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His Coat
Obed Ladiny
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May 11, 2023
Showcase
Covid Times
OAF Artists & Writers
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May 18, 2020
Art
The Tannhäuser Gate
Jenn Zed
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October 29, 2019
Poetry
Just Another Dream Waking
RC James
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October 29, 2020
Poetry
Regret
Andy Posner
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February 18, 2023
Poetry
you on your coast, me on mine
Rob Breeding
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June 22, 2024
Fiction
Note taped on door: To the occupants of 107 Borbleblartt Street
heidi selig
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November 14, 2024
Contributor Blogs
Why Your Writing Isn’t You
Lance Jencks
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September 13, 2021
Photography
.yesterday’s fluff.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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July 26, 2018
Art
Nebula Heartstrings
Taylor Bain
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January 2, 2019
Poetry
Spying on My Beloved Ghosts
Susan Peters
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September 1, 2020
Poetry
Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Ground
Lorraine Stofft
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September 10, 2024
Poetry
Stung by news of poaching
David Belcher
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April 22, 2024
Poetry
autumn in the rain
ennuibrion
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December 9, 2025
Photography
Counterpoint_04
Mark Preier
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May 19, 2018
Poetry
all natural zero calorie existence
Tiko Lewis
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June 27, 2018
Poetry
Blue Amulets from Brittany
Marc Woodward
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September 6, 2023
Poetry
a tale of two poets and a boy from the Bronx
Emalisa Rose
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December 19, 2020
Art
Het contact met de medemens verliep moeizaam
Marcel Herms
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August 25, 2019
Poetry
Âż
silent lotus
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December 26, 2023
Poetry
averse
Tiko Lewis
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January 18, 2022
Poetry
Art class
Dr Padmashree RP
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September 20, 2025
Poetry
Reflections
Mike Casetta
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September 16, 2023
Poetry
No Time to Say Hello, Goodbye
Michael Acker
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September 28, 2019
Poetry
Organ Recital at Saint-Eustache
Lance Jencks
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July 30, 2020
Video
Quadrant
Matt Dennison
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January 26, 2022
Photography
Shadowscape
JMR
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November 5, 2023
Poetry
To My Dearest Whore (City)
Obed Ladiny
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October 1, 2022
Art
Spaces
Anupam Gupta
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August 25, 2021
Poetry
I GUESS I COULD CRY WITH YOU
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 22, 2022
Contributor Blogs
How Your Creative Work Can Outlive You
Lance Jencks
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December 9, 2021
Photography
Portraits – Ecuador
RC James
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September 14, 2018
Poetry
The Nature of Your Emergency
Morgan Driscoll
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February 28, 2024
Fiction
Go Fish
Sherry Cassells
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February 15, 2022
Poetry
The Dusts
Marc Woodward
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November 18, 2023
Poetry
Setting Precedent
Mike Casetta
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January 4, 2020
Poetry
Such a Worm as I
Morgan Driscoll
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October 5, 2018
Poetry
One Possible Reason
Mike Casetta
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September 30, 2023
Contributor Blogs
Things to think about when writing or reading poetry
Eliot Jacobson
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November 26, 2019
Art
Behind the Wall
Pat Perrin
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September 12, 2024
Poetry
The Book of Unknowing
Richard Oyama
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February 27, 2023
Poetry
My country
David Belcher
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September 5, 2025
Poetry
San Francisco
Marc Woodward
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September 11, 2019
Poetry
Write a Poem to Yourself for Your Ninetieth Birthday
Trish Saunders
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November 8, 2020
Poetry
4:48 a.m.
