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MINOTAUR

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

Come What May

Michael Acker -
Poetry

Someone puts out a light

David Belcher -
Poetry

Pilot Light

Starr -
Poetry

BEAR STREET

Mark Anthony Pearce -
Poetry

It’s All My Fault

Eliot Jacobson -
Poetry

Write a Poem to Yourself for Your Ninetieth Birthday

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Grove of Trees Under Which We Are Side by Side, Shape...

Chloe Zumbrun -
Poetry

Ars Poetica

Michele Harris -
Poetry

This is How it Ends

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Poetry

no lighthouse for the smog in my eyes

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Melissa’s Bicycle

Lawrence George -
Poetry

Fire Moon Rising

Mark Grinyer -
Poetry

.salvation

Tiko Lewis -
Poetry

Just Another Dream Waking

RC James -
Poetry

October Surprise

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Father

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Poetry

Misery Chic

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

This is me not exaggerating

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Childless

KIMBERLY McNeil -
Poetry

Pig Latin

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Poetry

My head is a guillotine

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

How to Survive an Apocalypse

Andy Posner -
Poetry

In the Port of Saint Petersburg

Alfie Shoyger -
Poetry

Changing Shapes of Rain

Miya Ko -
Poetry

In honour of pets

Jordan Trethewey -
Poetry

Exhibition stand jewelry

Roger Fizzerton -
Poetry

September 19, 2020

Michael Thomas Ellis -
Poetry

Lazy Pencils

Jay Gandhi -
Poetry

Kiss from God

Susan Peters -
Poetry

Witnessing

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Coupling

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

By the Maple

Miya Ko -
Poetry

How old do you think I am?

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Liberated Me

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

Edwin

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Her Knickers

Paul Brookes -
Poetry

A Love Sonnet Written on the Occasion of the Death of...

Andy Posner -
Poetry

Rick

Poetry

Finish to Start

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

Bedtime, Children!

Susan Peters -
Poetry

Lockdown

Miya Ko -
Poetry

Cyndi Lauper Turns 80

Lawrence George -
Poetry

Terns

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

The truck has a large red logo on its side

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

With Your Voice

Mark A. Murphy -
Poetry

Heartsongs—an anagram

Joan Colby -
Poetry

SHELTERING AT HOME

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

Spying on My Beloved Ghosts

Susan Peters -
Poetry

Livestreaming My Own Suicide

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

You came to me upon the weakness of a rose petal

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Days

Oliver Stansfield -
Poetry

Selections from “poems from the deck”

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Neon Neck

Michael Thomas Ellis -
Poetry

Seeing My Donated Dress on Sale at Goodwill

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

The band of St Carmen’s holy church Santa Cruz

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Ikebana

Tom Strong -
Poetry

Look up from the pavement, won’t you?

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

the mike pence school of gay conversion therapy

Lawrence George -
Poetry

I want to hug

Jordan Trethewey -
Poetry

Misanthropy In F U Minor

Michael Thomas Ellis -
Poetry

The fattest guy at the pool

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Popular Wireless Park

KIMBERLY McNeil -
Poetry

anticipating the dog

Delainie Littlejohn -
Poetry

slave songs—2020

Tiko Lewis -
Poetry

200Kmph and Nineteen, Berlin

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

I am he shouted

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

ancient roadblocks

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

Organ Recital at Saint-Eustache

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

Homo insatiens

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

Flashback

Miya Ko -
Poetry

Ward 8

Starr -
Poetry

lilt in a breeze

Stella Read -
Poetry

Calendar on the wall throwing flowers

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Morning Staff Meeting at the VA

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Chimera

Bethany Lim -
Poetry

I Long to Join the Conga Line

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Benediction for a Baby Born in 2020

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

A Café Terrace Confession

silent lotus -
Poetry

Unspoken

Michael Acker -
Poetry

goddamn how i miss the late 70s

Lawrence George -
Poetry

..done some asemic stuff..

