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2021
Yearly Archives: 2021
Poetry
.shelter.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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December 31, 2021
Poetry
I’d Rather Have My Ass Slapped Than My Ribcage
Starr
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December 30, 2021
Poetry
He’s probably sleeping now
Jill Winkowski
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December 28, 2021
Poetry
The Spirit of Christmas
Andy Posner
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December 27, 2021
Poetry
of Moments that loiter
silent lotus
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December 27, 2021
Art
Merry Xmas 2021
Tom Strong
-
December 21, 2021
Poetry
Receipt
james stephen
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December 16, 2021
Poetry
When the storms arrive
Michael Ashley
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December 15, 2021
Poetry
Convent
Matt Dennison
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December 14, 2021
Art
Empty White Spaces on Top of a Village
Robert Stastny
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December 13, 2021
Art
Automaga
Nicholas Wintzler
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December 12, 2021
Showcase
Pixedelica
R. jones
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December 11, 2021
Poetry
how it used to be
Emily J Vieweg
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December 10, 2021
Contributor Blogs
How Your Creative Work Can Outlive You
Lance Jencks
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December 9, 2021
Music
Inhale Blessings
Joe Shelton
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December 8, 2021
Fiction
I Was in Love Here
Sherry Cassells
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December 7, 2021
Poetry
Born
Julie Desmond
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December 6, 2021
Art
Chigguns’
Glenn Richardson
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December 5, 2021
Poetry
My Name
james stephen
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December 4, 2021
Poetry
TIM THE TAPPER
Mark Anthony Pearce
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December 3, 2021
Poetry
Mores of the morning
silent lotus
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December 2, 2021
Poetry
all dog, otherwise
Mike Casetta
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December 1, 2021
Poetry
Jelly Filled Powdered Donuts
silent lotus
-
November 30, 2021
Showcase
Creeping into my head: Documentary on my life as a poet
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 29, 2021
Fiction
Marvins
Sherry Cassells
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November 28, 2021
Poetry
Séance for One
Sara Clancy
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November 27, 2021
Poetry
OFF SEASON AT THE SHORE
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 26, 2021
Poetry
Scrape
Matt Dennison
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November 25, 2021
Art
Kafka’s Typewriter
Barry Burgess
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November 24, 2021
Poetry
YESTERNOW
Jefferson Carter
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November 23, 2021
Art
.white.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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November 22, 2021
Poetry
The Fog of Anger
Andy Posner
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November 21, 2021
Poetry
No Machine
Matt Dennison
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November 19, 2021
Poetry
Jack’s Breakfast – Pardons for Myself Multiply
james stephen
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November 18, 2021
Poetry
Sleeping with Dana
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 17, 2021
Poetry
the imposter
Rob Thomas
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November 16, 2021
Music
Fine on the Outside – New Album
Jenn Zed
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November 15, 2021
Poetry
and turn it back on him
Jennifer Wilder
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November 14, 2021
Art
Haikus
Robert Stastny
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November 13, 2021
Art
Living on Mainstreet
Dale Patterson
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November 12, 2021
Poetry
just one more
Jennifer Wilder
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November 10, 2021
Poetry
Blood Oranges / ice cubes & straws
silent lotus
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November 7, 2021
Poetry
mom’s haiku
Mike Casetta
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November 5, 2021
Poetry
Tonight, I Am Grieving for a Mouse
Palline Plum
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November 4, 2021
Poetry
End of October
james stephen
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November 3, 2021
Poetry
Their Final Words
Miya Ko
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October 29, 2021
Photography
The project
Kim Toft
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October 28, 2021
Art
Jail time
Marcel Herms
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October 27, 2021
Fiction
More Two Sentence Horror Stories
Kaci Skiles Laws
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October 26, 2021
Poetry
Give Me a Pen, Give Me a Pencil
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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October 25, 2021
Fiction
The reviews are in for my poetry …
Eliot Jacobson
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October 24, 2021
Poetry
Sisters Coffee
Julie Desmond
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October 23, 2021
Poetry
Harvest
Mike Casetta
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October 22, 2021
Poetry
Dew
Tom Strong
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October 21, 2021
Poetry
The Hall Closet of Your Childhood Home
Sara Clancy
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October 20, 2021
Music
“No Betta” Blues
Starr
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October 19, 2021
Poetry
copper coil
Jennifer Wilder
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October 18, 2021
Poetry
this train rides through dusk
Maria Mazzenga
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October 17, 2021
Poetry
The Remember Tenure
Tom Strong
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October 16, 2021
Poetry
THE BODY BODY
Jefferson Carter
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October 15, 2021
Music
Done Gone Wrong
RC James
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October 14, 2021
Poetry
On the Phone with Zayda
Sara Clancy
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October 13, 2021
Poetry
The Long Letter That I Wrote You
Jill Winkowski
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October 12, 2021
Showcase
Why do you teach kids to be proper?
