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Love of Lilacs: A Photographic Gallery by Rod Raglin
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Writing
Love of Lilacs: A Photographic Gallery by Rod Raglin
Rod Raglin
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May 29, 2026
War Season
Lance Watson
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May 26, 2026
Fiction
Subtitles: 12
Matthew James Babcock
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December 20, 2018
Poetry
I try not to depend on anyone
Cheryl Leverette
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December 19, 2018
Poetry
The Shearer
John Austin
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December 18, 2018
Poetry
Koan #5378 (Extended Version)
Dick Holmes
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December 17, 2018
Poetry
No Carp in the Park
silent lotus
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December 16, 2018
Poetry
What Do You Call This? Bubba Ganish?
Michael Acker
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December 14, 2018
Poetry
Reverse Rumi
Paul Brookes
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December 12, 2018
Poetry
Oldies but Goodies
Tom Riordan
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December 9, 2018
Poetry
I’m Not Saying They Are Liars
Mike Casetta
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October 17, 2018
Poetry
orbit of a sacrifice
Amanda Villafranco
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October 15, 2018
Poetry
Gottfried and Klarissa
Dick Holmes
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October 10, 2018
Poetry
When I die don’t post it on Facebook
Michael Ashley
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October 8, 2018
Poetry
lemme say this while ain’t nobody lookin’
Tiko Lewis
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October 7, 2018
Poetry
Fidelity
Bethany Lim
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October 6, 2018
Poetry
Such a Worm as I
Morgan Driscoll
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October 5, 2018
Poetry
my-Tune
Jay Gandhi
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September 30, 2018
Poetry
You Are Here
Mike Casetta
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September 25, 2018
Poetry
The Familiar
Greg Grummer
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September 23, 2018
Poetry
Bad Habits
Jefferson Carter
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September 21, 2018
Poetry
I’d like to avoid dementia
Sara Clancy
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September 15, 2018
Poetry
The Day Before Departure
Hugh Lemma
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September 11, 2018
Poetry
Stinson Beach
Claire Mora Parsons
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September 10, 2018
Poetry
Fistfirst
Albert Lee
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September 9, 2018
Poetry
Similarities I Share With Jesus
Mike Casetta
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September 7, 2018
Poetry
Packing Up the House
Sara Clancy
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September 6, 2018
Letters
Charles Bukowski Letter to Douglas Goodwin, May 25, 1983
Charles Bukowski
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September 3, 2018
Poetry
Flight
Nancy Johnson James
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September 2, 2018
Poetry
I Suffer Fools
Sara Clancy
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September 1, 2018
Poetry
Unhurried
Morgan Driscoll
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August 29, 2018
Poetry
Pills
Hugh Lemma
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August 24, 2018
Poetry
One Month After
Sara Clancy
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August 22, 2018
Poetry
aristotle’s ant
Tom Riordan
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August 21, 2018
Poetry
The Selfie
Michael Acker
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August 20, 2018
Poetry
How to Be the Happy One at House Parties
Andrew Rogers
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August 19, 2018
Poetry
What I should have told her
Sara Clancy
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August 14, 2018
Poetry
America America
Michael Ashley
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August 12, 2018
Fiction
Gajra
Jay Gandhi
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August 11, 2018
Poetry
Melon Man
Gerard Sarnat
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August 9, 2018
Poetry
Coyotes
Steve Klepetar
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August 2, 2018
Poetry
Pantoum for Changsha
Brendan Christopher
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August 1, 2018
Poetry
Good Germans
Jefferson Carter
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July 28, 2018
Poetry
If I Could Paint
Michael Rollain
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July 22, 2018
Writing
rather not
Tom Riordan
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July 21, 2018
Poetry
Phonetics
Bethany Lim
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July 20, 2018
Poetry
A Short Tribute To The Word Quiver
Michael Thomas Ellis
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July 17, 2018
Poetry
even
July 15, 2018
Writing
No Solace for Bastards
Michael Ashley
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July 13, 2018
Poetry
The Last Time in the Hospital
Mary McCarthy
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July 12, 2018
Poetry
a sparrow in the fist, an eagle on Everest
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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July 11, 2018
Poetry
Border Reflections
Steve Klepetar
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July 8, 2018
Poetry
Before and After the Blast
Jay Dougherty
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July 7, 2018
Poetry
Sonnet
Allan Johnston
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July 6, 2018
Poetry
Moving Day
Kani Basami
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July 5, 2018
Poetry
moths under bar light
Michael Rollain
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July 5, 2018
Poetry
never scrub saffron in a metal mortar
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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July 4, 2018
Poetry
bukowski
Michael Acker
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July 4, 2018
Poetry
Old Glory
Tom Riordan
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July 3, 2018
Poetry
Actual Persons, Living or Dead
Michelle Brooks
