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Poetry
My head is a guillotine
Daniel J. Flore III
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October 15, 2020
Art
Collision time
Marcel Herms
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April 26, 2018
Poetry
Life After Dodging a Bullet
Andy Posner
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November 26, 2020
Photography
Urban Reinvention 03
Mark Preier
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April 19, 2018
Art
Mexican Hat Dance
Bill Flanagan
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September 30, 2019
Art
In Morning Light
Dale Patterson
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July 11, 2020
Art
NO ZO MI .. の ぞ み
Jenn Zed
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May 31, 2020
Poetry
“WHERE are your tax returns, Mr. Trump?”
Tom Riordan
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September 29, 2020
Poetry
RUBY
John D Robinson
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June 25, 2020
Art
Andrea
Thomas Yarbrough
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April 13, 2018
Poetry
BEAR STREET
Mark Anthony Pearce
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November 12, 2020
Art
Her Secret
Elina Ghanbari
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October 12, 2018
Poetry
Stinson Beach
Claire Mora Parsons
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September 10, 2018
Art
Just a Faint Line
Jenn Zed
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May 23, 2018
Art
You Never Asked
Jenn Zed
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March 30, 2018
Video
Have Made It
Matt Dennison
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April 5, 2018
Art
Coincidental conjugations: A series of digital compositions
Dale Patterson
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December 30, 2019
Art
The man who pretends he knows it all
Marcel Herms
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September 6, 2019
Poetry
POETIC NOISE
Douglas Goodwin
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August 31, 2020
Art
Mao-Trump
Jenn Zed
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July 7, 2019
Readings
poetry yard sale
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 18, 2019
Showcase
Covid Times
OAF Artists & Writers
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May 18, 2020
Poetry
Waymarkers
Marc Woodward
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December 22, 2020
Poetry
The House of the Children
Margarita Serafimova
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March 7, 2019
Poetry
The Day Squirrels Preach
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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January 28, 2021
Poetry
Misery Chic
Jenn Zed
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October 25, 2020
Poetry
birds and other fly creatures
Anthony Hughes
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December 11, 2019
Poetry
Let’s have sex on my birthday
Cheryl Leverette
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May 10, 2019
Poetry
Organ Recital at Saint-Eustache
Lance Jencks
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July 30, 2020
Fiction
Sunny Corner Stories: Opening Monologue
Corenski Nowlan
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January 6, 2019
Art
Upon Seeing a White Angel
Dale Patterson
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July 13, 2020
Poetry
Curtain Closed
Trish Saunders
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September 12, 2020
Showcase
Distillations
Mark Preier
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March 4, 2019
Art
Code: Acrylic and hardboard series
Jenn Zed
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August 31, 2019
Poetry
Eulogy of Fables
Miya Ko
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February 26, 2020
Poetry
After the coquilles Saint Jacques
silent lotus
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August 9, 2019
Art
Wave Function
Chunbum Park
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February 28, 2021
Photography
.the boat.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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January 27, 2019
Poetry
Lunch Date
Sara Clancy
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May 7, 2019
Poetry
Old Glory
Tom Riordan
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July 3, 2018
Poetry
The Nation’s Face
Tom Riordan
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November 2, 2020
Art
Pariah
Dale Patterson
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August 24, 2020
Poetry
lilt in a breeze
Stella Read
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July 24, 2020
Art
Shattered
Dale Patterson
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October 14, 2019
Poetry
Beneath These Boards
Michael Thomas Ellis
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January 29, 2019
Poetry
Shutters
Martin Slavin
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June 19, 2019
Poetry
Dancing in December
Trish Saunders
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September 7, 2019
Photography
Alleys 2
Buku Sarkar
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July 25, 2018
Blog
Results of DALE PATTERSON CHALLENGE published!
