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THE NAMES KEEP BEING THE SAME
How Do You Know When You’re Dead
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Poetry
The Finesse of Oneness
silent lotus
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February 10, 2021
Art
Shattered
Dale Patterson
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October 14, 2019
Poetry
Auditory
Bethany Lim
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October 31, 2022
Poetry
Quietus
Tom Strong
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January 4, 2021
Contributor Blogs
Strange Beauty
Kaci Skiles Laws
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January 17, 2022
Poetry
Last Note
Trish Saunders
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August 21, 2019
Blog
Line Breaks and Commas and Colons, Oh My!
Kaci Skiles Laws
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August 2, 2020
Photography
Photogrammetry series “Ašrotmáš”
Nicholas Wintzler
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September 14, 2022
Fiction
Freedom is a game of loss
Nathalie Spaans
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January 12, 2023
Poetry
Koan #5378 (Extended Version)
Dick Holmes
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December 17, 2018
Blog
Submittable: Too Expensive
Open Arts Forum
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May 17, 2019
Photography
Three by Buku Sarkar
Buku Sarkar
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November 25, 2018
Art
Scarecrow
Dale Patterson
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November 16, 2019
Poetry
orbit of a sacrifice
Amanda Villafranco
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October 15, 2018
Poetry
WITH THE NEON LIGHTS OF THE STRIP CLUB FLASHING
Daniel J. Flore III
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January 29, 2024
Poetry
this poem is called three boys were shot dead in a...
Jill Winkowski
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February 21, 2023
Photography
Shadowscape
JMR
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November 5, 2023
Poetry
Pigeon religion
Maria Mazzenga
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May 26, 2021
Poetry
Clippings of bad poetry
Daniel J. Flore III
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March 10, 2021
Poetry
Thuggery
Marc Woodward
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January 27, 2023
Poetry
Border Reflections
Steve Klepetar
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July 8, 2018
Poetry
Exhausted hotel rooms
Trish Saunders
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October 19, 2019
Poetry
He says I’m too good
Kaci Skiles Laws
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January 1, 2023
Poetry
Writing Poems for Gullible Readers
Dale Patterson
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July 26, 2023
Art
Gesamtkunstwerk—Series
Jenn Zed
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September 18, 2020
Poetry
Now that you’re no more
Jay Gandhi
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February 14, 2025
Poetry
Bird
Sherry Cassells
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June 13, 2023
Non-fiction
Pushing Potatoes at a Point in Time
Kay Elewski
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August 9, 2024
Photography
Mixolydian 01
Mark Preier
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April 10, 2018
Art
Rezubian
Jenn Zed
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February 4, 2019
Poetry
All the dying birds
Nathalie Spaans
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November 29, 2024
Poetry
Bottom feeding at the gas station slots
Daniel J. Flore III
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October 14, 2022
Fiction
Benny the Bard: A Modern Epic
Grady VanWright
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February 21, 2025
Poetry
It’s been a half century since the fair
Sara Clancy
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July 13, 2019
Poetry
Underwaterworld
Trevor Cunnington
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August 22, 2024
Art
.white.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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November 22, 2021
Poetry
AFTER JOE BOLTON (FOR TOHM BAKELAS)
Mark Anthony Pearce
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November 11, 2022
Poetry
Requiem for a Wrecked Weekend
Trish Saunders
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December 30, 2023
Photography
Rain
Buku Sarkar
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August 7, 2018
Poetry
my
John Yamrus
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June 2, 2023
Poetry
Sleepless Again and Again
Nolcha Fox
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October 7, 2023
Art
In this life, we met
Hang Mai
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May 8, 2022
Poetry
High Life
Starr
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July 16, 2022
Art
The Trump Effect
Tom Strong
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December 22, 2019
Poetry
Sink
Lorraine Stofft
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July 19, 2024
Poetry
Dew
Tom Strong
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October 21, 2021
Photography
Residual Landscape I
Mark Preier
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September 17, 2018
Art
Trailer Art
Ann Kammerer
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March 16, 2021
Poetry
The Purpose of Floors
Matt Dennison
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December 12, 2024
Poetry
Pulling Thread from a Red Paisley Pillow
Dale Patterson
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June 16, 2020
Poetry
April’s rent
Daniel J. Flore III
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April 1, 2018
Poetry
La Rochelle
Jenn Zed
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October 19, 2022
Poetry
song to myself
Cameron McClure
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October 6, 2021
Poetry
Light the Candle
Bob Bradshaw
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May 12, 2024
Poetry
A Loss of Belief
Raymond Huffman
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October 9, 2022
Poetry
.new work.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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November 13, 2022
Poetry
perennials
Michael Acker
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December 20, 2022
Poetry
BACK IN THE EARLY DAYS OF COVID
Daniel J. Flore III
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July 27, 2022
Poetry
Parking Space
Ann Kammerer
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January 21, 2022
Poetry
learning to read again
Rob Breeding
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July 7, 2021
Poetry
To You, I Shall Be Unique in All the World
Kaci Skiles Laws
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August 26, 2023
Poetry
undone
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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June 19, 2023
Poetry
Sightseeing
Tom Strong
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December 14, 2019
Poetry
6:11 a.m.
