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A Package from Home
The Two Stones
an interesting night in the emergency room
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You Are What You Do: A Labor Day Series of Various…
Gallery of Drawings by Michael Vignola
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Two Drawings by Tiko Lewis
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Great Blue Heron
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A Package from Home
Sherry Cassells
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October 17, 2025
The Two Stones
james stephen
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October 13, 2025
Poetry
an interesting night in the emergency room
Lance Watson
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October 11, 2025
Poetry
Explosions
Miya Ko
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October 6, 2025
Poetry
Alone
Dale M. Tushman
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October 2, 2025
Poetry
big nose (for Spark)
Tiko Lewis
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September 29, 2025
Poetry
Train
james stephen
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September 25, 2025
Poetry
how to be a great professor
Lance Watson
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September 22, 2025
Poetry
bottom of the glass
Lance Watson
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September 21, 2025
Poetry
An Old Dog Reads Keats
Bob Bradshaw
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September 17, 2025
Fiction
Art of the Steal: Portrait Gallery Appoints New Director With Unmatched...
Lance Watson
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September 14, 2025
Poetry
Potato Soup for the Lovelorn
heidi selig
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September 13, 2025
Poetry
time travel with karsten
Lance Watson
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September 10, 2025
Fiction
Your call is important to us
Lance Watson
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September 7, 2025
Quotations
Technology and Time
OAF Artists & Writers
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September 6, 2025
Fiction
The Golden Years of Gary Goldenberg
Lance Watson
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August 30, 2025
Poetry
Coins in the Canal
Grady VanWright
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August 29, 2025
Fiction
The Last Few Miles
Lance Watson
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August 26, 2025
Fiction
DELETE MY PICTURES
Lance Watson
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August 15, 2025
Non-fiction
The Urn
heidi selig
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August 14, 2025
Fiction
Big Semicolon Sale!
Raymond Huffman
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August 8, 2025
Poetry
good guys
Lance Watson
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August 5, 2025
Humor
billionaires gone bitchmode: the final tweetdown
Lance Watson
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August 1, 2025
Poetry
lessons from my dead father
Lance Watson
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July 31, 2025
Poetry
Hush
Hugh Lemma
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July 27, 2025
Fiction
The Season of Laughter
Grady VanWright
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July 23, 2025
Poetry
on the bench with karsten behind the grocery store
Lance Watson
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July 12, 2025
Poetry
Did we meet on Matchmakers.com?
Christine Dubuc
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July 9, 2025
Poetry
tomatoes
Lance Watson
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July 7, 2025
Art
.this.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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July 5, 2025
Poetry
counterpoint
Lance Watson
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June 30, 2025
Poetry
Tonight This Night
Matt Dennison
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June 28, 2025
Poetry
PATHETIC, ALL
Tom Riordan
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June 27, 2025
Poetry
Give me the match and I’ll do it
Autumnalis Galerina
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June 24, 2025
Fiction
A Peaceful World
Lance Watson
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June 21, 2025
Poetry
Outlaw
Mike Casetta
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June 20, 2025
Poetry
Twilight Cinema
D. E. Kern
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June 13, 2025
Non-fiction
The Hurt Vote
Grady VanWright
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June 6, 2025
Poetry
i love Trump
Lance Watson
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June 4, 2025
Poetry
Mad auntie Pauline was right
Niall M Oliver
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May 28, 2025
Fiction
The Christo Apartments
Sherry Cassells
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May 25, 2025
Fiction
Tariffs
Lance Watson
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May 22, 2025
Poetry
On Getting Old
Mike Casetta
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May 21, 2025
Poetry
Broke
Daniel J. Flore III
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May 18, 2025
Poetry
Townies
Acklum Harwood
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May 16, 2025
Poetry
The Chimney Hawk
Matt Dennison
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May 15, 2025
Poetry
New Dishes
Ann Kammerer
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May 11, 2025
Cartoon
The DOGZ of War
Lance Watson
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May 8, 2025
Fiction
Nightmares with Howie — Our Purple Years
Sherry Cassells
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May 7, 2025
Poetry
Not Unlike…
Michael Acker
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May 6, 2025
Poetry
Hope
Bethany Lim
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May 5, 2025
Poetry
I Woke Up and Johnny Cash Was Singing Personal Jesus
John Gurney
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May 4, 2025
Poetry
TIMES I FELT LIKE A LOSER
Daniel J. Flore III
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May 1, 2025
Poetry
.neutered.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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April 27, 2025
Poetry
Catching up with the Dead
Jennifer Wilder
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April 26, 2025
Poetry
What If We Did Everything Right?
