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Lit-O-Ween!
In-person November 4th, 6 PM at the Night Club 101 in the East Village
Fiends, Alums, and Current students! Please come help us celebrate in-person the thinning of the veil.
This offsite reading at the fabulous and storied Night Club 101 in the East Village is FREE and features poetic conjurers John Reed and Laura Cronk, spirited readings by passed contributors Steven Dampf (LIT 43), Lara Waas (LIT 43), Laura Shain Cunningham (LIT 42), Lily Trotta (LIT 41),
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LIT 43, Summer 2026
In this issue, we invite you along to witness our paintings, our polaroids, our memories, our songs about the good times, the dark times. We reach into the past to understand our present to shape our futures. In this issue, we expunge our fears, our troubles, our terrors with the warm, faded grain of film. Let your nostalgia guide you, lead you to catharsis, and let you grow.
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TNS at the 15th Annual New York City Poetry Festival
July 18 + 19, 2026
Nolan Park, Governors Island
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Dear Poets, Friends, Alumni,
The New School will be at the 2026 NYC Poetry Festival on Governors Island this weekend and we’d love to involve you in person or from afar.
We will be offering Poetry Prescriptions at our booth again this year. Would you like to do a cameo at the New School booth prescribing poetry? Serving as a doctor involves a brief consultation with the person interested in receiving a prescription and selecting a prescription from our running list.
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Poetic Inquiry: poetry editor Richard Berwind interviews poetry co-editor Rebecca Endres /// Rebecca Endres interviews poetry co-editor Richard Berwind
Richard Berwind and Rebecca Endres are the current Poetry Editors at LIT and both graduated from The New School’s Creative Writing Masters Program in Poetry at different times in the program’s life: Richard in ’22, and Rebecca in ’18. To celebrate National Poetry Month, both sent questions to each other to discuss their time working at LIT, their inspirations for the poetic genre, as well as other fun yet funky questions about their special interests in writing. The interview goes as follows:
Richard Berwind: Poetry is one of our most ancient mediums of storytelling.
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Writing Prompt for April: Special Poetry Month Edition 2026
by Grace Dignazio
It’s hard to believe it’s already spring. The season promises growth and rebirth, yet arrives in the midst of a particularly devastating historical moment, and that sense of renewal feels almost impossible to access against a backdrop of atrocities and the erosion of democracy unfolding on an international stage. As artists and writers, we are often tasked with registering what resists language. Lately, I’ve found that responsibility especially difficult, and for the past few weeks, writing itself has felt out of reach. And yet, here we are—National Poetry Month—perhaps an opportunity to return to practice as a way of staying with this moment.
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LIT 42, Spring 2026
Dear Reader,
today we bring you LIT 42 and today it is the spring Equinox. It is equal portions light and dark as we hinge between season’s, a magic trick of perfect balance and of liminality, a pause on tippy toes before we leap into spring. With this issue we turn the dirt to release the smell of fresh earth from winter’s stasis to the sun.
Keep digging and you’re bound to run into some buried things…
