Poetry – Page 2 – BIG OTHER

Four Poems, by Michael Lee Rattigan

Underland “If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.” —Walt Whitman Where stalactite meets bone (in…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor William Lessard! Celebrate by reading these two Lessard poems we published in 2019! …

Happy birthday, Roberto F. Santiago! Celebrate by reading the suite of Santiago poems we published in 2022 as part of…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Shira Dentz! Celebrate by reading these Dentz poems we published in 2019! Spring,…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Jennifer Firestone! Celebrate by reading this Firestone poetic sequence we published in 2020! …

Hour of the Puppets “We’re surrounded by different realities, one on top of the other…Even the smallest pebble has…

Immortal Memory Sick in childhood, I wouldn’t mind a can of Campbell’s Scotch Broth, a kinder soup than others,…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Gillian Cummings! Celebrate by reading Cummings’s “Seven Poems,” which we published in 2022! And follow…

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

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Elizabeth Robinson! Celebrate by reading “Rift,” which we published in 2024! And then read Robinson’s…