Poetry – Page 5 – BIG OTHER

Censored Haiku and Translations of Matsuo Bashō, by Rick Moody

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Translated by Rachel Galvin You say that insisting on this is a mistake. You always say it. We understand…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Cole Swensen! Celebrate by reading these Swensen poems we published in 2025! And then read…

The Religious Mood “Where does religious feeling come from? From the fact there is a world.” —Simone Weil —Beginning…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Heller Levinson! Celebrate by reading these five Levinson poems, which we published in 2024! …

Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez I have seen hearts settled by ants, and carnal masks,…

Translations by George Szirtes A Dream of Colored Inks By Dezső Kosztolányi Yellow is my favorite. How many letters…

Behind the Discount City Pelucid, limpid, scarified in tinsel flitch, a drove of damsel flies roves the standing ditch glancing…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Marc Vincenz! Celebrate by reading this sextet of Vincenz poems we published in 2024! …

Writing Is Remembering But not remembering the past. It is remembering the future. How do you know a word…