Promethean Literary Magazine is City College of New York’s premier student-run literary arts publication.

 
 
Prose
Earning your Lighthouse
Creative Nonfiction
Susannah Pitmann
Earning your Lighthouse
Creative Nonfiction
Susannah Pitmann

There was no time for tears when your bilge pumps failed. Somewhere about two hundred miles off Cape Hatteras, where the HMS Bounty sank and left its captain drowned. You tried not to think of him, swallowed up in those same waters. All you should have been thinking about was keeping your heading, two hundred-five degrees, with some variance to take the ocean swell on the boat’s quarter. 

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Creative Nonfiction
Susannah Pitmann
Elisabeth's Leg
Fiction
Fran Kurstejn
Elisabeth's Leg
Fiction
Fran Kurstejn

We named you Elisabeth after this street, Elisabeth Street—look where I’m pointing now—on the south side of the city, starting at Fifth National Bank—that’s the square building with the bronze cuckoo on top—and it ends somewhere around the big convention center—the glass circle building where they hold the dance recitals and the spelling bees—where it becomes Convention Center Dr. and no longer Elisabeth St.

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Fiction
Fran Kurstejn
Poetry
Fabricated Faith
Poetry
2025, Tawanda Wallace
Fabricated Faith
Poetry
2025, Tawanda Wallace

The congregation shout and wave their hands,

While perspiration makes his brown skin shine.

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Poetry
2025, Tawanda Wallace

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