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Jordan Trethewey & Friends Read from “Spirits for Sale” at The...
Jordan Trethewey
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October 28, 2019
Poetry
SING, DAMN YOU
Trish Saunders
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November 18, 2025
Poetry
He’s probably sleeping now
Jill Winkowski
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December 28, 2021
Poetry
michael visits his favorite webcam girl
Jennifer Wilder
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March 3, 2021
Poetry
Parking Space
Ann Kammerer
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January 21, 2022
Poetry
While Waiting To Be Inspired
Mike Casetta
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March 20, 2025
Poetry
Where I go from here
David Belcher
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June 4, 2021
Poetry
Telos
Hugh Lemma
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January 27, 2026
Poetry
Death Did Us Part
james stephen
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October 16, 2023
Poetry
Lunch Date
Sara Clancy
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May 7, 2019
Art
Dumpsters
Dale Patterson
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September 14, 2020
Poetry
No Lines
Paul Brookes
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July 5, 2020
Poetry
Epiphany
Julie A. Dickson
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November 10, 2023
Poetry
Skin The
Paul Brookes
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June 22, 2018
Poetry
I’m going to go look for a job tomorrow
Robert Stastny
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February 12, 2022
Poetry
My Father Dreams of Ships
Trish Saunders
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December 16, 2020
Poetry
Séance for One
Sara Clancy
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November 27, 2021
Poetry
Townies
Acklum Harwood
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May 16, 2025
Poetry
Origin Stories
Jason Ryberg
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April 8, 2025
Poetry
.shelter.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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December 31, 2021
Poetry
Body Politic
Wim Coleman
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November 8, 2024
Music
Writer’s Block Acoustic
Kaci Skiles Laws
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May 20, 2020
Art
Lady Macbeth
Jenn Zed
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May 2, 2022
Art
Five Women Admiring a Still Life
Dale Patterson
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October 22, 2019
Art
die(d) hard
Tiko Lewis
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November 2, 2025
Poetry
Last Ode to a Sweet Apricot
Miya Ko
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December 17, 2019
Poetry
Absolution
Tom Strong
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January 24, 2024
Poetry
birds and other fly creatures
Anthony Hughes
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December 11, 2019
Poetry
Blow Job
Miya Ko
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February 10, 2020
Poetry
Daffodil
Matt Dennison
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November 3, 2023
Poetry
That Cemetery Cold
Paul Brookes
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December 27, 2022
Showcase
Color pictures
Nicholas Wintzler
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July 29, 2021
Fiction
Ars Poetica
Michele Harris
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November 6, 2020
Photography
Pigeon Rhapsody in Blue
Mark Preier
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September 16, 2018
Art
Happy Thanksgiving- Turkey Trot
Dale Patterson
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March 8, 2023
Photography
Girasoles
Michael Ashley
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October 1, 2025
Poetry
Where Is Peace On Earth? (After Linda Pastan)
Hugh Lemma
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April 19, 2024
Poetry
no lighthouse for the smog in my eyes
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 3, 2020
Poetry
Hum Along
Tom Strong
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August 17, 2021
Poetry
Bird
Sherry Cassells
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June 13, 2023
Poetry
The Voodoo of Doll Shoes
John Gurney
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May 10, 2024
Poetry
Metallic
Nolcha Fox
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August 14, 2023
Blog
Daniel J. Flore III: Poetry reading at Newtown Bookshop
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 7, 2019
Poetry
Touch (a Ghost addresses her Medium)
Marc Woodward
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February 2, 2023
Poetry
Speaks Louder Than
Hugh Lemma
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September 2, 2025
Poetry
Blissed-out by exhaustion
David Belcher
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November 6, 2025
Poetry
Near Stone Creek a Mile from Imagination
james stephen
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February 19, 2023
Non-fiction
Camel
Colin Payton
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June 26, 2024
Art
That Which I Should Have Done
Barry Burgess
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March 17, 2024
Poetry
Sara
Mike Casetta
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June 19, 2022
Art
Korean Wonder Woman I
