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Poetry

The Spirit of Christmas

Andy Posner -
Poetry

Lab Notes

Cameron McClure -
a white car parked on the side of the road
Poetry

Bedtime

Ann Kammerer -
Photography

Generations

Ken Blystone -
A detailed image showcasing a cracked egg with yolk spilling out on a blue surface.
Poetry

The Price of Eggs

Andy Posner -
Fiction

Unpublished Page

Lance Jencks -
silhouette of trees under starry sky
Poetry

Jar Light, Starlight

Julie A. Dickson -
grey canoe on calm body of water near tall trees at daytime
Poetry

Post Op for Richard Brautigan

Mike Casetta -
Photography

.attempted murder.

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
Poetry

I have never known a Tasmanian…

Delainie Littlejohn -
Poetry

he chose to

Art

5 paintings

Robert Stastny -
Art

Black History Month 2025

Tiko Lewis -
Photography

.the boat.

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
Poetry and Art

Ain’t No Pity

Barry Burgess -
Poetry

WHEN THE BOMBS DROP

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

2069 is going to be sexy!

Ron Sardino -
Poetry

The Patron Saint of Abandoned Watering Troughs and Salt Licks

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

How to Gut a Carp

Chloe Monet Sutch -
Showcase

Coming Out & Other Poems

Lisa Summe -
Poetry

Outlaw

Mike Casetta -
a close up of a fly
Poetry

I Ain’t No Monster

Michael Acker -
Music

Writer’s Block Acoustic

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Poetry

Ode to the Forgotten Hour

Mohit Saini -
Poetry

April’s rent

Daniel J. Flore III -
green plant on persons hand
Poetry

We will

Raymond Huffman -
Photography

Cloudless Sulfur

Raymond Huffman -
Poetry

Still I Cry

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Art

Storming the Capitol No. 1: White Man’s Rage

Cat Jones -
Poetry

He asked me

John Yamrus -
Poetry and Art

What I am

Jennifer Wilder -
Art

Goth Ink series ..2024

Jenn Zed -
Art

Apricot

Jenn Zed -
heart bokeh light
Poetry

A Hunch

Sherry Cassells -
Art

Mars: The Bringer of War

Sean Bw Parker -
Poetry

the yesterdays before tomorrow

silent lotus -
Poetry

Reentry

Grady VanWright -
Fiction

Growth on the Job

Tom Riordan -
Fiction

Pathetique

Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri -
Video

MA RI A

Jenn Zed -
brown and green grass
Poetry

Desert Wonder

Julie Desmond -
Poetry

DOOR MAT

Lyn Lifshin -
Art

Rumpelstiltskin and the Miller’s Daughter

Catherine Forsayeth -
man in black pants and pair of brown leather lace-up shoes sitting on brown carpeted stairs inside room
Poetry

now that I’m old

Tom Strong -
Poetry

Big Orange Sun

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

New Years Day

John Gurney -
Poetry

Tribute from a Wooden Hut

Ieuan ap hywel -
Poetry

The truck has a large red logo on its side

Michael Ashley -
Art

and then this happened

Mary MacGowan -
Music

Strange Things at Very Low Temperatures

Jenn Zed -
Art

The Forest

Christina Quinn -
Photography

Water Moss

Thomas Yarbrough -
Poetry

I’m awake. Are you awake?

Sherry Cassells -
Art

Master of Decay

Shannon Elizabeth Gardner -
Poetry

Beatles Fan from Buenos Aires

Mark Anthony Pearce -
Art

he asked me

John Yamrus -
red and white fabrics
Art

..this..

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
black and silver fountain pen
Poetry

I need

Julie A. Dickson -
Poetry

.idea.

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
Poetry

Safe Text

Ann Kammerer -
Poetry

saying goodbye

Stella Read -
grayscale photo of person running in panel paintings
Poetry

City of peace

David Belcher -
Poetry

How to Become Invisible

Mary McCarthy -
Fiction

Watercolour Lake

Sherry Cassells -
white wooden stand
Poetry

undone

Soodabeh Saeidnia -
man and woman standing beside white wall
Poetry

VACANCY

Daniel J. Flore III -
Art

Blight

Taylor Bain -
Poetry

The astronaut

Maria Mazzenga -
Poetry

Petrichor

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

Armageddon in my stomach

Daniel J. Flore III -
Art

Refugees & Other New Art

Marcel Herms -
Poetry

Halo Light in Dark Sky

Renee Elizabeth -
Music

Down to the dust

RC James -
Art

die(d) hard

Tiko Lewis -
Creative Non-Fiction

Feb. 1, 2025

heidi selig -
Poetry

autumn

Larry Houston -
white and blue labeled can
Poetry

I Wrote a Letter to Bukowski

John Gurney -
Photography

Nature’s puppet-show

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Life Supplies

Lance Jencks -
Art

..little scar..

