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His Terrible Will
Všetko najlepšie!
Three Collages
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That’s The Theory
His Terrible Will
I Shall Continue My Narrative
Three Collages
A quick hop, skip and jump through my visual poetry (and…
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First signs
South Texas Winter Sunset #2 – More Strange Skies (21 January…
Amsterdam my home, December 2025
Four Spanish Winterscapes
Just passing through: Birds from Bosque del Apache, NM
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Jenn Zed’s “The Shape of Your Mouth” Is Now Streaming Everywhere
“I Once Was Lost…”
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Grab Bag
Poetry
Blood Oranges / ice cubes & straws
silent lotus
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November 7, 2021
Poetry
A Short Tribute To The Word Quiver
Michael Thomas Ellis
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July 17, 2018
Poetry
Bird With Yellow Breast
Barbara F. Schutz
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December 23, 2023
Poetry
My Mother’s Ghost Is Tired
heidi selig
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October 21, 2025
Poetry
u&me
Tiko Lewis
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August 24, 2019
Poetry
New Year’s Day
Starr
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January 1, 2019
Art
Tokyo Jazz
Dale Patterson
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July 29, 2019
Photography
.niche 2.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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October 11, 2019
Art
Grain Weeps Debris
Corenski Nowlan
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June 20, 2018
Poetry
On a Dance, or a Whim
Mary MacGowan
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November 20, 2024
Poetry
Apologies, but this is how i feel tonight
Jill Winkowski
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September 4, 2022
Poetry
I Ain’t No Monster
Michael Acker
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July 17, 2023
Poetry
Haiku
Stella Read
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December 9, 2019
Art
Pity Sex
Jenn Zed
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June 18, 2018
Art
Master of Decay
Shannon Elizabeth Gardner
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May 31, 2019
Creative Non-Fiction
Martyr Musical
Davey Do
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July 4, 2024
Music
Inhale Blessings
Joe Shelton
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December 8, 2021
Poetry
Where Is Peace On Earth? (After Linda Pastan)
Hugh Lemma
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April 19, 2024
Poetry
Clock Radio #2: The Bukowski Issue
Jay Dougherty
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December 22, 2024
Art
Elvis Has Left the Building
Lorette C. Luzajic
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December 18, 2019
Poetry
You’re Fired, Psycho
Lawrence George
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August 28, 2019
Art
It’s okay (we love you anyway)
Marcel Herms
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July 20, 2019
Poetry
.neutered.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
-
April 27, 2025
Poetry
Things I Said to My Therapist
Dale Patterson
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August 7, 2022
Poetry
pixelated
Michael Acker
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September 24, 2022
Photography
Shadow Shoots
Kim Toft
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July 10, 2020
Poetry
Out of My Down-in-the-Dumps
Mike Casetta
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February 17, 2021
Art
Lockdown 2021
Jenn Zed
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January 9, 2021
Spoken Word
Home
Matt Dennison
-
March 4, 2026
Art
do you like majik ?
R. jones
-
February 12, 2023
Poetry
Interior Decorating for the Autistic Mistress
Cheryl Leverette
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January 12, 2019
Poetry
a fair crop
Matt Dennison
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November 7, 2022
Photography
Agnosia Series
Nicholas Wintzler
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July 15, 2021
Poetry
The Wind
Matt Dennison
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July 16, 2024
Art
Apricot tree by the river .. Spring 2024 .. series of...
Jenn Zed
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October 26, 2024
Fiction
The Hitman
Michael Acker
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October 2, 2024
Art
Silence Reflection
Anisa Mosaiebiniya
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September 22, 2024
Poetry
SECRETS
Martina Reisz Newberry
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October 24, 2019
Poetry
A NEW DAY
Obed Ladiny
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November 11, 2025
Art
Another way of looking at a blackbird
Edmund Conti
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August 6, 2018
Poetry
A Christmas Card from Charles Bukowski *
Charles Bukowski
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December 24, 2018
Poetry
Tax Returns
Tom Riordan
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May 12, 2019
Poetry
One Night
Matt Dennison
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November 21, 2022
Poetry
Hope
Bethany Lim
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May 5, 2025
Poetry
5:24AM
Mark Anthony Pearce
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June 5, 2023
Poetry
11 Million Buttons
Tom Strong
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March 14, 2023
Fiction
The Christo Apartments
Sherry Cassells
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May 25, 2025
Poetry
a murder of words
Michael Acker
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March 11, 2021
Art
sliding or coasting?
Marcel Herms
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July 2, 2018
Poetry
The Spider Weaves
Matt Dennison
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January 31, 2026
Poetry
Poem in Which I Imagine My Dad Agrees to Shave My...