Jordan Trethewey
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October 11, 2019
Poetry
Melissa’s Bicycle
Lawrence George
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November 1, 2020
Poetry
never scrub saffron in a metal mortar
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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July 4, 2018
Photography
Three by Buku Sarkar
Buku Sarkar
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November 25, 2018
Poetry
The Right Things
Lisa Summe
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December 1, 2019
Poetry
OMAHA
Matt Dennison
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April 10, 2018
Poetry
A Flurry of Wings
Mike Casetta
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December 27, 2018
Poetry
QUEPOS
Martina Reisz Newberry
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December 27, 2019
Poetry
no lighthouse for the smog in my eyes
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 3, 2020
Poetry
Everyone Wears Black
Jenn Zed
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June 18, 2018
Art
The Dictator’s Rant
Dale Patterson
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December 21, 2019
Poetry
Calibrations
Cameron McClure
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June 19, 2018
Showcase
Some Men
Lyn Lifshin
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May 25, 2019
Blog
Origin Story–part 1
Jenn Zed
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November 12, 2019
Poetry
If I Could Paint
Michael Rollain
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July 22, 2018
Poetry
& as far from
silent lotus
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January 28, 2020
Showcase
Nothing Is Real—Series
Jenn Zed
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May 21, 2020
Poetry
Thick as thieves
Casey Killingsworth
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November 20, 2019
Poetry
Ethnic Cleanser
Paul Brookes
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December 20, 2020
Poetry
Don’t ask me
Jess Kangas
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April 22, 2018
Poetry
Witnessing
Sara Clancy
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September 30, 2020
Poetry
ancient roadblocks
Rob Breeding
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July 31, 2020
Art
CQ DE OU-OZ HANNE
Jenn Zed
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May 11, 2019
Poetry
Snapback
Jordan Trethewey
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May 30, 2019
Art
The Illustrated Woman
Jenn Zed
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April 17, 2018
Art
Summer Couple & Other Work
Stian Kjørsvik
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November 28, 2019
Letters
Early Aperilll…1985
Charles Bukowski
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April 4, 2018
Music
Zed Point – Android Girls
Jenn Zed
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November 13, 2019
Poetry
Koan #5378 (Extended Version)
Dick Holmes
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December 17, 2018
Poetry
New Year’s Day
Starr
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January 1, 2019
Poetry
you have to see it from her POV
David E. Matthews
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October 1, 2019
Art
Breathing Clean Air
Dale Patterson
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September 25, 2019
Poetry
The Dark
Susan Peters
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February 17, 2019
Poetry
No Carp in the Park
silent lotus
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December 16, 2018
Poetry
Neon Neck
Michael Thomas Ellis
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August 23, 2020
Poetry
Truce
Mélissa O'Flaherty
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January 22, 2020
Poetry
Anna and the Scourge
RC James
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September 13, 2019
Poetry
Boxes
Rob Breeding
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January 7, 2020
Poetry
Schrödinger’s Kitten
Miya Ko
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December 24, 2018
Poetry
work
Jess Kangas
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December 10, 2019
Showcase
Elections Matter
OAF Artists & Writers
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October 28, 2020
Poetry
Unhurried
Morgan Driscoll
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August 29, 2018
Poetry
A Failed Attempt at Re-parenting
Mike Casetta
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May 30, 2020
Poetry
Wild-Flower Picker in a Straitjacket
Nigel Lofthouse
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June 7, 2018
Poetry
Aubade
Gerald Parker
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December 7, 2019
Art
Untitled
Marcel Herms
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June 2, 2018
Poetry
Halo Light in Dark Sky
Renee Elizabeth
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February 22, 2020
Art
..big clothes..
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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July 4, 2020
Poetry
Bedtime, Children!
Susan Peters
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September 17, 2020
Poetry
The Familiar
Greg Grummer
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September 23, 2018
Quotations
I just get tired
Charles Bukowski
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April 13, 2018
Poetry
Falling Asleep to an Imagined Pretty Girl
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 7, 2020
Art
Scarecrow
Stian Kjørsvik
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October 16, 2019
Poetry
Poem for Bobby
Sara Clancy
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June 9, 2019
Letters
Letter to Lou McKee
Daniel J. Flore III
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August 13, 2020
Poetry
peep show politics
Tiko Lewis
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June 20, 2019
Poetry
The red fantail is my favorite
Rob Breeding
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January 6, 2020
Art
Het contact met de medemens verliep moeizaam
Marcel Herms
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August 25, 2019
Poetry
Suicidal in Tuscany
Jenn Zed
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May 24, 2019
Poetry
A Man, a Banana, Panama!
