August 2026 – BIG OTHER

From the Archives: However Many Sayings to Live and Die By, by Robert Lopez

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading Lopez’s “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,” which…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Rosalie Morales Kearns! Celebrate by reading these Morales Kearns poems featured in Puerto Rican Writers…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Joe Milazzo! Celebrate by reading these six Milazzo poems we published in 2025! Each on titled…

Perfume In the expensive gym, the girls are uncertain. They parade their bodies, young or old or approaching some…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Marc Vincenz! Celebrate by reading this sextet of Vincenz poems we published in 2024! These…

Meditation on Roget’s Paradox of Choice You have your preferences proclivities inclinations predispositions tendencies favorites You make your …

Happy birthday, Jorge Luis Borges! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Reality is not always probable, or…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Michael Martone! Celebrate by reading “Follies, Ruins, Ducks,” which we published in 2025! Follow that…

By Richard Hamilton Phenomenology happens along a continuum at the crossroad between chaos and the cosmos. By one account,…

Happy birthday, John Hawkes! Here are some quotes from the author: “‘Choice means variable, variable means discontinuity, discontinuity destroys…