• Fiction and Poetry

    Daily Fiction

    Arabesques

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 6, 2023
    Daily Fiction

    The Wounded Age and Eastern Tales

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 5, 2023
    Daily Fiction

    The New Life

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 4, 2023
    Daily Fiction

    Age of Vice

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 3, 2023
    Poetry

    “Womack & Womack.” A Poem by Gabrielle Octavia Rucker

    By Gabrielle Octavia Rucker  December 22, 2022
    Poetry

    “Planting Fairy Wings,” a Poem by Liu Zongyuan, translated by Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton and Yu Yuanyuan

    By Liu Zongyuan, Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton, and Yu Yuanyuan  December 22, 2022
    Poetry

    Three Poems by Robert Walser, translated by Daniele Pantano

    By Robert Walser and Daniele Pantano  December 21, 2022
    Poetry

    Two Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini, translated by Cristina Viti

    By Pier Paolo Pasolini and Cristina Viti  December 16, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Septology

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 16, 2022
    Poetry

    “Grocery Shopping With My Mother.” A Poem by Kevin Powell

    By Kevin Powell  December 15, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 15, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “The Surgeon”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 14, 2022
    Poetry

    “Being Here,” a Poem by Vona Groarke

    By Vona Groarke  December 13, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Gunk Baby

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 13, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    The Easy Life

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 12, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    How to Turn Into a Bird

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 9, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Animal Life

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 8, 2022
    The Hub

    This previously unpublished CD Wright poem is filled with beauty and sadness.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 7, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    At Certain Points We Touch

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 7, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    A Dangerous Business

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 6, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Terra Nova

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 5, 2022
    Poem

    “Without,” a Poem by John Freeman

    By John Freeman  December 5, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Love Me Tender

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 2, 2022
    On Poetry

    Yusef Komunyakaa on the Genius and Contradictions of Etheridge Knight

    By Yusef Komunyakaa  December 2, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Death Parts”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 1, 2022
    Poetry

    Two Poems by Elisa Díaz Castelo

    By Elisa Díaz Castelo  November 30, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    This Time, That Place

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 30, 2022
    Poetry

    Read a New Translation of “The Caucasus” by Ukrainian Poet-Hero Taras Shevchenko

    By Literary Hub  November 29, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Ascendant”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 29, 2022
    Prose Poetry

    Read “Autumn Night,” From Lu Xun’s Experimental Prose Collection Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk

    By Lu Xun and Eileen J. Cheng  November 28, 2022
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