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Poetry
A petaled season
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 21, 2020
Art
Karin Dreijer Andersson – 2
Jenn Zed
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June 1, 2018
Photography
Peer
Faizan Adil
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July 6, 2018
Poetry
mycribso
Matt Dennison
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November 26, 2022
Fiction
Very Best Mother
Kaci Skiles Laws
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June 28, 2024
Poetry
As I Cross the Bartholomew County Line Last Saturday Night
Amanda Villafranco
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October 20, 2019
Poetry
Bubble Wrap
Sara Clancy
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August 20, 2023
Poetry
Toby, Tobias Dog
Doug Flaherty
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September 2, 2019
Art
Illustrations
Marcel Herms
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May 29, 2018
Poetry
Neither Nature nor Nurture
Tom Riordan
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May 4, 2019
Poetry
Zayda in Memory Care
Sara Clancy
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March 17, 2022
Art
Polaroid Series
Dale Patterson
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July 30, 2022
Art
Abstract 24 .. series for 2024 (Series of 7 Pieces)
Jenn Zed
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October 14, 2024
Poetry
6:11 a.m.
james stephen
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August 29, 2023
Poetry
The Patron Saint of Abandoned Watering Troughs and Salt Licks
Trish Saunders
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June 7, 2024
Poetry
NETFLIX
Jefferson Carter
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April 26, 2022
Poetry
Speaking of Rivers
D. E. Kern
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August 23, 2024
Poetry
No Machine
Matt Dennison
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November 19, 2021
Photography
Captive
Mimi Bordeaux
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March 9, 2023
Poetry
In Love with a Woman in Her Later Years (for Harmina)
Ieuan ap hywel
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April 23, 2024
Poetry
Mm, Mm, Good
Matt Dennison
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February 9, 2023
Poetry
Yugen
Tom Strong
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June 22, 2019
Poetry
The Vapours
Ray Miller
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November 20, 2023
Poetry
you on your coast, me on mine
Rob Breeding
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June 22, 2024
Photography
Bugged
John Austin
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March 24, 2024
Poetry
One Month After
Sara Clancy
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August 22, 2018
Poetry
How old do you think I am?
Sara Clancy
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September 25, 2020
Poetry
Little Infinities
Hugh Lemma
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March 16, 2024
Art
The Queen of Hearts Shops at Whole Foods
Dale Patterson
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November 2, 2019
Poetry
Don’t Wake Daddy
MĂ©lissa Gustafson
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June 4, 2022
Poetry
The Re-Appropriation of a Jewish Icon
Michael Acker
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June 30, 2020
Poetry
no reminders
Cheryl Leverette
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June 16, 2019
Showcase
Color pictures
Nicholas Wintzler
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July 29, 2021
Poetry
.june.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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November 9, 2023
Poetry
orbit of a sacrifice
Amanda Villafranco
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October 15, 2018
Poetry
Shut Up, Siri
Julie A. Dickson
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July 28, 2023
Art
abstract
Elina Ghanbari
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August 5, 2018
Art
Polar Ideas
Dale Patterson
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September 8, 2019
Poetry
Later will be time to talk about a family killed on...
Trish Saunders
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March 10, 2022
Poetry
YOUR UGLY SUN
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 16, 2022
Art
Wetware
Jenn Zed
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September 27, 2018
Poetry
Scrape
Matt Dennison
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November 25, 2021
Poetry
Accept no substitute
Rob Thomas
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January 24, 2022
Music
“The Quiet One”: Song by C. Kendrick & Bernie Langs; Recording...
