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Writing Prompt for February 2026
For this month’s writing prompt, we challenge you to confront the cold, reconcile with it, open your metaphorical windows and allow the snow drifts to build in your stories. How does the cold sink itself into your bones? How does the ice reflect an interior truth? What feelings does the word “February” evoke in you?
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Writing Prompt for January 2026
With the return of the monthly writing prompt series, we hope to engage readers with topical or craft related thoughts and ideas. Each month one of our editors will share a little of themselves and their writing and invite readers to write with a generative prompt. Thank you for reading and we hope your writing flows and flows.
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LIT 41, Fall 2025
Dear Reader,
The skies are grey here in New York City and in the movement of the winds is the chill of the season that has us digging; unearthing; hoodies, capes, and vibey – vintage legacy sweaters just a few moth holes away from the inevitable. The skies darken earlier than our thoughts so they turn inward, can’t help it, thinking of those things in the dark, the dark things. Yes, it is time to greet the ancestors and make the offerings; dare to touch the veil with a small hope that messages of love like smoke will drift through and over. These are our offerings to you dear reader. Peek under leaves to see what crawls.
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Global Voices Interviews
In the latest installment of LIT’s Global Voices interview series, Québecoise poet, translator, and scholar Chloé Savoie-Bernard speaks on fragmentation, feminist and queer legacies, the politics of opacity, and the power of poetry to make kingdoms from ruins.
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NYC Poetry Festival 2025
Come join LIT and The New School July 12th and 13th for the New York Poetry Society’s annual Poetry Festival weekend on Governor’s Island. Stop by The New School table number 5 for some pop up readings, Poetry RX, and mystery fun activities, and check out New School poets reading on a variety of stages on both days.
Schedule of TNS poets and events:
SATURDAY, JULY 12TH
12:30 PM: Poets House
THE BRINKLEY STAGE
Featuring New School poets Kate Millar, María Elisa Schmidt along with Elaine K. -
LIT 40, Summer 2025
Daring to plumb the source of elemental forces simmering below the surface of information / confusion, and illusion seems these days to be the work of Artists. Looking into what cannot be seen for the truth of existence and translating this into manifestation is the great work. Every day that we live and breathe we, all of us, are translators daring to art as intentional as an act of carrying water.