james stephen
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August 29, 2023
Poetry
.two houses.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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October 28, 2022
Fiction
Today when the day ends
Robert Stastny
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October 24, 2022
Poetry
A Sad Tale with No Moral
Mike Casetta
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February 18, 2022
Art
Sleepless Nights
Elina Ghanbari
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January 30, 2023
Poetry
at the doctor’s today,
June 27, 2020
Poetry
The Wicked Walk
Douglas Goodwin
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March 16, 2022
Poetry
Instinct
Sara Clancy
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October 28, 2022
Music
HYPATIA
Jenn Zed
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December 31, 2018
Poetry
Foster
Kaci Skiles Laws
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January 18, 2025
Photography
Black and black
Kim Toft
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May 23, 2019
Poetry
Sisters Coffee
Julie Desmond
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October 23, 2021
Poetry
lilt in a breeze
Stella Read
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July 24, 2020
Showcase
Indian Summer
Irene Han
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February 27, 2020
Poetry
Distance holds our absence
Nathalie Spaans
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June 10, 2023
Poetry
After the Visit
Sara Clancy
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December 29, 2022
Poetry
Look Up
Tom Strong
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June 3, 2024
Poetry
DON’T HIRE ME
Douglas Goodwin
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October 22, 2024
Poetry
strange town, familiar smell
Anthony Hughes
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April 19, 2021
Fiction
Why I Believe Everything
Sherry Cassells
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January 17, 2024
Poetry
Sunday, you rotten bitch
Daniel J. Flore III
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July 25, 2021
Poetry
BREAKFAST ALFRESCO
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 14, 2024
Poetry
Baba Yaga, a Twisted Ghazal
Susan Peters
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March 14, 2024
Art
Using again …
Jenn Zed
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February 23, 2019
Art
Ekphrastic Poetry Series (Poetry and Artwork by Barry Burgess)
Barry Burgess
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July 11, 2024
Poetry
BITTER PILL
Douglas Goodwin
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March 18, 2023
Poetry
Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Ground
Lorraine Stofft
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September 10, 2024
Art
Life Forms, Eventually to Wonder
Pat Perrin
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September 19, 2024
Poetry
Frankenstein Unwritten
Wim Coleman
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June 1, 2020
Poetry
Omaha
James Spears
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September 6, 2024
Art
inktober post 4
Tiko Lewis
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October 29, 2022
Art
Time to take it all back
Marcel Herms
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July 24, 2018
Art
Guard 1 and 2
Thomas Riesner
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August 19, 2024
Poetry
Links
Martin Pedersen
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April 20, 2021
Poetry
Do Not Resuscitate
Tom Strong
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December 14, 2020
Poetry
Doggerel
Mike Casetta
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July 20, 2021
Poetry
Near-omnipotent
David Belcher
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June 28, 2023
Art
Where is the end of line
Nicholas Wintzler
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January 16, 2022
Poetry
The Emigrant
Cameron McClure
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November 28, 2022
Poetry
7:40
james stephen
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November 10, 2022
Poetry
Mourned town
David Belcher
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February 7, 2025
Poetry
last of days
Rob Breeding
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January 15, 2025
Poetry
HIS T-SHIRT
Jefferson Carter
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February 8, 2020
Art
Miami Docks
Timothy F Phillips
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February 24, 2024
Contributor Blogs
10 TIPS FOR WRITING POETRY
Daniel J. Flore III
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May 21, 2022
Poetry
Death Did Us Part
james stephen
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October 16, 2023
Poetry
A Tyre Changer Can Earn £350k per year
Niall M Oliver
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April 15, 2023
Art
Houdt het dan nooit op?
