• Art and Photography,  LIVE with LIT,  Prose

    Black Is Over (Or, Special Black) by Tressie McMillan Cottom with Artwork by Merav Kamel

    June 3, 2020 /

    Above: from the Sketchbook of Merav Kamel

    I’m looking for a mixed girl Asian, Jamaican
    I’m looking for a mixed girl Puerto Rican, Haitian
    I’m looking for a mixed girl
    Cuban and White
    I’m trying to get mixed up tonight like
    Excuse me miss, what’s your name, where ya
        from, can I come

    —T-Pain, “Mix’d Girl”

     

    “Black people are over.” That is how it was said to me once.

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  • LIVE with LIT

    Protest for Change

    June 2, 2020 /

    Above: “Chessmen” by Max Nicholas Niemeier

    Dear LIT Readers,

    As all of you are aware, protests have been taking place here in New York City and across the globe. The pain our nation is experiencing now is one we have experienced many times before. It has become clear, once again, that the time to act is now.

    We are all part of a community that actively celebrates diversity and the pursuit of justice, which is why LIT Magazine has decided to postpone our pitching salon in solidarity with the protesters and activists who are marching on Washington and in cities nationwide.

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  • Book Reviews,  LIVE with LIT

    “Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach” Reviewed by LaVonne Roberts

    April 30, 2020 /

    Forged In Steel, A Nation Divided

    In Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit, Eliese Colette Goldbach reflects on her childhood as the second daughter in a Polish Catholic family and her three years as a steelworker. As a little girl in Cleveland, she could often see the rust-colored buildings of the city’s steel plant in the distance when she rode through town with her father. Eliese never imagined her identity would become Utility Worker number 6691, or that Trump would become President.

    “I wasn’t supposed to be a steelworker. I wasn’t supposed to spend my nights looking up at the bright lights on the blast furnace,

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  • Events,  LIVE with LIT

    Eitan Hersh LIVE

    April 14, 2020 /

    JOIN US TODAY, APRIL 14 AT 7:30 p.m.

    For the second installment of LIT Magazine’s newest series, LIVE with LIT, where book reviews come to life!

    How do people get involved in politics? Does ranting on Facebook count? How can the individual make sure their voice is heard? Find out tonight when LaVonne Roberts interviews Eitan Hersh author of, Politics is for Power, a brilliant condemnation of political hobbyism–treating politics like entertainment–and a call to arms for well-meaning, well-informed citizens who consume political news,

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  • Corona Chronicle,  Poetry

    Two Limericks by Raquel Melody Guarino

    April 12, 2020 /

    Pot o’ Gold

    America’s in a recession
    With closures in every profession
    The nurses all cry
    As more people die
    With 12-hundred bucks in possession

    Oh Jesus

    The virus is getting quite bad
    But the president thinks it’s a fad
    As the numbers still lurch
    “I’ll see you in church!”

    Says Don, a positive lad

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    Raquel Melody Guarino is an aspiring expat who just left Italy due to the pandemic.
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