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The dogs are at it again
Marcel Herms
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November 6, 2019
Art
De rentmeesters & other new work
Marcel Herms
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July 19, 2021
Photography
Dragon lady
Frank Doorhof
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May 22, 2018
Art
Breathing Clean Air
Dale Patterson
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September 25, 2019
Fiction
Unpublished Page
Lance Jencks
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May 14, 2018
Photography
Mixolydian 01
Mark Preier
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April 10, 2018
Poetry
Clock Radio #2: The Bukowski Issue
Jay Dougherty
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April 22, 2018
Art
Lysergic Deviations I
Subhadeep De
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September 24, 2018
Showcase
Just dancing
Kim Toft
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March 6, 2019
Poetry
on getting accepted by a mag
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 15, 2021
Poetry
slave songs—2020
Tiko Lewis
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June 4, 2020
Poetry
Tax Returns
Tom Riordan
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May 12, 2019
Poetry
Maria
Jay Gandhi
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June 5, 2018
Poetry
Why are you so sad?
Kaci Skiles Laws
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June 17, 2020
Poetry
It’s been so long, since when did hope breathe its way...
Daniel J. Flore III
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July 3, 2020
Poetry
Boxes
Rob Breeding
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January 7, 2020
Photography
Self Portrait
Mark Preier
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June 1, 2018
Photography
Before the Divorce
Doug Flaherty
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January 19, 2020
Poetry
sausage poem
Mike Casetta
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May 16, 2021
Photography
Calcutta Basti 1
Buku Sarkar
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July 30, 2018
Art
A shame for the angels
Marcel Herms
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July 28, 2019
Poetry
Chimera
Bethany Lim
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July 19, 2020
Poetry
Moving Day
Anthony Hughes
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April 5, 2018
Poetry
These spectacles have seen ages
Jay Gandhi
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November 30, 2020
Photography
Alleys
Buku Sarkar
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July 23, 2018
Poetry
My Co-Workers Are All Ghosts
Susan Peters
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December 29, 2019
Poetry
The Hawk
Ann Kammerer
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May 8, 2019
Poetry
Call this
Roger Fizzerton
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January 17, 2020
Poetry
1/4 kg
Jay Gandhi
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December 10, 2020
Poetry
a tale of two poets and a boy from the Bronx
Emalisa Rose
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December 19, 2020
Poetry
Neither Nature nor Nurture
Tom Riordan
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May 4, 2019
Poetry
Lo-Fi
Jenn Zed
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April 11, 2018
Music
Winter’s Come and Gone
RC James
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June 17, 2019
Showcase
Common Misconceptions
Mark Preier
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February 20, 2020
Poetry
Setting Precedent
Mike Casetta
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October 31, 2019
Poetry
When the will to survive is stronger than love
Cheryl Leverette
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October 5, 2019
Art
Trumpster
Jenn Zed
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July 6, 2019
Poetry
Sightseeing
Tom Strong
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December 14, 2019
Art
Biohacker Series
Jenn Zed
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August 11, 2020
Blog
Jordan Trethewey & Friends Read from “Spirits for Sale” at The...
