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“Keeping the Sentence Suspended in Mid-air, Aloft”: An Interview with Peter Markus

By Elijah Sparkman Peter Markus lives downriver. I live in Hamtramck, MI. Sometimes we meet in the middle and…

1. Looming the dark riddle repeated harbor sky an episode gradual but less than as if scooped from blue …

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

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

Philoxenia Darling strangers populate my life, ones I love dearly, more than life herself—a prophet and a blind woman,…

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards! This marks the…

“Why is it that buzzing in the ear ceases if one makes a sound? Is it because a greater…

Here in the snow, in the woods, there is black, there is white, and endless shades between, but none…

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

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