Bernie Langs
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May 25, 2019
Fiction
Sunny Corner Stories: Opening Monologue
Corenski Nowlan
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January 6, 2019
Poetry
Eutrema and Other Poems
Anastasia Jill
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June 26, 2018
Poetry
thanksgiving, next year
Rob Breeding
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February 10, 2025
Music
Crowd Cloud Found Sound
Ian Badcoe
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August 16, 2018
Poetry
old ghosts
Jan Harper
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August 18, 2023
Art
Three Paintings
Harry Wixner
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April 14, 2022
Poetry
It’s been a half century since the fair
Sara Clancy
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July 13, 2019
Poetry
Remembering Sand
Trish Saunders
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June 9, 2024
Poetry
at the doctor’s today,
June 27, 2020
Poetry
I’m Heading South
John Austin
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May 28, 2019
Poetry
u&me
Tiko Lewis
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August 24, 2019
Poetry
Buddha Man Blues
RC James
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January 31, 2019
Poetry
Sass
james stephen
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September 21, 2023
Poetry
There Should Be an Animal
Matt Dennison
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December 17, 2024
Poetry
no title worthwhile
Rob Breeding
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August 6, 2024
Art
Too Sexy
Davey Do
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February 28, 2023
Poetry and Art
Can’t Wait for 25
Barry Burgess
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January 26, 2025
Poetry
Such a Worm as I
Morgan Driscoll
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October 5, 2018
Poetry
Desiderata
Mark A. Murphy
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May 12, 2022
Poetry
REMEMBERING HER PORCH AND THE MOONLIGHT
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 12, 2023
Poetry
Other People’s Bathrobes
Trish Saunders
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March 13, 2021
Poetry
Woman with Dog
Lance Jencks
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September 9, 2021
Art
inktober 2024 #3
Tiko Lewis
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October 30, 2024
Art
Ink and Bone: An Inktober Celebration
Tiko Lewis
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October 22, 2022
Art
# 43
james stephen
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February 25, 2021
Fiction
my apartment burned down last night
Jess Kangas
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April 22, 2018
Poetry
ć»äşˇ
Matt Dennison
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October 1, 2021
Art
Aegir
Marcel Herms
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June 22, 2022
Art
In this life, we met
Hang Mai
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May 8, 2022
Art
Lullaby
Barry Burgess
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April 10, 2024
Poetry
Thuggery
Marc Woodward
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January 27, 2023
Poetry
Elegy at Antelope Canyon
Sara Clancy
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March 7, 2023
Art
De oproerkraaier
Marcel Herms
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September 23, 2019
Photography
Aggregate States
Mark Preier
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January 14, 2023
Music
Aljosja
Dennis Ramler
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May 16, 2020
Poetry
Now that you’re asleep
Jay Gandhi
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June 11, 2018
Poetry
Weekend In Paris
Niall M Oliver
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May 19, 2023
Art
Miami Docks
Timothy F Phillips
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February 24, 2024
Poetry
You Are Here
Mike Casetta
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September 25, 2018
Poetry
This is
Cameron McClure
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January 24, 2025
Poetry
Petrichor
Hugh Lemma
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April 14, 2023
Poetry
I’m going to go look for a job tomorrow
Robert Stastny
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February 12, 2022
Poetry
M`ZO
james stephen
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August 28, 2024
Poetry
Everyone Wears Black
Jenn Zed
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June 18, 2018
Poetry
Soaring
Nigel Lofthouse
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August 18, 2024
Art
World of silence in his ears
Marcel Herms
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April 15, 2021
Poetry
Daffodil
Matt Dennison
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November 3, 2023
Photography
Excavation Site
Mark Preier
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July 1, 2018
Art
Mannequin Series #3
Joe Shelton
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January 21, 2023
Poetry
Scarcity
Dale M. Tushman
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February 2, 2025
Poetry
Quacks
Daniel J. Flore III
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January 26, 2021
Letters
Letter to Lou McKee
Daniel J. Flore III
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August 13, 2020
Poetry
Heartsongs—an anagram
Joan Colby
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September 5, 2020
Poetry
He’s probably sleeping now
Jill Winkowski
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December 28, 2021
Poetry
Signs of Life
Andy Posner
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November 6, 2024
Poetry
now that I’m old
Tom Strong
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July 13, 2023
Poetry
If you let me I’ll change my room into woods
Nathalie Spaans
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May 15, 2022
Poetry
Donuts
John Gurney
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August 4, 2023
Art
Field Poppies
Jenn Zed
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April 1, 2018
Poetry
In Guadalupe’s Bed
Tom Riordan
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January 5, 2019
Poetry
My friend has
Sara Riley
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January 25, 2019
Poetry
Last Ode to a Sweet Apricot
Miya Ko
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December 17, 2019
Poetry
I COULD HANDLE MY BRAIN WITH WHITE NOISE COMING FROM ABOVE
Daniel J. Flore III
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September 5, 2023
Poetry
Anointing the Dead
Susan Peters
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August 12, 2023
Showcase
Free Broadside: Dan Flore’s “Homeless Poems”
Open Arts Forum
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October 7, 2022
Poetry
what is
Michael Acker
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December 5, 2022
Poetry
just one more
Jennifer Wilder
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November 10, 2021
Poetry
Mirage
Mike Casetta
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May 3, 2021
Poetry
Blood Oranges / ice cubes & straws
silent lotus
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November 7, 2021
Art
A shame for the angels
Marcel Herms
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July 28, 2019
Poetry
Lechmere Viaduct
Starr
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February 18, 2020
Fiction
Today when the day ends
Robert Stastny
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October 24, 2022
Poetry
I WANT TO TALK TO SOMEONE ABOUT SOMETHING THAT MATTERS
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 29, 2022
Poetry
Psalm 2024/5784 For the Newish Year
Dale M. Tushman
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November 4, 2024
Poetry
Tied Down
Ann Kammerer
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January 22, 2024
Poetry
Anaphora
Wim Coleman
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September 21, 2024
Poetry
Homo insatiens
Rob Breeding
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July 28, 2020
Fiction
Parcheesi
james stephen
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January 10, 2022
Poetry
& as far from
silent lotus
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January 28, 2020
Poetry
birds and other fly creatures
Anthony Hughes
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December 11, 2019
Art
A walk on the beach
JMR
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June 1, 2023
Poetry
Why are you always defending him?
