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Origin Story–part 1
Jenn Zed
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November 12, 2019
Poetry
Skin The
Paul Brookes
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June 22, 2018
Readings
The Bird
Matt Dennison
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April 12, 2018
Poetry
In honour of pets
Jordan Trethewey
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October 6, 2020
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He Did It His Way
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December 7, 2020
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pinned under a washing machine (spin cycle)
Ron Sardino
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April 18, 2021
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Selections from “A Thousand and One Cranes”
Miya Ko
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July 24, 2019
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Widow
Mary McCarthy
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December 3, 2020
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The Day Glenn Miller’s Plane Disappeared
Trish Saunders
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November 11, 2019
Poetry
Odorous
Michael Acker
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June 28, 2018
Art
Coincidental conjugations: A series of digital compositions
Dale Patterson
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December 30, 2019
Poetry
Meth(odical) Fog
Starr
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January 31, 2021
Music
I Am Not the One
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July 14, 2019
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Someone puts out a light
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November 15, 2020
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Pig Latin
Kaci Skiles Laws
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October 16, 2020
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Swamp Thing
alan catlin
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May 31, 2019
Photography
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Grave
Jay Dougherty
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February 12, 2019
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Coupling
Rob Breeding
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September 28, 2020
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Sonnet
Allan Johnston
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July 6, 2018
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Setting Precedent
Mike Casetta
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January 4, 2020
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Sacrifice
Stian Kjørsvik
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October 21, 2019
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Kim Toft
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July 16, 2018
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In Guadalupe’s Bed
Tom Riordan
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January 5, 2019
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Fading
Elina Ghanbari
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August 30, 2018
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Backside
Kim Toft
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June 10, 2019
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You’re Strange
Jenn Zed
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December 21, 2018
Poetry
Gateleg Table
Joan Colby
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January 23, 2020
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Forseeing reminiscense
Mélissa O'Flaherty
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July 4, 2019
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John Yamrus
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April 10, 2021
Poetry
spiegel im spiegel
Michael Acker
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January 24, 2020
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Untitled Freckles (a portrait study)
Subhadeep De
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February 21, 2019
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Yugen
Tom Strong
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June 22, 2019
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Erasures
Joan Colby
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August 8, 2019
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The Goddess
Jenn Zed
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February 7, 2020
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To Stick Around
Boston Gordon
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December 4, 2019
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Giants
James Spears
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June 18, 2018
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Hairry
Kim Toft
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June 8, 2018
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Return Policy
Megan Merchant
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January 24, 2019
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A Bit Moody 7
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June 8, 2020
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Urban Exploration – Excavating the Everyday
Mark Preier
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October 30, 2019
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digital/mixed media art
Doug Flaherty
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August 26, 2019
Poetry
A FORTUNE IN HOLES
Douglas Goodwin
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June 13, 2020
Poetry
What I should have told her
Sara Clancy
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August 14, 2018
Poetry
Just Rest
Lance Jencks
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May 3, 2019
Poetry
Wild-Flower Picker in a Straitjacket
Nigel Lofthouse
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June 7, 2018
Photography
Three by Buku Sarkar
Buku Sarkar
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November 25, 2018
Photography
Looking for light
Kim Toft
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June 8, 2018
Photography
Counterpoint
Mark Preier
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April 12, 2018
Photography
Only Black: Selected Photographs
Jem Raid
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July 27, 2019
Photography
.family.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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November 4, 2019
Poetry
Sheep
Allan Johnston
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July 2, 2018
Poetry
On Doing Good in America
Andy Posner
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May 15, 2020
Poetry
What’s Going On Twenty21
silent lotus
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January 15, 2021
Letters
Early Aperilll…1985
Charles Bukowski
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April 4, 2018
Poetry
a murder of words
Michael Acker
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March 11, 2021
Poetry
The Atom of Language
Michael Acker
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May 26, 2019
Art
Self Portrait with Mother
Subhadeep De
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August 26, 2018
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A Man, a Banana, Panama!
