2026 – Page 8 – BIG OTHER

Audre Lorde on Poetry, Politics, Feminism, and More

Happy birthday, Audre Lorde! Here are some quotes from the writer: “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the…

How to Love a Mango Girl Crack open her chestwall with surgical loveliness, remove the slippery, heaving Thing inside,…

Happy birthday, Gordon Lish! 92, today! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Do not confine your work to…

Happy birthday, Gerhard Richter! 94, today! Here are some quotes from the artist: “Art is the highest form of…

To a Slide of The Temptation of Eve in a Lecture on Medieval Art I was twenty when I…

“how all Eternity proceeds from Time alone…” And time refuses to be anything less than its own overgrown ecosystem.…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Micah Zevin! Celebrate by reading these Zevin poems we published in 2019! Four of these…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor John Schertzer! Celebrate by reading these Schertzer poems we published in 2024! And then go…

Happy birthday, William S. Burroughs! Here are some quotes from his writing: “The word is now a virus.”…

Underland “If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.” —Walt Whitman Where stalactite meets bone (in…