Jordan Trethewey
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October 28, 2019
Showcase
Summer 2018 Series
Afieya Kipp
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July 31, 2018
Readings
I felt so secure I even wanted the flies there
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 13, 2020
Poetry
Truce
Mélissa O'Flaherty
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January 22, 2020
Art
Untitled
Marcel Herms
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June 2, 2018
Art
Angry Mind
Taylor Bain
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December 30, 2018
Poetry
Selections from “A Thousand and One Cranes”
Miya Ko
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July 24, 2019
Poetry
never scrub saffron in a metal mortar
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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July 4, 2018
Art
Abstract Terms
Michael Acker
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February 8, 2021
Video
Climbing the Great Heater of Life
Lance Jencks
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March 31, 2018
Poetry
my-Tune
Jay Gandhi
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September 30, 2018
Readings
Melinda, things I used to knowÂ
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 15, 2018
Poetry
Don’t You Worry, Jackie Boy
james stephen
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February 11, 2021
Poetry
A FORTUNE IN HOLES
Douglas Goodwin
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June 13, 2020
Poetry
The Nation’s Face
Tom Riordan
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November 2, 2020
Poetry
Umwelt
Jenn Zed
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December 13, 2020
Poetry
all natural zero calorie existence
Tiko Lewis
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June 27, 2018
Poetry
Eulogy of Fables
Miya Ko
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February 26, 2020
Art
Collision time
Marcel Herms
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April 26, 2018
Poetry
To Stick Around
Boston Gordon
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December 4, 2019
Poetry
The Bird Outside Our Kitchen
Lance Jencks
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June 17, 2018
Poetry
Meth(odical) Fog
Starr
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January 31, 2021
Poetry
Pattern of Life
LA Brown
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December 8, 2020
Poetry
America in 2019
Wim Coleman
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November 29, 2019
Poetry
By the Maple
Miya Ko
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September 26, 2020
Poetry
Childless
KIMBERLY McNeil
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October 17, 2020
Video
F A M K E
Jenn Zed
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April 17, 2018
Blog
Submittable: Too Expensive
Open Arts Forum
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May 17, 2019
Poetry
Silent Birds
Enas Suleiman
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June 14, 2020
Poetry
I’m Sorry I Cannot Attend Your Party
Lisa Summe
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May 17, 2020
Poetry
WAITING FOR BUKOWSKI TO DIE
Douglas Goodwin
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May 21, 2021
Poetry
Before Divorce
Eliot Jacobson
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September 5, 2019
Contributor Blogs
Totally Disconnected
Eliot Jacobson
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May 12, 2021
Art
Entrance
Stian Kjørsvik
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October 28, 2019
Poetry
Red
Amanda Villafranco
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November 17, 2019
Poetry
at the doctor’s today,
John Yamrus
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June 27, 2020
Poetry
In the Port of Saint Petersburg
Alfie Shoyger
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October 12, 2020
Art
Midnight Sun
Stian Kjørsvik
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October 15, 2019
Video
The last vestiges of hope
Jem Raid
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July 26, 2019
Art
What about us
Marcel Herms
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April 20, 2018
Fiction
Pathetique
Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri
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January 8, 2020
Art
Asian Hybridity
Chunbum Park
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April 13, 2021
Photography
Excavation Site
Mark Preier
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July 1, 2018
Poetry
A Great Fuck
Tom Riordan
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June 24, 2018
Poetry
I disappeared
Jess Kangas
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April 22, 2018
Poetry
Dancing in December
Trish Saunders
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September 7, 2019
Poetry
Return Policy
Megan Merchant
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January 24, 2019
Poetry
the Zebra Crossing was under water
silent lotus
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June 29, 2018
Blog
Lyn Lifshin Honored At Albany Public Library Foundation
Open Arts Forum
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May 17, 2019
Photography
Alleys 3
Buku Sarkar
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January 18, 2019
Poetry
A Boat Called Isabelle
Margarita Serafimova
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February 26, 2019
Art
intoxicated attack on a french graphic novel
Jess Kangas
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May 19, 2018
Photography
Taken By Haley Indorato (Series)
Chunbum Park
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January 2, 2021
Poetry
In honour of pets
Jordan Trethewey
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October 6, 2020
Poetry
The Wood Conductor
Marc Woodward
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February 14, 2021
Poetry
Anna and the Scourge
RC James
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September 13, 2019
Poetry
Flight
Nancy Johnson James
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September 2, 2018
Poetry
A More Perfect Union
Andy Posner
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November 5, 2019
Art
Commencement
Dale Patterson
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March 12, 2021
Poetry
Novelty
Hugh Lemma
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February 22, 2021
Art
Ayin
Stian Kjørsvik
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October 13, 2019
Photography
.carry me.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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September 13, 2018
Photography
Nadine Professional Imaging
Frank Doorhof
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May 27, 2018
Poetry
Chain Book Store
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
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June 10, 2020
Art
The Euphoria of Koi in Springtime & Other Works
Bill Flanagan
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June 6, 2019
Poetry
Packing Up the House
Sara Clancy
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September 6, 2018
Photography
.early morning tea.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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March 1, 2019
Poetry
Aubade
Gerald Parker
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December 7, 2019
Poetry
separation
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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February 1, 2019
Art
ebbing
Dale Patterson
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January 5, 2021
Showcase
Distillations
Mark Preier
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March 4, 2019
Photography
Shadow Shoots
Kim Toft
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July 10, 2020
Poetry
in pursuit of dead presidents
Obed Ladiny
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February 2, 2020
Poetry
ANYWHERE BUT HERE
Douglas Goodwin
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November 10, 2019
Photography
Alignment 05
Mark Preier
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April 24, 2018
Poetry
Setting Precedent
Mike Casetta
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January 4, 2020
Fiction
Don’t Think
Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri
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October 28, 2020
Poetry
HUNG LIKE A HEBREW NATIONAL
Douglas Goodwin
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August 18, 2020
Poetry
Toe Tappin’
Michael B. Carroll Jr.