Nicholas Wintzler
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October 11, 2021
Poetry
Ode to a Hummingbird
RC James
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October 10, 2021
Poetry
before Hip-Hop
silent lotus
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October 9, 2021
Poetry
BOB SUCKS
Daniel J. Flore III
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October 8, 2021
Poetry
Prendere lucciole per lanterne (‘to take fireflies for lanterns’)
Marc Woodward
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October 7, 2021
Poetry
song to myself
Cameron McClure
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October 6, 2021
Art
5 paintings
Robert Stastny
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October 5, 2021
Poetry
The sounds a sick man hears in bed
Daniel J. Flore III
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October 4, 2021
Poetry
死亡
Matt Dennison
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October 1, 2021
Music
Kill for Candy, Fuck for Free
Jenn Zed
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September 30, 2021
Poetry
he who fears bees, fears flowers
Dana St. Mary
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September 29, 2021
Poetry
last night death sat
Milner Place
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September 28, 2021
Poetry
EVICTION
Daniel J. Flore III
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September 25, 2021
Music
All She Left Me Was a William Burroughs Novel
RC James
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September 24, 2021
Photography
Inner Space Exploration: New Work (2021)
Mark Preier
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September 20, 2021
Art
.ghosts.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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September 19, 2021
Poetry
The Right Kind of Babies
james stephen
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September 18, 2021
Art
They Rise to Look Over the Mountain & Other New Work
Dale Patterson
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September 17, 2021
Poetry
Autobiographical Coffees
Sara Clancy
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September 16, 2021
Blog
Clock Radio Magazine #2: Charles Bukowski Special Issue
Open Arts Forum
-
September 15, 2021
Music
Those Aren’t Mountains, Those Are Waves
Jenn Zed
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September 14, 2021
Contributor Blogs
Why Your Writing Isn’t You
Lance Jencks
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September 13, 2021
Music
Easy Lies
Concussionbox
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September 12, 2021
Poetry
Cycling Dhyana
Tom Strong
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September 11, 2021
Poetry
Instead of sleeping I walk
Sara Clancy
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September 10, 2021
Poetry
Woman with Dog
Lance Jencks
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September 9, 2021
Poetry
The Asshole’s Final Love Song
Eliot Jacobson
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September 7, 2021
Poetry
I guess they’ve read enough Dan Flore poems
Daniel J. Flore III
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September 6, 2021
Poetry
Hot Wells Hotel Ruins
Jennifer Wilder
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August 31, 2021
Poetry
Unsolved Mystery #101
Ron Sardino
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August 30, 2021
Poetry
The Manner of Leaving
Hugh Lemma
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August 29, 2021
Poetry
McDonald’s Sunday night visitation rights
Daniel J. Flore III
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August 27, 2021
Music
Karambol
Nicholas Wintzler
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August 26, 2021
Art
Spaces
Anupam Gupta
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August 25, 2021
Poetry
Blanks
Tom Speaks
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August 24, 2021
Poetry
At the corner of something and something
Maria Mazzenga
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August 23, 2021
Poetry
Iris
Kaci Skiles Laws
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August 22, 2021
Showcase
I took that personally
Nicholas Wintzler
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August 20, 2021
Poetry
Hum Along
Tom Strong
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August 17, 2021
Poetry
Visible Memory Punctuation
Maria Mazzenga
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August 16, 2021
Poetry
Unamused
Mike Casetta
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August 15, 2021
Poetry
This is how the world ends
Eliot Jacobson
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August 14, 2021
Poetry
Fingering out…
Michael Ashley
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August 12, 2021
Poetry
.precious.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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August 11, 2021
Poetry
MY WHOLE DAY IN A STUPID NOTEPAD
Daniel J. Flore III
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August 10, 2021
Poetry
What Little I Know About Lunacy
Mike Casetta
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August 3, 2021
Art
Sale
R. jones
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August 2, 2021
Poetry
The Witness
silent lotus
-
August 1, 2021
Poetry
Me and Faranelli