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
Poetry

Now, at Almost 80

Palline Plum -
Poetry

When we finally met

Elizabeth Dunn -
mountain covered with fogs
Poetry

Mist

Hugh Lemma -
Photography

Puente

Michael Ashley -
Fiction

David’s Wife

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Poetry

MY WHOLE DAY IN A STUPID NOTEPAD

Daniel J. Flore III -
Art

adjust, course correct, then flow

Patrice Cameron -
Poetry

killing the root

Jennifer Wilder -
Poetry

Terns

Cameron McClure -
Photography

Captive

Mimi Bordeaux -
Art

Andrea

Thomas Yarbrough -
Poetry

The World Tree

Margarita Serafimova -
Poetry

A Train Whistle Announcing the Arrival of Cousin Harrietta

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Another Friday Night II

Cheryl Leverette -
Poetry

you on your coast, me on mine

Rob Breeding -
Poetry and Art

Goshawk

heidi selig -
Poetry

A Whiter House

Oliver Stansfield -
a pile of twenty dollar bills sitting on top of each other
Poetry

That one time I made money off of poetry

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

In Guadalupe’s Bed

Tom Riordan -
Poetry

Sojourns

silent lotus -
Poetry

Bagpipes In The Park

Tom Strong -
Poetry

Their Final Words

Miya Ko -
Poetry

Galileo Never Rode a Rickshaw

Michael Acker -
Poetry and Art

Chasing Hemingway’s Ghost: A Series of Nine Paintings/Drawings With Accompanying Poetry...

Joe McDaniel -
Art

Jail time

Marcel Herms -
Showcase

The Miki Collection

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

On Getting Old

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

In Love with a Woman in Her Later Years (for Harmina)

Ieuan ap hywel -
Poetry

Capitalism in Cambodia

Lawrence George -
person holding brown wooden spoon
Poetry

Wooden Spoons

John Gurney -
man wearing maroon V-neck t-shirt in forest
Poetry

Square Jaw and GSOH

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

Tuesday’s Stone (Six Of Stars.)

Starr -
Art

Too Sexy

Davey Do -
Art

no title

Tiko Lewis -
Poetry

What Do You Call This? Bubba Ganish?

Michael Acker -
Animation

nudity and that sort of thing

Chris Daykin -
a close up of a metal object with numbers on it
Poetry

Forget Your Password ?

james stephen -
sleeping baby on white textile
Poetry

A Tyre Changer Can Earn £350k per year

Niall M Oliver -
Poetry

This Is How It Ends

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

SING, DAMN YOU

Trish Saunders -
Fiction

Note taped on door: To the occupants of 107 Borbleblartt Street

heidi selig -
man in red coat
Poetry

the ringmaster never takes off his hat

Jan Harper -
Art

Wounds

Elina Ghanbari -
Art

Death comes flying

Marcel Herms -
Poetry

It Never Changes

Dale Patterson -
Poetry

What Happens When You Forget to Close Your Bedroom Window

Andy Posner -
Art

Tiger Express

Chunbum Park -
Poetry

.rose.

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
Art

The Fool

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Heating up the car

Daniel J. Flore III -
Art

etchings

Thomas Riesner -
Poetry

Breathless

Josianne Barrette-Moran -
Poetry

Decades Lapping at My Feet

james stephen -
Poetry

And So What Now?

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

When I die don’t post it on Facebook

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

A Cowboy in Therapy

Mike Casetta -
Poetry and Art

Morning Sketch, 57, (unhealthy) AQI 134

Barry Burgess -
Photography

Alignment 05

Mark Preier -
Fiction

One rupee coin

Jay Gandhi -
Photography

Uncomposed

Morgan Driscoll -
Poetry and Art

..best..

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
grayscale photo of bare trees near city buildings
Poetry

Wonderful

Matt Dennison -
Art

Lockdown 2021

Jenn Zed -
green trees beside lake under blue sky during daytime
Poetry

We Will Go Again in Autumn

Raymond Huffman -
orange and black butterfly perched on yellow flower
Poetry

butterflies drink turtle tears

Matt Dennison -
Art

Colors Of Hoi An

Hang Mai -
Art

Mexican Hat Dance

Bill Flanagan -
Poetry

An Old Dog Reads Keats

Bob Bradshaw -
Art

no title

Tiko Lewis -
Poetry

The Gilded Moth and the Iron Maw

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

Lost at Sea Pantoum

Susan Peters -
Blog

Line Breaks and Commas and Colons, Oh My!

