• Fiction and Poetry

    Daily Fiction

    “White Paper”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 3, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The Bitch

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 2, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Invisible Ink

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 29, 2020
    Poetry

    “we’d like to propose—”

    By Evie Shockley  October 28, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The Cold Millions

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 28, 2020
    Poetry

    “Collins Ferry Landing”

    By Vijay Seshadri  October 27, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Inside Story

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 27, 2020
    Poetry

    “Eating Migas”

    By Anthony Cody  October 26, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The Redshirt

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 26, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Shelter in Place

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 23, 2020
    Poetry

    “The Good Light”

    By Aaron Fagan  October 23, 2020
    Poetry

    “Before I Was Anything”

    By Zeke Caligiuri  October 23, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The Girl and the Body

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 22, 2020
    Poetry

    A Poem by Ai

    By Ai   October 22, 2020
    Poetry

    A Poem by Saeed Jones

    By Saeed Jones  October 22, 2020
    Letters Home

    “Among Spruce”

    By Arthur Sze  October 22, 2020
    Poetry

    “Rough Song”

    By Blanca Varela  October 22, 2020
    Poetry

    Nikki Giovanni: Why We Need Poetry

    By Nikki Giovanni  October 21, 2020
    Poetry

    “swan”

    By Andrew McMillan  October 21, 2020
    Poetry

    A Poem by Claude McKay

    By Claude McKay  October 21, 2020
    Poetry

    A Poem by Angelina Weld Grimké

    By Angelina Weld Grimké  October 21, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The Silence

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 21, 2020
    Poetry

    “Psalm Under Seige”

    By Khaled Mattawa  October 20, 2020
    Poetry

    A Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar

    By Paul Laurence Dunbar  October 20, 2020
    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
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