November 2020 – BIG OTHER

William Blake on Art, Friendship, Opposition, and More

Happy birthday, William Blake! Here are some quotes from the artist: “He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”…

We are pleased to nominate the following poems published in 2020 for the Pushcart Prize: T. J. Anderson III’s…

We are pleased to nominate the following fictions for inclusion in Best Microfiction 2021: Robert Lopez’s “What’s Not on the…

Happy birthday, Jared Daniel Fagen! Celebrate by reading this Fagen essay we published last year! For Mary Ann Caws…

By Aimee Parkison and Meg Pokrass Victim of gossip, like a blacklisted movie star, walking through a sleepy town,…

Happy birthday, Arundhati Roy! 59, today! Here are some quotes from the author: “For reasons that I don’t…

Happy birthday, Guy Davenport! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Avoid the suave flow of prose that’s…

Happy birthday, Paul Celan! Here are some quotes from the author. “Poetry is a sort of homecoming.” …

By Ryan Bollenbach In an introduction to Michel Leiris’ memoir Manhood: A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order…

The Fern Cliff (V) (Seizure of the Waters) to locate here: the tongue’s fluent seizure: middling breath of the…