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The Woman I Always Knew I Could Be
Love of Lilacs: A Photographic Gallery by Rod Raglin
War Season
Self-Checkout
Art
A Gallery of Twelve Paintings and Drawings by Zoe Nikolopoulou
Vesper Streak
Ghost Tulip
That’s The Theory
His Terrible Will
Photography
Love of Lilacs: A Photographic Gallery by Rod Raglin
First signs
South Texas Winter Sunset #2 – More Strange Skies (21 January…
Amsterdam my home, December 2025
Four Spanish Winterscapes
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Jenn Zed’s “The Shape of Your Mouth” Is Now Streaming Everywhere
“I Once Was Lost…”
Children of a Dying Sun
Gospel Radio Blues
Hello Two Clouds
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Poetry
HAVING A CRUSH ON THE LINDA RONDSTADT OF 1977
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 16, 2026
Poetry
The shy, wild dogs of February
Trish Saunders
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July 2, 2023
Poetry
SING, DAMN YOU
Trish Saunders
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November 18, 2025
Poetry
On my 44th birthday
Daniel J. Flore III
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March 27, 2022
Poetry
My inner poet, like a child, makes believe
Mike Casetta
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June 6, 2023
Art
but, but… what about—
Anthony Hughes
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December 30, 2025
Art
..things..
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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September 13, 2020
Art
The Dictator’s Rant
Dale Patterson
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December 21, 2019
Poetry
Salsa with Doubt
Jay Gandhi
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February 7, 2024
Poetry
Ghosts
Martin Rae Veil
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May 20, 2023
Art
I Want to Eat You
Thomas Yarbrough
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April 16, 2018
Poetry
What the Hill Remembers
Dr Padmashree RP
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September 16, 2025
Music
Sojuz Šrek Párty
Nicholas Wintzler
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February 16, 2022
Poetry
Big Mama’s Brood
Grady VanWright
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September 25, 2024
Poetry
Now
james stephen
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December 16, 2024
Spoken Word
Home
Matt Dennison
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March 4, 2026
Poetry
This Is How It Ends
Hugh Lemma
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October 10, 2024
Poetry
Digital Revenge
Jay Gandhi
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May 17, 2021
Poetry
Dappled Daisies and Curious Butterflies
Matt Dennison
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February 2, 2024
Music
Winter’s Come and Gone
RC James
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June 17, 2019
Poetry
Pomegrenades
Marc Woodward
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September 3, 2024
Poetry
Hospital (Self Isolation Sonnet)
Paul Brookes
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March 2, 2021
Poetry
Election Day: When My Blood Is on the Ballot
Andy Posner
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June 3, 2020
Poetry
97.8% Impotent
Lance Jencks
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September 11, 2022
Poetry
“best corn in the county!”
Jan Harper
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August 16, 2025
Poetry
Drawn to the Wilderness
Dale Patterson
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January 5, 2024
Poetry
No Machine
Matt Dennison
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November 19, 2021
Poetry as a song created by AI
The Boy by the River Told
Matt Dennison
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May 25, 2026
Poetry
Receipt
james stephen
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December 16, 2021
Art
Prayer
Maggie Cappelletti
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June 6, 2024
Poetry
.settings.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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October 17, 2023
Photography
Generations
Ken Blystone
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February 15, 2024
Poetry
The Man I Fell in Love With
Soodabeh Saeidnia
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April 4, 2024
Showcase
along the stream that fell from clouds & other poems
Milner Place
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December 21, 2024
Poetry
Write a Poem to Yourself for Your Ninetieth Birthday
Trish Saunders
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November 8, 2020
Video
Have Made It
Matt Dennison
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April 5, 2018
Poetry
this train rides through dusk
Maria Mazzenga
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October 17, 2021
Poetry
merry fucking christmas
Lance Watson
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December 23, 2025
Art
Containing the Virus
Dale Patterson
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December 25, 2020
Poetry
An Old Penny
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 3, 2025
Poetry
Pilot Light
Starr
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November 13, 2020
Photography and Poetry
Life On The Rocks
Tom Strong
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November 20, 2025
Poetry
time lapse poem
Mike Casetta
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November 14, 2022
Art
Still Life After Gauguin
george roesch johnson
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October 1, 2024
Poetry
The too real dream of guilt in one glance
Lyn Lifshin
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May 6, 2020
Art
Guard 1 and 2
Thomas Riesner
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August 19, 2024
Fiction
More Two Sentence Horror Stories
Kaci Skiles Laws
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October 26, 2021
Showcase
Urban Exploration – Excavating the Everyday
Mark Preier
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October 30, 2019
Poetry
Redwing
Paul Brookes
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January 4, 2026
Poetry
No Memory of the Wind
Raymond Huffman
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August 14, 2022
Poetry
The Future of Rain
Eliot Jacobson
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October 23, 2019
Poetry
Body Politic
Wim Coleman
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November 8, 2024
Poetry
It’s A Good Thing You Are Not Here
Mike Casetta
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January 8, 2023
Poetry
Carpe Diem
Marc Woodward
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March 8, 2021
Poetry
survivors
Maria Mazzenga
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May 27, 2018
Art
A new face in hell
Marcel Herms
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June 7, 2018
Poetry
7:55a.m.