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
Poetry

No Lines

Paul Brookes -
Poetry

It’s been so long, since when did hope breathe its way...

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

It still happens

Tom Strong -
Poetry

The Re-Appropriation of a Jewish Icon

Michael Acker -
Poetry

The Daughter May Be Let Off

Lyn Lifshin -
Poetry

If I were a god

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

at the doctor’s today,

Poetry

RUBY

John D Robinson -
Poetry

Concrete Poetry

Dale Patterson -
Poetry

. i been drawing trees .

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
Poetry

Charlie Ottoway

Milner Place -
Poetry

Why are you so sad?

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Poetry

Pulling Thread from a Red Paisley Pillow

Dale Patterson -
Poetry

Sometimes

Connie Carmichael -
Poetry

Silent Birds

Enas Suleiman -
Poetry

critical thinkers

Hanna Abi Akl -
Poetry

I HAD CALLED IN SICK

John D Robinson -
Poetry

Chain Book Store

Jennifer MacBain-Stephens -
Poetry

A Whiter House

Oliver Stansfield -
Poetry

Falling Asleep to an Imagined Pretty Girl

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Since then I’ve never said she died

Tom Strong -
Poetry

The Wind Blows Hard Against His White Fence

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

slave songs—2020

Tiko Lewis -
Showcase

Coming Out & Other Poems

Lisa Summe -
Poetry

Election Day: When My Blood Is on the Ballot

Andy Posner -
Poetry

Gone Home

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Frankenstein Unwritten

Wim Coleman -
Poetry

blackthren & brownthren

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

A Failed Attempt at Re-parenting

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Full Metal Bitch

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

a dog is a dog

Cheryl Leverette -
Poetry

REMY, LULU, AND THE BIG NOSE

Tom Strong -
Showcase

Covid Times

OAF Artists & Writers -
Poetry

I’m Sorry I Cannot Attend Your Party

Lisa Summe -
Poetry

On Doing Good in America

Andy Posner -
Poetry

The too real dream of guilt in one glance

Lyn Lifshin -
Showcase

Indian Summer

Irene Han -
Poetry

Eulogy of Fables

Miya Ko -
Poetry

the canvas of the covenant

silent lotus -
Poetry

Allegory for an Unreasonable Age

Andy Posner -
Poetry

Halo Light in Dark Sky

Renee Elizabeth -
Poetry

A petaled season

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

The lady you keep yapping with on the phone

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Lechmere Viaduct

Starr -
Poetry

The Humanist

David Belcher -
Poetry

Three Double Takes

Wim Coleman -
Poetry

Bathroom Haiku

Niall M Oliver -
Readings

I felt so secure I even wanted the flies there

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Blow Job

Miya Ko -
Poetry

HIS T-SHIRT

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

Killing conspicuous

Tom Strong -
Poetry

in pursuit of dead presidents

Obed Ladiny -
Poetry

Lies Told by a Metronome

Wim Coleman -
Readings

I hated Tamaqua

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

& as far from

silent lotus -
Poetry

spiegel im spiegel

Michael Acker -
Poetry

Gateleg Table

Joan Colby -
Poetry

My doctor said to play with my cat as a coping...

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Call this

Roger Fizzerton -
Poetry

Pageantry

silent lotus -
Poetry

saying goodbye

Stella Read -
Poetry

if your death were a myth

Stella Read -
Poetry

vámonos a la playa

Lawrence George -
Poetry

The Minstrel Savior

Wim Coleman -
Poetry

Toe Tappin’

Michael B. Carroll Jr. -
Poetry

Believe You Me

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Boxes

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

Capitalism in Cambodia

Lawrence George -
Poetry

The red fantail is my favorite

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

Is There Freedom in Forgetting or Being Forgotten?

