Big Table Press: This Year 2025
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June 1st: Lily Tobias
June 13, 2025
The Story of a Day 8:30 a.m., Prelude June 1, 2025. Today is twelve years ago. This is an illogical yet true statement. 10:00 a.m., Bad Advice Sophie’s open...
May 29th: Hanne Williams-Baron
June 6, 2025
7:30am. I wake to the muted sounds of a robotic piano crescendoing from behind the kitchen door. I have been experimenting with “no phone in bed” this year,...
May 22nd: Blue Fay
May 30, 2025
I am in bed watching the Tales of Yanxi Palace with the blinds drawn. The empress is in a coma, the main character has been sent to the imperial slave house,...
May 12th: Yelizaveta P. Renfro
May 23, 2025
What is today? Could it be the first day of my sabbatical? I turned in my final grades yesterday, and ahead of me still lie two hooding ceremonies, a...
May 3rd: Adrian J Matias Bell
May 16, 2025
i’m thinking about clothes. now that the wedding is over, all the energy my partner and i spent on planning it has been freed up, and lately i’ve felt...
May 1st: Arya Samuelson
May 9, 2025
I’ve been awake for ten minutes and already I’ve descended into Phone Land and flipped through a dozen houses on Zillow – breaking two of my most recent...
April 22nd: Vicki Mayk
May 2, 2025
April 22, 2025 It is the 112th day of the year. The 16th Tuesday of 2025 The 34th day of spring There are 59 days left until summer. (But who is counting?)...
April 13th: Lisa Zerkle
April 25, 2025
Good morning, Holiday Inn Express, Charlottesville, VA! This is the third weekend in a row I’ve travelled—to LA, New York City, and now here. I live in...
April 4th: Natalie Balderas-Fowler
April 18, 2025
I. Introduction April 4, 2025. You may be expecting a poet. Or a creative writer. Or an artist. You are definitely not expecting a lawyer. A government...
April 2nd: Jeanne Bonner
April 11, 2025
5:06 a.m. Last night, as we did the Wordle, Leo plugged in “merda” – a bad word in Italian – and then plugged in “merde,” (the same bad word in French),...
March 15th: Jessica Angima
March 28, 2025
Image Description: The Boundless Mind Template at the start of the BIPOC Day of Mindfulness. A spacious room with pale green floors, white walls, and an...
March 14th: Anne Pinkerton
March 21, 2025
It starts like most days, with the cat crying at my closed bedroom door, ahead of the alarm — this time, a full hour ahead. It’s the week of Daylight...
March 4th: Micah Gresl-Turner
March 14, 2025
The wet earth under the grass exudes beauty. The food, sitting out, softening on my plate exudes beauty because I have a whole hour (and a half!) to eat it....
March 1st: Allie Rigby
March 7, 2025
This is not a shipwreck, but a time capsule1. Here is what I did, ate, pondered, etc. A good container. A ship. Not this paragraph, but the idea to create a...
February 7th: Kurtis Ebeling
February 21, 2025
Morning I wake to the soft whir of a standing fan and lines of daylight against the wall above me. Tricia is lying next to me, still asleep and breathing...
February 2nd: Heather Lanier
February 14, 2025
Groundhog Day. The day Bill Murray iconically lived over and over until he found the meaning of life. Perhaps the same will happen to me. Unlike Bill,...
January 27th: Joseph X Casillas
February 7, 2025
IN THE BRUSH OF TODAY The Canyon of the Walnut Trees My day started last night. I was on the porch when it went from 26 to 27. The barks of dogs flew down...
January 19th: Wendy Ward
January 31, 2025
The day began with a gentle and luxurious nudge awake to the sound of birds and evermore glowing light. Not real birds or real daylight because this was pre-...
January 15th: Mir Jivotovski
January 24, 2025
(read on the website) The clock strikes midnight and my sister Sophie and I are watching The Truman Show in my parent’s basement. This film is for sure about...
January 7th: Julie L. Whitehead
January 17, 2025
Read on the Website My mom passed away twelve days ago. It hasn’t hit me yet. So I’m moving forward like any other day. What else am I going to do? I roll...
January 2nd: Andie Klarin
January 10, 2025
THE FOLLOWING IS HELD TOGETHER BY NOTHING BUT TIME Click Here To Read On Website I wrote down: first thing in the morning and I am already thinking ‘how...