Jennifer Wilder
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March 26, 2021
Art
Four by Marcel Herms
Marcel Herms
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November 11, 2020
Poetry
After A Death
Hugh Lemma
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November 30, 2023
Music
Booda Wot Doddy
RC James
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July 8, 2021
Photography
.eight.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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December 26, 2018
Blog
Line Breaks and Commas and Colons, Oh My!
Kaci Skiles Laws
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August 2, 2020
Art
.view.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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March 19, 2024
Art
Voices (calling me through the ceiling of my private room)
Marcel Herms
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March 4, 2021
Poetry
Metallic
Nolcha Fox
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August 14, 2023
Poetry
Regret
Andy Posner
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February 18, 2023
Poetry
averse
Tiko Lewis
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January 18, 2022
Fiction
Snowfire
Cameron McClure
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February 1, 2024
Photography
Abstracts of Canadian Museum of History – A Series
JMR
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April 7, 2024
Art
The Typewriter
Davey Do
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May 22, 2023
Art
Sale
R. jones
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August 2, 2021
Poetry
Last Year’s Census
James Spears
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May 29, 2018
Art
Asian Hybridity
Chunbum Park
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April 13, 2021
Art
It’s what I do
Edmund Conti
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August 15, 2018
Poetry
song to myself
Cameron McClure
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October 6, 2021
Art
Inktober post 5
Tiko Lewis
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November 17, 2022
Art
The Forest
Christina Quinn
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October 9, 2018
Photography
Nadine Professional Imaging
Frank Doorhof
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May 27, 2018
Poetry
First Song
Jordan Trethewey
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January 5, 2025
Poetry
A Familiar Place
Nathalie Spaans
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May 1, 2023
Music
Platinum Fingers
Jenn Zed
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February 23, 2022
Blog
Lyn Lifshin Honored At Albany Public Library Foundation
Open Arts Forum
-
May 17, 2019
Photography
.tate liverpool.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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January 3, 2020
Photography
Goslings at Wilde Lake
Jay Dougherty
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March 5, 2019
Poetry
Vision in the High Desert
Mike Casetta
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August 14, 2024
Art
some new prints… (a series of 7)
Ron Sardino
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May 26, 2024
Poetry
Last Night By The Rain
Hugh Lemma
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August 21, 2024
Poetry
Long John Silver’s Parley: A Meditation Upon Mammon
Wim Coleman
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October 20, 2024
Art
Commencement
Dale Patterson
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March 12, 2021
Poetry
The United Nations of Oz
Dale M. Tushman
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December 29, 2024
Poetry
The lady you keep yapping with on the phone
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 19, 2020
Poetry
I’ll text you back anyway
Daniel J. Flore III
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April 1, 2022
Poetry
here’s why you do it
Lawrence George
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January 3, 2020
Poetry
Phonetics
Bethany Lim
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July 20, 2018
Poetry
The Dusts
Marc Woodward
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November 18, 2023
Showcase
Covid Times
OAF Artists & Writers
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May 18, 2020
Photography
Kyoto is doing great
Mark Preier
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June 17, 2018
Art
Trying to Comfort a Dream & Other Efforts
Dale Patterson
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August 16, 2020
Poetry
why poetry
Mike Casetta
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October 29, 2023
Poetry
Selfie as a Dyke
Lisa Summe
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December 2, 2019
Poetry
MY HIGH SCHOOL CREATIVE WRITING TEACHER
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 15, 2023
Poetry
I Fucked the Poet
Lance Jencks
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December 22, 2018
Art
ebbing
Dale Patterson
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January 5, 2021
Art
Intense Emotions