Lisa Summe
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November 27, 2019
Poetry
Vision in the High Desert
Mike Casetta
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August 14, 2024
Art
The Forest
Christina Quinn
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October 9, 2018
Poetry
Setting Precedent
Mike Casetta
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October 31, 2019
Poetry
Hosanna
Ann Kammerer
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December 1, 2025
Art
Celebrity culture
Marcel Herms
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June 26, 2020
Poetry
I’m Sorry I Cannot Attend Your Party
Lisa Summe
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May 17, 2020
Poetry
You Are Here
Mike Casetta
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September 25, 2018
Poetry
My Sister Cape
Sherry Cassells
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June 21, 2023
Poetry
JAWIN’ WITH THE WIND
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 29, 2024
Photography
Water Moss
Thomas Yarbrough
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June 2, 2018
Poetry
Unless I Die in a Magic Trick
Matt Dennison
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December 19, 2022
Poetry
SING, DAMN YOU
Trish Saunders
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November 18, 2025
Art
Bauhaus – Series
Jenn Zed
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June 30, 2024
Art
Abstract Terms
Michael Acker
-
February 8, 2021
Poetry
new poems and a red dress
Emalisa Rose
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November 23, 2020
Poetry
I COULD HANDLE MY BRAIN WITH WHITE NOISE COMING FROM ABOVE
Daniel J. Flore III
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September 5, 2023
Poetry
Guru Guru
Nathalie Spaans
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June 2, 2024
Poetry
In Defense
Dale Patterson
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December 4, 2022
Poetry
What The Spiders Know
Raymond Huffman
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July 27, 2023
Poetry
Don’t Wear It Out
Chloe Zumbrun
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November 19, 2020
Poetry
Adept
Matt Dennison
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April 3, 2024
Poetry
If I Could Paint
Michael Rollain
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July 22, 2018
Poetry and Art
What I am
Jennifer Wilder
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June 23, 2025
Art
Room for Dreams
Dale Patterson
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October 7, 2019
Poetry
Autumn
Nathalie Spaans
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November 4, 2022
Poetry
Paste Wax
Ann Kammerer
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November 24, 2022
Poetry
After A Death
Hugh Lemma
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November 30, 2023
Poetry
Do Not Resuscitate
Tom Strong
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December 14, 2020
Art
Don’t you see the signs?
Marcel Herms
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March 1, 2025
Poetry
I don’t remotely love you
ennuibrion
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May 22, 2026
Fiction
Very Best Mother
Kaci Skiles Laws
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June 28, 2024
Poetry
Regret
Andy Posner
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February 18, 2023
Poetry
Organ Recital at Saint-Eustache
Lance Jencks
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July 30, 2020
Art
adjust, course correct, then flow
Patrice Cameron
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April 2, 2023
Poetry
Bad Habits
Jefferson Carter
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September 21, 2018
Poetry
Bliss
Michael Ashley
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May 27, 2018
Poetry
lilt in a breeze
Stella Read
-
July 24, 2020
Art
.this.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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July 5, 2025
Poetry
Sunday, you rotten bitch
Daniel J. Flore III
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July 25, 2021
Poetry
Now, at Almost 80
Palline Plum
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April 13, 2023
Poetry
.untitled.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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February 15, 2023
Poetry
Reentry
Grady VanWright
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October 8, 2024
Poetry
Thinkers
Robert Stastny
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February 23, 2026
Poetry
It’s A Good Thing You Are Not Here
Mike Casetta
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January 8, 2023
Poetry
200Kmph and Nineteen, Berlin
Jenn Zed
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August 2, 2020
Poetry
Coins in the Canal
Grady VanWright
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August 29, 2025
Poetry
THE RUSTY WHITE PICK UP
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 3, 2024
Poetry
And holy holy, the life it held
Nathalie Spaans
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March 22, 2024
Art
I hang around rivers and paint what I perceive to remember...
