Sixty Lit features literary works including creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry, autotheory, and experimental or lyrical essays.
Recent Sixty Lit Articles
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Aprils Fools and Their Universe: Damon Williams, Jr. and #LetUsBreathe Collective
Damon Williams, Jr. (he/him) is a poet, organizer, one half of brother-sister duo April Fools, co-director of the #LetUsBreatheCollective, and overall unique being. I first heard of his work through…
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Body Passages: Lani T. Montreal and Maxine Patronik on Developing “Blood Memory”
This is the third article in an ongoing series about Body Passages, a partnership between Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and The Chicago Poetry Center (the first and second are online). This…
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Poetry Series: Therefore We Can Be Free (Part 2)
“The white fathers told us, I think therefore I am; and the black mothers in each of us-the poet- whispers in our dreams, I feel therefore I can be free”…
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Cruising the Archives: Chicago’s Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
“Often by chance, via out-of-the-way card catalogues, or through previous web surfing, a particular ‘deep’ text, or a simple object (bobbin, sampler, scrap of lace) reveals itself here at the…