Sixty Lit features literary works including creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry, autotheory, and experimental or lyrical essays.
Recent Sixty Lit Articles
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Materials for Saving/Surviving: A Collection of Poems
The poems ‘Painted over paintings,’ ‘Series,’ ‘Over simple plain doubt,’ and ‘does your lady body ever freak you out’.
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Smiling Behind the Sun: An Interview with James Gordon
A series of interviews that reveal how a creative life can transmute the impact and redefine the legacy of an experience within the Prison Industrial Complex.
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An Illustrated Reflection on EXPO Chicago 2016
Closing out the year with a reflection on the mixed feelings of the art fair experience in comic form.
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The Ars Poetica and Origin Story of Krista Franklin
One of Chicago’s mainstays discusses her beginnings in Dayton, Ohio, relocating to Chicago, and how her poetry and visual work come together through deep poetic, sonic, and visual influences.