Dear Reader,
Art, artists, and arts organizations are under attack. Under the guise of cutting government spending, some of the attackers are cancelling grants, shutting down programs, eliminating organizations, etc., all with the aim of not only restricting our access to vital information, varied viewpoints, and marvelous art, but killing the imagination, not to mention creativity and community.
All of which to say, Big Other needs your help.
As one of our readers, you know of my efforts to curate and sustain a(n) (im)possibility space for unruly, fearless, surprising, innovative art, literary and otherwise.
And so, I’m asking you to join the millions of people today who are giving what they can because they know that every little bit helps. This year, I ask you to consider making a tax-deductible gift today to help Big Other.
Big Other is a one-person operation that runs on a (left) wing and a (secular) prayer, so your gift will, among many other things, help me continue to publish new experimental and innovative work from both established and emerging writers and artists.
Besides helping to support our efforts to publish marvelous literary art, your gift will support the final production and release of a backlog of podcasts with many stellar literary artists: Pulitzer Prize winner Rae Armantrout, National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky, U.S. Poet Laureate and National Book Award winner Arthur Sze, Will Alexander, Laura Cronk, Andrew Joron, Karen An-hwei Lee, Eugene Lim, Garielle Lutz, Michael Martone, Lance Olsen, Dawn Raffel, Victoria Redel, Luis Othoniel Rosa, Lisa Russ Spaar, Edwin Torres, Marjorie Welish, Angela Woodward, and John Yau.
I hope you’ll show your support for this work by including Big Other in your year-end giving plans. Whether you give $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, $500, $1,000, or more, your support will help ensure that Big Other continues to publish fiction, poetry, art, hybrid works, reviews, essays, interviews, and more in 2026 and beyond.
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With big thanks,
John Madera, Editor
(Image: Roberto Matta’s To Give Painless Light (1955))
