Lamp Lit

🛋️ Lamp Lit 1.4 Spring 2026 is Live at LampLit.net! 🛋️ Thank you to Lamp Lit 1.4 Contributors:

Jennifer Badot

Rachael Bull 

Polly Conway 

Zoë Davis 

Lisa Delan 

Joe Ducato 

Yoonji Huh

Mindy Kober 

Katie Larson  @iamktb14

DS Maolalai 

Kiana McCrackin 

EK Ottenritter 

Kathleen Palmer 

Nina Prater 

Esther Sadoff 

Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas

💫🌟We made it to a year! 🌟💫 What an incredible journey this has been...and we're not anywhere near done!

If you've been in Lamp before, you are specially invited to submit again!

If you're new to us, welcome, where have you been! We've been waiting for you!

Artists! We're looking right you. We're holding eye contact for an uncomfortably long time. WHERE ARE YOU? Give us a chance!

We can't wait!

In celebration, we'll be promoting previous work and contributors. 🥳🥂 If you'd like to be part of the feratures, shoot us message here or E us a mail. 💌

Keep on the look out for a special event announcement on the horizon.

Lamp Lit Features : Kimberly Wolf

Kimberly's poem, "Dad on Vacation" (Fall 2025), warmly and ruefully played with ars poetica as generational audacity.

Find Kimberly's poem in our second issue, Fall 2025, at LampLit.net!

In celebration of our first anniversary we are featuring contributors from all our issues every week until we run out of participants!

Thank you all! We couldn't do this without you! ❤️✨

from Katie's : “The Meristem"

@iamktb14

"...And so what if you are tired, tart and tangy as a mustard seed sprout? The land knows this. The land does not care. Longer than fear, longer than hate, there have been these trees, these flowers, these herbs. And see here? Here is the harvest. Here is the good work of patient and heedful hands. Out here, in the garden, things are as simple as they are tricky; fresh and enchanting as much as they are ancient and unforgiving..."

Read the full piece in our Spring 2026 issue at LampLit.net

💫🌟We made it to a year! 🌟💫 What an incredible journey this has been...and we're not anywhere near done!

If you've been in Lamp before, you are specially invited to submit again!

If you're new to us, welcome, where have you been! We've been waiting for you!

(Artists! We're looking right you. We're holding eye contact for an uncomfortably long time.)

We can't wait!

In celebration, we'll be promoting previous work and contributors over the next several weeks. 🥳🥂

Keep on the look out for a special event announcement on the horizon.

Lamp Lit Features : Victoria Roskams

Victoria's story, "Pierrot Disparu," (Fall 2025), delighted, challenged, and surprised us.

Find Victoria's poem in our second issue, Fall 2025, at LampLit.net!

In celebration of our first anniversary we are featuring contributors from all our issues every week until we run out of participants!

Thank you all! We couldn't do this without you! ❤️✨

from Joe's : “The Feather Artist"

"...Gracie couldn’t remember ever seeing another soul at Still Pond except for the coyote. Of course, there were the insects – always the insects. God had big love for the exoskeleton. She couldn’t get over the boy’s eyes. They were the bluest eyes she had ever seen - bluer than robins’ eggs. Ordinarily she would have been frightened, but she wasn’t - not even a little. “I didn’t think anyone would be here,” the boy said, then looked at his watch. “Is it time?” Gracie asked. “I think so,” the boy replied, “I brought something to see it with"..."

Read the full piece in our Spring 2026 issue at LampLit.net

💫🌟We made it to a year! 🌟💫 What an incredible journey this has been...and we're not stopping yet!

If you've been in Lamp before, you are specially invited to submit again!

If you're new to us, welcome, where have you been! We've been waiting for you!

(Artists! We're looking right you. We're holding eye contact for an uncomfortably long time.)

We can't wait!

In celebration, we'll be promoting previous work and contributors over the next several weeks. 🥳🥂

Keep on the look out for a special event announcement on the horizon.

Lamp Lit Features : Joshua Lillie

Josh's poem, "Dirt Nap" (Fall 2025), struck us and kept on striking us with it's examination of reasons without answers.

Find Paul's poem in our second issue, Fall 2025, at LampLit.net!

In celebration of our first anniversary we are featuring contributors from all our issues every week until we run out of participants!

Thank you all! We couldn't do this without you! ❤️✨

from Lisa's : “Poetica"

"...I saw poetry at Archimedes Banya butt naked in the cold plunge. Last week I caught it side-eying me from my favorite song. Everything your mind can't digest is eliminated as poetry. Poetry sneaks out at night and never tells you where it's been. The alphabet bends over backwards for poetry. The dog ate my poetry. The president banned it for being a lifestyle choice..."

Read the full piece in our Spring 2026 issue at LampLit.net

✨ART CALL✨ Hello Artists! Lamp Lit needs you!

We are looking for art of all kinds for our Summer Anniversary Issue!

Illustration, abstract, photography; it's all on the table.

No specific theme, just work you love!

Guidelines at Lamplit.net

Can you believe it? This Summer marks Lamp Lit's first Anniversary! We made it to a year! ❤️💕

If you've been in Lamp before, you are specially invited to submit again!

If you're new to us, welcome, where have you been! We've been waiting for you!

(Artists! We're looking right you. We're holding eye contact for an uncomfortably long time.)

We can't wait!

In celebration, we'll be promoting previous work and contributors over the next several weeks. 🥳🥂

Keep on the look out for a special event announcement on the horizon.

Lamp Lit Features : Paul Hostovsky PaulHostovsky.com

Paul's poem, "Extremely Rare but Serious Side Effects " (Summer 2025), made us laugh while grounding us with its gentle reminder of our common inevitably.

Find Paul's poem in our first issue, Summer 2025, at LampLit.net!

In celebration of our first anniversary we are featuring contributors from all our issues every week until we run out of participants!

Thank you all! We couldn't do this without you! ❤️✨

from Zoe's : “Perfect Time”

"...The window frame becomes a guillotine of light, keeping the street’s noise from bruising her skin, already mottled from pale strokes. Cabbage greens, plum through the ribs, white thumb of her knees. Detachment? No. I witness sunlight as a grandmother pinching flesh. Soft and solid, newborn in a velvet chair. She is dreaming of her own equations...."