Patrice Cameron
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March 19, 2023
Fiction
The Blue Ghost
Ann Kammerer
-
July 30, 2019
Poetry
BURNING BLACKBERRY BUSH
Daniel J. Flore III
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April 10, 2023
Poetry
The Ancients
Matt Dennison
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December 16, 2025
Poetry
The Nature of Your Emergency
Morgan Driscoll
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February 28, 2024
Poetry
Lockdown
Miya Ko
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September 15, 2020
Poetry
The Poem I Didn’t Want To Write
Grady VanWright
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December 4, 2024
Poetry
Moonshine
Tom Strong
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March 24, 2025
Poetry
The Bluejay’s Dividend
Marc Woodward
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June 21, 2024
Poetry
Low Hanging Fruit
Julie Desmond
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May 14, 2021
Poetry
Peace In, Peace Out
Tom Strong
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June 27, 2024
Poetry
Now that you’ve gone
Jay Gandhi
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July 22, 2024
Poetry
January Suite
Hugh Lemma
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March 20, 2026
Poetry
There is No Proof
Mike Casetta
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November 4, 2022
Poetry
BOB SUCKS
Daniel J. Flore III
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October 8, 2021
Poetry
there was this
Lawrence George
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January 10, 2021
Poetry
A Private Moment of Random Noise
Morgan Driscoll
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January 4, 2024
Photography
Primavera
Michael Ashley
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May 31, 2018
Fiction
Subtitles: 12
Matthew James Babcock
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December 20, 2018
Fiction
Last Word Dressed in a Gray Suit
Akeith Walters
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June 14, 2024
Poetry
.shelter.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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December 31, 2021
Poetry
Last Year’s Census
James Spears
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May 29, 2018
Music
Fine on the Outside – New Album
Jenn Zed
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November 15, 2021
Poetry
Tonight This Night
Matt Dennison
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June 28, 2025
Poetry
they all ask what type as if it is an ice...
Michael Ashley
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March 24, 2026
Music
Easy Lies
Concussionbox
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September 12, 2021
Poetry
I stepped in vomit today
Daniel J. Flore III
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January 3, 2024
Photography
Lost In The Woods
Tom Strong
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January 11, 2025
Poetry
What Happens When You Forget to Close Your Bedroom Window
Andy Posner
-
July 12, 2021
Poetry
An unenlightened response to a bully
David Belcher
-
July 24, 2025
Poetry
here’s why you do it
Lawrence George
-
January 3, 2020
Poetry
Regarding a Corpse
Andy Posner
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February 16, 2021
Poetry
un-christmassed
Jan Harper
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April 19, 2025
Poetry
Ikebana
Tom Strong
-
August 20, 2020
Poetry
good guys
Lance Watson
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August 5, 2025
Photography
Parque Botero (Sculptures) in Medellin, Colombia
RC James
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March 3, 2024
Poetry
Coming Out
Lisa Summe
-
November 26, 2019
Poetry
i’ve been shit on…
John Yamrus
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October 21, 2023
Photography
A16 Twenty 15
silent lotus
-
August 13, 2018
Poetry
Seeking Submissions
Matt Dennison
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March 4, 2025
Music
Love That Summer Rain
RC James
-
August 24, 2024
Poetry
To My Replacements
Elizabeth Dunn
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September 15, 2025
Poetry
Mom Called
Sara Clancy
-
July 1, 2024
Fiction
The reviews are in for my poetry …
Eliot Jacobson
-
October 24, 2021
Art
Gesamtkunstwerk—Series
Jenn Zed
-
September 18, 2020
Poetry
At the corner of something and something
Maria Mazzenga
-
August 23, 2021
Photography
Rain
Buku Sarkar
-
August 7, 2018
Readings
Trinity Park (with audio)
Sherry Cassells
-
January 8, 2025
Poetry
Countless
Elvis Otis
-
December 24, 2019
Art
Visual Kei
Jenn Zed
-
March 31, 2018
Poetry
do the dead write poetry?
Mike Casetta
-
May 5, 2023
Poetry
“Son…
Matt Dennison
-
January 2, 2023