james stephen
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December 5, 2022
Poetry
Li Po Embraces the Moon
RC James
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February 8, 2023
Art
fixed me, all right
Marcel Herms
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May 22, 2020
Photography
Bilde 002
Kim Toft
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March 2, 2019
Poetry
I Fucked the Poet
Lance Jencks
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December 22, 2018
Poetry and Author Reading
Electricity, Yes
Matt Dennison
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December 3, 2025
Poetry
Road to Big Sur
Lance Jencks
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March 7, 2021
Poetry
Penthouse
Sherry Cassells
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April 20, 2023
Fiction
A face of regal splendor
Nathalie Spaans
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January 31, 2024
Poetry
More Than She Should
Grady VanWright
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July 21, 2025
Poetry
unceremoniously
Michael Acker
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October 26, 2022
Poetry
UNFINISHED CONVERSATION WITH GOD
Daniel J. Flore III
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May 15, 2023
Poetry
Last Call
Morgan Driscoll
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January 6, 2024
Poetry
You Are Here
Mike Casetta
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September 25, 2018
Photography
.the hawfinch.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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July 27, 2018
Poetry
Night Watch
Cameron McClure
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March 27, 2025
Poetry
grey goose retrospective (email #12)
Ron Sardino
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March 30, 2023
Poetry
Morning Visit
Peter Cashorali
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February 6, 2024
Poetry
Memoriam in light rain
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 13, 2023
Music
All She Left Me Was a William Burroughs Novel
RC James
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September 24, 2021
Poetry
Abruptly
silent lotus
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January 25, 2024
Photography
.family.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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November 4, 2019
Poetry
Once it took a
Paul Brookes
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August 3, 2023
Art
for Grand-Dude
Tiko Lewis
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December 17, 2023
Poetry
My Soul In The Mirror
Hugh Lemma
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November 2, 2022
Poetry
Karin Dreijer Andersson
Jenn Zed
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May 31, 2018
Poetry
I Almost Lied
Grady VanWright
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July 4, 2025
Poetry
Border Reflections
Steve Klepetar
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July 8, 2018
Poetry
Jimmy
Anthony Hughes
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April 8, 2018
Music
“The Quiet One”: Song by C. Kendrick & Bernie Langs; Recording...
Bernie Langs
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May 25, 2019
Photography
Newspaper pic
Matt Dennison
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June 23, 2024
Poetry
Toby, Tobias Dog
Doug Flaherty
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September 2, 2019
Poetry
The Dark
Susan Peters
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February 17, 2019
Poetry
a sparrow in the fist, an eagle on Everest
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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July 11, 2018
Poetry
Chisos Dream
Raymond Huffman
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May 24, 2023
Poetry
I Suffer Fools
Sara Clancy
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September 1, 2018
Poetry
MY WHOLE DAY IN A STUPID NOTEPAD
Daniel J. Flore III
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August 10, 2021
Art
Sleepless Nights
Elina Ghanbari
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January 30, 2023
Poetry
Countless
Elvis Otis
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December 24, 2019
Art
You can’t do that in front of decent people
Marcel Herms
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July 25, 2019
Poetry
Pattern of Life
LA Brown
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December 8, 2020
Fiction
We Drove to LA from Phoenix in 1965 to Buy French...
Mike Casetta
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May 4, 2024
Art
it’s me
Anisa Mosaiebiniya
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October 18, 2024
Poetry and Art
.adrift.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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August 23, 2025
Poetry
Later will be time to talk about a family killed on...
Trish Saunders
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March 10, 2022
Art
3 Selfies
Barry Burgess
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July 31, 2024
Poetry
An Amity of Witches
Sara Clancy
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October 31, 2024
Poetry
Origin Stories
Jason Ryberg
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April 8, 2025
Art
December
Marcel Herms
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December 2, 2020
Poetry
Seeking Submissions
Matt Dennison
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March 4, 2025
Poetry
~~ ~
silent lotus
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September 29, 2023
Poetry
Snowmen
Ray Miller
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August 21, 2022
Flash and Short Fiction
The Recurring Red Scarf
Sherry Cassells
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December 19, 2025
Music
Platinum Fingers
Jenn Zed
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February 23, 2022
Poetry
The Gilded Moth and the Iron Maw
Grady VanWright
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May 9, 2025
Blog
Daniel J. Flore III: Poetry reading at Newtown Bookshop
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 7, 2019
Poetry
The air conditioner repairman left his sweaty towel on my dishwasher
Cheryl Leverette
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March 5, 2019
Photography
.the gardener.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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August 30, 2019
Art
Commencement
Dale Patterson
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March 12, 2021
Poetry
Anomaly
Hugh Lemma
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October 11, 2023
Poetry
Wonderful
Matt Dennison
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April 7, 2023
Poetry
Sleepless Again and Again
Nolcha Fox
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October 7, 2023
Poetry
An Old Penny
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 3, 2025
Poetry and Art
The Jazzmen: A Series of Three Poems With Art by Barry...
