Sixty Lit features literary works including creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry, autotheory, and experimental or lyrical essays.
Recent Sixty Lit Articles
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A gay sculptor is missing from the archives. I want to know why.
Six decades after 32 men were arrested by police and publicly outed by the Chicago Tribune, artist and writer Samuel Schwindt went in search of one of these men, a sculptor, and discovered a specter in the archives.
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Blue
A trans woman dreams about her naturalization as a US citizen and the birdlike goddess Cihuateteo from Aztec mythology.
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Skinning the Rabbit: Four Poems by Temperance Aghamohammadi
In excerpts from her forthcoming chapbook “Behnt,” Temperance Aghamohammadi honors the relentless, transformative powers of grief while working against the orthodox tropes.
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Martyrs: Three poems by Lakota Kikyo
In three poems, spoken word artist Lakota Kikyo explores a range of themes like financial hardship, white-supremacist colonialism, and spiritual rebirth.