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The Woman I Always Knew I Could Be
Love of Lilacs: A Photographic Gallery by Rod Raglin
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4 year old driveway chalk art
Brood
Ceyx azureus (the azure kingfisher)
..nothing substantial..
Kyn #1
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Sunset Drama: A Gallery of Ten Vancouver Sunset Photographs by Rod…
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Pulling Thread from a Red Paisley Pillow
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May 17, 2021
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Poetry
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Poetry
Gateleg Table
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Unhurried
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Art
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Poetry
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Poetry
MINOTAUR
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Dancing in December
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September 7, 2019
Art
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Poetry
Meditation
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Art
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March 11, 2023
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FUZZY TREE
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In a Forest
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The lady you keep yapping with on the phone
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February 19, 2020
Photography
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Fiction
Throw Jackson
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Poetry
Redshift
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Poetry
I suppose resilience
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Poetry
(post 37-38) – Rehearsal for Reversal
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Photography
Female order
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Art
Nocturnal Caffeination
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Art
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Poetry
Potter’s Island
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Poetry
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Quotations
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Art
..little scar..
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Poetry
Message from my mother
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Music
What Ever
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Poetry
Haikuesquecuses
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Street music playlist
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Poetry
Broken Lock
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Poetry
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Brood
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.eight.
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Art
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Bedtime
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Horsefly Don’t Bother Me
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Photography
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Fiction
Ars Poetica
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There is nothing as beautiful as the wind
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July 4, 2026
Poetry
River Rock
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January 8, 2019
Poetry
Scylla and Charybdis
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February 15, 2021
Art
fixed me, all right
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May 22, 2020
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Poetry
What am I going to say—
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February 13, 2026
Art
Self Portrait in dark mood
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October 4, 2019
Poetry
Shutters
Martin Slavin
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June 19, 2019
Poetry
Come Dance With Me
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September 20, 2023
Poetry
La Rochelle
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Poetry
The Last Time in the Hospital
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Cheeseburgers and Tattoos
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May 7, 2024
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Mediums
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December 15, 2022
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April 3, 2022
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Spade
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Banishing Rain
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Art
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Poetry
on a wheel and a prayer
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Poetry
Weekend In Paris
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Poetry
The black rose of poverty
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Statement Piece
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Poetry
It Is written
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Digging
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Cats
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Sunday, you rotten bitch
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aqueous
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Poetry
he chose to
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Look Up
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..
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Moonshine
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log pile
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before Hip-Hop
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song to myself
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~~ ~
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Giants
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unceremoniously
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Poetry
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Fiction
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Music
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Poetry
not here
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Packing Up the House
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Poetry
Most times though we’d sit
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Poetry
the Zebra Crossing was under water
silent lotus
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Poetry
..metaphor..
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Poetry
The Bluejay’s Dividend
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Photography
.family.
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November 4, 2019
Art
Wetware
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Poetry
i’ve been shit on…
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October 21, 2023
Art
In the Border Country
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Fiction
Sisters
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March 2, 2024
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A Reptilian Operetta
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Poetry
SENSATIONAL REAL LIFE
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December 26, 2022
Poetry
Brief Encounter of Another Kind
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July 8, 2023
Poetry
The Matriarch of the sidewalk
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March 1, 2022
Poetry
Moving Day
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Poetry
now I am become Death – sapphic trauma # 25185
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December 5, 2023
Poetry
Now, at Almost 80
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April 13, 2023
Music
Selections from Forthcoming Album, “Low & Lily”
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April 22, 2021
Blog
Origin Story–part 1
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Poetry
no title worthwhile
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August 6, 2024
Art
You Are What You Do: A Labor Day Series of Various...
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October 8, 2025
Poetry
Clapham Rick
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March 7, 2026
Art
The NEWS Font
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August 18, 2025
Poetry and Art
Zak and the Moffy Cat Play
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November 26, 2025
Poetry
The Gilded Moth and the Iron Maw
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May 9, 2025
Poetry
my
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Performance Art
New Muses for a Posthuman Age
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June 2, 2018
Photography
Beautiful Devastation—Calcutta
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July 12, 2020
Poetry
The weight of quiet things
Michael Ashley
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June 16, 2025
Poetry
Stubble
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August 10, 2019
Poetry
in Wait of Return
silent lotus
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August 14, 2019
Poetry
It’s been so long, since when did hope breathe its way...
Daniel J. Flore III
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July 3, 2020
Fiction
HomeGirl
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September 20, 2024
Poetry
old ghosts
Jan Harper
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August 18, 2023
Poetry
On feeling lonely and dispirited cutting the grass at St Mary...