Edmund Conti
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August 29, 2019
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Calendar on the wall throwing flowers
Trish Saunders
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July 21, 2020
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new poems and a red dress
Emalisa Rose
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November 23, 2020
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Double Trouble
Lorette C. Luzajic
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December 18, 2019
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How to Be the Happy One at House Parties
Andrew Rogers
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August 19, 2018
Photography
Pigeon Rhapsody in Blue
Mark Preier
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September 16, 2018
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Biohacker Series
Jenn Zed
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August 11, 2020
Art
Hanne
Jenn Zed
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June 24, 2019
Poetry
HUNG LIKE A HEBREW NATIONAL
Douglas Goodwin
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August 18, 2020
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A new face in hell
Marcel Herms
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June 7, 2018
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Perverse and Saintly
Cameron McClure
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September 20, 2019
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Summer Couple & Other Work
Stian Kjørsvik
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November 28, 2019
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Field Poppies
Jenn Zed
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April 1, 2018
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Another Friday Night II
Cheryl Leverette
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June 21, 2019
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.the boat.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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January 27, 2019
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I’d like to avoid dementia
Sara Clancy
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September 15, 2018
Showcase
Nothing Is Real—Series
Jenn Zed
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May 21, 2020
Poetry
Last Note
Trish Saunders
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August 21, 2019
Poetry
Dancing in December
Trish Saunders
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September 7, 2019
Poetry
Koan #5378 (Extended Version)
Dick Holmes
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December 17, 2018
Poetry
Last Year’s Census
James Spears
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May 29, 2018
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In a Room With No Windows
Dale Patterson
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February 9, 2020
Art
Three by Pat Perrin
Pat Perrin
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January 26, 2020
Poetry
Packing Up the House
Sara Clancy
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September 6, 2018
Poetry
Breathless
Josianne Barrette-Moran
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November 19, 2019
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Chicago Fun
george roesch johnson
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December 26, 2020
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Patterns and Light
Mark Preier
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August 13, 2019
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Don’t shoot the artist
R. jones
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February 26, 2021
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Help
Marcel Herms
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December 20, 2018
Art
The dogs are at it again
Marcel Herms
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November 6, 2019
Poetry
Heart Attack
Randi Cramer
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May 18, 2019
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Red
Kaci Skiles Laws
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May 20, 2020
Art
The man who pretends he knows it all
Marcel Herms
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September 6, 2019
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Me and my zine
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 5, 2019
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No Time to Say Hello, Goodbye
Michael Acker
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September 28, 2019
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never scrub saffron in a metal mortar
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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July 4, 2018
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Eclogue for Santa Isabel
July Westhale
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November 15, 2019
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Chun (series)
Chunbum Park
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November 5, 2020
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Recurring Dream
Martin Slavin
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October 8, 2019
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daylight savings
Rob Breeding
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March 19, 2021
Art
Rezubian
Jenn Zed
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February 4, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Morgan Driscoll
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July 11, 2019
Art
# 43
james stephen
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February 25, 2021
Poetry
Blow Job
Miya Ko
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February 10, 2020
Art
Andrea
Thomas Yarbrough
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April 13, 2018
Poetry
Ahmed’s Sparrow
Starr
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June 6, 2018
Poetry
Misery Chic
Jenn Zed
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October 25, 2020
Poetry
The astronaut
Maria Mazzenga
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June 2, 2018
Art
Uncle Darryl and Aunt Rhonda at Yosemite Falls, 1965
Bill Flanagan
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June 26, 2019
Showcase
Common Misconceptions
Mark Preier
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February 20, 2020
Poetry