james stephen
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February 23, 2024
Poetry
Selections from “poems from the deck”
Daniel J. Flore III
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August 25, 2020
Photography
Goslings at Wilde Lake
Jay Dougherty
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March 5, 2019
Poetry
PLEASE HELP
Daniel J. Flore III
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July 11, 2023
Poetry
September’s End
Hugh Lemma
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February 18, 2024
Poetry
Simone Weil and the ugly piano
Jenn Zed
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June 21, 2018
Poetry
Andrew is leaving to pursue other opportunities
Michael Ashley
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February 8, 2025
Poetry
To You, I Shall Be Unique in All the World
Kaci Skiles Laws
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August 26, 2023
Poetry
For the Road
Mike Casetta
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December 14, 2024
Poetry
Melon Man
Gerard Sarnat
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August 9, 2018
Poetry
the world would split open
Jess Kangas
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July 1, 2018
Fiction
The Two Stones
james stephen
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October 13, 2025
Fiction
BULLSHIT INSURANCE
Daniel J. Flore III
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May 24, 2024
Poetry
Autumn
Nathalie Spaans
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November 4, 2022
Art
To Fight for the Right
Davey Do
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November 4, 2022
Music
You’re Strange
Jenn Zed
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December 21, 2018
Contributor Blogs
Strange Beauty
Kaci Skiles Laws
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January 17, 2022
Poetry
mom’s haiku
Mike Casetta
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November 5, 2021
Digital Art
Alien #2
Stian Kjørsvik
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June 1, 2025
Poetry
Charlie Goes to New Castle
Robert Stastny
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March 15, 2024
Poetry
I COULD HANDLE MY BRAIN WITH WHITE NOISE COMING FROM ABOVE
Daniel J. Flore III
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September 5, 2023
Poetry
Good Germans
Jefferson Carter
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July 28, 2018
Poetry
From the Retirement Home, Emailing Love Letters to My Dead Wife
Bob Bradshaw
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April 6, 2025
Poetry
Return Policy
Megan Merchant
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January 24, 2019
Poetry
Every Play
james stephen
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November 27, 2023
Poetry
10:08 a.m.
james stephen
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February 18, 2021
Showcase
.life forms.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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January 23, 2019
Poetry
Death of a Horse Chestnut
Marc Woodward
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December 16, 2019
Poetry
Bathroom Haiku
Niall M Oliver
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February 13, 2020
Poetry
A Conversation at the Age Desk
Raymond Huffman
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November 25, 2022
Poetry
4:48 a.m.
james stephen
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December 5, 2022
Fiction
Note taped on door: To the occupants of 107 Borbleblartt Street
heidi selig
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November 14, 2024
Poetry
The Sacrifice
Cameron McClure
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November 13, 2023
Art
Voices (calling me through the ceiling of my private room)
Marcel Herms
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March 4, 2021
Art
Self portrait
Anisa Mosaiebiniya
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August 27, 2025
Poetry
Last Night By The Rain
Hugh Lemma
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August 21, 2024
Poetry
Hunger
Matt Dennison
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September 2, 2024
Photography
Natural line
Kim Toft
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July 18, 2018
Poetry
Afterlife
Sara Clancy
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March 6, 2024
Poetry
Neurojacked
Jordan Trethewey
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September 24, 2019
Photography
About the Palm Warbler
Stephen B White
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September 26, 2018
Poetry
Reinbert plays Satie
Nathalie Spaans
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February 25, 2023
Digital Art
Gallery of Digital Paintings by Edward M. Supranowicz
Edward M. Supranowicz
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May 3, 2025
Poetry
Moving Day
Anthony Hughes
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April 5, 2018
Poetry
Soaked as I am
Julie A. Dickson
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November 22, 2022
Poetry
Golden Silence
D. E. Kern
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December 11, 2023
Poetry
Sisters Coffee
Julie Desmond
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October 23, 2021
Poetry
La Musa
Miya Ko
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May 18, 2026
Poetry
Makeup
