Caveat lector: the following pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc.—all published this year in Big Other—are feral, that is,…
The Poetics of Readiness: An Interview with Benjamin Aleshire
By Rodrigo Toscano Rodrigo Toscano: Something I find fascinating about your practice of street poetics is its implicit reception…
“Outgrowths and Trimmings”: The Short Fiction and Poetry of Sam Savage
By Jeff Bursey Sam Savage’s fiction is filled with characters that stand askew from life. They are outcasts, isolates,…
Announcing Big Other’s Best of the Net 2019 Nominations!
We are pleased to nominate the following fiction, poetry, and nonfiction pieces for inclusion in Sundress Publications‘s Best of…
Détourned Dada: Paul Nougé’s Aphoristic Ad Performance
For Mary Ann Caws If the complex life of many people takes place entirely on the level of the unconscious,…
Only a Cry Absent Its Mouth, by Tyrone Williams
Juxtaposition and parataxis are key techniques of composition across the traditional genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. The former refers…
Reviewing Reviewing: Ethos and Praxis, by Tyrone Williams
I’m going to talk about the topic of reviewing books of poetry from both autobiographical and professional points of view,…
On the Art of Wearing Yourself Out, by Brian Kiteley
I drew maps and mazes when I was a kid. Endless maps, some very particular, some just rough outlines,…
Paw to the Paw to the Paw to the Paw, by Renée E. D’Aoust
People say dog paws smell like Fritos, but yours smell like dew, so light yet full of wet dirt.…
How to Begin: Purple Bra, Prompt as Metaphor, Hiss/Kiss/Howl of Dogs, of the Falling Clouds, (roiling, roiling…), Sarah, by Sean Lovelace
1. Take a man. Take a woman. Add a slammed door, and a heart like flash fiction (yellow diamond,…