Summer 2025

Dedicated to Nicholas Johnson and Maureen Holm, co-founders of BigCityLit

HERE by Nicholas Johnson

Poetry

Featured
Collateral damage in 2017

by A.D. Capili

Death is a Needle

by Corey Mesler

Hoping to Arrive

by Richard Levine

I Set You Free

by Kendra Whitfield

In The Car with Joni Mitchell

by Vicki Iorio

Le Monde Va Mal (Or, The World Is Going Bad)

by Patricia Powers

Memorial Day

by Gerry LaFemina

Midnight Flight

by Puma Perl

Mt. Etna in the Wind

by Susana H. Case

Once Our Home

by Pam Laskin

Phases

by J. Chester Johnson

Purpose

by Alex Carrigan

resistance

by Naomi Bindman

Silent Blossoms

by Kenneth Pobo

Who Speaks This Way?

by Barry Wallenstein

Fiction

Featured
All That Goes Into Learning How to Live

by Graeme Richmond Mack

Königsberg

by Robert Boucheron

On Sale

by Sergey Bolmat

Sonny No More

by Marco Etheridge

The World is a Donkey

by Salvatore Difalco

Nonfiction

Featured
Decisions

by Daniel Acosta, Jr.

Finding My Way Back: A Journey Through Anorexia

by Claudia Wysocky

The First Kiss

by Diana Raab

Book Reviews