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November 15, 2023
Art
In this life, we met
Hang Mai
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May 8, 2022
Poetry
I HAD TO LIGHT A SECOND CIGARETTE
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 27, 2022
Video
Man on Knees
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January 19, 2019
Poetry
Three Double Takes
Wim Coleman
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February 15, 2020
Poetry
The Gardener
Ann Kammerer
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June 19, 2019
Photography
Water Moss
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June 2, 2018
Music
I Am Not the One
Bernie Langs
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July 14, 2019
Music
Booda Wot Doddy
RC James
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July 8, 2021
Fiction
The inland behind the mountain
Nathalie Spaans
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November 4, 2023
Poetry
“El sueño de la razón produce monstruos”
Wim Coleman
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January 20, 2025
Poetry
On my 44th birthday
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March 27, 2022
Poetry
The Cleaver days
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November 5, 2022
Art
That’s The Theory
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May 16, 2026
Art
Abstracted River Realism
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April 4, 2023
Poetry
Getting Help
Tom Strong
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February 6, 2021
Poetry
Near Stone Creek a Mile from Imagination
james stephen
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February 19, 2023
Poetry
His name means ‘far-seeing’
David Belcher
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November 5, 2025
Showcase
Common Misconceptions
Mark Preier
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February 20, 2020
Poetry
Liberated Me
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September 24, 2020
Art
Entrance
Stian Kjørsvik
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October 28, 2019
Art
Consuming Their Innocence
Dale Patterson
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November 18, 2019
Art
for Grand-Dude
Tiko Lewis
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December 17, 2023
Poetry
just one more
Jennifer Wilder
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November 10, 2021
Poetry
To Be or Not To Be, Update
Dale M. Tushman
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January 25, 2025
Poetry
Doggerel
Mike Casetta
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July 20, 2021
Photography
Calcutta Basti 1
Buku Sarkar
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July 30, 2018
Poetry
daylight savings
Rob Breeding
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March 19, 2021
Poetry
Bravery
Andy Posner
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December 18, 2025
Poetry
Intrusion
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January 30, 2026
Poetry
number Z
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June 20, 2024
Poetry
St. Christopher
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November 17, 2022
Poetry
Abscission
Tom Strong
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February 13, 2024
Poetry
STORIES ARE EMPIRES WAITING TO COLLAPSE
Nathalie Spaans
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March 12, 2023
Art
Jail time
Marcel Herms
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October 27, 2021
Poetry
Their Final Words
Miya Ko
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October 29, 2021
Fiction
The Golden Years of Gary Goldenberg
Lance Watson
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August 30, 2025
Poetry
Twilight Cinema
D. E. Kern
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June 13, 2025
Art
Merry Xmas 2025
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December 25, 2025
Poetry
Adept
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April 3, 2024
Poetry
A Season’s Change
Michael Acker
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September 21, 2022
Photography
The Great Hanah Jon Taylor on Sax
george roesch johnson
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September 9, 2019
Poetry
heretical thoughts on a hot day
Jan Harper
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November 16, 2023
Art
..done some asemic stuff..
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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July 9, 2020
Art
.this.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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July 5, 2025
Poetry
Quintains of the Red Death
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May 30, 2025
Photography
K. Thorn’s a Dancer
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February 27, 2021
Essays
The Acropolis Caryatids of the Erechtheion and Michelangelo’s Medici Tomb Sculptures:...
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Poetry
A Fall Can Be a Little Thing
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March 26, 2026
Poetry
Us
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February 4, 2023
Poetry
EXTRAMARITAL POETRY
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December 16, 2022
Photography
Three by Buku Sarkar
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November 25, 2018
Art
Containing the Virus
Dale Patterson
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December 25, 2020
Poetry and Art
Fulcrum of a Rose (for Kelsey)
Trina Layne
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August 19, 2025
Poetry
Something Keeps Cutting the Spider’s Web
Raymond Huffman
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October 21, 2022
Poetry
The day I don’t sing
Sara Clancy
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October 27, 2023
Art
Summer Couple & Other Work
Stian Kjørsvik
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November 28, 2019
Poetry
The band of St Carmen’s holy church Santa Cruz
Michael Ashley
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August 21, 2020
Readings
I CAN’T CALL YOU PAUL
Daniel J. Flore III
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November 14, 2022
Poetry
After
Steve Richmond
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April 16, 2018
Poetry
In Defense
Dale Patterson
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December 4, 2022
Poetry
goddamn how i miss the late 70s
Lawrence George
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July 14, 2020
Poetry
unhallowed ground
Rob Breeding
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July 30, 2025
Music
My City of Sin
Concussionbox
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January 8, 2022
Art
The Hand That Causes All The Trouble ..
Jenn Zed
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July 1, 2025
Poetry
Instinct
Sara Clancy
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January 3, 2023
Poetry
The End of the World
Mary MacGowan
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December 11, 2025
Poetry
.O.
Sonja Benskin Mesher
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December 1, 2022
Poetry
Petrichor
Hugh Lemma
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April 14, 2023
Photography
Dragon lady
Frank Doorhof
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May 22, 2018
Poetry
Andrew is leaving to pursue other opportunities
Michael Ashley
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February 8, 2025
Poetry
The year of the tyrant’s final spring
Trish Saunders
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March 4, 2022
Art
Asian Hybridity
Chunbum Park
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April 13, 2021
Poetry
This Time You Were Home
Sara Clancy
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June 3, 2026
Poetry
Happy Things
Ann Kammerer
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December 7, 2022
Poetry
How to win an argument: lesson #17, Dad
Eliot Jacobson
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June 27, 2019
Art
Must be I’ve been smoking too long…
Subhadeep De
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August 25, 2018
Poetry
Woodswoman
Sara Clancy
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June 11, 2025
Poetry
biscuits before noon
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May 30, 2024
Poetry
The Bird Outside Our Kitchen
Lance Jencks
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June 17, 2018
Poetry
She looked around my place
Sara Clancy
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September 17, 2023
Art
BG Abstract NO.21
Elina Ghanbari
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April 27, 2021
Art
In Morning Light
Dale Patterson
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July 11, 2020
Poetry
The shy, wild dogs of February
Trish Saunders
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July 2, 2023
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