar
Four Fictions

Lynn Crawford
Same Sky

Margo Berdeshevsky
Tattoo Tribal

Peter Markus
This Boy’s Tongue

Babak Lakghomi
Here to Forget

Norman Lock
From Feast Day of the Cannibals

Tina May Hall
Three Fictions

Curtis White
An Autofiction

Laurie Stone
Letter

Kim Chinquee
Three Fictions

Nick Francis Potter
Regarding

Rodgrigo Toscano
The Poetics of Readiness: An Interview with Benjamin Aleshire

Jared Daniel Fagen
Détourned Dada: Paul Nougé’s Aphoristic Ad Performance

Tyrone Williams
Only a Cry Absent Its Mouth

Brian Kiteley
On the Art of Wearing Yourself Out

Renée E. D’Aoust
Paw to the Paw to the Paw to the Paw

Sean Lovelace
How to Begin: Purple Bra, Prompt as Metaphor, Hiss/Kiss/Howl of Dogs, of the Falling Clouds, (roiling, roiling…), Sarah

Jimmy Chen
What Wood Jesus Do?

Grace Campbell
The Road Is a Shot Glass Half-Full

Gabriel Blackwell
Two Essays

Brendan Lorber
How a Poem Happens to Happen

Ken Sparling
Up Against the World: Resisting Sarki in His Mewl House

Pedram Navab
Always Arriving a Little Too Early: A Nocturne

Tyrone Williams
Reviewing Reviewing: Ethos and Praxis