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Poetry
I Ask You
Mike Casetta
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April 23, 2023
Poetry
Now that you’re asleep
Jay Gandhi
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June 11, 2018
Music
Platinum Fingers
Jenn Zed
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February 23, 2022
Poetry
ONE HELLUVA CHRISTMAS
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 25, 2025
Photography
When The Real Dread Is Not Enough (Halloween Redux)
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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December 2, 2025
Art
4 Pandemic Oil Paintings
Cat Jones
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January 19, 2021
Poetry
An ode to Billy C.
Ken Tomaro
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September 28, 2022
Poetry
A Memorial Day to remember
Ken Tomaro
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October 28, 2023
Poetry
By the Maple
Miya Ko
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September 26, 2020
Poetry
Zacchaeus
Dale Patterson
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March 30, 2024
Poetry
Selections from “A Thousand and One Cranes”
Miya Ko
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July 24, 2019
Photography
.the boat.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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January 27, 2019
Poetry
his nails trimmed short
Jennifer Wilder
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May 18, 2022
Showcase
Free Broadside: Dan Flore’s “Homeless Poems”
Open Arts Forum
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October 7, 2022
Poetry
It Is written
Michael Acker
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September 26, 2019
Poetry
Return Policy
Megan Merchant
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January 24, 2019
Poetry
JAWIN’ WITH THE WIND
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 29, 2024
Music
Hello Two Clouds
Matt Dennison
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November 15, 2024
Poetry
Interview With the Poet
Matt Dennison
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December 25, 2022
Poetry
Hips like there’s no water near
Nathalie Spaans
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June 8, 2022
Poetry
Quintains of the Red Death
Wim Coleman
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May 30, 2025
Poetry
After her best friend’s hubby’s funeral
Paul Brookes
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December 4, 2023
Poetry
February
Hugh Lemma
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July 1, 2023
Poetry
The Hawk
Ann Kammerer
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May 8, 2019
Poetry
Changing Shapes of Rain
Miya Ko
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October 7, 2020
Poetry
open tuning
Sara Clancy
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October 17, 2022
Showcase
Nothing Is Real—Series
Jenn Zed
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May 21, 2020
Poetry
Explosions
Miya Ko
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October 6, 2025
Poetry
there was this
Lawrence George
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January 10, 2021
Poetry
My Father Dreams of Ships
Trish Saunders
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December 16, 2020
Poetry
Smooth-talking serpents
David Belcher
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March 29, 2026
Art
anniversary card
Tiko Lewis
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February 15, 2025
Poetry
Beatles Fan from Buenos Aires
Mark Anthony Pearce
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February 1, 2021
Art
Black History Month – Sketches
Tiko Lewis
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February 4, 2023
Photography
Gallery of Four Photographs by Stephen B White
Stephen B White
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September 4, 2025
Poetry
She is in the jungle. She cannot see the sky.
Nathalie Spaans
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September 9, 2025
Music
Selections from Forthcoming Album, “Low & Lily”
Jenn Zed
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April 22, 2021
Poetry
.shelter.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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December 31, 2021
Poetry
performance
Michael Acker
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December 9, 2022
Photography
K. Thorn’s a Dancer
Jem Raid
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February 27, 2021
Poetry
Finish to Start
Lance Jencks
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September 19, 2020
Poetry
Coming Out
Lisa Summe
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November 26, 2019
Poetry
That Cemetery Cold
Paul Brookes
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December 27, 2022
Poetry
Us
Robert Stastny
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January 24, 2023
Photography
Performance
Kim Toft
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November 18, 2020
Art
REMY, LULU, AND THE BIG NOSE
Tom Strong
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May 24, 2020
Photography
Thistles
Michael Ashley
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September 11, 2025
Fiction
HomeGirl
Dale M. Tushman
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September 20, 2024
Art
Five Women Admiring a Still Life
Dale Patterson
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October 22, 2019
Art
Flipping Through Pages to Get to the End of the Story
Dale Patterson
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August 1, 2019
Music
You’re Strange
Jenn Zed
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December 21, 2018
Poetry
Epiphany
Julie A. Dickson
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November 10, 2023
Poetry
The Various
Matt Dennison
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December 28, 2023
Art
intoxicated attack on a french graphic novel
Jess Kangas
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May 19, 2018
Poetry and Art
