October 2024 – BIG OTHER

Sylvia Plath on Poetry, Silence, Dying, and More

Happy birthday, Sylvia Plath! Here are some quotes from her writing: “The blood jet is poetry, / There…

Henry Darger is from Brazil! You from time to time shouting at David. David Berglund. The…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Cole Swensen! Celebrate by reading these Swensen poems we published in 2023! And then read…

Happy birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “To learn which questions are unanswerable,…

By Joe Sacksteder One might hazard: Always Crashing : biography :: David Bowie : all other humans. But, no.…

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! Here are some quotes from the imaginative subversive: “[A]ll sentences are sentences of death.”…

Happy birthday, Italo Calvino! Here are quotes from the writer: “What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other…

Happy birthday, Michel Foucault! Here are some quotes from the philosopher and historian: “But couldn’t everyone’s life become a…

Happy birthday, Friedrich Nietzsche! Here are some quotes from the philosopher: “Is it better to out-monster the monster…

I’ve had the deep pleasure of knowing Lance Olsen for at least fifteen years now; and within that time,…