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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 2h

Stay tuned for a new short story by Terese Svoboda in BIG OTHER! In the meantime, read the superb quintet of Svoboda poems I published in the journal in 2019!

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Five Poems, by Terese Svoboda

Ark-Shaped Plus Neck She walks the shore, kempt and clipped, just-so wings, a lion’s glance across the blue savannah, no sand gritting her double lids, her etcetera’s a dance of known…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to publish "Four Hours," a new short story by Yannick Murphy, in BIG OTHER today!

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Four Hours, by Yannick Murphy

Salt from his margarita sat on his lips. A grain had wound up on his face, sitting in one of the many round acne scars that pocked his skin. Tara looked around the restaurant and noticed dus…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 1d

My manifesto, in seven words:
Study. Practice. Experiment. Share. Acknowledge. Celebrate. Repeat.

(Image: Alex Grey's Seraphic Transport Docking on the Third Eye)

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 1d

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Heller Levinson: toward a reduced philanthropy

Cyclonic, upheavaling, remote yet close-at-hand, from Coltrane swirls, Monk-like clumps, Rothko stackings, Dolphy darts, ZAPs (zinging activation procedures), & MUPAEs (mutational update panel ani...

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 1d

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Crossfall

Check out Crossfall - <b>Crossfall Considered Two</b><br>I began writing Crossfall poems before I knew what the word meant. Then: <br>Crossfall = "The transverse sloping of a roadway toward the gutter...

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 1d

Read the Levinson poems in BIG OTHER:
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Five Poems, by Heller Levinson

“Yet where danger lies, Grows that which saves.” —from Friedrich Hölderlin’s “Patmos” wrench lateral carapace bleed rowel from which turbulent fathom this tremor, this blush foment, t…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 1d

Received today: inscribed copies of Heller Levinson's CROSSFALL (Black Widow Press), which includes five Levinson poems I published in Big Other in 2024; and TOWARD A REDUCED PHILANTHROPY (Bodily Press)!

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 2d

Here I am in 2016 with this year's Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, László Krasznahorkai! Celebrating today, I made a pile of some of his books, which includes inscribed copies of THE MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE, SATANTANGO, and SEIBO THERE BELOW, all superb works of literary art, to say the least.

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted to publish a marvelous quartet of poems by Paul Stubbs in BIG OTHER today!

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Four Poems for High Windows, by Paul Stubbs

The Religious Mood “Where does religious feeling come from? From the fact there is a world.” —Simone Weil —Beginning on the day when, upon a furious terrain, God trialed the first of his swi…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 4d

Stay tuned for a superb quartet of poems by Paul Stubbs in BIG OTHER!

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Paul Stubbs, poet Paul Stubbs is the author of five poetry collections and of two books of poetical and philosophical essays.

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 5d

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Roberta Allen! Celebrate by reading "A Way to Go," which I published in the journal in 2019!

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From the Archives: A Way to Go, by Roberta Allen

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Roberta Allen! Celebrate by reading “A Way to Go,” which we published in 2019! I see my sister, Eugenie. She’s just a child. I’m a child too…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 5d

Stay tuned for new fiction by Yannick Murphy in BIG OTHER!

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Yannick Murphy – Author

Publication Date: November 4, 2025 by Skyhorse Publishing

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted to publish a marvelous short fiction by Martine Bellen in BIG OTHER today!

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The Doctrine of Notions, by Martine Bellen

Left alone, an empty jug will replenish, so it has been written; mirrors will cast flashes from one’s past; an apple will bleed; an acorn will swell into a giant. How dependable is the behav…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 9d

Delighted to publish eight superb microfictions by Joanna Ruocco in BIG OTHER today!

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Eight Microfictions, by Joanna Ruocco

iDeath My father was driven to Drink and Despair in a donkey cart. Other men had died there, and the driver pointed them out, jumbles of bones for the most part, but one man had eaten a beehive, an…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 9d

Stay tuned for new fiction by Martine Bellen in BIG OTHER!

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 10d

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Heller Levinson! Celebrate by reading these five Levinson poems, which I published in the journal in 2024!

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From the Archives: Five Poems, by Heller Levinson

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Heller Levinson! Celebrate by reading these five Levinson poems, which we published in 2024! “Yet where danger lies, Grows that which saves.” —from Frie…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 10d

Stay tuned for new fiction by Joanna Ruocco in BIG OTHER!

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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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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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 18d

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.

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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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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 19d

Delighted to publish two marvelous poems by Antonio Gamoneda, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, in BIG OTHER today!

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Two Poems from Erroneous Song, by Antonio Gamoneda

Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez I have seen hearts settled by ants, and carnal masks, and a snake stroked by an indecisive executioner, and imprisoned larks in r…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 23d

Delighted to publish a folio of poems by Hungarian poets Virág Erdős, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ottó Orbán, and Anna Terék translated by George Szirtes in BIG OTHER today!

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Hungarian Poetry Folio

Translations by George Szirtes A Dream of Colored Inks By Dezső Kosztolányi Yellow is my favorite. How many letters Might I write to a sweetheart with such ink, To the girl that I love of ro…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 24d

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams!

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William Carlos Williams on Language, Writing, Reading, Poetry, and More

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams! Here are some quotes from the Puerto Rican writer: “beauty is a defiance of authority” “And if when I pompously annou…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 25d

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. I will miss him.

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 26d

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Scintillant, by Arthur Sze

Scintillant Trudging uphill, I turn onto a deer path then follow the switchbacks you marked with orange streamers until I arrive at a cairn and overlook where I view the gold run of cottonwo…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 26d

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Blackcap, by Arthur Sze

V E R G E: she sets type by hand and loves how the spaces between letters and between words are of the same type-metal the letters themselves are cast from: o p e n w a t e r : standin…

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