Can’t Wait for 25
Barry Burgess
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January 26, 2025
Fiction
Snowfire
Cameron McClure
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February 1, 2024
Digital Art
Shaman
Stian Kjørsvik
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December 27, 2025
Poetry
THE BODY BODY
Jefferson Carter
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October 15, 2021
Art
The Tannhäuser Gate .. series
Jenn Zed
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March 4, 2024
Poetry
The 12 beers of Christmas
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 25, 2018
Poetry
Migration
Dale Patterson
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January 6, 2023
Music
Zed Point – Android Girls
Jenn Zed
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November 13, 2019
Poetry
Her Mother’s Dishes
Dale Patterson
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September 18, 2022
Poetry
lemme say this while ain’t nobody lookin’
Tiko Lewis
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October 7, 2018
Art
Self Portrait in dark mood
george roesch johnson
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October 4, 2019
Poetry
Five Anxious Haiku
Sara Clancy
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September 18, 2025
Art
The Last Days of Denmark
Jenn Zed
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November 21, 2019
Music
Booda Wot Doddy
RC James
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July 8, 2021
Poetry
Believe You Me
Mike Casetta
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January 8, 2020
Fiction
A Laugh
Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri
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September 6, 2020
Poetry
Blue Amulets from Brittany
Marc Woodward
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September 6, 2023
Poetry
1 Star Rating
Obed Ladiny
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November 29, 2022
Poetry
Bad Habits
Jefferson Carter
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September 21, 2018
Art
Breathing Clean Air
Dale Patterson
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September 25, 2019
Showcase
Coming Out & Other Poems
Lisa Summe
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June 4, 2020
Poetry
River Rock
Nancy Johnson James
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January 8, 2019
Poetry
The Last Time in the Hospital
Mary McCarthy
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July 12, 2018
Poetry
Apocalypsis
Maria Mazzenga
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May 13, 2019
Poetry
I suppose resilience
Obed Ladiny
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November 28, 2025
Art
Abstract Art Is Better in the Abstract
David E. Matthews
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May 17, 2019
Art
Pomegranate Diamond
L.J.
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April 17, 2025
Art
Guard 1 and 2
Thomas Riesner
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August 19, 2024
Art
Fox Mask
Matsubara K.
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August 24, 2025
Showcase
Just dancing
Kim Toft
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March 6, 2019
Showcase
Covid Times
OAF Artists & Writers
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May 18, 2020
Music
Cyndi Lauper Turns 80
Lawrence George
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September 11, 2020
Poetry
Resolving Reality
Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri
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December 30, 2020
Art
Blight
Taylor Bain
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December 18, 2019
Poetry
Beneath These Boards
Michael Thomas Ellis
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January 29, 2019
Poetry
QUEPOS
Martina Reisz Newberry
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December 27, 2019
Poetry
Lo-Fi
Jenn Zed
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April 11, 2018
Poetry and Art
Goshawk
heidi selig
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December 5, 2024
Art
The Guitar Player
Doug Flaherty
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April 1, 2026
Poetry
The Bridge
Grady VanWright
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January 24, 2026
Art
# 43
james stephen
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February 25, 2021
Art
Cowboys are square, the indians the best
Marcel Herms
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April 30, 2018
Art
Archive Gallery: Nine Paintings by Renee Elizabeth
Renee Elizabeth
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July 10, 2025
Art
die(d) hard
Tiko Lewis
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November 2, 2025
Art
I Want to Eat You
Thomas Yarbrough
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April 16, 2018
Poetry
An Idyllic Sickness
Jordan Trethewey
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April 16, 2024
Photography
20th Century Wannabe
Mark Preier
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June 19, 2018
Poetry
.equinox.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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March 16, 2023
Poetry
Hush
Hugh Lemma
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July 27, 2025
Poetry
On Getting Old
Mike Casetta
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May 21, 2025
Poetry
Apprehension
Ray Miller
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May 23, 2024
Art
You can’t do that in front of decent people
Marcel Herms
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July 25, 2019
Poetry
Opening Line
Andy Posner
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April 5, 2023
Art
Karin Dreijer Andersson – 2
Jenn Zed
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June 1, 2018
Art
Empty White Spaces on Top of a Village
Robert Stastny
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December 13, 2021
Poetry
the imposter
Rob Thomas
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November 16, 2021
Poetry
Toe Tappin’
Michael B. Carroll Jr.