Chunbum Park
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January 22, 2022
Poetry
On Faking My Death
Mike Casetta
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February 4, 2025
Poetry
On the Phone with Zayda
Sara Clancy
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October 13, 2021
Poetry
Slippers
james stephen
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January 25, 2026
Photography
Generations
Ken Blystone
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February 15, 2024
Poetry
End of October
james stephen
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November 3, 2021
Photography
.carry me.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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September 13, 2018
Art
fixed me, all right
Marcel Herms
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May 22, 2020
Poetry
New Dishes
Ann Kammerer
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May 11, 2025
Poetry
Retired
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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June 1, 2021
Poetry
Sunflower
Matt Dennison
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October 5, 2024
Poetry
Last Note
Trish Saunders
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August 21, 2019
Poetry
even
July 15, 2018
Poetry
The Dead Out Here
james stephen
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March 18, 2024
Poetry
.O.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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December 1, 2022
Poetry
Sonnet for Leni
Miya Ko
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February 17, 2022
Poetry
Catastrophic thinking
Sara Clancy
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January 30, 2019
Art
Untitled
Ammama Malik
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April 3, 2022
Poetry
No Physics for Love
Mike Casetta
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November 20, 2022
Art
Templar
Jenn Zed
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June 11, 2019
Poetry
way out west
Lawrence George
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November 13, 2024
Fiction
The Dark Watchers
Lawrence George
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July 16, 2023
Fiction
Joelle
Sherry Cassells
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September 7, 2023
Poetry
What Little I Know About Lunacy
Mike Casetta
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August 3, 2021
Art
Procession
Jenn Zed
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March 21, 2024
Poetry
Kiss from God
Susan Peters
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October 2, 2020
Poetry
Statement Piece
Sherry Cassells
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January 4, 2023
Music
HYPATIA
Jenn Zed
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December 31, 2018
Photography
.
heidi selig
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May 5, 2020
Art
Ricky Gervais (2024)
Sean Bw Parker
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May 13, 2025
Photography
Corona
Thomas Yarbrough
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July 5, 2019
Poetry
Jennifer Harley
Lawrence George
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August 6, 2019
Fiction
Don’t Think
Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri
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October 28, 2020
Art
Samurai
Mono D'Angelo
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June 25, 2024
Poetry
A Short Tribute To The Word Quiver
Michael Thomas Ellis
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July 17, 2018
Photography
Three by Buku Sarkar
Buku Sarkar
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November 25, 2018
Poetry
A Team of Horses Gathers Me into Heaven
Amanda Villafranco
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November 24, 2020
Poetry
Neon Neck
Michael Thomas Ellis
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August 23, 2020
Music
I need more
Concussionbox
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April 13, 2018
Blog
Submittable: Too Expensive
Open Arts Forum
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May 17, 2019
Poetry
First we release the horses
Trish Saunders
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June 28, 2019
Poetry
Falling Asleep to an Imagined Pretty Girl
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 7, 2020
Art
Juliet
Jenn Zed
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September 8, 2024
Art
In the Deep Blue
Hang Mai
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May 18, 2023
Poetry
Pay rate sucks, but
Obed Ladiny
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March 9, 2024
Poetry
Marsh Bombing
Peter J. King
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April 10, 2026
Photography
.the gardener.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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August 30, 2019
Poetry
I WANT TO TALK TO SOMEONE ABOUT SOMETHING THAT MATTERS
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 29, 2022
Digital Art
Gallery of Digital Paintings by Edward M. Supranowicz
Edward M. Supranowicz
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May 3, 2025
Fiction
The reviews are in for my poetry …
Eliot Jacobson
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October 24, 2021
Art
Summer Couple & Other Work
Stian Kjørsvik
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November 28, 2019
Art
Fiber fantasia!
L.J.