Marcel Herms
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December 11, 2020
Poetry
THE OLD PICTURE OF GRAMPY
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 12, 2022
Art
Commencement
Dale Patterson
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March 12, 2021
Poetry
Cheeseburgers and Tattoos
Matt Dennison
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May 7, 2024
Art
2021
R. jones
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December 31, 2020
Poetry
Scrape
Matt Dennison
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November 25, 2021
Poetry
How to Become Invisible
Mary McCarthy
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June 11, 2018
Art
no title
Tiko Lewis
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April 11, 2023
Poetry
10-Gallon Hat
Jerry Ratch
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August 19, 2023
Poetry
Accidents All the Time
Mary MacGowan
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March 3, 2025
Poetry
Every Play
james stephen
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November 27, 2023
Poetry
The Finest Spirits
Mike Casetta
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November 8, 2023
Poetry
A Flurry of Wings
Mike Casetta
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December 27, 2018
Poetry
A waltz through the corn fields
Ken Tomaro
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December 31, 2022
Fiction
A Difficult Character
Sherry Cassells
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January 13, 2022
Poetry
Redshift
Hugh Lemma
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November 7, 2023
Poetry
Last Ode to a Sweet Apricot
Miya Ko
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December 17, 2019
Poetry
Boxes
Rob Breeding
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January 7, 2020
Poetry
Donny’s viral photos of wild horses
Jennifer Wilder
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June 3, 2021
Poetry
Detroit River
Tom Strong
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August 27, 2023
Poetry
Anointing the Dead
Susan Peters
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August 12, 2023
Poetry
the hurt
John Yamrus
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October 22, 2023
Poetry
WAITING FOR BUKOWSKI TO DIE
Douglas Goodwin
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May 21, 2021
Digital Art
Stories We Told Ourselves
james stephen
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July 29, 2024
Poetry
on getting accepted by a mag
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 15, 2021
Digital Art
The Damage
Elina Ghanbari
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August 26, 2024
Poetry
The shy, wild dogs of February
Trish Saunders
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July 2, 2023
Poetry
My Son, My Son
Susan Peters
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November 25, 2020
Poetry
A Short Tribute To The Word Quiver
Michael Thomas Ellis
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July 17, 2018
Poetry
Wendy and the flowers
Daniel J. Flore III
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April 24, 2021
Art
Summer Sun Solstice Viewing
george roesch johnson
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May 24, 2019
Poetry
Karin Dreijer Andersson
Jenn Zed
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May 31, 2018
Poetry
the mike pence school of gay conversion therapy
Lawrence George
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August 17, 2020
Poetry
.settings.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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October 17, 2023
Poetry
No Physics for Love
Mike Casetta
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November 20, 2022
Photography
The Crash II
Mark Preier
-
May 31, 2018
Poetry
DOOR MAT
Lyn Lifshin
-
April 19, 2018
Art
Untitled
Anisa Mosaiebiniya
-
February 25, 2025
Art
Side profile skull
Tiko Lewis
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June 13, 2024
Contributor Blogs
“While You Wait” Anthology
Eliot Jacobson
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May 25, 2021
Art
Two New Works, 2021
Marcel Herms
-
May 28, 2021
Fiction
Note taped on door: To the occupants of 107 Borbleblartt Street
heidi selig
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November 14, 2024
Poetry
Exotic Materials Haiku & Industrial Manhood
james stephen
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April 29, 2023
Poetry
A FORTUNE IN HOLES
Douglas Goodwin
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June 13, 2020
Art
Waiting Room
Dale Patterson
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December 24, 2020
Poetry
I’d Rather Have My Ass Slapped Than My Ribcage
Starr
-
December 30, 2021
Art
Understanding Time Travel
Jenn Zed
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October 11, 2019
Poetry
.O.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
-
December 1, 2022
Poetry
Touch (a Ghost addresses her Medium)
Marc Woodward
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February 2, 2023
Poetry
Safe Text
Ann Kammerer
-
January 3, 2021
Art
Juvenile delinquent
Marcel Herms
-
January 21, 2020
Poetry
Sometimes
Connie Carmichael
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June 15, 2020
Poetry
After You’ve Gone: Horses and Cigarettes
Trish Saunders
-
November 22, 2023
Poetry
The Gap
Marc Woodward
-
September 27, 2024
Poetry
The body of Christ
KIMBERLY McNeil
-
January 15, 2022
Photography
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Grave
Jay Dougherty
-
February 12, 2019
Poetry
Sharing Tea With The Ex
Bob Bradshaw
-
August 29, 2024
Art
In a Room that Refuses to Read
Dale Patterson
-
June 6, 2020
Poetry
A Love Sonnet Written on the Occasion of the Death of...
