Two separate events spurred the fierce discontent that compelled Micheline Aharonian Marcom to write her first three novels—a trio…
What You See Is What You Don’t Know: Thoughts upon Entering and Exiting Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s The Brick House
Micheline Aharonian Marcom’s The Brick House deliberately and evocatively disrupts easy summary and interpretation, inviting instead multiple, open-ended impressions…
From the Archives: Two Essays, by Gabriel Blackwell
Happy birthday, Gabriel Blackwell! Celebrate by reading these two Blackwell essays we published March 7, 2019! Discipline After…
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,…