A drawing of the one that got away
Anthony Hughes
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February 19, 2021
Photography
A16 Twenty 15
silent lotus
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August 13, 2018
Poetry
Beneath These Boards
Michael Thomas Ellis
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January 29, 2019
Poetry
The House on Tilden Avenue
Jose Oseguera
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November 7, 2019
Art
Death comes flying
Marcel Herms
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August 5, 2019
Art
Commencement
Dale Patterson
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March 12, 2021
Poetry
The band of St Carmen’s holy church Santa Cruz
Michael Ashley
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August 21, 2020
Art
Scarecrow
Dale Patterson
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November 16, 2019
Poetry
Pre-linguistic
Bruce Alford
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January 14, 2019
Art
fixed me, all right
Marcel Herms
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May 22, 2020
Poetry
a sparrow in the fist, an eagle on Everest
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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July 11, 2018
Art
Tokyo Jazz
Dale Patterson
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July 29, 2019
Photography
Residual Landscape I
Mark Preier
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September 17, 2018
Photography
patterns
Anthony Hughes
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June 17, 2018
Art
Juvenile delinquent
Marcel Herms
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January 21, 2020
Art
Monsoon Abstractions
Subhadeep De
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September 29, 2018
Art
Art Revolutionary
Jenn Zed
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July 25, 2020
Poetry
Before Divorce
Eliot Jacobson
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September 5, 2019
Music
Writer’s Block Acoustic
Kaci Skiles Laws
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May 20, 2020
Poetry
slave songs—2020
Tiko Lewis
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August 3, 2020
Photography
.the gardener.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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August 30, 2019
Poetry
Waymarkers
Marc Woodward
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December 22, 2020
Photography
K. Thorn’s a Dancer
Jem Raid
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February 27, 2021
Art
Watercolors
Agnia Werbitzky
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September 16, 2020
Poetry
Bathroom Haiku
Niall M Oliver
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February 13, 2020
Poetry
Missing
Claire Mora Parsons
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June 30, 2018
Poetry
Selfie as a Dyke
Lisa Summe
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December 2, 2019
Poetry
How to Become Invisible
Mary McCarthy
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June 11, 2018
Art
Polar Ideas
Dale Patterson
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September 8, 2019
Fiction
Gajra
Jay Gandhi
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August 11, 2018
Poetry
there was this
Lawrence George
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January 10, 2021
Readings
poetry yard sale
Daniel J. Flore III
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December 18, 2019
Poetry
approaching 70…
John Yamrus
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July 2, 2018
Poetry
A Train Whistle Announcing the Arrival of Cousin Harrietta
Trish Saunders
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July 3, 2019
Poetry
What Do You Call This? Bubba Ganish?
Michael Acker
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December 14, 2018
Photography
Goslings at Wilde Lake
Jay Dougherty
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March 5, 2019
Poetry
A petaled season
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 21, 2020
Art
Soma Drakaina
Jenn Zed
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July 8, 2020
Poetry
Exhibition stand jewelry
Roger Fizzerton
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October 5, 2020
Photography
Pattern Matching 05
Mark Preier
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April 16, 2018
Poetry
The Hawk
Ann Kammerer
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May 8, 2019
Poetry
Capitalism in Cambodia
Lawrence George
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January 6, 2020
Poetry
Shadow Existence and other poems
Cheryl Leverette
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February 6, 2019
Poetry
Don’t ask me
Jess Kangas
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April 22, 2018
Poetry
Less Tomorrow
James Spears
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June 3, 2018
Contributor Blogs
Things to think about when writing or reading poetry
Eliot Jacobson
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November 26, 2019
Photography
.threads.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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July 19, 2019
Video
S.P.E.C. Zero
Jenn Zed
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June 23, 2018
Poetry
Today I Need Your Best Poems
Cameron McClure
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May 6, 2021
Poetry
Let’s have sex on my birthday
Cheryl Leverette
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May 10, 2019
Art
Abstract Terms
Michael Acker
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February 8, 2021
Art
Chun II
Chunbum Park
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January 16, 2021
Photography
Excavation Site
Mark Preier
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July 1, 2018
Poetry
Death of a Horse Chestnut
Marc Woodward
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December 16, 2019
Art
Untitled
Marcel Herms
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June 2, 2018
Poetry
One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds
Dick Holmes
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September 16, 2019
Showcase
Poems from “An American Score”
Eric Elshtain
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July 1, 2018
Poetry
Jimmy
Anthony Hughes
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April 8, 2018
Poetry
Unopened
Renee Elizabeth
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January 6, 2021
Poetry
The Flowers Who Wanted To Be a Woman
Paul Brookes