Edmund Conti
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August 29, 2019
Photography
Alignment 05
Mark Preier
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April 24, 2018
Poetry
The astronaut
Maria Mazzenga
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June 2, 2018
Poetry
Allegory for an Unreasonable Age
Andy Posner
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February 23, 2020
Art
Illustrations
Marcel Herms
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May 29, 2018
Poetry
Apocalypsis
Maria Mazzenga
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May 13, 2019
Fiction
Summer of Crows
Ann Kammerer
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June 23, 2019
Art
The Trump Effect
Tom Strong
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December 22, 2019
Photography
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Grave
Jay Dougherty
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February 12, 2019
Showcase
particularities
Sarah Simon
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February 10, 2019
Art
The fallen part
Elina Ghanbari
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June 19, 2020
Art
Death comes flying
Marcel Herms
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August 5, 2019
Poetry
200Kmph and Nineteen, Berlin
Jenn Zed
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August 2, 2020
Poetry
Things I Received for Christmas
Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri
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December 5, 2020
Poetry
A Christmas Card from Charles Bukowski *
Charles Bukowski
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December 24, 2018
Poetry
Moving Day
Anthony Hughes
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April 5, 2018
Poetry
A petaled season
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 21, 2020
Poetry
Seeing My Donated Dress on Sale at Goodwill
Trish Saunders
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August 22, 2020
Poetry
she has a couple of rugs
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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September 17, 2019
Video
S.P.E.C. Zero
Jenn Zed
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June 23, 2018
Performance Art
New Muses for a Posthuman Age
Ian Badcoe
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June 2, 2018
Poetry
The Shearer
John Austin
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December 18, 2018
Photography
Mixolydian 06
Mark Preier
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April 10, 2018
Poetry
Laneville poem
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 12, 2021
Fiction
However
Frank Candeloro
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June 22, 2018
Photography
Tokyo Subway Salary Men
george roesch johnson
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July 23, 2019
Poetry
These spectacles have seen ages
Jay Gandhi
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November 30, 2020
Poetry
My Father Dreams of Ships
Trish Saunders
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December 16, 2020
Music
Crowd Cloud Found Sound
Ian Badcoe
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August 16, 2018
Poetry
Regarding a Corpse
Andy Posner
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February 16, 2021
Poetry
Thutam Nguyen
Lawrence George
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January 22, 2021
Music
Blue RGB Primary 240°
Jenn Zed
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May 20, 2019
Photography
K. Thorn’s a Dancer
Jem Raid
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February 27, 2021
Music
Restitution
Kaci Skiles Laws
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May 29, 2020
Poetry
This is How it Ends
Kaci Skiles Laws
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November 4, 2020
Art
UMWELT Series
Jenn Zed
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January 30, 2021
Art
Room for Dreams
Dale Patterson
-
October 7, 2019
Art
LEGO Flowers
Chunbum Park
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February 24, 2021
Poetry
i’ve been shit on…
John Yamrus
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September 28, 2018
Poetry
one of my first
John Yamrus
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December 21, 2018
Art
Wave Function
Chunbum Park
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December 23, 2020
Poetry
Ward 8
Starr
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July 26, 2020
Poetry
Erasures
Joan Colby
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August 8, 2019
Poetry
Look up from the pavement, won’t you?
Trish Saunders
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August 19, 2020
Art
Soma Drakaina
Jenn Zed
-
July 8, 2020
Poetry
Three Double Takes
Wim Coleman
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February 15, 2020
Art
Time to take it all back
Marcel Herms
-
July 24, 2018
Poetry
Neurojacked
