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Great Disasters

Great Disasters

Grady Chambers

By Lit Hub Excerpts | September 22, 2025

Serge

Serge

Yasmina Reza (trans. Jeffrey Zuckerman)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | September 19, 2025

Poet Margot Kahn on Why She Left One Particular Poem Out of Her Collection

Poet Margot Kahn on Why She Left One Particular Poem Out of Her Collection

“One of the poems I put in my stack involved my father’s dick.”

By Margot Kahn | September 18, 2025

Calls May Be Recorded

Calls May Be Recorded

Katharina Volckmer

By Lit Hub Excerpts | September 18, 2025

“The Body of Grief as Rice and Butter,” a Poem by Alison Lubar

“The Body of Grief as Rice and Butter,” a Poem by Alison Lubar

From the Collection “The Other Tree”

By Alison Lubar | September 17, 2025

Sympathy Tower Tokyo

Sympathy Tower Tokyo

Rie Qudan (trans. Jesse Kirkwood)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | September 17, 2025

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Makenna Goodman

By Lit Hub Excerpts | September 12, 2025

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Natalie Diaz: Seeing is Feeling in Mary Oliver’s Poetry

On the Connection Between the Land and the Body in Oliver’s Work

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Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction’</em>s 2025 Insider Prize

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“Home Sweet NewHome”

“Home Sweet NewHome”

Matt Bell

By Lit Hub Excerpts | September 11, 2025

“Night Terrors,” a Poem by Sharon Olds

“Night Terrors,” a Poem by Sharon Olds

From the 45th Anniversary Edition from “Satan Says”

By Sharon Olds | September 10, 2025

Swallows

Swallows

Natsuo Kirino (trans. Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | September 10, 2025

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