Sixty Lit features literary works including creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry, autotheory, and experimental or lyrical essays.
Recent Sixty Lit Articles
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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.
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WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS! WAGONS!
In a sequel to her 2019 zine “The Wagons Ain’t Here Yet…”, poet Joss Barton confronts ongoing genocide, authoritarianism, and cultural violence and resists the necropolitical state through an apoplectic transsexual liturgy.