Hugh Lemma
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April 25, 2025
Poetry
First World Problem
Lance Jencks
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April 23, 2025
Poetry
Artemis
Tom Riordan
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April 20, 2025
Creative Non-Fiction
Feb. 1, 2025
heidi selig
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April 18, 2025
Poetry
Elegy for American Democracy
Mark Grinyer
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April 13, 2025
Fiction
Opening Sentences 101
Sherry Cassells
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April 12, 2025
Poetry
From the Retirement Home, Emailing Love Letters to My Dead Wife
Bob Bradshaw
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April 6, 2025
Poetry
New Orleans Airport Chapel
Tom Riordan
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March 30, 2025
Fiction
Racoon Hunting
Elizabeth Dunn
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March 28, 2025
Poetry
Visions
Alexander Limarev
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March 23, 2025
Poetry
How Do You Know When You’re Dead
John Gurney
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March 14, 2025
Poetry
Cancer is a window into death
heidi selig
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March 11, 2025
Poetry
Dog Pees on Moonlit Snow
heidi selig
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February 22, 2025
Fiction
Benny the Bard: A Modern Epic
Grady VanWright
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February 21, 2025
Poetry
Gray is the Only Color Containing All Colors (and it’s also...
Robert Stastny
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January 10, 2025
Fiction
Forty-Fives
Ann Kammerer
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January 7, 2025
Poetry
IT’S CHRISTMAS AND I’M THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS THE BALLS...
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 25, 2024
Poetry
Candy Box Kazoos
Barry Burgess
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December 23, 2024
Poetry
Clock Radio #2: The Bukowski Issue
Jay Dougherty
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December 22, 2024
Showcase
along the stream that fell from clouds & other poems
Milner Place
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December 21, 2024
Poetry
The Final Love Poem
Cheryl Leverette
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December 20, 2024
Quotations
I just get tired
Charles Bukowski
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December 19, 2024
Poetry
There Should Be an Animal
Matt Dennison
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December 17, 2024
Poetry
Now
james stephen
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December 16, 2024
Poetry
EARLY CHRISTMAS
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 13, 2024
Poetry
The Purpose of Floors
Matt Dennison
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December 12, 2024
Poetry
The Price of Eggs
Andy Posner
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December 6, 2024
Poetry
The Poem I Didn’t Want To Write
Grady VanWright
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December 4, 2024
Fiction
Mother
Kaci Skiles Laws
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November 30, 2024
Humor
this poem is for every drunk who is sober today
Mike Casetta
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November 21, 2024
Non-fiction
Dad
heidi selig
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November 19, 2024
Fiction
Note taped on door: To the occupants of 107 Borbleblartt Street
heidi selig
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November 14, 2024
Poetry
Pantoum: American Recessional
Wim Coleman
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October 25, 2024
Poetry
ASSHOLE
Daniel J. Flore III
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October 23, 2024
Poetry
googling for hope
Rob Breeding
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October 13, 2024
Fiction
Night Walk
Pat Perrin
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October 12, 2024
Poetry
When I got free
Anisa Mosaiebiniya
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October 4, 2024
Fiction
The Hitman
Michael Acker
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October 2, 2024
Poetry
Anaphora
Wim Coleman
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September 21, 2024
Fiction
HomeGirl
Dale M. Tushman
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September 20, 2024
Poetry
Potter’s Island
Wim Coleman
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September 11, 2024
Poetry
Johnny the Cat
Lawrence George
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September 9, 2024
Poetry
Prelude in E Minor or Milner Place Hoists Sail
Mark A. Murphy
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September 7, 2024
Poetry
Hunger
Matt Dennison
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September 2, 2024
Poetry
Three Thin Shadows
Matt Dennison
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August 31, 2024
Fiction
David’s Wife
Kaci Skiles Laws
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August 30, 2024
Non-fiction
Pushing Potatoes at a Point in Time
Kay Elewski
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August 9, 2024
Fiction
Androcles & Mars
Sherry Cassells
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August 8, 2024
Fiction
The Man Speaks
Matt Dennison
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August 4, 2024
Fiction
The Cure
Jordan Trethewey
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August 3, 2024
Poetry
Suicidal in Tuscany
Jenn Zed
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August 2, 2024
Fiction
The Interview
Sherry Cassells
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July 28, 2024
Poetry
Liminal
David Belcher
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July 26, 2024
Fiction
Magnets of Faith and Knowing
Matt Dennison
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July 23, 2024
Poetry
The Wind
Matt Dennison
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July 16, 2024
Poetry
One of the Many Reasons I Miss You
Mike Casetta
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July 7, 2024
