Birthday – BIG OTHER

From the Archives: Four Poems, by John Yau

Happy birthday, John Yau! Celebrate his birthday by reading this superb suite of poems we published in 2019; and which…

Happy birthday, Federico García Lorca! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Only mystery allows us to live,…

Happy birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Neither dogmatize yourself, nor accept another’s…

Happy birthday, Bob Dylan! 82, today! Lucky to have seen this trickster and consummate artist perform live many times…

Happy Arrival Day, Sun Ra! Here are some quotes from the composer and musician: “I think of myself…

Happy birthday, W. G. Sebald! Here are some quotes from his writing: “It would be an ambition of…

Happy birthday, Charles Rice-González! Celebrate by reading this González fiction we published in Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology in…

Happy birthday, Joseph Beuys! Here are some quotes from the artist: “I think art is the only political…

Happy birthday, Stanley Elkin! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews: “Make a thing that never…

Happy birthday, Jennifer Maritza McCauley! Celebrate by reading these McCauley poems we published in Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology!…