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June 26, 2025June 27, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Einspänner, by Karen An-hwei Lee

  Einspänner. A word with dual meanings—it’s a one-horse carriage or else it’s a hot espresso dolloped with cold whipped…

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January 18, 2025 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Four Poems, by Jeffery Renard Allen

  Mar Azul —for Cesária Évora   Blue-tinted parishioners wander in and out of a church gold-stained with morning sun.…

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January 10, 2025December 18, 2025 - Anthology, Featured, Reading, Writing

Big Other Anthology 2024

  Like the band Scarce Dirt, or whatever they’re called, I just want to celebrate another day of living, celebrate…

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January 2, 2024December 18, 2025 - Anthology, Featured, Reading, Writing

Big Other Anthology 2023

2023 was a wonder, beautifully and sometimes bewilderingly so. It was a year in which, among other things, I went…

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December 28, 2022December 18, 2025 - Anthology, Featured, Reading, Writing

Big Other Anthology 2022

Delighted to present a selection of works I published in Big Other in 2022. But before I do that, let…

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June 10, 2022October 25, 2025 - Archives, Featured, Fiction, Folio, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Translation, Writing

Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology

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

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December 21, 2021December 18, 2025 - Anthology, Featured, Reading, Writing

Big Other Anthology 2021

  Hard as things are, despair is easy. Don’t get me wrong; the state of things, the order of things,…

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January 14, 2021December 18, 2025 - Anthology, Featured, Reading, Writing

Big Other Anthology 2020

  Like every year in recent memory, 2020 found our country in crisis, where one catastrophe followed another, cascaded pummelingly…

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December 16, 2019December 18, 2025 - Anthology, Featured, Reading, Writing

Big Other Anthology 2019

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

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