Non-fiction
Camel
Colin Payton
-
June 26, 2024
Poetry
Chisos Dream
Raymond Huffman
-
May 24, 2023
Poetry
.settings.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
-
October 17, 2023
Poetry
after the reading,
May 26, 2019
Poetry
Shadow Existence and other poems
Cheryl Leverette
-
February 6, 2019
Poetry
Redshift
Hugh Lemma
-
November 7, 2023
Poetry
A dram for you, a dram for me
Michael Ashley
-
January 2, 2024
Poetry
a preview
Michael Acker
-
May 19, 2026
Poetry
Because time is an artist
Sara Clancy
-
April 5, 2024
Poetry
Benediction for a Baby Born in 2020
Sara Clancy
-
July 17, 2020
Art
The Tannhäuser Gate .. series
Jenn Zed
-
March 4, 2024
Video
Arctic
Jenn Zed
-
August 18, 2019
Poetry
Morning Sketch, 49, cloudy
Barry Burgess
-
May 1, 2026
Poetry
I Drank Again
james stephen
-
April 17, 2026
Poetry
Walking The Circle
Tom Strong
-
October 26, 2022
Poetry
Daffodil
Matt Dennison
-
November 3, 2023
Poetry
Heart Attack
Randi Cramer
-
May 18, 2019
Art
In a Room that Refuses to Read
Dale Patterson
-
June 6, 2020
Poetry
The world as I know it ends
Nathalie Spaans
-
April 4, 2025
Photography
Amsterdam my home, December 2025
Nathalie Spaans
-
March 1, 2026
Poetry
The Bears in my Life
John Gurney
-
May 19, 2024
Art
Nebula Heartstrings
Taylor Bain
-
January 2, 2019
Poetry
Outlaw
Mike Casetta
-
June 20, 2025
Poetry
eulogy for Dean
Mike Casetta
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December 3, 2022
Art
The Spotlight Effect
Davey Do
-
April 3, 2023
Poetry
River Rock
Nancy Johnson James
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January 8, 2019
Poetry
Eulogy For a Fish
John Gurney
-
August 7, 2025
Art
The Best is Yet to Come
Lorette C. Luzajic
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January 22, 2020
Poetry
The Last Breath
Raymond Huffman
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November 30, 2022
Poetry
Parkinson’s
Larry Houston
-
October 12, 2022
Poetry
you have to see it from her POV
David E. Matthews
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October 1, 2019
Poetry
¿
silent lotus
-
December 26, 2023
Art
but, but… what about—
Anthony Hughes
-
December 30, 2025
Poetry
Life After Dodging a Bullet
Andy Posner
-
November 26, 2020
Photography
Femmes Fatales
Nichole Spates
-
May 19, 2019
Poetry
New Years Day
John Gurney
-
April 20, 2024
Poetry
He recognized me by my walk
Sherry Cassells
-
December 18, 2023
Poetry
A thread in Crete
Nathalie Spaans
-
February 22, 2024
Poetry
Instead of sleeping I walk
Sara Clancy
-
September 10, 2021
Poetry
Drawn to the Wilderness
Dale Patterson
-
January 5, 2024
Art
Glowing
Martin Rae Veil
-
June 4, 2023
Poetry
How to Become Invisible
Mary McCarthy
-
June 11, 2018
Poetry
Daffodil Spikes and Tulip Skewers
Jordan Trethewey
-
June 2, 2018
Poetry
Galapagos tortoises
LA Brown
-
January 18, 2021
Poetry
I see the sun come up and we have one more...
Ken Tomaro
-
October 12, 2022
Poetry
Mist
Hugh Lemma
-
December 16, 2023
Art
growing up rough
Tiko Lewis
-
March 2, 2023
Poetry
What the Hill Remembers
Dr Padmashree RP
-
September 16, 2025
Poetry
Frankenstein Unwritten
Wim Coleman
-
June 1, 2020
Photography
Three by Buku Sarkar
Buku Sarkar
-
November 25, 2018
Photography
Residual Landscape I
Mark Preier
-
September 17, 2018
Poetry
Alone
Raymond Huffman
-
February 24, 2023
Poetry
Finish to Start
Lance Jencks
-
September 19, 2020
Photography
Photographs from the Georgia O’Keeffe Home, Abiquiu, New Mexico
Kelly DuMar
-
January 20, 2019
Art
Side effect
R. jones
-
April 6, 2023
Poetry
Poetry Happens
Wim Coleman
-
April 20, 2022
Art
dos calaveras y una flor (two skulls and a flower)
Tiko Lewis
-
June 19, 2025
Poetry
DOOR MAT
Lyn Lifshin
-
April 19, 2018
Poetry
Sous les pavés, la plage
Andy Posner
-
March 22, 2026
Poetry
Spoilage (to burn or rot, that is the question)
Lorraine Stofft
-
October 9, 2025
Poetry
her mouth
January 7, 2023
Photography
Wombwell Noir
Paul Brookes
-
June 28, 2018
Poetry
4 a.m.
Larry Houston
-
August 24, 2022
Art
3 pieces of mine in recent 3rd Wednesday
Phyllis Green
-
December 29, 2023
Poetry
The Cleaver days
Ken Tomaro
-
November 5, 2022
Poetry
just one more
Jennifer Wilder
-
November 10, 2021
Poetry
Missing (for my grandparents)
Nolcha Fox
-
July 31, 2022
Poetry
An ode to Billy C.
Ken Tomaro
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September 28, 2022
Fiction
Heavens to Murgatroyd — A Love Story
Sherry Cassells
-
November 25, 2023
Poetry
Remembering Sand
Trish Saunders
-
June 9, 2024
Music
Platinum Fingers
Jenn Zed
-
February 23, 2022
Poetry
A Fall Night
Hugh Lemma
-
December 10, 2025
Showcase
.life forms.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
-
January 23, 2019
Poetry
Head thick with things
Michael Ashley
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January 1, 2024
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