Sixty Lit features literary works including creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry, autotheory, and experimental or lyrical essays.
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Recent Sixty Lit Articles
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Mother Bis: Six Poems by Ulrich Baer
Inspired by the poetry of Zukofsky, Sobin, and Ronald Johnson, Ulrich Baer engineers a new language for queer expressions of desire and carves out, through language, an impossible location in the world.
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Returning for the Harvest
A personal essay about resisting the pull to forget and allowing (re)memory to transform us, told through the lens of a four-month road trip.
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Things We Did to Cool Our Bodies: Four Poems
Four poems on the interplay between personal and collective experiences of identity, heritage, loss, and resilience.
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A Collection of Recipes
Poems about familial connection and cultural heritage through the lens of cooking, illustrating how shared recipes and rituals transform ingredients into memories and bonds across generations.