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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.
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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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On Hybridity: Hybrid Editors Charlotte Slivka and Gabrielle Gonzales in conversation with LIT Social Media Editor Grace Dignazio
“Hybridity is the creativity of necessity.” — Charlotte Slivka
What should the literary hybrid look like? This was the starting point of my inquiry as I spoke with LIT Hybrid Editors Charlotte Slivka and Gabrielle Gonzales to try to get to the bottom of what comprises a successful hybrid text. When I think of the hybrid, I think of work that is slippery and playful, transgressive and unclassifiable; work that skirts the edges of genre to create something wholly new and unexpected. I think of the wildly experimental practices of transdisciplinary artists like Cecilia Vicuña,
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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.