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January 9, 2020
Poetry
Billy Joel
Ann Kammerer
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August 28, 2022
Poetry
Reverse Rumi
Paul Brookes
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December 12, 2018
Fiction
Full of Yesterday
Sherry Cassells
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June 8, 2023
Poetry
Pantoum for Changsha
Brendan Christopher
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August 1, 2018
Poetry
AA #2 – Unnamed: We’ll Call Him Mushroom
James Spears
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January 21, 2021
Photography
The wall
Kim Toft
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May 22, 2019
Poetry
.rose.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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November 4, 2022
Poetry
Potter’s Island
Wim Coleman
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September 11, 2024
Art
Two New Works, 2021
Marcel Herms
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May 28, 2021
Art
In the Border Country
Marcel Herms
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May 19, 2018
Poetry
AN OCEAN OF GOODBYE
Daniel J. Flore III
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July 4, 2023
Poetry
new poems and a red dress
Emalisa Rose
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November 23, 2020
Poetry
Curtain Closed
Trish Saunders
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September 12, 2020
Poetry
OFFICE THIEF
Jefferson Carter
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May 21, 2019
Art
In Morning Light
Dale Patterson
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July 11, 2020
Poetry
A Team of Horses Gathers Me into Heaven
Amanda Villafranco
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November 24, 2020
Poetry
butterflies drink turtle tears
Matt Dennison
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November 28, 2022
Poetry
There goes Brian they say
Michael Ashley
-
January 5, 2026
Poetry
Return
Amanda Villafranco
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February 6, 2025
Photography
Counterpoint 01
Mark Preier
-
July 10, 2018
Poetry
With Your Voice
Mark A. Murphy
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September 7, 2020
Art
Self portrait
Anisa Mosaiebiniya
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August 27, 2025
Poetry
Bedtime, Children!
Susan Peters
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September 17, 2020
Poetry
Lost in a Small Closet
Dale Patterson
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January 22, 2023
Humor
The Round Earth Hoax
Lance Watson
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April 11, 2026
Poetry
Sunflower
Matt Dennison
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October 5, 2024
Poetry
Give me that secret sauce
Nolcha Fox
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June 27, 2023
Poetry
Blood Rain
Marc Woodward
-
October 23, 2022
Blog
Line Breaks and Commas and Colons, Oh My!
Kaci Skiles Laws
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August 2, 2020
Poetry
Poetry Happens
Wim Coleman
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April 20, 2022
Photography
Early Autumn Colours
JMR
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January 20, 2024
Poetry
Canary Diamond
Sara Clancy
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April 28, 2021
Art
sliding or coasting?
Marcel Herms
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July 2, 2018
Poetry
And holy holy, the life it held
Nathalie Spaans
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March 22, 2024
Poetry
aqueous
Michael Acker
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October 3, 2023
Poetry
Seeing the light
Sherry Cassells
-
December 12, 2023
Readings
Me and my zine
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 5, 2019
Flash and Short Fiction
The Recurring Red Scarf
Sherry Cassells
-
December 19, 2025
Music
Whiskey Deep
Levi J. Mericle
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February 22, 2022
Art
The Illustrated Woman
Jenn Zed
-
April 17, 2018
Poetry
¿
silent lotus
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December 26, 2023
Photography
The Crash II
Mark Preier
-
May 31, 2018
Poetry
AFTER JOE BOLTON (FOR TOHM BAKELAS)
Mark Anthony Pearce
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November 11, 2022
Poetry
A Man, a Banana, Panama!