Jordan Trethewey
-
September 24, 2019
Poetry
Why I have weaponized the thistledown
Ian Badcoe
-
June 12, 2018
Poetry
Lockproof: Canine Sleuth
Brendan Christopher
-
May 2, 2019
Poetry
Flight
Nancy Johnson James
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September 2, 2018
Poetry
Out of My Down-in-the-Dumps
Mike Casetta
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February 17, 2021
Poetry
Kim gets the red dress
Jennifer Wilder
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February 20, 2021
Art
4 Pandemic Oil Paintings
Cat Jones
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January 19, 2021
Poetry
Border Reflections
Steve Klepetar
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July 8, 2018
Fiction
The Blue Ghost
Ann Kammerer
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July 30, 2019
Blog
JENN ZED CHALLENGE: Ekphrastic Review writing responses
Jordan Trethewey
-
October 11, 2019
Art
Master of Decay
Shannon Elizabeth Gardner
-
May 31, 2019
Poetry
America America
Michael Ashley
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August 12, 2018
Poetry
negative balance at the flea market lice market
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 19, 2019
Poetry
goddamn how i miss the late 70s
Lawrence George
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July 14, 2020
Art
Help
Marcel Herms
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December 20, 2018
Poetry
Swan Diver
Ann Kammerer
-
April 30, 2019
Art
Shaman
Jenn Zed
-
June 19, 2019
Photography
.anna.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
-
October 11, 2018
Poetry
Umwelt
Jenn Zed
-
December 13, 2020
Poetry
The band of St Carmen’s holy church Santa Cruz
Michael Ashley
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August 21, 2020
Art
Vleugellam Fladderend
Marcel Herms
-
April 23, 2018
Photography
Selected Photographs
Doug Flaherty
-
June 18, 2019
Poetry
My friend has
Sara Riley
-
January 25, 2019
Photography
.john threatens mary. & other tales
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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May 14, 2019
Photography
Before the Divorce
Doug Flaherty
-
January 19, 2020
Poetry
I know what love is
Douglas Goodwin
-
September 27, 2019
Photography
Dragon lady
Frank Doorhof
-
May 22, 2018
Art
In a Room that Refuses to Read
Dale Patterson
-
June 6, 2020
Readings
I hated Tamaqua
Daniel J. Flore III
-
January 29, 2020
Poetry
Pills
Hugh Lemma
-
August 24, 2018
Art
Polar Ideas
Dale Patterson
-
September 8, 2019
Photography
The Snook Room
Stephen B White
-
October 3, 2018
Photography
A16 Twenty 15
silent lotus
-
August 13, 2018
Art
Hyperstition
Jenn Zed
-
June 5, 2019
Poetry
Message from my mother
Julia Schott
-
April 13, 2018
Art
Biohacker Series
Jenn Zed
-
August 11, 2020
Poetry
Oldies but Goodies
Tom Riordan
-
December 9, 2018
Showcase
Doug Flaherty’s IMAGE JUMPERS
Doug Flaherty
-
November 14, 2019
Art
Menace
Renee Elizabeth
-
November 8, 2019
Poetry
Election Day: When My Blood Is on the Ballot
Andy Posner
-
June 3, 2020
Poetry
What’s Going On Twenty21
silent lotus
-
January 15, 2021
Art
Chigguns’
Glenn Richardson
-
January 17, 2021
Showcase
The Window & Other Works
Renee Elizabeth
-
November 1, 2019
Poetry
Jazz Tuba
Jefferson Carter
-
February 15, 2019
Fiction
All Dug Up
Ann Kammerer
-
August 4, 2020
Poetry
I have never known a Tasmanian…
Delainie Littlejohn
-
December 28, 2019
Photography
Looking for light
Kim Toft
-
June 8, 2018
Poetry
Phonetics
Bethany Lim
-
July 20, 2018
Poetry
after the reading,
John Yamrus
-
May 26, 2019
Poetry
River Rock
Nancy Johnson James
-
January 8, 2019
Poetry
Woken by a dove tapping
David Belcher
-
January 1, 2019
Fiction
A Laugh
Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri
-
September 6, 2020
Art
Black and White Abstracts–Series
Jenn Zed
-
February 13, 2021
Poetry
Pantoum for Changsha
Brendan Christopher
-
August 1, 2018
Poetry
Benediction for a Baby Born in 2020
Sara Clancy
-
July 17, 2020
Poetry
SECRETS
Martina Reisz Newberry
-
October 24, 2019
Poetry
The Humanist
David Belcher
-
February 16, 2020
Poetry
a dog is a dog
Cheryl Leverette
-
May 27, 2020
Poetry
bukowski
Michael Acker
-
July 4, 2018
Poetry
a sparrow in the fist, an eagle on Everest
Soodabeh Saeidnia
-
July 11, 2018
Art
Fading
Elina Ghanbari
-
August 30, 2018
Photography
.threads.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
-
July 19, 2019
Poetry
Mobs want to do my thinking for me
David Belcher
-
January 14, 2021
Poetry
Just Rest
Lance Jencks
-
May 3, 2019
Photography
.home.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
-
February 8, 2019
Poetry
A Messiah Morning
silent lotus
-
May 21, 2018
Art
It’s okay (we love you anyway)
Marcel Herms
-
July 20, 2019
Showcase
Poems from “An American Score”
Eric Elshtain
-
July 1, 2018
Poetry
Questions I Would Ask Him
Sara Clancy
-
February 9, 2021
Art
I Want to Eat You
Thomas Yarbrough
-
April 16, 2018
Art
Baroque-n Clock
Hugh Lemma
-
October 4, 2018
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