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Editor's Pick, Essay, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Edition

THE EXTRAORDINARY, ORDINARY LIFE OF NAKAHARA TOSHIKO

Thomas Lockley celebrates the extraordinary, ordinary life of a strong woman. ...

by thomaslockley | 21st June 202121st June 2021
Editor's Pick, Essay, Poetry, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Edition

A HISTORY OF AFRICAN HAIKU

Adjei Agyei-BAAh discusses how haiku is taking root in Africa. ...

by adjeiagyeibaah | 16th June 202116th June 2021
Editor's Pick, Letters from the Editor, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Edition

EDITORS’ LETTERS: SPRING 2021 JAPAN ISSUE

Litro’s Spring 2021 print issue now appearing online ...

by Eric Akoto | 7th June 20217th June 2021
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

Fresh Sheets and 5 other short shorts

But now, I not only wanted to break my pencil and throw out what I’d written, I was dying to take him to bed. ...

by Lawrence Schimel | 10th July 201911th July 2019
Editor's Pick, Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

Into the Pleroma

As the effects get stranger—rust-red mold on the pavements like a carpet, sweat permanently congealed on my skin, finding that a street ends in a ...

by Ingrid Norton | 10th July 201911th July 2019
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

Court

D’Ora with her coffee tries to focus and listen and care, but in a quick minute her mind goes to Phil. It’s been doing ...

by Laila Halaby | 8th July 201919th January 2022
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

Complicated Blues

The way she smiled at him nearly made me jealous. Even though I didn’t know who she was, yet I was beginning to feel jealous. ...

by achicabonita | 8th July 20198th July 2019
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

A Good Mask

Name, shame, secrete, wash, wipe clean, wring dry, sanitize. What I can’t expunge, I conceal. I blur and disguise. ...

by Nadia Owusu | 5th July 201911th July 2019
Letters from the Editor, Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

Litro Desire: Editor’s Letter

There’s a sense of release about writing this Editor’s Letter because it means the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle is now in place. It ...

by Eric Akoto | 27th June 201915th July 2019
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

Introduction

Desire is complicated in that as much as it burns inside of you and demands an outlet as is it born of heart, of love, ...

by Ira Silverberg | 25th June 201911th July 2019
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

Unmastered Desires by Frederick McKindra

. I didn’t want to be a victim to my desire, to the legacies of white supremacy and internalized homophobia. I didn’t want to be ...

by Frederick McKindra | 12th June 201926th October 2020
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

The Little Mermaid by Leah Dworkin

We all know how she got here. Want. Desire. All the poor little mermaid’s ever wanted is legs, to split open like a lazy mollusk ...

by Leah Dworkin | 4th June 201926th October 2020
Litro Desire Issue, Print Issues

Homebound by Hannah Seidlitz

The two men who approached us in Grand Central must have smelled it on us––the tension of coming apart. ...

by Hannah Seidlitz | 29th May 201926th October 2020
Digital Subscription, Editor's Pick, Litro #172: Addiction, Print Issues

The Body is a Battlefield

by Jenny Valentish | 15th May 201915th May 2019
Digital Subscription, Litro #173: Comedy, Print Issues

I Screamed “Every White Man Should be Considered a Rapist Until Proven Innocent” at a Halloween Party and Got Kicked Out

by Mattison Merritt | 3rd May 20194th May 2019
Litro #174: Freedom, Print Issues

Litro #174: Editor’s Letter

This edition of Litro Magazine is all about freedom – something worth celebrating while we still have it, if we ever really did, and worth fighting for, ...

by Eric Akoto | 3rd May 20194th May 2019
Editor's Pick, Litro #174: Freedom, Print Issues

Outside the Wind Window

Art always wakes up before dawn on festival day. Has done for seventeen years and this year is no different. ...

by Elle Everhart | 20th March 201926th March 2019
Editor's Pick, Litro #174: Freedom, Print Issues

All the Freedom Privilege Allows

“I’m tired of talking about race,” a white male friend said to me. “We’re all equal, we all get the same opportunities; we all got ...

by Lorraine Devon Wilke | 19th March 201926th March 2019
Editor's Pick, Litro #174: Freedom, Print Issues

The Death of Donald Trump

November 5th, 2020, eleven weeks before the end of his term, of a bullet wound to the head fired as he addressed a crowd of ...

by Evan Guilford-Blake | 19th March 201926th March 2019
Litro #174: Freedom, Print Issues

The Freedom of Forgiveness

Did I want to find out? When my sister was killed, it broke my family – both its individual members and the larger whole. ...

by Jakob Silas Lund | 19th March 201919th March 2019

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