Andy Posner
-
September 20, 2020
Poetry
slave songs—2020
Tiko Lewis
-
August 3, 2020
Poetry
Rearrangements
Mike Casetta
-
September 25, 2022
Music
Zed Point – Android Girls
Jenn Zed
-
November 13, 2019
Photography
.bandage.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
-
June 30, 2018
Poetry
Similarities I Share With Jesus
Mike Casetta
-
September 7, 2018
Photography
Dylan Thomas’ Boathouse and Writing Hut at Laugharne, Wales
Ieuan ap hywel
-
April 12, 2024
Poetry
Skeptic’s Crèche
Sara Clancy
-
March 29, 2023
Poetry
Blackbird
Cameron McClure
-
January 18, 2024
Poetry
A Train Whistle Announcing the Arrival of Cousin Harrietta
Trish Saunders
-
July 3, 2019
Art
Mao-Trump
Jenn Zed
-
July 7, 2019
Poetry
Today I Need Your Best Poems
Cameron McClure
-
May 6, 2021
Art
Silence Reflection
Anisa Mosaiebiniya
-
September 22, 2024
Video
MA RI A
Jenn Zed
-
April 5, 2018
Poetry
DEADMAN
KIMBERLY McNeil
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July 9, 2021
Poetry
A Great Fuck
Tom Riordan
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June 24, 2018
Poetry
For Sylvia with love, Hermes
Debra Yvette Cazalet
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July 10, 2024
Poetry
I want to hug
Jordan Trethewey
-
August 15, 2020
Poetry
peep show politics
Tiko Lewis
-
June 20, 2019
Art
intoxicated attack on a french graphic novel
Jess Kangas
-
May 19, 2018
Poetry
Leaving the New Hope Farm House
Sara Clancy
-
January 2, 2020
Poetry
RUBY
John D Robinson
-
June 25, 2020
Art
Spaces
Anupam Gupta
-
August 25, 2021
Poetry
Heartsongs—an anagram
Joan Colby
-
September 5, 2020
Fiction
The Turnaround
Sherry Cassells
-
March 26, 2023
Poetry
Late Summer Sun
Michael Acker
-
July 21, 2024
Poetry
log pile
Michael Ashley
-
April 21, 2023
Showcase
Some Men
Lyn Lifshin
-
May 25, 2019
Poetry
Things I Received for Christmas
Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri
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December 5, 2020
Art
no title
Tiko Lewis
-
January 28, 2023
Art
The Euphoria of Koi in Springtime & Other Works
Bill Flanagan
-
June 6, 2019
Photography
Natural line
Kim Toft
-
July 18, 2018
Poetry
Big Mama’s Brood
Grady VanWright
-
September 25, 2024
Poetry
For the Next 19 Children
Jordan Trethewey
-
May 29, 2022
Poetry
Graves in the Sky
Michael Acker
-
September 14, 2023
Poetry
unintended for this world
Ron Sardino
-
April 30, 2021
Poetry
Pre-linguistic
Bruce Alford
-
January 14, 2019
Photography
Performance
Kim Toft
-
November 18, 2020
Art
Procession
Jenn Zed
-
March 21, 2024
Photography
Little Boy Meets Big Tree
Tom Strong
-
September 28, 2024
Poetry
Life After Dodging a Bullet
Andy Posner
-
November 26, 2020
Poetry
After Visiting You, I Return to My Life
Andy Posner
-
June 22, 2021
Poetry
Capitalism in Cambodia
Lawrence George
-
January 6, 2020
Art
Electric pH Acid Test (collage by Bernie Langs)
Bernie Langs
-
September 12, 2019
Poetry
The House on Tilden Avenue
Jose Oseguera
-
November 7, 2019
Poetry
Neither Nature nor Nurture
Tom Riordan
-
May 4, 2019
Art
L-Scape 9–Trip
Jenn Zed
-
March 1, 2021
Poetry
killing the root
Jennifer Wilder
-
March 30, 2022
Poetry
Tony The Lip
May 22, 2018
Poetry
Heating up the car
Daniel J. Flore III
-
May 29, 2018
Poetry
And
Hugh Lemma
-
September 30, 2024
Poetry
old ghosts
Jan Harper
-
August 18, 2023
Music
Sojuz Šrek Párty
Nicholas Wintzler
-
February 16, 2022
Photography
Femmes Fatales
Nichole Spates
-
May 19, 2019
Poetry
No Lines
Paul Brookes
-
July 5, 2020
Poetry
An Amity of Witches
Sara Clancy
-
October 31, 2024
Poetry
.june.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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November 9, 2023
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