Creative Non-Fiction
Martyr Musical
Davey Do
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July 4, 2024
Poetry
EARTH LAG
Daniel J. Flore III
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July 3, 2024
Poetry
Mom Called
Sara Clancy
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July 1, 2024
Poetry
JAWIN’ WITH THE WIND
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 29, 2024
Fiction
Very Best Mother
Kaci Skiles Laws
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June 28, 2024
Non-fiction
Camel
Colin Payton
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June 26, 2024
Fiction
Bereaved
Kaci Skiles Laws
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June 18, 2024
Fiction
Last Word Dressed in a Gray Suit
Akeith Walters
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June 14, 2024
Poetry
Sparks
Elina Ghanbari
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June 11, 2024
Poetry
Remembering Sand
Trish Saunders
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June 9, 2024
Non-fiction
Love Springs from Descendants of the Personal Ad
Kay Elewski
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June 8, 2024
Poetry
Birds of Florida
Bob Bradshaw
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May 31, 2024
Non-fiction
Day 98449509735209
Robert Stastny
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May 25, 2024
Fiction
BULLSHIT INSURANCE
Daniel J. Flore III
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May 24, 2024
Poetry
Apprehension
Ray Miller
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May 23, 2024
Poetry
Beginning with “needless”
james stephen
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May 22, 2024
Poetry
Cereal for Dinner
Jordan Trethewey
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May 21, 2024
Poetry
Trains are Shorter, Now
Skyler Kimock
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May 20, 2024
Poetry
The Bears in my Life
John Gurney
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May 19, 2024
Poetry
Guangdon
Andy Posner
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May 18, 2024
Poetry
On A Wednesday Morning
Hugh Lemma
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May 17, 2024
Poetry
The Moon On The Moor
Marc Woodward
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May 16, 2024
Poetry
Mid-January
Skyler Kimock
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May 15, 2024
Poetry
Reasons to Send Advice-Givers On Their Way
Trish Saunders
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May 14, 2024
Poetry
THE SPIRIT ANIMAL SOCIETY
Jefferson Carter
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May 13, 2024
Poetry
Light the Candle
Bob Bradshaw
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May 12, 2024
Poetry
When we finally met
Elizabeth Dunn
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May 11, 2024
Poetry
The Voodoo of Doll Shoes
John Gurney
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May 10, 2024
Poetry
WHY YOU SHOULDN’T BE A POET
Daniel J. Flore III
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May 9, 2024
Poetry
Cheeseburgers and Tattoos
Matt Dennison
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May 7, 2024
Poetry
Holding the Center
D. E. Kern
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May 6, 2024
Poetry
Endless Rain and Wine
Trish Saunders
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May 5, 2024
Fiction
We Drove to LA from Phoenix in 1965 to Buy French...
Mike Casetta
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May 4, 2024
Poetry
It’s Okay to Sleep
Jay Gandhi
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May 3, 2024
Poetry
January thinking
Jan Harper
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May 2, 2024
Poetry
In Three Parts
Michael Acker
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May 1, 2024
Poetry
A Big Pit
Paul Brookes
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April 30, 2024
Poetry
Thank you
Hugh Lemma
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April 29, 2024
Poetry
I’m Going to Let Myself Go
Sara Clancy
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April 28, 2024
Poetry
Writing Group
Ann Kammerer
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April 27, 2024
Poetry
Saṃsāra
Matt Dennison
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April 25, 2024
Poetry
Sweet Treat
Ann Kammerer
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April 24, 2024
Poetry
In Love with a Woman in Her Later Years (for Harmina)
Ieuan ap hywel
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April 23, 2024
Poetry
Stung by news of poaching
David Belcher
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April 22, 2024
Poetry
an offering of peanuts
Rob Breeding
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April 21, 2024
Poetry
New Years Day
John Gurney
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April 20, 2024
Poetry
Where Is Peace On Earth? (After Linda Pastan)
Hugh Lemma
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April 19, 2024
Poetry
Mediums
D. E. Kern
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April 18, 2024
Poetry
An Idyllic Sickness
Jordan Trethewey
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April 16, 2024
Poetry
THE MOST RECENT CONVERSATION
Obed Ladiny
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April 15, 2024
Poetry
Looking through you
Ken Tomaro
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April 14, 2024
Poetry
Enlightenment
Andy Posner
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April 13, 2024
Poetry
Leak at the Gym
Rich Glinnen
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April 11, 2024
Poetry
Pigeon
Skyler Kimock
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April 9, 2024
Poetry
A long time
Oliver Stansfield
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April 6, 2024
Poetry
Because time is an artist
Sara Clancy
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April 5, 2024
Poetry
The Man I Fell in Love With
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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April 4, 2024
Poetry
Adept
Matt Dennison
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April 3, 2024
Poetry
Why I Am Moving to Ireland
