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Photography, ShowcaseMirage: Selected Photography, Japan 2026
Click or tap any image to view it full size. Artist Statement Urban Underdogs “Being beautiful isn’t about the way you dress or…
Blog, Poetry, Publications, ShowcaseFree Book Download: A Tub, a Cigarette, a Blank Stare by Daniel J. Flore III
Open Arts Press is pleased to announce the publication of Daniel J. Flore III's new poetry collection, A Tub, a Cigarette, a Blank Stare:…
Art, ShowcaseA Gallery of 43 Mixed Media Paintings by Marcel Herms, Previously Unpublished on the OAF Front Page
Click on any thumbnail to see the image full size and launch a slideshow. Editor's note: Marcel Herms is a well-known…
Poetry, Showcasealong the stream that fell from clouds & other poems
along the stream that fell from clouds he came upon a pile of bones recognized the glaze and angles as his own kicked them…
Art, ShowcaseTank Girl..series
Tank Girl - 1 Pencil, graphic ink pencil, coloured acrylic inks, ink brush, coloured pencils, chalk pastels, black ink on Strathmore Illustration Board -…
Blog, Fiction, Poetry, ShowcaseClock Radio #3 – Featuring Charles Bukowski’s “A gentle, alcoholic night”
This is the second time that Charles Bukowski appeared in my little magazine Clock Radio of the mid to late 1980s. He and I had…
Poetry, ShowcaseThe Book of Unknowing
The Book of Unknowing 1 What is this scrim between Music and the self? Who is incarcerated for The crime of lucidity? 2 How…
