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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 4h

Happy birthday, Italo Calvino!

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Italo Calvino on Writing, Reading, Memory, Cities, and More

Happy birthday, Italo Calvino! Here are quotes from the writer: “What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, di…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 4h

Happy birthday, Michel Foucault!

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Michel Foucault on Art, Knowledge, Critique, History, and More

Happy birthday, Michel Foucault! Here are some quotes from the philosopher and historian: “But couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art?” “I am no doubt not the only one who writ…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 4h

Happy birthday, Friedrich Nietzsche!

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Friedrich Nietzsche on Art, Language, Reality, and More

Happy birthday, Friedrich Nietzsche! Here are some quotes from the philosopher: “Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?” “The valu…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 21h

Stay tuned for a superb quartet of poems by Alejandro Albarrán Polanco translated by Rachel Galvin in BIG OTHER!

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday, Lance Olsen, literary artist par excellence, small press hero, great friend, and BIG OTHER contributor, who keeps showing us how it's done, that is, how to imaginatively, innovatively, and continually subvert the status quo!

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Happy 69th Birthday, Lance Olsen!: 69 Reasons to Celebrate Lance Olsen

I’ve had the deep pleasure of knowing literary genius Lance Olsen for at least sixteen years now; and within that time, I’ve reviewed his work, interviewed him twice (first in 20…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 1d

Stay tuned for a marvelous short story by the great Noy Holland in BIG OTHER!

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to publish a new short story by Terese Svoboda in BIG OTHER today!

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Now So Closed and Dark, by Terese Svoboda

We wharfies spend ourselves on sandwiches slick with mayo and chips as tough as baleen, a scrap of which hangs over the bow? stern? of the craft. Craft is what you call a whale boat like thi…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Sweet Sixteen, BIG OTHER!

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Happy 16th Birthday, Big Other!

Sixteen years ago, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing its lens on books, music, comics, film, video and animation, paintings, sculp…

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 5d

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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 · 5d

Buy CROSSFALL:
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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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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

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Home | PaulStubbs

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 11d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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

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Martine Bellen -

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 14d

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

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Joanna Ruocco - Wikipedia

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