LIT 41, Fall 2025
Poetry
IMAGINING OKJÖKULL FROM CASCO BAY by Julia Morrison
I CANNOT USE THE WORD MOON by Penelope Ioannou
Gloucester Dock by Maureen Mancini Amaturo
Verb To Be by Sisary Poemape-Heredia
Patriarchy Rhymes by Johnna Schmidt
Fiction
The Outdoorsman by Lily Trotta
The Deliverer by Amelia Mitchell
Shadows by Duane Englehardt
Rumors, Threats & Biased Scuttlebutt by Brandon Christopher
Nonfiction
Learning Human as a Second Language by Meredith Jelbart
Cachexia by Sydney Lea
Mementos of a Dive Bar Maven by Bonnie Darves
Never/Ever by Laurel Doud and Gregory W. Martin (posthumously)
Hybrid
Sands (With Lyrical Entr’actes) by Derek Jon Dickinson
Capsular, and Excerpts from a Chat with Godbot by Christopher Phelps
Matches, and Shoveling by Maureen Sherbondy
down on the Ol’ Brain Ranch by John Sullivan
Love in the time of distance; Someone to Carry On With; I am most myself when someone is holding my hand by Shana Ross
Texts to Sarah across the river by Jeffrey Skinner
It’s Probably for the Best that I Don’t Remember by Sara Flemington
sike by Baraka Noel
Translation
3 Poems by Roxana Crisólogo, translated from the Peruvian Spanish by Kim Jensen
8 micro-poems by Tania Langlais, translated from the Québecois French by Jessica Cuello
3 poems by Saadi Youssef, translated from the Iraqi Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
Interviews and Reviews
The Squimbop Condition: An Interview with David Leo Rice by by Isabel Piazza Risi
“ZOUNDS!” a review and interview with Aleksander Zywicki by Rebecca Endres
Artists Featured in this Issue
On the cover 
Splice, by Allison Guan
Other works in this issue by Allison:
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Home
Lawnwork
Stephanie Ann Farra
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Richard Hanus
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Besan Khamis
Untitled
Catherine McGuire
Annunciation
Alchemist Green Flask
Hieratic Snake
Yasser Alaa Mobarak
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Robert Rogers
Daily Ritual 2
June Reflection 2
Sherry Shahan
Self Portrait
About the Artists in this issue
Works From the Public Domain
Internet Archive / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Untitled, by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1718
For The Deliverer
The Public Domain Review / Art Institute Chicago: A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey, by “Stipple Master”, 1705
For Rumors, Threats, and Scuttlebutt
Wikimedia Commons: Njommelsaska i Lappland, by Carl Svantje Hallbeck, 1856
For Matches, and Shoveling
The Public Domain Review: Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685) –
For Capsular, and Excerpts from a Chat with Godbot
The Public Domain Review and The Albert Kahn Collections: Un coucher de soleil sur le Grand Lac, by Léon Busy, 1915
For Texts to Sarah Across the River
The Public Domain Review: Wiosna (Spring), by Michalina Janoszanka, ca. 1920s –
For It’s Probably for the Best that I Don’t Remember
