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About the Artists featured in Issue 43
Nora Ampova
Artist bio: Nora Ampova is a visual artist based in Sofia, Bulgaria. She holds Master’s degree in Painting (2014) from the National Academy of Arts Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2011, she specialized in Fine Arts at the University of Hertfordshire,UK, as part of the Erasmus exchange program. Her artistic practice is deeply rooted in personal experience, her work explores themes of isolation, solitude, self-sufficiency, travel, and the complex relationship between humans and nature. Nora’s process is intuitive and introspective, often seeking to capture the emotional and existential dimensions of contemporary life.
Reena Choudhary
Reena is an artist from India she believes that art has no limits and is a powerful way to express emotions, -
Letters from the editors, LIT 42
Dear Reader,
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.
Keep digging and you’re bound to run into some buried things: some bones; a broken headlight; a love letter. Shadows crease and collapse, keep digging: a medical journal from the 1950s,
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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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An interview with Robert Polito and an excerpt from “After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace”
by Charlotte Slivka
Robert Polito’s After the Flood: inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace is encyclopedic in scope with a poet’s narration. It breaks down Bob Dylan’s career during the years 1991 – 2024 and conjures the shape of his resurgence from the underworld after receiving the Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement Award; an award intended to honor him and bury him under a monument to his past simultaneously. What should have happened next in the wake of acceptance was the convenient hush of a great musician who had had a good run, then relegated to the pasture of cultural history,
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Dialogue Between Authors and Translators: an interview with Peruvian poet Roxana Crisólogo and translator Kim Jensen
by LIT Translation Editor John P. Apruzzese
Noise, in poetry, is rarely only noise. It is the residue of migration, the pressure of history, the friction between languages that refuse to settle into a single meaning. In this LIT Global Voices conversation, Peruvian–Finnish poet Roxana Crisólogo and United States poet and translator Kim Jensen meet in that charged space where poetry, politics, and translation converge, not as separate practices, but as forms of attention. We were honored to publish Jensen’s translations of Crisólogo’s poems from her collection Kauneus (Beauty) in LIT 41 (Fall 2025).
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Two Flash Fictions
art by Jenn Powers
by Zach Murphy
The Limbo
The cicadas are extremely loud this summer, and so are my mother’s outfits. The leopard print high heels, the oversized sunglasses, and the hat sprouting pink flowers are some of the more understated pieces in her wardrobe.
“You don’t hear about the sun when it’s behind clouds,” she once told me as she put on her beet-red lipstick in the mirror.
My mother always looks so beautiful, even when she’s sad. Every time she comes back from the Friday night Limbo parties at Brunson’s down the block,
