• Fiction and Poetry

    Poetry

    A Poem by Phillis Wheatley, The First Published African American Poet

    By Phillis Wheatley  October 20, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Cuyahoga

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 20, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The Wind Traveler

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 19, 2020
    Poem

    A Poem by Nelly Sachs

    By Nelly Sachs  October 19, 2020
    Short Stories

    A Way to Beat Mortality

    By Shelly Oria  October 19, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Revolutions of All Colors

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 16, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The Piano Student

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 15, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The Family Clause

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 14, 2020
    Poetry

    Two Poems by Éireann Lorsung

    By Éireann Lorsung  October 13, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 13, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    High Skies

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 9, 2020
    Poetry

    “Somebody told me we got LA”

    By Amaud Jamaul Johnson  October 9, 2020
    Poetry

    “The Hunger of Luther Vandross”

    By Tommye Blount  October 8, 2020
    Poetry

    Three Poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti

    By Giuseppe Ungaretti  October 8, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Earthlings

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 8, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Mother for Dinner

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 7, 2020
    Poetry

    “How”

    By Heid E. Erdrich  October 7, 2020
    Poem

    “Peel This Skin”

    By Eric Gansworth  October 6, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Missionaries

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 6, 2020
    Poetry

    “Wedding Planning”

    By Eleanor Boudreau  October 5, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    “Boys on a Veranda”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 5, 2020
    Prose Poetry

    “Wings of Return”

    By Don Mee Choi  October 2, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The Bell in the Lake

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 2, 2020
    Poem

    “Winter Moth”

    By Dan Chiasson  October 1, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Ruthie Fear

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 1, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Just Like You

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 30, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Jack

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 29, 2020
    Poem

    “In the Interstices”

    By Ruth Stone  September 28, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The End of the Day

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 28, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Insomnia

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 25, 2020
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