Andy Posner -
Poetry

Setting Precedent

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Big Orange Sun

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

here’s why you do it

Lawrence George -
Poetry

Leaving the New Hope Farm House

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

My Co-Workers Are All Ghosts

Susan Peters -
Poetry

I have never known a Tasmanian…

Delainie Littlejohn -
Poetry

QUEPOS

Martina Reisz Newberry -
Poetry

What remains behind

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Countless

Elvis Otis -
Poetry

Sweet Jane

Jenn Zed -
Showcase

Delainie’s little something or others

Delainie Littlejohn -
Poetry

Selfie with a Dying Cat

Lisa Summe -
Poetry

negative balance at the flea market lice market

Daniel J. Flore III -
Readings

poetry yard sale

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Eaten up by an empty ache

David Belcher -
Poetry

Last Ode to a Sweet Apricot

Miya Ko -
Poetry

The World Tree

Margarita Serafimova -
Poetry

Death of a Horse Chestnut

Marc Woodward -
Poetry

How to Gut a Carp

Chloe Monet Sutch -
Poetry

Sightseeing

Tom Strong -
Poetry

The first time I French kissed you

Lisa Summe -
Poetry

birds and other fly creatures

Anthony Hughes -
Poetry

work

Jess Kangas -
Poetry

Haiku

Stella Read -
Poetry

Aubade

Gerald Parker -
Fiction

Air Bag

Jill Winkowski -
Poetry

Okay, Then (A Boomer Replies)

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

To Stick Around

Boston Gordon -
Poetry

Selfie as a Dyke

Lisa Summe -
Poetry

The Right Things

Lisa Summe -
Poetry

America in 2019

Wim Coleman -
Poetry

Poem in Which I Imagine My Dad Agrees to Shave My...

Lisa Summe -
Poetry

Coming Out

Lisa Summe -
Poetry

Old Maid

Casey Killingsworth -
Poetry

inkspill

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Anna and the Scourge

RC James -
Poetry

He Will Build Wings from Sheets of Paper

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Thick as thieves

Casey Killingsworth -
Poetry

Breathless

Josianne Barrette-Moran -
Poetry

Red

Amanda Villafranco -
Poetry

Eclogue for Santa Isabel

July Westhale -
Poetry

The Day Glenn Miller’s Plane Disappeared

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Daniel J. Flore III: Poetry reading at Newtown Bookshop

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

The House on Tilden Avenue

Jose Oseguera -
Poetry

A More Perfect Union

Andy Posner -
Showcase

The Window & Other Works

Renee Elizabeth -
Poetry

Setting Precedent

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

The Joy of Hurling Trash

Susan Peters -
Poetry

Kaiwah Island/Ocean Course

Dale Patterson -
Poetry

Rakinewis (The Capestrano Warrior)

Marc Woodward -
Poetry

SECRETS

Martina Reisz Newberry -
Poetry

The Future of Rain

Eliot Jacobson -
Poetry

As I Cross the Bartholomew County Line Last Saturday Night

Amanda Villafranco -
Poetry

Exhausted hotel rooms

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

1950s Chicago Tomboy

Janice Ball -
Poetry

he chose to

Poetry

Understanding Time Travel

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

the girl not exactly from Ipanema

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

Recurring Dream

Martin Slavin -
Poetry

When the will to survive is stronger than love

Cheryl Leverette -
Poetry

you have to see it from her POV

David E. Matthews -
Poetry

No Time to Say Hello, Goodbye

Michael Acker -
Poetry

It Is written

Michael Acker -
Poetry

Neurojacked

Jordan Trethewey -
Poetry

Tuesday’s Stone (Six Of Stars.)

Starr -
Poetry

The Gig Econ

Lawrence George -
Poetry

Perverse and Saintly

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

Waning & Waxing

silent lotus -
Poetry

she has a couple of rugs

Soodabeh Saeidnia -
Poetry

One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds

Dick Holmes -
Poetry

Encounter with a clown

Marc Woodward -
Poetry

Anna and the Scourge

RC James -
Poetry

San Francisco

Marc Woodward -
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