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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.
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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 Magazine at The New York City Poetry Festival
We are overjoyed to join with The New York City Poetry Society this weekend for the 13th annual Poetry Festival on Governors Island!
LIT Magazine will be featured on the Beckett Stage stage starting at 1pm Sunday, July 14th with TNS Writing Program compatriots 12th Street Journal, and The Inquisitive Eater.
We will also have our own table with the vendors for the whole weekend so please come find us to say hi on Saturday and Sunday and pick up some back issues of LIT, and some fun prompts and activities for folks to create and share their own poetry with us.