Barry Burgess
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August 3, 2025
Poetry
To Be or Not To Be, Update
Dale M. Tushman
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January 25, 2025
Showcase
Chun (series)
Chunbum Park
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November 5, 2020
Art
51 Years of White Noise
Jenn Zed
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May 9, 2019
Poetry
Liberated Me
Lance Jencks
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March 28, 2022
Photography
As Yellow as Fall
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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March 15, 2023
Art
3 pieces of mine in recent 3rd Wednesday
Phyllis Green
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December 29, 2023
Poetry
Assassination of a Critic
Lance Jencks
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June 3, 2018
Poetry
merry fucking christmas
Lance Watson
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December 23, 2025
Art
Three Paintings
Harry Wixner
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April 14, 2022
Poetry
Born
Julie Desmond
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December 6, 2021
Poetry
Blood Oranges / ice cubes & straws
silent lotus
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November 7, 2021
Photography
About the Palm Warbler
Stephen B White
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September 26, 2018
Poetry
If there was any lesson learned
Ken Tomaro
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November 2, 2023
Poetry
Armageddon in my stomach
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 14, 2022
Poetry
Woken by a dove tapping
David Belcher
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January 1, 2019
Poetry
5:24AM
Mark Anthony Pearce
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June 5, 2023
Poetry and Music
Robert Johnson in South Rosedale, Mississippi, crossroads of Highways 1 &...
RC James
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June 26, 2025
Poetry
Post Op for Richard Brautigan
Mike Casetta
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April 17, 2022
Music
Prendere Lucciole Per Lanterne (To Take Fireflies For Lanterns)
Marc Woodward
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July 5, 2024
Poetry
Interview With the Poet
Matt Dennison
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December 25, 2022
Art
Flipping Through Pages to Get to the End of the Story
Dale Patterson
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August 1, 2019
Art
Scarecrow
Dale Patterson
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November 16, 2019
Poetry
Poem for Bobby
Sara Clancy
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June 9, 2019
Poetry
Mist
Hugh Lemma
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December 16, 2023
Poetry
OkCupid
Mike Casetta
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May 2, 2021
Poetry
Is There Freedom in Forgetting or Being Forgotten?
Andy Posner
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January 5, 2020
Poetry
Empty Seat
Sharon Bartshe
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December 13, 2022
Poetry
What remains behind
Trish Saunders
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December 26, 2019
Poetry
As I Cross the Bartholomew County Line Last Saturday Night
Amanda Villafranco
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October 20, 2019
Art
the face of a king
Tiko Lewis
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August 12, 2024
Poetry
Shadow Existence and other poems
Cheryl Leverette
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February 6, 2019
Poetry
Heartsongs—an anagram
Joan Colby
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September 5, 2020
Poetry
The Various
Matt Dennison
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December 28, 2023
Poetry
Rick
September 20, 2020
Poetry
Capitalism in Cambodia
Lawrence George
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January 6, 2020
Poetry
Hush
Hugh Lemma
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July 27, 2025
Poetry
Today I Need Your Best Poems
Cameron McClure
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May 6, 2021
Photography
Nadine Maart 3
Frank Doorhof
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May 20, 2018
Art
The Forest
Christina Quinn
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October 9, 2018
Poetry
Existential Angst
Mike Casetta
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May 20, 2021
Poetry and Art
Ain’t No Pity
Barry Burgess
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May 19, 2025
Photography
light shadows….
A.L. Waddell
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March 13, 2023
Poetry
Totalitarian Ornithology
Miya Ko
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December 9, 2020
Art
Abstract Terms
Michael Acker
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February 8, 2021
Poetry
Bathroom Haiku
Niall M Oliver
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February 13, 2020
Art
Shattered
Dale Patterson
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October 14, 2019
Poetry
Now, at Almost 80
Palline Plum
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April 13, 2023
Poetry
..as a child..
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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February 16, 2024
Poetry
blackthren & brownthren
Rob Breeding
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May 31, 2020
Art
Visual Kei
Jenn Zed
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March 31, 2018
Poetry
learning to read again
Rob Breeding
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July 7, 2021
Poetry
Requiem for a Wrecked Weekend
Trish Saunders
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December 30, 2023
Poetry
JAWIN’ WITH THE WIND
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 29, 2024
Photography
Goslings at Wilde Lake
Jay Dougherty
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March 5, 2019
Art
In the Border Country
Marcel Herms
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May 19, 2018
Photography
Urban Reinvention 03
Mark Preier
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April 19, 2018
Art
Midnight Sun
Stian Kjørsvik
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October 15, 2019
Poetry
thanksgiving, next year
Rob Breeding
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February 10, 2025
Poetry
Ethnic Cleanser
Paul Brookes
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December 20, 2020
Poetry
I CAN’T BURY THE CORPSE OF YOUR MEMORY
Daniel J. Flore III
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January 19, 2023
Poetry
I Long to Join the Conga Line
Trish Saunders
-
July 18, 2020
Poetry
St. Mercy General
Grady VanWright
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November 25, 2025
Poetry
Call this
Roger Fizzerton
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January 17, 2020
Fiction
Einstein Waters the Flowers on a Berlin Street in Late August,...