Anthony Hughes
-
July 30, 2021
Showcase
Color pictures
Nicholas Wintzler
-
July 29, 2021
Poetry
Sunday, you rotten bitch
Daniel J. Flore III
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July 25, 2021
Blog
Calls for Submissions | Publication Announcements: Literary & Visual Arts
Open Arts Forum
-
July 21, 2021
Poetry
Doggerel
Mike Casetta
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July 20, 2021
Art
De rentmeesters & other new work
Marcel Herms
-
July 19, 2021
Photography
Agnosia Series
Nicholas Wintzler
-
July 15, 2021
Poetry
the Mathematics of Elbowroom & Hearsay
silent lotus
-
July 14, 2021
Poetry
Some Stories We Don’t Want to Tell
Mike Casetta
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July 13, 2021
Poetry
What Happens When You Forget to Close Your Bedroom Window
Andy Posner
-
July 12, 2021
Poetry
The Insect Sonnets: Grasshopper
Paul Brookes
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July 10, 2021
Poetry
DEADMAN
KIMBERLY McNeil
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July 9, 2021
Music
Booda Wot Doddy
RC James
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July 8, 2021
Poetry
learning to read again
Rob Breeding
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July 7, 2021
Poetry
Meditation on Nothing
Daniel J. Flore III
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July 6, 2021
Poetry
Neanderthals All
Julie Desmond
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July 1, 2021
Poetry
The Artist
Jenn Zed
-
June 30, 2021
Poetry
Forgotten faces
Sheela Mamidenna
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June 29, 2021
Poetry
formicarium
Rob Breeding
-
June 23, 2021
Poetry
After Visiting You, I Return to My Life
Andy Posner
-
June 22, 2021
Poetry
The Danger
Michael Ashley
-
June 21, 2021
Poetry
State of the Art
Marc Woodward
-
June 18, 2021
Poetry
.gravel path.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
-
June 16, 2021
Poetry
on getting accepted by a mag
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 15, 2021
Art
L-Scape—Series
Jenn Zed
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June 5, 2021
Poetry
Where I go from here
David Belcher
-
June 4, 2021
Poetry
Donny’s viral photos of wild horses
Jennifer Wilder
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June 3, 2021
Poetry
junk in corners
james stephen
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June 2, 2021
Poetry
Retired
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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June 1, 2021
Art
Two New Works, 2021
Marcel Herms
-
May 28, 2021
Poetry
AVIDECO
Mark Anthony Pearce
-
May 27, 2021
Poetry
Pigeon religion
Maria Mazzenga
-
May 26, 2021
Contributor Blogs
“While You Wait” Anthology
Eliot Jacobson
-
May 25, 2021
Poetry
I give back all your kisses
Jennifer Wilder
-
May 22, 2021
Poetry
Existential Angst
Mike Casetta
-
May 20, 2021
Poetry
Sojourns
silent lotus
-
May 19, 2021
Contributor Blogs
Winners of the Poetry Contest, Lockdown Prayers, 2021
Soodabeh Saeidnia
-
May 18, 2021
Poetry
Digital Revenge
Jay Gandhi
-
May 17, 2021
Poetry
sausage poem
Mike Casetta
-
May 16, 2021
Poetry
Trauma Hamster Wheel
Jordan Trethewey
-
May 15, 2021
Poetry
Low Hanging Fruit
Julie Desmond
-
May 14, 2021
Contributor Blogs
Totally Disconnected
Eliot Jacobson
-
May 12, 2021
Photography
Limited Light
Paul Rabinowitz
-
May 9, 2021
Poetry
variety is a variation of similarity (email #409)
Ron Sardino
-
May 8, 2021
Poetry
Today I Need Your Best Poems
Cameron McClure
-
May 6, 2021
Poetry
Mirage
Mike Casetta
-
May 3, 2021
Poetry
OkCupid
Mike Casetta
-
May 2, 2021
Art
Archetypal Lovers
Chunbum Park
-
May 1, 2021
Poetry
unintended for this world
Ron Sardino
-
April 30, 2021
Contributor Blogs
Letter From the Nephew of a Nazi
Lance Jencks
-
April 29, 2021
Poetry
Canary Diamond
Sara Clancy
-
April 28, 2021
Art
BG Abstract NO.21
Elina Ghanbari
-
April 27, 2021
Poetry
I don’t want to make $ anymore
Lawrence George
-
April 26, 2021
Poetry
I think I died
Kaci Skiles Laws
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April 25, 2021
Poetry
Wendy and the flowers
Daniel J. Flore III
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April 24, 2021
Poetry
Woman with Cigarette
james stephen
-
April 23, 2021
Music
Selections from Forthcoming Album, “Low & Lily”
Jenn Zed
-
April 22, 2021
Poetry
Links
Martin Pedersen
-
April 20, 2021
Poetry
strange town, familiar smell
Anthony Hughes
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April 19, 2021
Poetry
pinned under a washing machine (spin cycle)
Ron Sardino
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April 18, 2021
Photography
Saturn Swings For The Moon – For Jenn Zed
Lance Jencks
-
April 17, 2021
Poetry
Troubles
Chloe Zumbrun
-
April 16, 2021
Art
World of silence in his ears
Marcel Herms
-
April 15, 2021
Art
Snagging the Bottom of the Ocean
Dale Patterson
-
April 14, 2021
Art
Asian Hybridity
Chunbum Park
-
April 13, 2021
Art
The Elephant Man Industry – Series
Jenn Zed
-
April 12, 2021
Art
Salander Café Racer
Jenn Zed
-
April 11, 2021
Contributor Blogs
tv appearance…
April 10, 2021
Poetry
Sweet Pea
Chloe Zumbrun
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April 9, 2021
Poetry
the first time I slept
Jennifer Wilder
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April 8, 2021
Poetry
Homage to Wong Kar Wai
Miya Ko
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April 7, 2021
Poetry
Why are you always defending him?