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January 9, 2020
Video
MA RI A
Jenn Zed
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April 5, 2018
Letters
Charles Bukowski Letter to Douglas Goodwin, May 25, 1983
Charles Bukowski
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September 3, 2018
Poetry
Skinny Legs
Ann Kammerer
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March 9, 2019
Photography
Photographs from the Georgia O’Keeffe Home, Abiquiu, New Mexico
Kelly DuMar
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January 20, 2019
Poetry
The air conditioner repairman left his sweaty towel on my dishwasher
Cheryl Leverette
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March 5, 2019
Poetry
Commuting: the Sentence
Edmund Conti
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June 18, 2018
Poetry
Allegory for an Unreasonable Age
Andy Posner
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February 23, 2020
Art
UMWELT Series
Jenn Zed
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January 30, 2021
Art
Understanding Time Travel
Jenn Zed
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October 11, 2019
Poetry
The Last Time in the Hospital
Mary McCarthy
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July 12, 2018
Music
HYPATIA
Jenn Zed
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December 31, 2018
Poetry
Brain dead fuckwits everywhere
Michael Ashley
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August 2, 2019
Poetry
Waymarkers
Marc Woodward
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December 22, 2020
Poetry
Killing conspicuous
Tom Strong
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February 5, 2020
Art
Flipping Through Pages to Get to the End of the Story
Dale Patterson
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August 1, 2019
Poetry
Stinson Beach
Claire Mora Parsons
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September 10, 2018
Contributor Blogs
tv appearance…
John Yamrus
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April 10, 2021
Showcase
.life forms.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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January 23, 2019
Poetry
Flashback
Miya Ko
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July 27, 2020
Poetry
Sabbath
Bruce Alford
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December 25, 2018
Poetry
Homage to Wong Kar Wai
Miya Ko
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April 7, 2021
Poetry
The Humanist
David Belcher
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February 16, 2020
Poetry
WHAT I AM
Douglas Goodwin
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July 29, 2020
Photography
Looking at you
Kim Toft
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June 17, 2018
Poetry
haphazard
Michael Acker
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February 16, 2019
Poetry
lilt in a breeze
Stella Read
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July 24, 2020
Art
Help
Marcel Herms
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December 20, 2018
Poetry
Life After Dodging a Bullet
Andy Posner
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November 26, 2020
Poetry
How to win an argument: lesson #17, Dad
Eliot Jacobson
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June 27, 2019
Poetry
the first time I slept
Jennifer Wilder
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April 8, 2021
Poetry
Curating Dust in Digital Times
Jordan Trethewey
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May 19, 2018
Music
Red
Kaci Skiles Laws
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May 20, 2020
Poetry
Kim gets the red dress
Jennifer Wilder
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February 20, 2021
Art
Grain Weeps Debris
Corenski Nowlan
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June 20, 2018
Poetry
A Train Whistle Announcing the Arrival of Cousin Harrietta
Trish Saunders
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July 3, 2019
Poetry
Don’t Wear It Out
Chloe Zumbrun
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November 19, 2020
Poetry
Her Knickers
Paul Brookes
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September 21, 2020
Poetry
learning to read again
Rob Breeding
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July 7, 2021
Poetry
birds and other fly creatures
Anthony Hughes
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December 11, 2019
Art
Self Portrait in dark mood
george roesch johnson
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October 4, 2019
Poetry
Ambition
Mike Casetta
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November 27, 2020
Poetry
Karin Dreijer Andersson
Jenn Zed
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May 31, 2018
Photography
Counterpoint_04
Mark Preier
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May 19, 2018
Art
Het contact met de medemens verliep moeizaam
Marcel Herms
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August 25, 2019
Poetry
One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds
Dick Holmes
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September 16, 2019
Poetry
The too real dream of guilt in one glance
Lyn Lifshin
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May 6, 2020
Poetry
Organ Recital at Saint-Eustache
Lance Jencks
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July 30, 2020
Poetry
Scylla and Charybdis
Maria Mazzenga
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February 15, 2021
Poetry
Election Day: When My Blood Is on the Ballot