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Poetry

Avon, NC

Hugh Lemma -
person opening palms close up photo
Poetry

Head thick with things

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

A Great Fuck

Tom Riordan -
Poetry

Coming Out

Lisa Summe -
Poetry

Last Note

Trish Saunders -
Music

Doctor Rife

Scott Douglas -
Poetry

Questions I Would Ask Him

Sara Clancy -
grayscale photo of woman statue
Poetry

POSTCARD FROM MY SICKNESS #1

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

The Re-Appropriation of a Jewish Icon

Michael Acker -
Poetry

The Ashes

Michael Ashley -
Art

Apricot tree by the river .. Spring 2024 .. series of...

Jenn Zed -
Art

De rentmeesters & other new work

Marcel Herms -
Poetry

Shooting Rats with Buddha

Marc Woodward -
Poetry

Widow

Mary McCarthy -
Poetry

the moon chimes in

Robert Stastny -
Poetry and Art

The Jazzmen: A Series of Three Poems With Art by Barry...

Barry Burgess -
Poetry

Pantoum: American Recessional

Wim Coleman -
Art

Key Lime Estate

Timothy F Phillips -
Poetry

Unit 6

Starr -
Digital Art

Stories We Told Ourselves

james stephen -
Poetry

Other People’s Bathrobes

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

The House on Tilden Avenue

Jose Oseguera -
Poetry

The Chimney Hawk

Matt Dennison -
Art

Wave Function

Chunbum Park -
Poetry

Green

heidi selig -
a close up of a broken glass window
Poetry

LINES MADE OF SHATTERED GLASS

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

DEADMAN

KIMBERLY McNeil -
Showcase

RED Series

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

Enlightenment

Andy Posner -
Poetry

Carpe Diem

Marc Woodward -
Poetry

Broke

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Laying That Christmas Wreath

Paul Brookes -
Poetry

Instinct

Sara Clancy -
green cactus during daytime
Poetry

Mom Called

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

merry fucking christmas

Lance Watson -
Poetry

Livestreaming My Own Suicide

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

approaching 70…

Poetry

At the corner of something and something

Maria Mazzenga -
Poetry

& as far from

silent lotus -
Contributor Blogs

Strange Beauty

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Poetry

separation

Soodabeh Saeidnia -
Fiction

The Cure

Jordan Trethewey -
Poetry

Maggie Drives

Lorraine Stofft -
Art

Full Metal Bitch

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

The Familiar

Greg Grummer -
grayscale portrait photo of man
Poetry

Don’t Wake Daddy

Mélissa Gustafson -
Art

Abstract Art Is Better in the Abstract

David E. Matthews -
Poetry

Life After Dodging a Bullet

Andy Posner -
Fiction

Last Word Dressed in a Gray Suit

Akeith Walters -
black and red round fruits
Poetry

BURNING BLACKBERRY BUSH

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Ikebana

Tom Strong -
Poetry

sitting in the backyard eating a green apple

Lawrence George -
Poetry

These spectacles have seen ages

Jay Gandhi -
Art

Aquatic #3

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

I disappeared

Jess Kangas -
Photography

Kyoto is doing great

Mark Preier -
Poetry

Sunrise Serenade

Grady VanWright -
Art

The NEWS Font

Zicheng Gu -
Music

Whiskey Deep

Levi J. Mericle -
Art

vleugellam fladderend

Marcel Herms -
Poetry

The Joy of Hurling Trash

Susan Peters -
Poetry

The curve of tenderness

Trish Saunders -
sliced watermelon on green surface
Poetry

A Memorial Day to remember

Ken Tomaro -
Poetry

No Carp in the Park

silent lotus -
sea wave during daytime
Poetry

AN OCEAN OF GOODBYE

Daniel J. Flore III -
a plate of food
Poetry

BREAKFAST ALFRESCO

Daniel J. Flore III -
white Android smartphone near green plant
Non-fiction

Love Springs from Descendants of the Personal Ad

Kay Elewski -
Poetry

Troubles

Chloe Zumbrun -
Poetry

Give me that secret sauce

Nolcha Fox -
Poetry

Tic-Toc

Sherry Cassells -
Poetry

Green tea

Christine Dubuc -
Poetry

Solstice

Hugh Lemma -
shark and two fishes wall graffiti
Poetry

In Defense

Dale Patterson -
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