Ann Kammerer
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February 10, 2023
Music
Doctor Rife
Scott Douglas
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June 12, 2022
Contributor Blogs
Why publishing a book is important
Miya Ko
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November 27, 2020
Poetry
A Tennessee Fainting Goat in Texas
Mike Casetta
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January 22, 2019
Poetry and Art
A Reptilian Operetta
Barry Burgess
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October 27, 2025
Art
Glowing
Martin Rae Veil
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June 4, 2023
Art
Random Thought Finding Place
Dale Patterson
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August 27, 2024
Art
Cycle
Thomas Riesner
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June 11, 2022
Poetry
Losing Modality
Tom Strong
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September 1, 2023
Poetry
Listening is Speaking
Arran D'Aubigny
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April 28, 2026
Art
Energies
Renee Elizabeth
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May 14, 2025
Poetry
the Mathematics of Elbowroom & Hearsay
silent lotus
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July 14, 2021
Poetry
I need
Julie A. Dickson
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December 3, 2022
Poetry
Perverse and Saintly
Cameron McClure
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September 20, 2019
Art
Life Forms, Eventually to Wonder
Pat Perrin
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September 19, 2024
Art
RED SHAMAN Series
Jenn Zed
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October 17, 2022
Poetry
You’re Fired, Psycho
Lawrence George
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August 28, 2019
Poetry
Hear
Matt Dennison
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June 1, 2026
Art
Night
heidi selig
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November 12, 2024
Art
Flipping Through Pages to Get to the End of the Story
Dale Patterson
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August 1, 2019
Non-fiction
Dad
heidi selig
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November 19, 2024
Poetry
Two goats to the altar
Nathalie Spaans
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December 15, 2022
Poetry
Sweet Treat
Ann Kammerer
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April 24, 2024
Poetry
When I Am Old
Hugh Lemma
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May 9, 2023
Poetry
Curtain Closed
Trish Saunders
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September 12, 2020
Art
..big clothes..
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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July 4, 2020
Art
Midnight Sun
Stian Kjørsvik
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October 15, 2019
Poetry
Lab Rat
Todd Matson
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March 12, 2026
Poetry
My Mother’s Ghost Is Tired
heidi selig
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October 21, 2025
Photography
Dragon lady
Frank Doorhof
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May 22, 2018
Poetry
Pattern of Life
LA Brown
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December 8, 2020
Poetry
The Carrot of Believing
Tom Riordan
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April 30, 2025
Contributor Blogs
This is how I create a realistic painting
RamyaSadasivam
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July 6, 2022
Fiction
The Man Speaks
Matt Dennison
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August 4, 2024
Non-fiction
Day 98449509735209
Robert Stastny
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May 25, 2024
Poetry
here’s why you do it
Lawrence George
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January 3, 2020
Poetry
Near-omnipotent
David Belcher
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June 28, 2023
Poetry
What Little I Know About Lunacy
Mike Casetta
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August 3, 2021
Poetry
Speaks Louder Than
Hugh Lemma
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September 2, 2025
Poetry
Benediction for a Baby Born in 2020
Sara Clancy
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July 17, 2020
Poetry
Pills
Hugh Lemma
-
August 24, 2018
Poetry
POST HOLIDAYS POSTCARD
Daniel J. Flore III
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February 9, 2025
Poetry
The Wasp at Midnight Whispers
Matt Dennison
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July 27, 2024
Art
Asian Hybridity
Chunbum Park
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April 13, 2021
Photography
Primavera
Michael Ashley
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May 31, 2018
Poetry
.new work.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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November 13, 2022
Poetry
AFTER JOE BOLTON (FOR TOHM BAKELAS)
Mark Anthony Pearce
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November 11, 2022
Poetry
grey goose retrospective (email #12)
Ron Sardino
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March 30, 2023
Poetry
In Love with a Woman in Her Later Years (for Harmina)
Ieuan ap hywel
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April 23, 2024
Poetry
Three more humble attempts at bussokusekika.