Andy Posner
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June 3, 2020
Poetry
The World Tree
Margarita Serafimova
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December 17, 2019
Poetry
Oldies but Goodies
Tom Riordan
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December 9, 2018
Music
Aljosja
Dennis Ramler
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May 16, 2020
Creative Non-Fiction
Jesus Visits the Central Bus Station
Daniel Beaudoin
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May 1, 2019
Poetry
Pageantry
silent lotus
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January 16, 2020
Music
Down to the dust
RC James
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January 21, 2019
Readings
Me and my zine
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 5, 2019
Poetry
Swan Diver
Ann Kammerer
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April 30, 2019
Poetry
New Year’s Day
Starr
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January 1, 2019
Poetry
Liberated Me
Lance Jencks
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September 24, 2020
Poetry
After
Steve Richmond
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April 16, 2018
Poetry
I think I died
Kaci Skiles Laws
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April 25, 2021
Poetry
Sometimes
Connie Carmichael
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June 15, 2020
Art
Trying to Comfort a Dream & Other Efforts
Dale Patterson
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August 16, 2020
Fiction
Air Bag
Jill Winkowski
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December 6, 2019
Poetry
My Son, My Son
Susan Peters
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November 25, 2020
Poetry
#Metoo Today
Maria Mazzenga
-
April 27, 2018
Blog
Origin Story–part 1
Jenn Zed
-
November 12, 2019
Art
Four by Phyllis Green
Phyllis Green
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May 29, 2019
Art
4 Pandemic Oil Paintings
Cat Jones
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January 19, 2021
Art
Double Trouble
Lorette C. Luzajic
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December 18, 2019
Poetry
Stubble
Cameron McClure
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August 10, 2019
Photography
Mixolydian 06
Mark Preier
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April 10, 2018
Art
Must be I’ve been smoking too long…
Subhadeep De
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August 25, 2018
Art
Five Women Admiring a Still Life
Dale Patterson
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October 22, 2019
Poetry
Last Days at Acme
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 1, 2019
Art
Using again …
Jenn Zed
-
February 23, 2019
Art
..big clothes..
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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July 4, 2020
Art
Wetware
Jenn Zed
-
September 27, 2018
Poetry
This is me not exaggerating
Mike Casetta
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October 23, 2020
Poetry
The Petrifying Things
Michael Ashley
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November 21, 2020
Quotations
On Labor
Henry David Thoreau
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April 26, 2018
Poetry
I HAD CALLED IN SICK
John D Robinson
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June 11, 2020
Art
Career opportunities
Marcel Herms
-
August 10, 2020
Art
Barfly
Marcel Herms
-
June 17, 2018
Poetry
Ageless
Amanda Villafranco
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June 12, 2019
Poetry
Koan #5378 (Extended Version)
Dick Holmes
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December 17, 2018
Poetry
Just Rest
Lance Jencks
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May 3, 2019
Poetry
First we release the horses
Trish Saunders
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June 28, 2019
Photography
Solitary: A Photographic Series
Jing Lin
-
December 8, 2018
Art
Juvenile delinquent
Marcel Herms
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January 21, 2020
Music
Down to the dust
RC James
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February 3, 2019
Art
sliding or coasting?
Marcel Herms
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July 2, 2018
Poetry
no reminders
Cheryl Leverette
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June 16, 2019
Photography
Times Square Lady
Stephen B White
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December 9, 2018
Fiction
One rupee coin
Jay Gandhi
-
January 30, 2020
Poetry
Leaving the New Hope Farm House
Sara Clancy
-
January 2, 2020
Poetry
The truck has a large red logo on its side
Michael Ashley
-
September 9, 2020
Art
Dumpsters
Dale Patterson
-
September 14, 2020
Art
Self Portrait with Mother
Subhadeep De
-
August 26, 2018
Showcase
Indian Summer
Irene Han
-
February 27, 2020
Music
Shine Me Through
RC James
-
August 3, 2018
Poetry
The House of the Children
Margarita Serafimova
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March 7, 2019
Music
Jhonny Flaymz and Jadah Queen Dada
RC James
-
May 17, 2019
Art
Glory to the newborn king
Marcel Herms
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July 7, 2020
Art
Monsoon Abstractions
Subhadeep De
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September 29, 2018
Poetry
Pigeon religion
Maria Mazzenga
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May 26, 2021
Photography
Nadine Maart 3
Frank Doorhof
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May 20, 2018
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