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“Finding the Beauty Commensurate to the Pain”: Ellery Akers and Jane Hirshfield in Conversation

Jane Hirshfield and Ellery Akers have each recently released new poetry books centered on climate change and the environment.…

Throughout the current modern era the African solstice has remained condemned, modified, used for psychic flavoring, always at the…

The Faint Bells Calling My Name Snow was falling. It filled the sky through the long night with no…

You were there, only nobody saw you. This is what you are good at: not being there when you…

Tribes of warring pastoralists drive their meat-shrubs across a snowy plain. Their world, Hurth, does not turn, but is…

Ready It is always possible. There are several forms it is more or less likely to take at any…

By Robert Lopez What Not to Do, How Not to Live Don’t get born, don’t be a person, don’t…

The current folio includes an excerpt from Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s novel-in-progress, The Nothing on Which the Fire Depends, my…

Caveat lector: the following pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc.—all published this year in Big Other—are feral, that is,…