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Eight Poems, by Rae Armantrout

Attempts It’s a lawn ornament pig, made of an oil drum, pipes for legs, and a watering can lid for…

The martyrdom story of Saint Lawrence (who gave away the Church’s riches to the poor) may have originated from a…

Ombré How strange I thought the word “ombré” in the middle of the night, stumbling in a small pink bathroom…

By Jeffery Renard Allen In an illuminating essay written not long before his death, the celebrated German novelist W.…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Michael Martone! Celebrate by reading these five Martone nonfictions, which we published earlier this year!…

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2022 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim…

The Wind Has Stopped, the Desert Listens And yet, I have no sadder story to offer than the wind’s. The…

Digressions Toward an Introduction to Big Other’s Puerto Rican Writer’s Folio: A Hauntology John Madera, Editor Three Poems…

dream: the dead returns while I waited listening to my own life behind the doorway— noises from the kitchen,…