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March 18, 2022 - Featured, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

Five Nonfictions, by Michael Martone

Upside-Down (Chestertown, 1988) Robert Day was showing me around the Literary House on the campus of Washington College. The…

March 16, 2022April 8, 2022 - Awards, Books, Featured, Reading, Writing

Announcing the Finalists for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Poetry Finalists!

We are excited to announce the finalists for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Poetry. The winner will…

March 15, 2022 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Two Fictions, by John Schertzer

Fangs and Fetishes I went out into the world to find a healing stone. Its name was Worry. It…

March 11, 2022 - Art, Comics, Featured

After All, by Rosaire Appel

March 10, 2022 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Five Poems, by Brendan Lorber

The creature making noise As long as the creature making noise in the wall stays in the wall it’s…

March 9, 2022 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Three Fictions, by Meg Pokrass

Illustrations by Chris Vaughan Manifest Enmity The fat man is gazing at the piece of rose quartz that lives…

March 8, 2022April 8, 2022 - Awards, Books, Featured, Reading, Writing

Announcing the Finalists for the 2021 Big Other Readers’ Choice Award!

Several months ago, I asked a host of writers, editors, and publishers to send me a list of their favorite…

March 7, 2022March 8, 2022 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

From Where Here Were We, by Charles Bernstein and Norman Fischer

May 1 – May 8, 2020 Continuously crawling In yon mud fields Going on then (then) Going on (then)…

March 4, 2022 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

The Extinction Museum #506: Home Pregnancy Test, c. early 2000s

By Tina May Hall That spider had to die. I knew it was bad luck, but it was the…

March 2, 2022 - Art, Comics, Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Ten Cigarettes My Cigarette Parts Open Up My Throat Doctor, by Nick Potter