Elina Ghanbari
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January 16, 2023
Poetry
I think of you, I shake
Nathalie Spaans
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June 1, 2022
Poetry
Eclogue for Santa Isabel
July Westhale
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November 15, 2019
Art
the face of a king
Tiko Lewis
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August 12, 2024
Poetry
You hurt plenty
Michael Ashley
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January 17, 2025
Poetry
Carry Me
Raymond Huffman
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October 9, 2023
Photography
Alleys 2
Buku Sarkar
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July 25, 2018
Poetry
Epiphany
Julie A. Dickson
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November 10, 2023
Poetry
I Suffer Fools
Sara Clancy
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September 1, 2018
Poetry
A Father’s Advice
Raymond Huffman
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December 4, 2022
Art
Black and White Abstracts–Series
Jenn Zed
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February 13, 2021
Poetry
1/4 kg
Jay Gandhi
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December 10, 2020
Poetry
Selfie with a Dying Cat
Lisa Summe
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December 19, 2019
Art
mer.made # 1D
A.L. Waddell
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January 29, 2023
Poetry
matteo
Rob Breeding
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November 11, 2024
Music
Strange Things at Very Low Temperatures
Jenn Zed
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September 7, 2022
Poetry
Jennifer Harley
Lawrence George
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August 6, 2019
Poetry
“what the hell happened in TX now?”
Jennifer Wilder
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November 22, 2024
Art
do you like majik ?
R. jones
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February 12, 2023
Art
..things..
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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September 13, 2020
Art
Chigguns’
Glenn Richardson
-
December 5, 2021
Poetry
This is How it Ends
Kaci Skiles Laws
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November 4, 2020
Poetry
A Failed Attempt at Re-parenting
Mike Casetta
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May 30, 2020
Poetry
‘wings
silent lotus
-
January 14, 2025
Poetry
Daintiness
Michael Acker
-
December 2, 2024
Art
Before Dreaming You Fall Through a Hole
Dale Patterson
-
July 21, 2019
Poetry
The Daughter May Be Let Off
Lyn Lifshin
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June 29, 2020
Art
Three by Pat Perrin
Pat Perrin
-
January 26, 2020
Poetry
Blur
james stephen
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July 25, 2023
Poetry
Through the bonfire smoke
Ken Tomaro
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October 31, 2022
Poetry
News of the Apocalypse
Cameron McClure
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December 10, 2022
Poetry
Sonnet
Allan Johnston
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July 6, 2018
Showcase
particularities
Sarah Simon
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February 10, 2019
Fiction
Sisters
Sherry Cassells
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March 2, 2024
Poetry
If Only I Could Undo My One Wish
Tom Strong
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September 28, 2023
Poetry
Amgen
Lawrence George
-
October 19, 2022
Poetry
By the Maple
Miya Ko
-
September 26, 2020
Showcase
Nothing Is Real—Series
Jenn Zed
-
May 21, 2020
Poetry
No Sky for an Atheist
Sherry Cassells
-
February 8, 2022
Poetry
After Seeing You in Sullivan’s
Trish Saunders
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January 6, 2022
Poetry
Adept
Matt Dennison
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April 3, 2024
Art
It’s okay (we love you anyway)
Marcel Herms
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July 20, 2019
Poetry
a dog is a dog
Cheryl Leverette
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May 27, 2020
Art
digital/mixed media art
Doug Flaherty
-
August 26, 2019
Poetry
Beginning with “needless”
james stephen
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May 22, 2024
Art
Living on Mainstreet
Dale Patterson
-
November 12, 2021
Music
Sojuz Šrek Párty
Nicholas Wintzler
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February 16, 2022
Poetry
The Horologist
Grady VanWright
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January 30, 2025
Poetry
Improvements
Matt Dennison
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February 11, 2025
Fiction
A Difficult Character
Sherry Cassells
-
January 13, 2022
Poetry
Reentry
Grady VanWright
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October 8, 2024
Poetry
Meditation
Mike Casetta
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October 21, 2022
Poetry
The Gardener
Ann Kammerer
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June 19, 2019
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