Jason Ryberg
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January 6, 2026
Poetry
My friend has
Sara Riley
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January 25, 2019
Art
Side effect
R. jones
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April 6, 2023
Art
Auguries of Innocence
Subhadeep De
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July 2, 2025
Photography
ConTEXTnaTURE
Nichole Spates
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February 27, 2019
Poetry
Flashback
Miya Ko
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July 27, 2020
Poetry
Scylla and Charybdis
Maria Mazzenga
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February 15, 2021
Poetry
The New Place
Sara Clancy
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September 23, 2023
Poetry
critical thinkers
Hanna Abi Akl
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June 12, 2020
Poetry
The Duck Had Me
Palline Plum
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January 20, 2022
Art
My Last Thought Is Snow
Jenn Zed
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April 3, 2018
Art
Summer Couple & Other Work
Stian Kjørsvik
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November 28, 2019
Creative Non-Fiction
Jesus Visits the Central Bus Station
Daniel Beaudoin
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May 1, 2019
Poetry
Stubble
Cameron McClure
-
August 10, 2019
Poetry
your father will betray you, your mother, sister, brother, best friend
Kaci Skiles Laws
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January 12, 2024
Poetry
Self-Checkout
Lance Watson
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May 23, 2026
Poetry
Adrian
Niall M Oliver
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March 24, 2023
Photography
Lost In The Woods
Tom Strong
-
January 11, 2025
Poetry
Night Watch
Cameron McClure
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March 27, 2025
Poetry
Raphael
Mike Casetta
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December 21, 2020
Poetry
Beatles Fan from Buenos Aires
Mark Anthony Pearce
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February 1, 2021
Photography
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Grave
Jay Dougherty
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February 12, 2019
Poetry
OFF SEASON AT THE SHORE
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 26, 2021
Photography
Backside
Kim Toft
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June 10, 2019
Poetry
IYÁ ALÁYỌ̀ (Mother of Joy)
Anselm Eme
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April 12, 2026
Art
The Fool
Michael Ashley
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October 2, 2018
Music
Fine on the Outside – New Album
Jenn Zed
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November 15, 2021
Poetry
Existential Angst
Mike Casetta
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May 20, 2021
Music
Karambol
Nicholas Wintzler
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August 26, 2021
Poetry
If you let me I’ll change my room into woods
Nathalie Spaans
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May 15, 2022
Poetry
Maggie Drives
Lorraine Stofft
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August 7, 2024
Poetry
With Your Voice
Mark A. Murphy
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September 7, 2020
Poetry
Saṃsāra
Matt Dennison
-
April 25, 2024
Poetry
Mississippi Catch and Release
Tom Strong
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April 17, 2023
Poetry
Eclogue for Santa Isabel
July Westhale
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November 15, 2019
Poetry
The Gap
Marc Woodward
-
September 27, 2024
Poetry
I WON’T BE RETURNING ANY CALLS
Daniel J. Flore III
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September 18, 2023
Poetry
mystique
Michael Acker
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June 25, 2023
Photography
Bilde 002
Kim Toft
-
March 2, 2019
Poetry
THE PLEASURES OF WORK
Mark Anthony Pearce
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December 18, 2022
Poetry
Anaphora
Wim Coleman
-
September 21, 2024
Poetry
A Small List Of Silent Things
Hugh Lemma
-
August 17, 2023
Poetry
Avalon
Hugh Lemma
-
March 23, 2023
Fiction
The reviews are in for my poetry …
Eliot Jacobson
-
October 24, 2021
Art
Chun II
Chunbum Park
-
January 16, 2021
Poetry
Their thoughts move out of their bodies
David Belcher
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June 1, 2018
Photography
light shadows….
A.L. Waddell
-
March 13, 2023
Poetry
Cycling Dhyana
Tom Strong
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September 11, 2021
Poetry
the meditative journey of achieving perfect home fries
Anthony Hughes
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August 7, 2023
Poetry
My Chaste Eye
Paul Brookes
-
March 26, 2024
Art
The Minister’s Daughter
Dale Patterson
-
July 22, 2019
Poetry
Lab Notes
Cameron McClure
-
February 5, 2025
Spoken Word
Moth
Sherry Cassells
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April 22, 2026
Poetry
Calling All Editors
Niall M Oliver
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April 1, 2025
Art
War all the time
Marcel Herms
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June 18, 2018
Art
Mannequin Series #3
Joe Shelton
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January 21, 2023
Poetry
I am he shouted
Cameron McClure
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August 1, 2020
Photography
.john threatens mary. & other tales
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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May 14, 2019
Art
Your Land Is My Land
Dale Patterson
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February 3, 2020
Poetry
7:40
james stephen
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November 10, 2022
Poetry
the religious agoraphobic mushroom hunter
Mike Casetta
-
September 15, 2024
Art
The pains of pointless jobs
Marcel Herms
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June 15, 2022
Poetry
Leda was a dancer.
John Yamrus
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October 15, 2023
Poetry
Autobiographical Coffees
Sara Clancy
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September 16, 2021
Fiction
Summer of Crows
Ann Kammerer
-
June 23, 2019
Poetry and Art
What I am
Jennifer Wilder
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June 23, 2025
Poetry
counterpoint
Lance Watson
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June 30, 2025
Poetry
M`ZO
james stephen
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August 28, 2024
Music
Cyndi Lauper Turns 80
Lawrence George
-
September 11, 2020
Art
for Grand-Dude
Tiko Lewis
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December 17, 2023
Poetry
Guests
Julie Desmond
-
July 15, 2023
Poetry
Sleeping with Dana
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 17, 2021
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