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January 4, 2025
Poetry
The Day Squirrels Preach
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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January 28, 2021
Art
Het contact met de medemens verliep moeizaam
Marcel Herms
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August 25, 2019
Poetry
even as the skies darken
Jan Harper
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August 21, 2023
Art
Con man
Marcel Herms
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September 1, 2019
Poetry
America in 2019
Wim Coleman
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November 29, 2019
Poetry
Alone
Dale M. Tushman
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October 2, 2025
Poetry
The Wind
Matt Dennison
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July 16, 2024
Video
S.P.E.C. Zero
Jenn Zed
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June 23, 2018
Poetry
Safe Text
Ann Kammerer
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January 3, 2021
Poetry
CULTURE YOU BASTARD
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 13, 2025
Poetry
The Sacrifice
Cameron McClure
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November 13, 2023
Poetry
E. E. Dickinson
Sharon Bartshe
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October 24, 2022
Poetry
Against Poe
Jefferson Carter
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December 28, 2018
Art
it’s me
Anisa Mosaiebiniya
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October 18, 2024
Poetry
Liberated Me
Lance Jencks
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September 24, 2020
Poetry
Homo insatiens
Rob Breeding
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July 28, 2020
Photography
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Grave
Jay Dougherty
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February 12, 2019
Poetry
Tribute from a Wooden Hut
Ieuan ap hywel
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March 11, 2024
Poetry
number Z
Tiko Lewis
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June 20, 2024
Poetry
I need
Julie A. Dickson
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December 3, 2022
Art
“Oh no, please don’t”
Hang Mai
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April 1, 2024
Photography
Only Black: Selected Photographs
Jem Raid
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July 27, 2019
Poetry
Calendar on the wall throwing flowers
Trish Saunders
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July 21, 2020
Poetry
rogue
Michael Acker
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September 4, 2023
Poetry
.harbor.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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June 26, 2023
Art
A shame for the angels
Marcel Herms
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July 28, 2019
Poetry
Me and Faranelli
Anthony Hughes
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July 30, 2021
Poetry
Leak at the Gym
Rich Glinnen
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April 11, 2024
Art
La Mort
Jenn Zed
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June 15, 2024
Poetry
Alone
Raymond Huffman
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February 24, 2023
Poetry
“El sueño de la razón produce monstruos”
Wim Coleman
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January 20, 2025
Poetry
The Day Glenn Miller’s Plane Disappeared
Trish Saunders
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November 11, 2019
Poetry
Redshift
Hugh Lemma
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November 7, 2023
Poetry
he who fears bees, fears flowers
Dana St. Mary
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September 29, 2021
Poetry
Long John Silver’s Parley: A Meditation Upon Mammon
Wim Coleman
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October 20, 2024
Poetry
Verlaine’s Bride Boards a Train
Bob Bradshaw
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February 21, 2026
Showcase
Chun (series)
Chunbum Park
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November 5, 2020
Poetry
No Carp in the Park
silent lotus
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December 16, 2018
Poetry
Resolving Reality
Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri
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December 30, 2020
Poetry
Now
james stephen
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December 16, 2024
Photography
Puente
Michael Ashley
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June 20, 2018
Music
“The Quiet One”: Song by C. Kendrick & Bernie Langs; Recording...
Bernie Langs
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May 25, 2019
Poetry
spiegel im spiegel
Michael Acker
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January 24, 2020
Poetry
she has a couple of rugs
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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September 17, 2019
Poetry
POST HOLIDAYS POSTCARD
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 9, 2025
Poetry
Haiku
Stella Read
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December 9, 2019
Art
Life Forms, Eventually to Wonder
Pat Perrin
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September 19, 2024
Photography
Little Boy Meets Big Tree
Tom Strong
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September 28, 2024
Fiction
I Was in Love Here
Sherry Cassells
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December 7, 2021
Art
Merry Xmas 2025
Tom Strong
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December 22, 2025
Art
The Politician’s Con
Dale Patterson
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January 11, 2020
Music
Inhale Blessings
Joe Shelton
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December 8, 2021
Poetry
Laneville poem
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 12, 2021
Poetry
Selections from “poems from the deck”
Daniel J. Flore III
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August 25, 2020
Digital Art
Stories We Told Ourselves
james stephen
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July 29, 2024
Poetry
when he begins to speak
Jan Harper
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September 15, 2023
Poetry
Auditory
Bethany Lim
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October 31, 2022
Art
.view.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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March 19, 2024
Poetry
Ward 8
Starr
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July 26, 2020
Art
Sleepless Nights
Elina Ghanbari
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January 30, 2023
Poetry
riding the front
Jennifer Wilder
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April 24, 2025
Poetry
..
Hugh Lemma
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December 16, 2022
Poetry
Chain Book Store
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
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June 10, 2020
Video
MA RI A
Jenn Zed
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April 5, 2018
Poetry
Don’t Wear It Out
Chloe Zumbrun
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November 19, 2020
Poetry
I Ask You
Mike Casetta
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April 23, 2023
Art
You can’t do that in front of decent people
Marcel Herms
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July 25, 2019
Art
Self Portrait in dark mood
george roesch johnson
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October 4, 2019
Art
Snapshots of Creation- Series #2
Dale Patterson
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August 8, 2020
Art
Untitled
Marcel Herms
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June 2, 2018
Art
Glowing
Martin Rae Veil
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June 4, 2023
Poetry
The Spirit of Christmas
Andy Posner
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December 27, 2021
Poetry
Light the Candle
Bob Bradshaw
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May 12, 2024
Showcase
Poems from “An American Score”
Eric Elshtain
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July 1, 2018
Poetry
Pig Latin
Kaci Skiles Laws
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October 16, 2020
Poetry
her mouth
January 7, 2023
Poetry
How Exciting!