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March 9, 2021
Poetry
vámonos a la playa
Lawrence George
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January 12, 2020
Showcase
Delainie’s little something or others
Delainie Littlejohn
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December 20, 2019
Art
Nocturnal Caffeination
Subhadeep De
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September 12, 2018
Poetry
Selfie with a Dying Cat
Lisa Summe
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December 19, 2019
Photography
Dry Aquarium
Mark Preier
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November 24, 2018
Art
Electric pH Acid Test (collage by Bernie Langs)
Bernie Langs
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September 12, 2019
Poetry
the Zebra Crossing was under water
silent lotus
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June 29, 2018
Art
UMWELT Series
Jenn Zed
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January 30, 2021
Poetry
in Wait of Return
silent lotus
-
August 14, 2019
Poetry
Totalitarian Ornithology
Miya Ko
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December 9, 2020
Poetry
Kaiwah Island/Ocean Course
Dale Patterson
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October 26, 2019
Music
Cyndi Lauper Turns 80
Lawrence George
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September 11, 2020
Poetry
Tax Returns
Tom Riordan
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May 12, 2019
Photography
ConTEXTnaTURE
Nichole Spates
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February 27, 2019
Poetry
The Last Time in the Hospital
Mary McCarthy
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July 12, 2018
Art
Harmeet prefers orchids
Phyllis Green
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February 20, 2019
Poetry
Kiss from God
Susan Peters
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October 2, 2020
Art
Consuming Their Innocence
Dale Patterson
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November 18, 2019
Photography
.home.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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February 8, 2019
Poetry
The Wood Conductor
Marc Woodward
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February 14, 2021
Poetry
Fidelity
Bethany Lim
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October 6, 2018
Poetry
One Month After
Sara Clancy
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August 22, 2018
Poetry
Anna and the Scourge
RC James
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September 13, 2019
Photography
.eight.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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December 26, 2018
Poetry
Morning Staff Meeting at the VA
Mike Casetta
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July 20, 2020
Art
..done some asemic stuff..
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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July 9, 2020
Poetry
A Flurry of Wings
Mike Casetta
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December 27, 2018
Poetry
The Right Things
Lisa Summe
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December 1, 2019
Poetry
at the doctor’s today,
John Yamrus
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June 27, 2020
Poetry
orbit of a sacrifice
Amanda Villafranco
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October 15, 2018
Poetry
By the Maple
Miya Ko
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September 26, 2020
Video
F A M K E
Jenn Zed
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April 17, 2018
Art
Hyperstition
Jenn Zed
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June 5, 2019
Art
My Last Thought Is Snow
Jenn Zed
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April 3, 2018
Poetry
Falling Asleep to an Imagined Pretty Girl
Daniel J. Flore III
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June 7, 2020
Poetry
LOVE CRAWLED ALONG THE FLOOR
Douglas Goodwin
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August 11, 2019
Poetry
Snapback
Jordan Trethewey
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May 30, 2019
Poetry
the girl not exactly from Ipanema
Jenn Zed
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October 9, 2019
Letters
Charles Bukowski Letter to Douglas Goodwin, May 25, 1983
Charles Bukowski
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September 3, 2018
Photography
Before the Divorce
Doug Flaherty
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January 19, 2020
Art
The Politician’s Con
Dale Patterson
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January 11, 2020
Poetry
a tale of two poets and a boy from the Bronx
Emalisa Rose
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December 19, 2020
Poetry
When the will to survive is stronger than love
Cheryl Leverette
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October 5, 2019
Poetry
lilt in a breeze
Stella Read
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July 24, 2020
Poetry
Old Maid
Casey Killingsworth
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November 26, 2019
Poetry
I HAD CALLED IN SICK
John D Robinson
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June 11, 2020
Art
Menace
Renee Elizabeth
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November 8, 2019
Art
Before the Storm
Dale Patterson
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November 9, 2019
Photography
Tokyo Subway Salary Men
george roesch johnson
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July 23, 2019
Poetry
Canary Diamond
Sara Clancy
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April 28, 2021
Poetry
Neurojacked
Jordan Trethewey
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September 24, 2019
Poetry
Pattern of Life
LA Brown
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December 8, 2020
Blog
Results of DALE PATTERSON CHALLENGE published!
Jordan Trethewey
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October 11, 2019
Poetry
A Christmas Card from Charles Bukowski *
Charles Bukowski
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December 24, 2018
Poetry
Such a Worm as I
Morgan Driscoll
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October 5, 2018
Poetry
Troubles
Chloe Zumbrun
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April 16, 2021
Poetry
Countless
Elvis Otis
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December 24, 2019
Blog
Charles Bukowski Festival, 2020
Open Arts Forum
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November 29, 2019
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