LIT39, Spring 2025
Featured Post
Magus: A Tribute in Poetry and Film to Donald Miller by Vanessa Skantze and Hali Autumn
Poetry
Purity by Patricia Davis
safe search and doll house fire by Robin Gow
Bildungsroman by Seth Hagen
Hallucinyx by Dana Curtis
The Greatest Dog & Pony Show on Earth by Timothy Liu
It’s a tender gap, a handclap by Ashleigh A. Allen
Annihilation by Olivia Calderón
Imagining Commonalities by Debasish Mishra
Waiting for Leonora Carrington at Cafe Alma Negra by Laurel Benjamin
Speaker, Age 12 by Micah Cozzens
Alzheimer’s Duet by Geoffrey Babbitt
Fiction
The Garden by Jessica Payne
Two Flash Fictions by Stephen Tuttle
Taken by Aaron Sandberg
Woman, 46 by Wendy BooydeGraaff
Jakob as Worm by David Leo Rice
Nonfiction
The Hedonists’ Checklists by Daniel Speechly
Five Micro Pieces by Terrance Wedin
Wish Hair Cream by Sumitra Mattai
Jim by Peter Allen
Leather Jacket by Sarah Seybold
Hybrid
Where You Are Now by Eric Roy
Buying Cigarettes For My Dead Mother by Cynthia Robinson Young
WARNING: The International Apophenia Society by bart plantenga
Flesh and Bone: Five Prose Poems by Lara Chamoun
Dissolution by Maria Kassandrou
Life Without the Brady Bunch by Francis Fernandes
Resolution by Callie S. Blackstone
Translation
Three Poems by Hendri Yulius Wijaya, translated from the Bahasa Indonesian by Edward Gunawan
Five Haikus by Antonio Guzman Gomez, translated from the Maya Tseltal by Kiran Bhat
Habors of Pain by Elhassan Ait Elamal, translated from the Moroccan Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim
Five Poems by Grzegorz Wróblewski, translated from the Polish by Peter Burzyński
Interviews and Reviews
Definitely Better Now: An interview with Ava Robinson (MFA ’22) by Jonny Kesh
Artists Featured in this Issue
On the cover
Golden Orb Weaver, 2024
by Tiffany Dugan
Other works in this issue by Tiffany:
Listen, 2023
Flare, 2024
Hearts, 2024
Listen to Silence, 2024
Leather Jacket, 2024
Snake Vine and Flowers, 2024
Yuko Kyutoku:
Blue Botanical Garden
Edward Lee:
All As We Wish
All As Can Be
Nuala McEvoy:
City Hues In Blue
Still City Full Moon
Storm Brewing Over the City
Michael Moreth:
Favourable
Ecumenical
JoAnneh Nagler:
The Libertine
Red Sea
Falling From Heaven
The Light Never Sleeps
Stir the Waters
Speaker, Age 12
Learn more about the artists here
Works From the Public Domain
From the MET Museum: Rooftops, Brooklyn, Fidelia Bridges (American, Salem, Massachusetts 1834-1923 Canaan, Connecticut), Date: ca. 1867
For Imagining Commonalities
From the MET Museum: Hills around the Bay of Moulin Huet, Guernsey, Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer), Date: 1883
For Alzheimer’s Duet
