LIT 43, Summer 2026

Poetry

Nothing Stinks Like Lust in a Young Woman by Hajer Requiq
Rooms at the Edge of the World by Choo En Ting
f train to Roosevelt Island by J. Y. Zhang
Thirst by Jesse Wallis
Autobiography by Maggie Greaves
Embers by Devin Wilson
$100 REWARD LEADING TO RETURN OF LOST BIRD by Marc Weissman
After the Rabbits by Lex Williams Page
Fair Verona by Olivia Pierce Graham
The Sundering by Stephanie McCarley Dugger
-5° by Tashiana Seebeck

Fiction

The Big Sweep by Patrick Browne
Forever Carnival by Lianne Neiger
Ghosted by Sue Allen
Redhead by Matthew Partney

Nonfiction

A Life in Reverie by Joseph Gilbride
The Pool by Joan Schweighardt
Tom Selleck in His Underwear by Mary Cate Stevenson
Volunteering at the Peace Fair by Angela Townsend
Treasures on the Beach by Shanda Connolly

Hybrid

My Father, Still by JV Dias
Anthems in Prose by Forrest Rapier
Nectar by Catherine Buck
Route to Hever Station by B. Anne Kalicki
Arts and Crafts by Steven Dampf
Painkiller, Xaali’s Intervention, and Problem Child by Chekwube Danladi
Blue Angel Jets Oversee a Florida Pool Party by Courtney Hitson
The Fittest by Michael Murphy
Three Models of a Completely Empty Notebook by Marushka Rose Grogan
The Bronx, 1961 by Shana Ritter
Knox, and Breakfast Sundaes by Taylor Sykes
The mÖma Show & The Villa Occupation: A Celebration of the Temporary Museum of Memory Archeology [Osnabrück, May 2018] by bart plantenga with Mark Boswell

Translation

Wakashu or by Tara Meister, Tranlasted from the Austrian German by Lara Waas
The Hunt by Elena Alexieva, Translated from the Bulgarian by Yana Ellis
5 poems by Greta Rosso, Translated from the Italian by Michael Change
Eternal Questions by Hamed Soleiman Tabar, Translated from the Iranian by Ali Asadollahi