Edmund Conti
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August 29, 2019
Poetry
never scrub saffron in a metal mortar
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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July 4, 2018
Poetry
There Should Be an Animal
Matt Dennison
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December 17, 2024
Poetry
Skeptic’s Crèche
Sara Clancy
-
June 14, 2023
Poetry
A Stone A Flame
Grady VanWright
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March 25, 2025
Poetry
Cats
Matt Dennison
-
February 12, 2024
Poetry
The astronaut
Maria Mazzenga
-
June 2, 2018
Fiction
Very Best Mother
Kaci Skiles Laws
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June 28, 2024
Poetry
Every Daily Mass
Tom Strong
-
October 14, 2025
Poetry
Last Ode to a Sweet Apricot
Miya Ko
-
December 17, 2019
Poetry
When the storms arrive
Michael Ashley
-
December 15, 2021
Poetry
The Petrifying Things
Michael Ashley
-
November 21, 2020
Poetry
RED HOT
Daniel J. Flore III
-
January 10, 2023
Art
Kafka’s Typewriter
Barry Burgess
-
November 24, 2021
Poetry
This fierce year paces
Sara Clancy
-
August 7, 2019
Art
In the Deep Blue
Hang Mai
-
May 18, 2023
Photography
ConTEXTnaTURE
Nichole Spates
-
February 27, 2019
Poetry
Bliss
Michael Ashley
-
May 27, 2018
Poetry
Jimmy
Anthony Hughes
-
April 8, 2018
Poetry
Delirium Dream #1: Choral Song
Ann Kammerer
-
December 18, 2024
Poetry
many years from now the world will die
Jay Dougherty
-
November 8, 2022
Art
Pariah
Dale Patterson
-
August 24, 2020
Poetry
Things I Said to My Therapist
Dale Patterson
-
August 7, 2022
Poetry
The fattest guy at the pool
Daniel J. Flore III
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August 9, 2020
Art
River Morning
Jenn Zed
-
May 31, 2018
Contributor Blogs
10 TIPS FOR WRITING POETRY
Daniel J. Flore III
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May 21, 2022
Poetry
spiegel im spiegel
Michael Acker
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January 24, 2020
Art
Black and White Abstracts–Series
Jenn Zed
-
February 13, 2021
Poetry
Challenged
Michael Acker
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September 24, 2023
Poetry
Auditory
Bethany Lim
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October 31, 2022
Poetry
I Fucked the Poet
Lance Jencks
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December 22, 2018
Poetry
These spectacles have seen ages
Jay Gandhi
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November 30, 2020
Poetry
do the dead write poetry?
Mike Casetta
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May 5, 2023
Poetry
Sabbath
Bruce Alford
-
December 25, 2018
Poetry
9/23/22
Mike Casetta
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November 19, 2022
Poetry
A Fall Can Be a Little Thing
Peter J. King
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March 26, 2026
Fiction
The Cure
Jordan Trethewey
-
August 3, 2024
Animation
Clay Logo, Man-Eating Art, & Grapevine: Series
Davey Do
-
October 15, 2024
Photography
Saturn Swings For The Moon – For Jenn Zed
Lance Jencks
-
April 17, 2021
Fiction
I Got Bats
Sherry Cassells
-
February 5, 2024
Poetry
My blood wants out
Arran D'Aubigny
-
March 25, 2026
Poetry
all natural zero calorie existence
Tiko Lewis
-
June 27, 2018
Poetry
POSTCARD FROM MY SICKNESS #3 (LETTER TO ME)
Daniel J. Flore III
-
December 24, 2022
Poetry
dog sitting
Lawrence George
-
August 16, 2024
Poetry
Absolution
Tom Strong
-
January 24, 2024
Art
Vleugellam Fladderend
Marcel Herms
-
April 23, 2018
Poetry
Twilight Cinema
D. E. Kern
-
June 13, 2025
Showcase
Indian Summer
Irene Han
-
February 27, 2020
Poetry
Unless I Die in a Magic Trick
Matt Dennison
-
December 19, 2022
Poetry
.hue.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
-
October 31, 2022
Poetry
learning to read again
Rob Breeding
-
July 7, 2021
Photography
Backside
Kim Toft
-
June 10, 2019
Showcase
Chun (series)
Chunbum Park
-
November 5, 2020
Poetry and Author Reading
Electricity, Yes
Matt Dennison
-
December 3, 2025
Poetry
I disappeared
Jess Kangas
-
April 22, 2018
Poetry
Boo-Yah
Dale M. Tushman
-
September 4, 2024
Poetry
Donny’s viral photos of wild horses
Jennifer Wilder
-
June 3, 2021
Photography
Black and black
Kim Toft
-
May 23, 2019
Poetry
Totalitarian Ornithology
Miya Ko
-
December 9, 2020
Poetry
Sojourns
silent lotus
-
May 19, 2021
Poetry
End of October
james stephen
-
November 3, 2021
Photography
Pigeon Rhapsody in Blue
Mark Preier
-
September 16, 2018
Poetry and Music
Morning Sketch, Sturgeon Moon
Barry Burgess
-
October 19, 2025
Poetry
the world would split open
Jess Kangas
-
July 1, 2018
Art
Curled (acrylics on paper)
Peter J. King
-
March 15, 2026
Poetry
Gray is the Only Color Containing All Colors (and it’s also...
Robert Stastny
-
January 10, 2025
Music
Easy Lies
Concussionbox
-
September 12, 2021
Showcase
Pixedelica
R. jones
-
December 11, 2021
Fiction
The Season of Laughter
Grady VanWright
-
July 23, 2025
Poetry
Broken Lock
Rich Glinnen
-
July 26, 2025
Poetry
Walking The Circle
Tom Strong
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October 26, 2022
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