LIT 44, Fall 2026
Poetry
Sijo for Space Girls by Bryane Alfonso
Forecasts: Gleaming by Karen Holman
Dear Anthropocene by Karen Rigby
Huge Mermaid by Madeleine Poole
(untitled) by Phyllis Peter
Two Poems by Kale Hensley
Pandemic Plea for Pyramid Head by Seth Wade
Self Portrait as Penis Lamp by Sophia Clark
Fury Psalm 7 by Jackie White
Turing Test by Ally Bovits
Fiction
The Continental by Andrew Eastwick
If I am An Antelope by Elizabeth Wagner
Consequences by Larry Niles
Nonfiction
Time Travel by Margaret Grundstein
Cliffside by Roan Regan
So Many Cats in the Car by Catherine Hensley
Undeliverable Epistolary by Casper Orr
Sunrise at Las Vegas by Rob Rogers
The Luxury of Poverty by Tulasi Acharya
Hybrid
A Zuihitsu about My Two Mothers by Stephen Fellner
sieve. by heather emmanuel
Mirabilis by Reagan Davis
.over autumn. by Lateef Wilson
DE FRAGILITATE EXPERTORUM by Foster Gareau
Evidence for specters by Joshua Unikel and Jason Francisco
Daughter of Two Maps by Andrea Rehani-Estes
As I Lived by Lila-Josey James
Translation
Four Poems from “Negative Body” by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, translated from the French by Jake Syersak, and Zachary Anderson
Two Poems by Wang Fangwen, translated from the Chinese by by Chen Du, and Xisheng Chen
Downtime by Mayan Rogel, translated from the Hebrew by Yaron Regev
Interviews and Reviews
Firebrands: Alum Vicky Oliver’s debut novel of historical fiction by Jonathan Kesh
Artists Featured in this Issue
On the cover
“Kaolin and Iris Ash” by Alyssa Blankenship
Isabelle Carrasso
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Loralee Clark
Solstice
Diaspora
Patience
Dead Bulbs
Mahmoud Elmardi
Urban Overgrowth
Urban Memories
Green Castle
Forest of Dreams
Gretchen Gales
Small Comforts
Andrew Graber
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Nawmi Manaam
Silence
Cerulean Hues
Michael Moreth
Knowable
Susan L. Pollet
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Tamizh Ponni VP
Thought Bubble
Read more about the artists in this issue here
Art from the public domain
The Climax, from the first British edition of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé, illustrated by Beardsley, 1894.
Public Domain Review
A View near Tivoli (Morning), Thomas Cole American, 1832
The MET Museum


