by Variant Lit Team | Dec 22, 2025 | Book Reviews, Variety Pack
Court Ludwick’s debut collection, These Strange Bodies (2024, ELJ Editions), presents a hybrid assemblage of texts that is two parts fragmented memoir of early adulthood, one part poetic exploration of embodiment. Ludwick’s unflinching archaeology of self results in a...
by Variant Lit Team | Oct 11, 2025 | News
We’re thrilled to announce Variant Lit’s 2026 Best of the Net nominees! Michael Agunbiade — “the new testament” Erica Dawson — “On Craft” griffin epstein — “well-adjusted” Isaiah Gardner — “To the Gay Man at My Little Brother’s High School Graduation” Mara Lee...
by Variant Lit Team | Oct 8, 2025 | Book Reviews
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...
by Variant Lit Team | Sep 28, 2025 | Interview, Variety Pack
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...
by Variant Lit Team | May 28, 2025 | Interview, Variety Pack
Steven Espada Dawson is from East Los Angeles and lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he serves as poet laureate. His poems “Waiter Park” and “Caldera” appeared in the Rehoming Remarkable Work issue of Variant Lit in Winter 2022. Steven’s debut poetry collection, Late...
