Sixty Lit features literary works including creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry, autotheory, and experimental or lyrical essays.
Recent Sixty Lit Articles
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finessing is not scamming: Three Poems by E’Mon Lauren
In three poems, Chicago’s inaugural Youth Poet Laureate explores a wide range of themes, including femme rage, racialized beauty standards, class, lineage, and hustling to make ends meet.
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The Risky Sex, or Why I’m Befriending Men
In her search for connection, a woman dares to ask: Are men capable of friendship?
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Gohyang (Hometown)
This poetry collection excavates the turbulence of youth and cultural dissonance, weaving memories of a Korean Ohioan upbringing with the weight of familial bonds, diasporic loss, and the unsettling realities of modern-day Asian fetishization.
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Visage of Time: Poetic Response
What crosses one’s mind when viewing a painting?