Sixty Lit features literary works including creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry, autotheory, and experimental or lyrical essays.
Recent Sixty Lit Articles
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Latino También: Four Poems by Diego Báez
Diego Báez writes about ICE raids in Chicago, biracial identity and masculinity, US intervention in Venezuela, and breaking intergenerational cycles in a series of new poems.
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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.