Big Other
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BIG OTHER (www.bigother.com) is an online arts and culture magazine, featuring reviews, essays, fiction, poetry, hybrid works, art, a podcast, and more. Founded in 2009. Published by @johnmadera.bsky.social.
Published today: Yi Zhou's "When No One Was Sure About the World" (which was translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant)!
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When No One Was Sure About the World, by Yi Zhou
Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant I actually got together with Ginger when the pandemic situation was still grim. Even though I’d been numbed by the protracted pan…
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December 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Published today: Yi Zhou's "When No One Was Sure About the World" (which was translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant)!
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Published today: new fiction by Cao Kou, translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant!
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Father, by Cao Kou
Translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant One morning last spring, my father fed the chickens twice as much as usual, and mixed all the leftover rice with gravy and poured tha…
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December 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Published today: new fiction by Cao Kou, translated from the Chinese by Chen Zeping and Karen Gernant!
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The deadline for your chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award is approaching! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature in 2025 and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025.
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Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2025 Big Other Book Awards!
We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2025 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovat…
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December 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The deadline for your chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award is approaching! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature in 2025 and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025.
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Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Elizabeth Robinson! Celebrate by reading "Rift," which we published in 2024!
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From the Archives: Rift, by Elizabeth Robinson
Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Elizabeth Robinson! Celebrate by reading “Rift,” which we published in 2024! And then read Robinson’s “Soft Eclipse,” which we published in 2…
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December 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Elizabeth Robinson! Celebrate by reading "Rift," which we published in 2024!
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It's #GivingTuesday! Please donate to BIG OTHER! Your gift will, among many other things, help us continue to publish new experimental and innovative work from both established and emerging writers and artists!
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Today Is Giving Tuesday! Will You Support Big Other?
Dear Reader, Art, artists, and arts organizations are under attack. Under the guise of cutting government spending, some of the attackers are cancelling grants, shutting down programs, eliminating …
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December 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
It's #GivingTuesday! Please donate to BIG OTHER! Your gift will, among many other things, help us continue to publish new experimental and innovative work from both established and emerging writers and artists!
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Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Tony Leuzzi! Celebrate by reading this superb suite of Leuzzi poems we published in 2025!
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From the Archives: Dissolve to Cloud: Treatments for Five Frames from Tierney Gearon’s Explosure, by Tony Leuzzi
Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Tony Leuzzi! Celebrate by reading this superb suite of Leuzzi poems we published in 2025! 1: Frame 22, 2007 Our clouded heads dissolve to cloud. …
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November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Tony Leuzzi! Celebrate by reading this superb suite of Leuzzi poems we published in 2025!
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Recently acquired: Current U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze's INTO THE HUSH (Copper Canyon Press), Sze's most recent poetry collection, which includes "Scintillant," which I published in BIG OTHER in 2021!
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November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Recently acquired: Current U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze's INTO THE HUSH (Copper Canyon Press), Sze's most recent poetry collection, which includes "Scintillant," which I published in BIG OTHER in 2021!
Cc: @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social and @bigothermag.bsky.social
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Published today: a superb suite of poems by Traci Brimhall!
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Six Poems, by Traci Brimhall
Color Theory Before Newton used a prism to break light into color, Aristotle said everything was white and black. What could be simpler? The air— white. Water—white. Black was the color of t…
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November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Published today: a superb suite of poems by Traci Brimhall!
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Stay tuned for superb new fiction by Lance Olsen in BIG OTHER! In the meantime, go read and/or reread the marvelous writing of Olsen's that we've published over the years!
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Lance Olsen
<a href="http://www.lanceolsen.com/"><b>Lance Olsen</b></a> is the author of many novels, including <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/578/9781950539956"><i>Absolute Away</i></a>, <a href="https://booksh...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Stay tuned for superb new fiction by Lance Olsen in BIG OTHER! In the meantime, go read and/or reread the marvelous writing of Olsen's that we've published over the years!
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Stay tuned for a superb sextet of poems by Traci Brimhall in BIG OTHER!
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Traci Brimhall
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November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Stay tuned for a superb sextet of poems by Traci Brimhall in BIG OTHER!
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Delighted to learn that several poems by Peggy Robles-Alvarado that we published in our Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology in 2022 are included in Robles-Alvarado's BURN ME BACK, which was published this year by Four Way Books!
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Burn Me Back
Check out Burn Me Back - "My Spanglish," Peggy Robles-Alvarado declares, "drops the -s and makes it ma' o meno'," replaces accent marks with side-eye, "has a Tía sin papeles," and recognizes that "the...
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November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Delighted to learn that several poems by Peggy Robles-Alvarado that we published in our Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology in 2022 are included in Robles-Alvarado's BURN ME BACK, which was published this year by Four Way Books!
bookshop.org/a/578/978196...
Cc: @fourwaybooks.bsky.social
bookshop.org/a/578/978196...
Cc: @fourwaybooks.bsky.social
Delighted to learn that current U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze's "Scintillant," which we published in 2021, is included in INTO THE HUSH (Copper Canyon Press), Sze's most recent poetry collection!
bookshop.org/a/578/978155...
Cc: @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
bookshop.org/a/578/978155...
Cc: @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
Into the Hush
Check out Into the Hush - <p><strong>*From the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate*</strong></p><p><strong>*Winner of the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement*</strong></p><p><strong>...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Delighted to learn that current U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze's "Scintillant," which we published in 2021, is included in INTO THE HUSH (Copper Canyon Press), Sze's most recent poetry collection!
bookshop.org/a/578/978155...
Cc: @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
bookshop.org/a/578/978155...
Cc: @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social
Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025.
bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...
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Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2025 Big Other Book Awards!
We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2025 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovat…
bigother.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025.
bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...
bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...
Published today: Joe Sacksteder's astute review of Robert Lopez's THE BEST PEOPLE!
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Uncanny Humor: A Review of Robert Lopez’s The Best People
By Joe Sacksteder In the 2001 black-and-white space cowboy musical, The American Astronaut, writer/director Cory McAbee sought to write a joke that wasn’t funny now but would be in the futur…
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November 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Published today: Joe Sacksteder's astute review of Robert Lopez's THE BEST PEOPLE!
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