• Fiction and Poetry

    Poetry

    “A New Day Dawns”

    By Nikky Finney  July 31, 2020
    Poetry

    “This New Year”

    By Yusef Komunyakaa  July 31, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The Island Child

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 31, 2020
    Poetry

    “Stag Hunt”

    By Brooke Horvath  July 30, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    “Mogri’s World”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 30, 2020
    Poem

    “The Round”

    By Stanley Kunitz  July 29, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Crossings

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 29, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The Butterfly Lampshade

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 28, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Kings County

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 27, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    “The Corridor”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 24, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Informal: On Consummation After Confinement

    By Chiara Barzini  July 24, 2020
    Poetry

    “mong kok, october 2019”

    By Xiao Yue Shan  July 24, 2020
    On Poetry

    On Exploiting the Labor of a Dear Friend, Who is Also a Poet

    By Rebecca Wolff  July 23, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The All-Night Sun

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 23, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Sensation Machines

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 22, 2020
    Poetry

    Rumaan Alam and Jameson Fitzpatrick on Sex, Poetry, and Textiles

    By Literary Hub  July 21, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Natural History

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 21, 2020
    Poetry

    Two New Poems by Ira Sadoff

    By Ira Sadoff  July 20, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Grove

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 20, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Death and the Butterfly

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 17, 2020
    Letters Home

    Salutations In Search Of

    By Patricia Smith  July 16, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Want

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 16, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Artifact

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 15, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Heaven and Earth

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 14, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Mother Daughter Widow Wife

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 13, 2020
    Poetry

    Two Poems by Cleopatra Mathis

    By Cleopatra Mathis  July 10, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    The Ballad of Big Feeling

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 10, 2020
    Shuffle Collective

    WATCH: Poems from Quarantine with Tommy Pico, Karla Brundage, and More

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 9, 2020
    Poetry

    “Postcards from Taiwan”

    By Craig Santos Perez  July 9, 2020
    Daily Fiction

    Scorpionfish

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 9, 2020
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