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Covid TimesArt, Featured, Photography, Poetry, Showcase

Covid Times

OAF Artists & WritersMay 18, 2020

Sarah Clancy May 2020 This crazy spring froze me right inside its own unnatural thaw. When I look to the generation behind myself I…

I’m Sorry I Cannot Attend Your PartyPoetry

I’m Sorry I Cannot Attend Your Party

Lisa SummeMay 17, 2020

It’s not your taste for cheap beer or the fact that your couch smells like boys. It’s not the way your little cat gets…

On Doing Good in AmericaPoetry

On Doing Good in America

Andy PosnerMay 15, 2020

“If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.” —Bill Gates We admire the philanthropist for…

The too real dream of guilt in one glancePoetry

The too real dream of guilt in one glance

Lyn LifshinMay 6, 2020

I’ve been living with someone who is good      but a lover, an ex-con hunk’s back in town. It doesn’t matter he’s been…

Indian SummerPoetry, Showcase

Indian Summer

Irene HanFebruary 27, 2020

Medusa It’s late August in the city: sweet summer’s coming to a close. But where are you? The democratic debates have started, but I’m…

Eulogy of FablesPoetry

Eulogy of Fables

Miya KoFebruary 26, 2020

now that the hands can tell carnations from wood & the feet also understand the soothing of clay please let me confess that i…

Allegory for an Unreasonable AgePoetry

Allegory for an Unreasonable Age

Andy PosnerFebruary 23, 2020

It was in Spain that men learned one can be right and still be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times…

Halo Light in Dark SkyPoetry

Halo Light in Dark Sky

Renee ElizabethFebruary 22, 2020

I tried to go to the store, but drove straight toward the huge moon. My car didn't sprout wings. I could not fly, so…

A petaled seasonPoetry

A petaled season

Daniel J. Flore IIIFebruary 21, 2020

all summer long I looked at flowers without even noticing they were there

Lechmere ViaductPoetry

Lechmere Viaduct

StarrFebruary 18, 2020

How do they cram all those sardines into each green can? Science is an afterthought.    

The HumanistPoetry

The Humanist

David BelcherFebruary 16, 2020

The hearth cracked, ashes spilling from the fire grate; and that same day a bird flew inside the house, a starling. Reaching out to…