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It Was Never Supposed To Be
by Ben Kline
Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance
by Todd Dillard
When the Forest Finds You
by Lannie Stabile
Love Letters from a Burning Planet
by MJ Gomez
A Pocket of Genesis
by Ernest Ògúnyẹmí
Glass Essays
by J. A. Bernstein
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Announcing Our 2026 Best of the Net Nominees
We’re thrilled to announce Variant Lit’s 2026 Best of the Net nominees!
Residuum and Reclamation: On Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon
Our Human Shores (Black Ocean: 2025) is a dense yet lyrical examination of the limits and imperatives of human agency during the anthropocene. The book’s sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled poems features cyclical variation in form (left-aligned lines in stanzas, non-aligned lines in space, and justified-aligned prose in blocks) and frequent repetition at multiple levels (phonemes [rhymes], morphemes, words, and phrases).
The Museum of Future Mistakes: An Interview with James R. Gapinski
James R. Gapinski is the author of the novella Edge of the Known Bus Line, as well as the forthcoming short story collection, The Museum of Future Mistakes, which won the 2024 BOA Short Fiction Prize. They are the managing editor of Conium Press, a boutique literary publisher in Portland, Oregon, an Adjunct Professor in Southern New Hampshire University’s MFA program, and the Director of TRIO Student Support Services at Portland Community College.
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