Poetry – BIG OTHER

From STORY, by Jennifer Firestone

The bar man prepared several ornate tropical drinks repeatedly. Presumably the ambulance crew patiently rattled protocol while lifting. Presumably…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Nik De Dominic! Today also marks the publication of Dominic’s Goodbye Wolf (The Operating…

Happy birthday, C. D. Wright! Here are some quotes from the writer: “I believe in a hardheaded art,…

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

We are pleased to nominate the following fictions and poems published in 2019 for the Pushcart Prize: Fiction:…

By D. A. Powell —for Matthew There is no real cure for love, but there is a dry rub. Honey,…

By Ewa Chrusciel Long-wattled umbrella bird — Grandiosity Your wattle darkened the whole room. How grand it was;…

V E R G E: she sets type by hand and loves how the spaces between letters and between…

My teacher said nothing is never not entangled in emptiness. Even the perpetual “bullet-like” trajectories of the sacred. Or…

We are pleased to nominate the following fiction, poetry, and nonfiction pieces for inclusion in Sundress Publications‘s Best of…