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Six Poems, by Joe Milazzo

Amends Pinto beans. Their camel coat. A bowl like a halved pumpkin; how tall its sides slant. How soaking thrusts…

First Thing Found An un- taught taut tau- tology. Stepwise argument— a story Never told, damaging no image. Some arrangement…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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