D. E. Kern
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April 2, 2024
Fiction
Watercolour Lake
Sherry Cassells
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March 31, 2024
Poetry
Zacchaeus
Dale Patterson
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March 30, 2024
Poetry
Why America’s Democracy Is Going Bankrupt
Mike Casetta
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March 28, 2024
Poetry
The Daughter
Peter Cashorali
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March 27, 2024
Poetry
My Chaste Eye
Paul Brookes
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March 26, 2024
Poetry
The Tree Ring Record
Tom Strong
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March 25, 2024
Poetry
Zealots
Mike Casetta
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March 23, 2024
Poetry
And holy holy, the life it held
Nathalie Spaans
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March 22, 2024
Poetry
The Dead Out Here
james stephen
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March 18, 2024
Poetry
Little Infinities
Hugh Lemma
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March 16, 2024
Poetry
Charlie Goes to New Castle
Robert Stastny
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March 15, 2024
Poetry
Baba Yaga, a Twisted Ghazal
Susan Peters
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March 14, 2024
Poetry
Two Poets
Miya Ko
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March 13, 2024
Poetry
The Love Death Cannot Touch
Tom Strong
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March 12, 2024
Poetry
Tribute from a Wooden Hut
Ieuan ap hywel
-
March 11, 2024
Poetry
Strand #1: Abstractions
Hugh Lemma
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March 10, 2024
Poetry
Pay rate sucks, but
Obed Ladiny
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March 9, 2024
Poetry
Afterlife
Sara Clancy
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March 6, 2024
Photography
Coastal Epiphanies
Morgan Driscoll
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March 5, 2024
Fiction
Sisters
Sherry Cassells
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March 2, 2024
Poetry
Mourning In Five Parts
Hugh Lemma
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February 29, 2024
Poetry
The Nature of Your Emergency
Morgan Driscoll
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February 28, 2024
Poetry
The Ancients
Matt Dennison
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February 27, 2024
Poetry
Day Trip with Dog
Mike Casetta
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February 26, 2024
Poetry
7:55a.m.
james stephen
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February 23, 2024
Poetry
A thread in Crete
Nathalie Spaans
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February 22, 2024
Poetry
Afterlight
Hugh Lemma
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February 21, 2024
Poetry
it wasn’t pornographic
silent lotus
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February 20, 2024
Poetry
September’s End
Hugh Lemma
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February 18, 2024
Poetry
terlingua
Rob Breeding
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February 17, 2024
Poetry
..as a child..
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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February 16, 2024
Poetry
BREAKFAST ALFRESCO
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 14, 2024
Poetry
Abscission
Tom Strong
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February 13, 2024
Poetry
Cats
Matt Dennison
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February 12, 2024
Poetry
Metazure
Hugh Lemma
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February 10, 2024
Poetry
In a Forest
Sherry Cassells
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February 9, 2024
Fiction
If I Should Die
Kaci Skiles Laws
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February 8, 2024
Poetry
Salsa with Doubt
Jay Gandhi
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February 7, 2024
Poetry
Morning Visit
Peter Cashorali
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February 6, 2024
Fiction
I Got Bats
Sherry Cassells
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February 5, 2024
Fiction
Jack Struggles with an Equation
Cameron McClure
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February 4, 2024
Poetry
THE RUSTY WHITE PICK UP
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 3, 2024
Poetry
Dappled Daisies and Curious Butterflies
Matt Dennison
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February 2, 2024
Fiction
Snowfire
Cameron McClure
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February 1, 2024
Fiction
A face of regal splendor
Nathalie Spaans
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January 31, 2024
Poetry
Four Interlaced Horses -Ekphrasis
Susan Peters
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January 30, 2024
Poetry
WITH THE NEON LIGHTS OF THE STRIP CLUB FLASHING
Daniel J. Flore III
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January 29, 2024
Fiction
Two Requests
Walter Rimler
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January 28, 2024
Poetry
Imaginary telephone
David Belcher
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January 27, 2024
Poetry
A Dream of the Basement
Vincent Casaregola
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January 26, 2024
Poetry
Abruptly
silent lotus
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January 25, 2024
Poetry
Absolution
Tom Strong
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January 24, 2024
Poetry
We will now inventory obsolete lonely sounds in the world
Trish Saunders
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January 23, 2024
Poetry
Tied Down
Ann Kammerer
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January 22, 2024
Fiction
My Father’s Minutes
Sherry Cassells
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January 19, 2024
Poetry
Blackbird
Cameron McClure
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January 18, 2024
Fiction
Why I Believe Everything
Sherry Cassells
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January 17, 2024
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