Poetry
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Fair Verona
art by Virgil Suárez
by Olivia Pierce Graham
this place looks like a house
built to eradicate your memories
into cobwebs wrecked with the breath
that I once felt
when I shivered as if covered
under the tatters of a blanket
where we were uncertain and
potent and new and
I was horrified
human underneath you
in an unfamiliar house
you’d live in with someone else
until they disintegrated
from your gentle mouth
tearing at me
with a thousand spiders fighting
beside your bedroom wall
where I stained your pillow bloody and
you refused to close your eyes
thinking about my body
weighted down
and waking up alone* The format of this poem changes on a mobile phone.
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Autobiography
art by Beth Kephart
by Maggie Greaves
“One of the things that was funny about being in America was that so little of my past came up.”
––Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s AutobiographyI fell out of my mother with the cord around my neck.
My childhood disasters were vague and intimate.
I snuggled them in the dark.By my thirties,
I’m able to slice vegetables precisely while the children tug at my feet and scream.This is something I’ve only seen mothers do in other countries.
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TNS at the 15th Annual New York City Poetry Festival
July 18 + 19, 2026
Nolan Park, Governors Island
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Dear Poets, Friends, Alumni,
The New School will be at the 2026 NYC Poetry Festival on Governors Island this weekend and we’d love to involve you in person or from afar.
We will be offering Poetry Prescriptions at our booth again this year. Would you like to do a cameo at the New School booth prescribing poetry? Serving as a doctor involves a brief consultation with the person interested in receiving a prescription and selecting a prescription from our running list.
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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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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).
