Poetry – BIG OTHER

Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2022 Big Other Book Awards!

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2022 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim…

The Wind Has Stopped, the Desert Listens And yet, I have no sadder story to offer than the wind’s. The…

Happy birthday, Edwin Torres! Celebrate by reading the three Torres poems we published this year in Puerto Rican Writers Folio:…

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

I’m Almost Done with the Enveloping Vamoose to order a coffee — as the world waits for your name to…

You check the forecast Look for a southern fried mood Cool hawks want to dap Heaven sends a…

Note: These poems are part of Big Other’s Puerto Rican Writer’s Folio: A Hauntology

Made in América I thought they would be of madera, the kinds with splinters. That this item from its…

Past I swallow the past, steadying myself against the back of a young birch tree. The past is pulped,…

When That Final Trumpet When that final trumpet sounds (and when was the first one?), when it’s time to…