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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 4d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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

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Joanna Ruocco - Wikipedia

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 15d

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 · 16d

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 · 20d

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 · 21d

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 · 22d

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 · 23d

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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 · 23d

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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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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 23d

Kudos, Arthur Sze, who was named the twenty-fifth U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress today! Such an honor for us to have published some of his wonderful poems in BIG OTHER!

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Arthur Sze named as new US poet laureate

Library of Congress, which has been under fire from Trump administration, appoints author and translator, 74

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 27d

Avid readers of Hungarian literature translated into English, like me, are indebted to exemplary translator George Szirtes, so you can imagine my delight to soon publish a folio of contemporary Hungarian poetry translated into English by Szirtes in BIG OTHER!

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 27d

Delighted to publish "Young Tide," a marvelous short story by Can Xue translated by Karen Gernant, in BIG OTHER today!

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Young Tide, by Can Xue

Translated by Karen Gernant Not until dawn did the noise subside and all turned quiet. Tide fell asleep. He dreamed of a tortoise whose claws were scratching his cheek softly, soothing his s…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 28d

Delighted to publish Jeff Bursey's astute review of Gabriel Josipovici’s Partita / A Winter in Zürau in Big Other today!

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Ceaseless Imaginative Striving: A Review of Gabriel Josipovici’s Partita / A Winter in Zürau

By Jeff Bursey “In those months Kafka came to understand that you cannot articulate or grasp final truths, only dramatize the burning need to do so and the impossibility of so doing…” —A Win…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 28d

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Dawn Raffel! Celebrate by reading these Raffel fictions I published in the journal in 2020!

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From the Archives: Three Cities, by Dawn Raffel

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Dawn Raffel! Celebrate by reading these Raffel fictions we published in 2020! They were subsequently selected for inclusion in The Best Small Fictions 2021! An…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 29d

Buy TABLE TALK & SECOND THOUGHTS: bookshop.org/a/578/978196...

Table Talk & Second Thoughts: A Memoir in Flashes

A Memoir in Flashes

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 29d

Read the sections published in Big Other: bigother.com/2022/03/18/f...

Five Nonfictions, by Michael Martone

Upside-Down (Chestertown, 1988) Robert Day was showing me around the Literary House on the campus of Washington College. The Lit House housed a large letterpress room and bindery as well as …

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 29d

Acquired today: Michael Martone's TABLE TALK & SECOND THOUGHTS (Cornerstone Press), which features five sections I previously published in BIG OTHER!

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