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July 3, 2018
Poetry
Sheep
Allan Johnston
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July 2, 2018
Poetry
approaching 70…
July 2, 2018
Poetry
the world would split open
Jess Kangas
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July 1, 2018
Showcase
Poems from “An American Score”
Eric Elshtain
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July 1, 2018
Poetry
Missing
Claire Mora Parsons
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June 30, 2018
Showcase
The Miki Collection
Jenn Zed
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June 30, 2018
Poetry
the Zebra Crossing was under water
silent lotus
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June 29, 2018
Poetry
Odorous
Michael Acker
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June 28, 2018
Poetry
all natural zero calorie existence
Tiko Lewis
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June 27, 2018
Poetry
Eutrema and Other Poems
Anastasia Jill
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June 26, 2018
Poetry
A Great Fuck
Tom Riordan
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June 24, 2018
Poetry
Skin The
Paul Brookes
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June 22, 2018
Readings
Reprise
Cameron McClure
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June 22, 2018
Poetry
Simone Weil and the ugly piano
Jenn Zed
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June 21, 2018
Poetry
Calibrations
Cameron McClure
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June 19, 2018
Poetry
Giants
James Spears
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June 18, 2018
Poetry
Everyone Wears Black
Jenn Zed
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June 18, 2018
Poetry
Commuting: the Sentence
Edmund Conti
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June 18, 2018
Poetry
It’s been so long
Lyn Lifshin
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June 18, 2018
Poetry
The Bird Outside Our Kitchen
Lance Jencks
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June 17, 2018
Readings
Melinda, things I used to knowÂ
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 15, 2018
Poetry
Why I have weaponized the thistledown
Ian Badcoe
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June 12, 2018
Poetry
Now that you’re asleep
Jay Gandhi
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June 11, 2018
Poetry
How to Become Invisible
Mary McCarthy
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June 11, 2018
Poetry
Wild-Flower Picker in a Straitjacket
Nigel Lofthouse
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June 7, 2018
Poetry
Ahmed’s Sparrow
Starr
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June 6, 2018
Poetry
Maria
Jay Gandhi
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June 5, 2018
Poetry
Assassination of a Critic
Lance Jencks
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June 3, 2018
Poetry
Less Tomorrow
James Spears
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June 3, 2018
Poetry
Most times though we’d sit
Michael Ashley
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June 3, 2018
Poetry
Daffodil Spikes and Tulip Skewers
Jordan Trethewey
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June 2, 2018
Poetry
Unit 6
Starr
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June 2, 2018
Poetry
The astronaut
Maria Mazzenga
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June 2, 2018
Poetry
Scooter
Paul Brookes
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June 2, 2018
Poetry
Their thoughts move out of their bodies
David Belcher
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June 1, 2018
Poetry
Karin Dreijer Andersson
Jenn Zed
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May 31, 2018
Poetry
The Arena of Aesthetic Elaboration
Jenn Zed
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May 31, 2018
Poetry
Last Year’s Census
James Spears
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May 29, 2018
Poetry
Heating up the car
Daniel J. Flore III
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May 29, 2018
Poetry
Bliss
Michael Ashley
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May 27, 2018
Poetry
Haikuesquecuses
Matt Dennison
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May 27, 2018
Poetry
survivors
Maria Mazzenga
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May 27, 2018
Poetry
Tony The Lip
May 22, 2018
Poetry
A Messiah Morning
silent lotus
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May 21, 2018
Poetry
Curating Dust in Digital Times
Jordan Trethewey
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May 19, 2018
Poetry
Pale Yellow with Self-Doubt
Maria Mazzenga
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May 19, 2018
Fiction
Unpublished Page
Lance Jencks
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May 14, 2018
Poetry
#Metoo Today
Maria Mazzenga
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April 27, 2018
Quotations
On Labor
Henry David Thoreau
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April 26, 2018
Art
TIMOTHY
Thomas Yarbrough
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April 26, 2018
Poetry
CLOUD BUKOWSKI
Matt Dennison
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April 22, 2018
Poetry
Don’t ask me
Jess Kangas
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April 22, 2018
Poetry
I disappeared
Jess Kangas
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April 22, 2018
Fiction
my apartment burned down last night
Jess Kangas
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April 22, 2018
Poetry
DOOR MAT
Lyn Lifshin
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April 19, 2018
Poetry
After
Steve Richmond
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April 16, 2018
Poetry
Message from my mother
Julia Schott
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April 13, 2018
Readings
The Bird
Matt Dennison
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April 12, 2018
Poetry
Lo-Fi
Jenn Zed
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April 11, 2018
Art
Hangman
Thomas Yarbrough
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April 11, 2018
Poetry
OMAHA
Matt Dennison
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April 10, 2018
Poetry
Jimmy
Anthony Hughes
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April 8, 2018
Poetry
Moving Day
Anthony Hughes
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April 5, 2018
Letters
Early Aperilll…1985
Charles Bukowski
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April 4, 2018
Poetry
April’s rent
Daniel J. Flore III
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April 1, 2018