• Fiction and Poetry

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    “At Last the Escalade”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 14, 2017
    Did you know?

    W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry For a Beautiful Short Film About Running

    By Nick Ripatrazone  December 14, 2017
    Poets

    Don’t Die, I Say: 3 Poems on Gun Violence and Police Brutality

    By Literary Hub  December 14, 2017
    Excerpts

    They Know Not What They Do

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 13, 2017
    Poets

    Read Early Sonnets By Walter Benjamin, for the First Time in English

    By Carl Skoggard  December 11, 2017
    Feature

    Now You Too Can Bake Like Emily Dickinson This Holiday Season

    By Emily Temple  December 8, 2017
    Poets

    8 Russian Poets Who Taught Me How to Write a Novel About Russia

    By Janet Fitch  December 8, 2017
    Short story writers

    “The Old Princess”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 7, 2017
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    Spy of the First Person

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 6, 2017
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    Ultraluminous

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 5, 2017
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    Robicheaux

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 4, 2017
    Poets

    “Astrological Sign Poem”

    By Dorothea Lasky  December 1, 2017
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    Wonder Valley

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 1, 2017
    Criticism

    As the World Ends, Has the Time for Grieving Arrived?

    By Sue Sinclair  December 1, 2017
    Events

    Love and Death at the Library with the Astro Poets

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  December 1, 2017
    Fiction

    The Ruined House

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 30, 2017
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    “The Animals of Cairo”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 29, 2017
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    Mrs. Caliban

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 28, 2017
    Conversations

    Poet Jenny Johnson on Writing Her Own Escape Routes

    By Peter Mishler  November 27, 2017
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    The Last Man in Europe

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 22, 2017
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    The Story of Arthur Truluv

    By Literary Hub  November 21, 2017
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    Mother of All Pigs

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 20, 2017
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    The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 17, 2017
    Poets

    A New Poem by Natalie Graham

    By Natalie J. Graham  November 17, 2017
    Short story writers

    “The Knife Salesman”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 16, 2017
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    Future Home of the Living God

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 15, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Hotel Tito

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 14, 2017
    Poets

    Two Poems by Tongo Eisen-Martin

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 13, 2017
    Deep Dive

    What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

    By Martha Collins  November 13, 2017
    Excerpts

    Beowulf

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 10, 2017
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