Jennifer Wilder
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March 26, 2021
Poetry
daylight savings
Rob Breeding
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March 19, 2021
Poetry
Gaslight
Miya Ko
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March 17, 2021
Art
Trailer Art
Ann Kammerer
-
March 16, 2021
Poetry
Other People’s Bathrobes
Trish Saunders
-
March 13, 2021
Art
Commencement
Dale Patterson
-
March 12, 2021
Poetry
a murder of words
Michael Acker
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March 11, 2021
Poetry
Clippings of bad poetry
Daniel J. Flore III
-
March 10, 2021
Poetry
The Flowers Who Wanted To Be a Woman
Paul Brookes
-
March 9, 2021
Poetry
Carpe Diem
Marc Woodward
-
March 8, 2021
Poetry
Road to Big Sur
Lance Jencks
-
March 7, 2021
Art
Analogue Signal
Dale Patterson
-
March 5, 2021
Art
Voices (calling me through the ceiling of my private room)
Marcel Herms
-
March 4, 2021
Poetry
michael visits his favorite webcam girl
Jennifer Wilder
-
March 3, 2021
Poetry
Hospital (Self Isolation Sonnet)
Paul Brookes
-
March 2, 2021
Art
L-Scape 9–Trip
Jenn Zed
-
March 1, 2021
Art
Wave Function
Chunbum Park
-
February 28, 2021
Photography
K. Thorn’s a Dancer
Jem Raid
-
February 27, 2021
Art
Don’t shoot the artist
R. jones
-
February 26, 2021
Art
# 43
james stephen
-
February 25, 2021
Art
LEGO Flowers
Chunbum Park
-
February 24, 2021
Art
Time for change
Marcel Herms
-
February 23, 2021
Poetry
Novelty
Hugh Lemma
-
February 22, 2021
Poetry
Galileo Never Rode a Rickshaw
Michael Acker
-
February 21, 2021
Poetry
Kim gets the red dress
Jennifer Wilder
-
February 20, 2021
Poetry
A drawing of the one that got away
Anthony Hughes
-
February 19, 2021
Poetry
10:08 a.m.
james stephen
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February 18, 2021
Poetry
Out of My Down-in-the-Dumps
Mike Casetta
-
February 17, 2021
Poetry
Regarding a Corpse
Andy Posner
-
February 16, 2021
Poetry
Scylla and Charybdis
Maria Mazzenga
-
February 15, 2021
Poetry
The Wood Conductor
Marc Woodward
-
February 14, 2021
Art
Black and White Abstracts–Series
Jenn Zed
-
February 13, 2021
Poetry
Laneville poem
Daniel J. Flore III
-
February 12, 2021
Poetry
Don’t You Worry, Jackie Boy
james stephen
-
February 11, 2021
Poetry
The Finesse of Oneness
silent lotus
-
February 10, 2021
Poetry
Questions I Would Ask Him
Sara Clancy
-
February 9, 2021
Art
Abstract Terms
Michael Acker
-
February 8, 2021
Poetry
Group Art
Miya Ko
-
February 7, 2021
Poetry
Getting Help
Tom Strong
-
February 6, 2021
Poetry
Beatles Fan from Buenos Aires
Mark Anthony Pearce
-
February 1, 2021
Poetry
Meth(odical) Fog
Starr
-
January 31, 2021
Art
UMWELT Series
Jenn Zed
-
January 30, 2021
Art
Storming the Capitol No. 1: White Man’s Rage
Cat Jones
-
January 29, 2021
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