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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.
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
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Received today: an inscribed copy of BIG OTHER contributor Heller Levinson's CROSSFALL (Black Widow Press), which includes the five Levinson poems we published in 2024!
October 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
R.I.P., Dan Wickett, small press hero and literary citizen extraordinaire. Founder of the Emerging Writers Network, co-founder of the Dzanc Books, strong supporter of BIG OTHER, Dan supported many artists in innumerable ways. Big thanks to Dan. We will miss him.
September 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Acquired today: Michael Martone's TABLE TALK & SECOND THOUGHTS (Cornerstone Press), which features five sections we previously published!
September 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Recently received: DEAD CODE AND OTHER DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENTS (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2025), which includes Andrew Joron and Andrew C. Wenaus's "An Aerobatic Alogue: Andrew ± Joron ± Wenaus on the Novum," which we originally published in 2023! Thanks, Andrew Joron!
July 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Received today: Robert Lopez's THE BEST PEOPLE, which includes sections previously published in BIG OTHER! It's received advance praise from Lindsay Hunter, Lance Olsen, and Kimberly King Parsons, with more well-deserved praise to come, I'm sure.
May 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM