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Poetry
Those who look straight forward
Michael Ashley
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May 20, 2019
Poetry
No Memory of the Wind
Raymond Huffman
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August 14, 2022
Poetry
Encounter with a clown
Marc Woodward
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September 15, 2019
Poetry
Liberated Me
Lance Jencks
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September 24, 2020
Art
Harmeet prefers orchids
Phyllis Green
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February 20, 2019
Poetry
Mississippi Catch and Release
Tom Strong
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April 17, 2023
Poetry
And holy holy, the life it held
Nathalie Spaans
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March 22, 2024
Art
Juvenile delinquent
Marcel Herms
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January 21, 2020
Quotations
On Labor
Henry David Thoreau
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April 26, 2018
Poetry
Zealots
Mike Casetta
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March 23, 2024
Poetry
Silence
Hugh Lemma
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September 5, 2024
Poetry
A Failed Attempt at Re-parenting
Mike Casetta
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May 30, 2020
Art
it’s me
Anisa Mosaiebiniya
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October 18, 2024
Poetry
Sara
Mike Casetta
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June 19, 2022
Fiction
Racoon Hunting
Elizabeth Dunn
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March 28, 2025
Art
The Self Portrait
R. jones
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February 17, 2023
Poetry
Low Hanging Fruit
Julie Desmond
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May 14, 2021
Art
Don’t you see the signs?
Marcel Herms
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March 1, 2025
Poetry
School’s Out
Robert Stastny
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February 17, 2025
Music
Selections from Forthcoming Album, “Low & Lily”
Jenn Zed
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April 22, 2021
Poetry
Heart Attack
Randi Cramer
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May 18, 2019
Poetry
Moments
Dale Patterson
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December 1, 2022
Poetry
Don’t Wear It Out
Chloe Zumbrun
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November 19, 2020
Photography
New Hampshire Winter – Series
RC James
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March 8, 2024
Art
f9
Edmund Conti
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August 4, 2018
Photography
Bugged
John Austin
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March 24, 2024
Art
The Minister’s Daughter
Dale Patterson
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July 22, 2019
Poetry
The First Lesson
Cameron McClure
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March 1, 2023
Poetry
An ode to Billy C.
Ken Tomaro
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September 28, 2022
Poetry
Forgotten faces
Sheela Mamidenna
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June 29, 2021
Fiction
Tariffs
Lance Watson
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May 22, 2025
Poetry
A Café Terrace Confession
silent lotus
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July 16, 2020
Photography
Photographs from the Georgia O’Keeffe Home, Abiquiu, New Mexico
Kelly DuMar
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January 20, 2019
Music
Fine on the Outside – New Album
Jenn Zed
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November 15, 2021
Poetry
Group Art
Miya Ko
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February 7, 2021
Art
Midnight Sun
Stian Kjørsvik
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October 15, 2019
Poetry
Skin The
Paul Brookes
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June 22, 2018
Digital Art
Cat Oracle
Stian Kjørsvik
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July 20, 2025
Fiction
The Golden Years of Gary Goldenberg
Lance Watson
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August 30, 2025
Poetry
Last Note
Trish Saunders
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August 21, 2019
Poetry
Yes, I know I am dying
Nolcha Fox
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February 1, 2023
Poetry
Come Dance With Me
David E. Matthews
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September 20, 2023
Poetry
My friend has
Sara Riley
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January 25, 2019
Contributor Blogs
“While You Wait” Anthology
Eliot Jacobson
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May 25, 2021
Poetry
three exes
Larry Houston
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July 24, 2022
Poetry
Movement
Hugh Lemma
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July 6, 2024
Poetry
averse
Tiko Lewis
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January 18, 2022
Art
Coincidental conjugations: A series of digital compositions
Dale Patterson
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December 30, 2019
Poetry
I’d like to avoid dementia
Sara Clancy
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September 15, 2018
Poetry
Train
james stephen
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September 25, 2025
Fiction
The Cat
Kaci Skiles Laws
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September 25, 2023
Art
Sleepless Nights
Elina Ghanbari
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January 30, 2023
Poetry
Curating Dust in Digital Times
Jordan Trethewey
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May 19, 2018
Art
CQ DE OU-OZ HANNE
Jenn Zed
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May 11, 2019
Poetry
The Day Squirrels Preach
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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January 28, 2021
Readings
I hated Tamaqua
Daniel J. Flore III
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January 29, 2020
Art
The Trump Effect
Tom Strong
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December 22, 2019
Poetry
Deer
Rich Glinnen
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July 17, 2024
Photography
W
Kim Toft
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July 16, 2018
Art
In the Deep Blue
Hang Mai
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May 18, 2023
Poetry
Old Glory
Tom Riordan
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July 3, 2018
Poetry
Benediction for a Baby Born in 2020
Sara Clancy
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July 17, 2020
Contributor Blogs
Totally Disconnected
Eliot Jacobson
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May 12, 2021
Music
What Ever
Jenn Zed
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June 18, 2022
Poetry
On Getting Old
Mike Casetta
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May 21, 2025
Photography
The Crash II
Mark Preier
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May 31, 2018
Poetry
And
Hugh Lemma
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September 30, 2024
Poetry
strange town, familiar smell
Anthony Hughes
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April 19, 2021
Poetry
copper coil
Jennifer Wilder
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October 18, 2021
Poetry
The Manner of Leaving
Hugh Lemma
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August 29, 2021
Poetry
Thick as thieves
Casey Killingsworth
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November 20, 2019
Poetry
Artemis
Tom Riordan
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April 20, 2025
Art
Inktober post 5
Tiko Lewis
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November 17, 2022
Fiction
Go Fish
Sherry Cassells
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February 15, 2022
Poetry
THE RUSTY WHITE PICK UP
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 3, 2024
Poetry
I Fear Nothing More Than Wasting Time
Andy Posner
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May 27, 2023
Photography
Gallery of Vancouver Wildflowers Photography by Rod Raglin
Rod Raglin
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June 12, 2025
Poetry
The Bluejay’s Dividend
Marc Woodward
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June 21, 2024
Poetry
i am not the melting snowman
Mike Casetta
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July 10, 2023
Poetry
Why are you so sad?
Kaci Skiles Laws
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June 17, 2020
Poetry
free-range poets
Jan Harper
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December 10, 2023
Poetry
The Tree Ring Record
Tom Strong
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March 25, 2024
Poetry
1950s Chicago Tomboy
Janice Ball
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October 18, 2019
Poetry
We Were Nine
Matt Dennison
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June 16, 2024
Poetry
Accidents All the Time
Mary MacGowan
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March 3, 2025
Poetry
AVIDECO
Mark Anthony Pearce
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May 27, 2021
Poetry
April’s rent
Daniel J. Flore III
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April 1, 2018
Poetry
My country
David Belcher
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September 5, 2025
Poetry
Inmates
RC James
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March 27, 2023
Photography
Excavation Site
Mark Preier
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July 1, 2018
Poetry
The Horologist
Grady VanWright
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January 30, 2025
Art
Mexican Hat Dance
Bill Flanagan
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September 30, 2019
Poetry
After Seeing You in Sullivan’s
Trish Saunders
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January 6, 2022
Art
digital/mixed media art
Doug Flaherty
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August 26, 2019
Poetry
.two houses.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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October 28, 2022
Music
Shine Me Through
RC James
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August 3, 2018
Poetry
Tat Tvam Asi
Tom Strong
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October 6, 2023
Poetry
At the corner of something and something
Maria Mazzenga
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August 23, 2021
Art
The Illustrated Woman
Jenn Zed
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April 17, 2018
Poetry
On the Porch
james stephen
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October 17, 2024
Fiction
Big Semicolon Sale!
Raymond Huffman
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August 8, 2025
Poetry
a fence is not enough
Rob Breeding
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July 20, 2023
Poetry
all natural zero calorie existence
Tiko Lewis
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June 27, 2018
Poetry
“Son…
Matt Dennison
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January 2, 2023
Poetry
Leningrad Ghosts
Mark A. Murphy
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March 6, 2022
Poetry
Little Infinities
Hugh Lemma
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March 16, 2024
Art
I Want to Eat You
Thomas Yarbrough
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April 16, 2018
Poetry
.rose.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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November 4, 2022
Readings
poetry yard sale
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 18, 2019
Contributor Blogs
How Your Creative Work Can Outlive You
Lance Jencks
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December 9, 2021
Poetry
Who Will Find Us?
Alison Hicks
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January 19, 2022
Art
They Rise to Look Over the Mountain & Other New Work
Dale Patterson
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September 17, 2021
Poetry
Carry Me
Raymond Huffman
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October 9, 2023
Video
Have Made It
Matt Dennison
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April 5, 2018
Poetry
After the Visit
Sara Clancy
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December 29, 2022
Art
ROUGH WATER COLOR: A Gallery of 19 Watercolor Paintings by Robert...
Robert Stastny
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July 8, 2025
Fiction
Einstein Waters the Flowers on a Berlin Street in Late August,...
Trish Saunders
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October 24, 2020
Poetry
Moving Day
Anthony Hughes
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April 5, 2018
Poetry
Stung by news of poaching
David Belcher
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April 22, 2024
Art
NARROWNESS
Thomas Riesner
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April 4, 2022
Art
The Goddess
Jenn Zed
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February 7, 2020
Art
self portrait #2
Tiko Lewis
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April 9, 2023
Poetry
Rearrangements
Mike Casetta
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September 25, 2022
Poetry
The Dark
Susan Peters
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February 17, 2019
Photography
Summer Solstice Sunset
Rod Raglin
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June 21, 2025
Poetry
For the Road
Mike Casetta
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December 14, 2024
Photography
.early morning tea.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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March 1, 2019
Poetry
What the Hill Remembers
Dr Padmashree RP
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September 16, 2025
Poetry
Poem in Which I Imagine My Dad Agrees to Shave My...
Lisa Summe
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November 27, 2019
Art
Templar
Jenn Zed
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June 11, 2019
Fiction
The Man Speaks
Matt Dennison
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August 4, 2024
Poetry
Waymarkers
Marc Woodward
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December 22, 2020
Music
Hello Two Clouds
Matt Dennison
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November 15, 2024
Art
Biohacker Series
Jenn Zed
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August 11, 2020
Poetry
What do you mean by a blue horse
Sara Clancy
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February 18, 2025
Poetry
A Small List Of Silent Things
Hugh Lemma
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August 17, 2023
Art
Menace
Renee Elizabeth
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November 8, 2019
Art
Everybody Swims/Lino Cut
george roesch johnson
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June 20, 2019
Poetry
. selective.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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November 9, 2022
Poetry
Ode to the Remaining Toothpaste in the Tube
Andy Posner
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October 11, 2024
Photography
Drinkers Converge
John Austin
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July 23, 2020
Poetry
New Year’s Day
Starr
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January 1, 2019
Poetry
Coyotes
Steve Klepetar
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August 2, 2018
Poetry
there was this
Lawrence George
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January 10, 2021
Poetry
The Right Kind of Babies
james stephen
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September 18, 2021
Art
Pariah
Dale Patterson
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August 24, 2020
Photography
K. Thorn’s a Dancer
Jem Raid
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February 27, 2021
Poetry
Swan Diver
Ann Kammerer
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April 30, 2019
Fiction
If I Should Die
Kaci Skiles Laws
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February 8, 2024
Poetry
just one more
Jennifer Wilder
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November 10, 2021
Poetry
Completely, Absolutely Not There
Ray Miller
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November 10, 2024
Photography
.eight.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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December 26, 2018
Poetry
Every Play
james stephen
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November 27, 2023
Poetry
Hostess
Ann Kammerer
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October 19, 2022
Art
Widow and Child
Subhadeep De
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August 18, 2018
Poetry
Killing conspicuous
Tom Strong
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February 5, 2020
Poetry
I Woke Up and Johnny Cash Was Singing Personal Jesus
John Gurney
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May 4, 2025
Poetry
song to myself
Cameron McClure
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October 6, 2021
Poetry
Wooden Spoons
John Gurney
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May 23, 2023
Poetry
Silent Birds
Enas Suleiman
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June 14, 2020
Art
Don’t shoot the artist
R. jones
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February 26, 2021
Poetry
That Cemetery Cold
Paul Brookes
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December 27, 2022
Poetry
The House on Tilden Avenue
Jose Oseguera
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November 7, 2019
Poetry
10:08 a.m.
james stephen
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February 18, 2021
Poetry
Digital Revenge
Jay Gandhi
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May 17, 2021
Art
Visual Kei
Jenn Zed
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March 31, 2018
Poetry
saying goodbye
Stella Read
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January 14, 2020
Readings
Reprise
Cameron McClure
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June 22, 2018
Poetry
Gray is the Only Color Containing All Colors (and it’s also...
Robert Stastny
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January 10, 2025
Art
Self Portrait with Mother
Subhadeep De
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August 26, 2018
Poetry
Bagpipes In The Park
Tom Strong
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August 11, 2025
Poetry
Mountain Hymn
Skyler Kimock
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February 28, 2025
Poetry
Tuesday’s Stone (Six Of Stars.)
Starr
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September 22, 2019
Poetry
Coins in the Canal
Grady VanWright
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August 29, 2025
Poetry
The Gilded Moth and the Iron Maw
Grady VanWright
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May 9, 2025
Poetry
The Day Before Departure
Hugh Lemma
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September 11, 2018
Poetry
A Team of Horses Gathers Me into Heaven
Amanda Villafranco
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November 24, 2020
Art
The Last Days of Denmark
Jenn Zed
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November 21, 2019
Poetry
I Long to Join the Conga Line
Trish Saunders
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July 18, 2020
Blog
Lyn Lifshin Honored At Albany Public Library Foundation
Open Arts Forum
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May 17, 2019
Poetry
Just Another Dream Waking
RC James
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October 29, 2020
Poetry
The Right Things
Lisa Summe
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December 1, 2019
Poetry
survivors
Maria Mazzenga
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May 27, 2018
Poetry
bicep tattoo
Rob Breeding
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May 3, 2023
Poetry
To Not Be That Guy
Michael Ashley
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May 17, 2025
Poetry
haphazard
Michael Acker
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February 16, 2019
Poetry
the hurt
John Yamrus
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October 22, 2023
Poetry
anticipating the dog
Delainie Littlejohn
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August 5, 2020
Poetry
A dram for you, a dram for me
Michael Ashley
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January 2, 2024
Poetry
Abscission
Tom Strong
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February 13, 2024
Poetry
Galileo Never Rode a Rickshaw
Michael Acker
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February 21, 2021
Poetry
Digging
Michael Acker
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August 10, 2024
Poetry
unceremoniously
Michael Acker
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February 3, 2023
Poetry
The Sacrifice
Cameron McClure
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November 13, 2023
Fiction
More Two Sentence Horror Stories
Kaci Skiles Laws
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October 26, 2021
Showcase
Pixedelica
R. jones
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December 11, 2021
Poetry
Pantoum for Changsha
Brendan Christopher
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August 1, 2018
Poetry
on getting accepted by a mag
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 15, 2021
Poetry
Endless Rain and Wine
Trish Saunders
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May 5, 2024
Poetry
STORIES ARE EMPIRES WAITING TO COLLAPSE
Nathalie Spaans
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March 12, 2023
Poetry
Her Mother’s Dishes
Dale Patterson
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September 18, 2022
Poetry
For the Next 19 Children
Jordan Trethewey
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May 29, 2022
Poetry
eulogy for Dean
Mike Casetta
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December 3, 2022
Poetry
Most times though we’d sit
Michael Ashley
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June 3, 2018
Poetry
You hurt plenty
Michael Ashley
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January 17, 2025
Poetry
Remembering Sand
Trish Saunders
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June 9, 2024
Poetry
Lo-Fi
Jenn Zed
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April 11, 2018
Poetry
The Cleaver days
Ken Tomaro
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November 5, 2022
Poetry and Art
Will Work For…
Barry Burgess
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August 15, 2024
Poetry
lessons from my dead father
Lance Watson
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July 31, 2025
Photography
Nadine Maart 3
Frank Doorhof
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May 20, 2018
Poetry
Ward 8
Starr
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July 26, 2020
Photography
Urban Reinvention 06
Mark Preier
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April 6, 2018
Poetry
The Atom of Language
Michael Acker
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May 26, 2019
Poetry
Void
Amanda Villafranco
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May 23, 2019
Art
how it is
R. jones
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April 11, 2022
Art
Vleugellam Fladderend
Marcel Herms
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April 23, 2018
Poetry
THE SPIRIT ANIMAL SOCIETY
Jefferson Carter
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May 13, 2024
Blog
Line Breaks and Commas and Colons, Oh My!
Kaci Skiles Laws
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August 2, 2020
Photography
Looking at you
Kim Toft
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June 17, 2018
Art
Inktober post 6
Tiko Lewis
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October 21, 2022
Photography
Coastal Epiphanies
Morgan Driscoll
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March 5, 2024
Art
Power of diagonals
Patrice Cameron
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October 29, 2024
Poetry
Bathroom Haiku
Niall M Oliver
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February 13, 2020
Poetry
When the storms arrive
Michael Ashley
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December 15, 2021
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