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Recent Sixty Lit Articles
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3 Unemergency Poems
Not that we’re not in an emergency, but rather, the need to break out of the fast cycle of news that feels designed to agitate and then numb me into a state of helplessness. “Crisis time” invokes a logic of panic in the here and now. How will the headlines help me take care of…
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Beyond the Page: Sahar Mustafah
“Beyond the Page” digs into the process and practice of writers and artists who work at the intersection of literary arts and other fields. For this installment, I interviewed fiction writer and high school English teacher Sahar Mustafah about her debut novel, “The Beauty of Your Face.” We spoke in January about her process of…
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Three Poems by Sharanya Sharma
content warning: descriptions of violence nandi relays a message after an endless swallowing of years a little girl, limbs molded from mother’s darkest saffron stole to my soot-stoned side hewn from sweat and love. hungrily she cupped a hand to my frozen ear. the cold pelt singed in her exhale as with earth-stained lips she scratched words …
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Beyond the Page: Sharanya Sharma
“Beyond the Page” digs into the process and practice of writers and artists who work at the intersection of literary arts and other fields. For this installment, I interviewed writer Sharanya Sharma about her MFA thesis project, “Set Fire to This Crooked House,” a poetry collection that she is in the process of developing into…