LIT 40, Summer 2025
Poetry
Industry and 25th by James Croal Jackson
Oaxaca in my Jesus Year by Kirsten Shu-ying Chen
Lost by Derick Chan
Three Poems from “Static” by Emily Barton Altman
Final Boy Remembers the Boogeyman by Stephen S. Mills
Haunting of the Early Coal Miners by Susan Wheatley
May by Leah Skay
from: The Greenland by Ann Pedone
Fishing Tale by Lance Le Grys
Fiction
Exilers by Alice Russell
Johnny Appleseed by Katie Harms
Hello, Goodbye, Hello by Adam Peterson
Snowblind by Mar Koren
Blue Tulips by Abigail Beliles
Nonfiction
Early Bird by Cameron MacKenzie
Tapestry by Seth Kaplan
Apples in the Garden by Jo Galvv
36 Hours in the Strategic Crescent by Adam Day
Twins by Minyong Cho
Hybrid
Self-Portraits as Bestiary by Amanda Gaines
Her Lover As Luck Would Have It by Dana Salisbury
Barbasol Hologram by Anastasia Nikolis
In Transit by Don Schofield
Dear Perfect Stranger, and Nature Poem by Gabriela Halas
You’ve Reached Your Destination, The Circus is in Town, The Upper Parts by Kim Chinquee
I Was Seen by Laurie Blauner
A Stroll Through Paris by Lorena Sellin
Translation
A Stranger in the Woods written and translated from the Italian by Livio Milanesio
Life on Three Wheels මාවතේ ත්රීවිල් ජීවිතේ by E.M. Palitha Edirisooriya, translated from Sinhala by
samodH Porawagamage and Kasun Pathirage
Bought Woman by Veena Verma, translated by C. Christine Fair
Interviews and Reviews
Fools For Love: An interview with Helen Schulman by Jonathan Kesh
Cyborg Fever: An Interview with Laurie Sheck by Mal Ward (MFA ’27)
Ghost Fish: An interview with Stuart Pennebaker (MFA ‘23) by Jonathan Kesh
Artists Featured in this Issue
On the cover Sapphire Organic 01, by Jacelyn Yap
Other works in this issue by Jacelyn:
Hanged Man
Sapphire Observation 04
Synthetic Human 3
Parasitic
Vision of Blue 02
Wheel of Fortune
Synthetic Human 01
Bones to Sand
Tiffany Babb
Naguchi Plaza
LEGEND BARD
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Denver Boxleitner
Glazed
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Mediterranean
Ioulia Lymperopoulou
Spacewalk
Thomas Vogt
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Ami Watanabe
Grasshopper Gaze
Kevin Wei
Without an Instrument
About the Artists in this issue
Works From the Public Domain
From the MET Museum: Still Life with Peaches, Auguste Renoir, 1881
For May
