He edited and designed the official Boston College literary journal, Stylus, as well as the alternative campus magazine, Wingwing. Columnist George Frazier, reviewing one of Polito's Stylus issues in the Boston Globe, wrote, "I happen to think it may well be the most sophisticated and subtle undergraduate literary magazine I have ever seen."
The passage highlights the high regard in which Polito's work was held by a prominent critic, George Frazier, who considered his literary magazine, Stylus, to be exceptionally well-crafted and nuanced.