Matt Dennison
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December 9, 2023
Poetry
I Fear Nothing More Than Wasting Time
Andy Posner
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May 27, 2023
Poetry
Bangs
Ann Kammerer
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March 5, 2026
Fiction
Heavens to Murgatroyd — A Love Story
Sherry Cassells
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November 25, 2023
Art
Death comes flying
Marcel Herms
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August 5, 2019
Art
Wave Function
Chunbum Park
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February 28, 2021
Poetry
Yes, I know I am dying
Nolcha Fox
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February 1, 2023
Poetry
Now that you’re asleep
Jay Gandhi
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June 11, 2018
Art
Hurt
Elina Ghanbari
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January 13, 2024
Poetry
The fattest guy at the pool
Daniel J. Flore III
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August 9, 2020
Art
Ekphrastic Poetry Series (Poetry and Artwork by Barry Burgess)
Barry Burgess
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July 11, 2024
Poetry
Wendy and the flowers
Daniel J. Flore III
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April 24, 2021
Art
abstract
Elina Ghanbari
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August 5, 2018
Art
Room for Dreams
Dale Patterson
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October 7, 2019
Interviews
An Interview with Artist Ann Chernow
Bernie Langs
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October 19, 2020
Poetry
Changing Shapes of Rain
Miya Ko
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October 7, 2020
Poetry
Abscission
Tom Strong
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February 13, 2024
Fiction
A Peaceful World
Lance Watson
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June 21, 2025
Poetry
I’m awake. Are you awake?
Sherry Cassells
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October 5, 2025
Poetry
An Old Penny
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 3, 2025
Poetry
THE SPIRIT ANIMAL SOCIETY
Jefferson Carter
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May 13, 2024
Poetry
Fears of Trees
Raymond Huffman
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June 25, 2022
Photography
Dragon lady
Frank Doorhof
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May 22, 2018
Poetry
Rick
September 20, 2020
Poetry
The sounds a sick man hears in bed
Daniel J. Flore III
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October 4, 2021
Poetry
A Private Moment of Random Noise
Morgan Driscoll
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January 4, 2024
Poetry
Because time is an artist
Sara Clancy
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April 5, 2024
Poetry and Art
Chasing Hemingway’s Ghost: A Series of Nine Paintings/Drawings With Accompanying Poetry...
Joe McDaniel
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November 7, 2025
Poetry
Accept no substitute
Rob Thomas
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January 24, 2022
Non-fiction
Love Springs from Descendants of the Personal Ad
Kay Elewski
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June 8, 2024
Poetry
nothing personal, just my heart changing its mind
Maria Mazzenga
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November 29, 2020
Art
The Forest
Christina Quinn
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December 10, 2018
Poetry
The World Tree
Margarita Serafimova
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December 17, 2019
Art
Mannequin Series #3
Joe Shelton
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January 21, 2023
Showcase
Free Broadside: Dan Flore’s “Homeless Poems”
Open Arts Forum
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October 7, 2022
Poetry
Creed
Sara Clancy
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March 21, 2026
Poetry
ONE HELLUVA CHRISTMAS
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 25, 2025
Poetry
AFTER JOE BOLTON (FOR TOHM BAKELAS)
Mark Anthony Pearce
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November 11, 2022
Cartoon
The DOGZ of War
Lance Watson
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May 8, 2025
Art
Collection of Seven Pieces of Unpublished Art in Various Media by...
Hang Mai
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February 2, 2026
Poetry
Here I am reading your sucky poetry again
Eliot Jacobson
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March 11, 2026
Art
Keeping up appearances
Marcel Herms
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August 27, 2019
Poetry
WATCHING PORN ON AN UNFORTUNATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Leeza Simmons Sikes
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March 11, 2025
Art
Series – The Astronaut’s Notebook
Dale Patterson
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August 7, 2020
Art
George’s Umbrella
Mary MacGowan
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December 15, 2025
Poetry
Wheelbarrow
james stephen
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May 27, 2025
Photography
Street music playlist
Matt Dennison
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November 23, 2025
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