Trish Saunders
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October 24, 2020
Poetry
Return Policy
Megan Merchant
-
January 24, 2019
Poetry
I remember you, fog, do you remember me?
Sherry Cassells
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September 3, 2023
Poetry
Lies Told by a Metronome
Wim Coleman
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January 31, 2020
Art
Random Thought Finding Place
Dale Patterson
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August 27, 2024
Poetry
This fierce year paces
Sara Clancy
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August 7, 2019
Poetry
Another Friday Night II
Cheryl Leverette
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June 21, 2019
Poetry
If I were a god
Mike Casetta
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June 28, 2020
Poetry
Changing Shapes of Rain
Miya Ko
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October 7, 2020
Blog
Free Broadside: Leeza Simmons Sikes’ Bitchy Poems
Open Arts Forum
-
March 22, 2023
Poetry
Elliot Biggs, Laid Off on Payday
Grady VanWright
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October 27, 2024
Poetry
Sestina for a Wider Music
Marc Woodward
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November 12, 2025
Poetry
Andrew is leaving to pursue other opportunities
Michael Ashley
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February 8, 2025
Showcase
along the stream that fell from clouds & other poems
Milner Place
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December 21, 2024
Poetry
Give me that secret sauce
Nolcha Fox
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June 27, 2023
Music
Hello Two Clouds
Matt Dennison
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November 15, 2024
Poetry
Elegy at Antelope Canyon
Sara Clancy
-
March 7, 2023
Fiction
DELETE MY PICTURES
Lance Watson
-
August 15, 2025
Art
Hanoi Lilies
Hang Mai
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July 2, 2022
Poetry
Tony The Lip
May 22, 2018
Poetry
Il Faut Imaginer Sisyphe Heureux
Grady VanWright
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June 10, 2025
Poetry
Golden Silence
D. E. Kern
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December 11, 2023
Art
De wil van het volk
Marcel Herms
-
November 10, 2019
Poetry
At the Casino with No Money
Daniel J. Flore III
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August 6, 2022
Poetry
smoke rings
Larry Houston
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August 2, 2025
Poetry
haphazard
Michael Acker
-
February 16, 2019
Poetry
Three Doors
Alison Hicks
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January 14, 2022
Poetry
Bedtime, Children!
Susan Peters
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September 17, 2020
Poetry
My Name
james stephen
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December 4, 2021
Poetry
No one died when the house burned down
Kaci Skiles Laws
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February 7, 2023
Poetry
I am he shouted
Cameron McClure
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August 1, 2020
Poetry
.rose.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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November 4, 2022
Art
Sometimes When I Walk
Renee Elizabeth
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October 10, 2019
Poetry
There Should Be an Animal
Matt Dennison
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December 17, 2024
Poetry
7:40
james stephen
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November 10, 2022
Poetry
one of my first
December 21, 2018
Poetry
Myrna in the Checkout Lane
Mike Casetta
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April 19, 2023
Art
Experiments with a copy machine part 1
Marcel Herms
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September 14, 2019
Art
CATCH UP
Thomas Riesner
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March 9, 2022
Poetry
lilt in a breeze
Stella Read
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July 24, 2020
Contributor Blogs
Winners of the Poetry Contest, Lockdown Prayers, 2021
Soodabeh Saeidnia
-
May 18, 2021
Poetry
Accidents All the Time
Mary MacGowan
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March 3, 2025
Poetry
Missing (for my grandparents)
Nolcha Fox
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July 31, 2022
Poetry
.harbor.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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June 26, 2023
Poetry
The New Place
Sara Clancy
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September 23, 2023
Art
Ocean City, NJ, 1967, & Other Work
Phyllis Green
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November 14, 2020
Poetry
Big Mama’s Brood
Grady VanWright
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September 25, 2024
Poetry
she believed she could, so she did
Dale M. Tushman
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June 18, 2025
Art
Lullaby
Barry Burgess
-
April 10, 2024
Art
Es tanzt das ZNS
Marcel Herms
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May 22, 2018
Art
Yellow-Songs
Ellen Mary Hayes
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May 8, 2024
Poetry
These spectacles have seen ages
Jay Gandhi
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November 30, 2020
Art
Don’t you see the signs?
Marcel Herms
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March 1, 2025
Poetry
How to Be the Happy One at House Parties
Andrew Rogers
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August 19, 2018
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