
A Tub, a Cigarette, a Blank Stare
Open Arts Press is pleased to announce the publication of Daniel J. Flore III's new poetry collection, A Tub, a Cigarette, a Blank Stare: Selected Poems. Flore’s poems…
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Open Arts Press is pleased to announce the publication of Daniel J. Flore III's new poetry collection, A Tub, a Cigarette, a Blank Stare: Selected Poems. Flore’s poems…

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along the stream that fell from clouds he came upon a pile of bones recognized the glaze and angles as his own kicked them in the creaming beck…

Tank Girl - 1 Pencil, graphic ink pencil, coloured acrylic inks, ink brush, coloured pencils, chalk pastels, black ink on Strathmore Illustration Board - 42cm x 23cm Tank…

This is the second time that Charles Bukowski appeared in my little magazine Clock Radio of the mid to late 1980s. He and I had struck up a fairly…

The Book of Unknowing 1 What is this scrim between Music and the self? Who is incarcerated for The crime of lucidity? 2 How does one expunge The…


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Open Arts Press, LLC is pleased to announce the publication of Daniel F. Flore’s “Homeless Poems,” a self-printable trifold broadside containing a collection of new verse from Dan.…


This started as my college project in the late 2021. It was a difficult time for me to learn a whole new technics. This is a generative,…


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlS63_RVL_s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6jzz8a_zYM "Why do you teach kids to be proper" is the title of my new performative album. Some time ago, I was at Kysak train station waiting…

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These portraits are from the series "I took that personally." —Nicholas Wintzler Click any image to view full-screen.

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During the period of creating the Agnosia photographic series, I was inspired by visual agnosia. Visual agnosis is a disorder of knowing familiar things and their meaning, people,…

This selection of photos comes from Paul’s ongoing photography series, Limited Light. The series was born from a desire to photograph artists in a way that captured the…


I am fascinated by the notion of representing abstract terms with abstract art. —Michael Acker



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"Chun" is a series that I am working on in which I depict myself as an Asian woman, although I am a straight male, in order to explore…


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Click an image for full-screen viewing Acrylic, pencil, chalk, ink on Kraft 280gm corrugated cardboard paper

The First Time I French Kissed You was the same as the first time I kissed a girl the same as the first time I kissed anyone. My…

I never know what to say about my work except I needed to make it. —Jenn Zed Click any image to view full-screen.

Sarah Clancy May 2020 This crazy spring froze me right inside its own unnatural thaw. When I look to the generation behind myself I see nothing but a…

Medusa It’s late August in the city: sweet summer’s coming to a close. But where are you? The democratic debates have started, but I’m not watching. Most of…

The Odd One In Emergency Landing On Taurus IX Whoddaboy Excavation Site The Passage Face Time Pointer Collateral Collage A Bright Future

Inception: Life Emerges Here on this fleck among the uncountable stars something takes form, eventually to wonder why we are and what to each other. This double-layered fiber…

Panasonic camcorder as a self portrait At most, it was a routine guess before I had industry down a tunnel. I caught the business of a machine, inside…

Summer Couple Abyss Entrance Cocaine Voodoo

Inisheer Rust 3Decomposition Series 1, Plassey InteriorEngine Room Descomposition Series II Plassey RustDecomposition Series Harbor Rust I Inisheer Rust IV

The Window Traversing Alone Yearning like a flower looking to tilt its face toward sun, only night clutches the world in loneliness, when neither moon nor stars are…

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Code 1 Code 2 Code 3 Code 4 Code 5 Code 6 Code 7 Code 8 Code 9 All paintings acrylic on hardboard

Sit Down Beside Me Girl of Our Dreams or Nightmares Mother of Flowers Dressed To Kill Self Portrait with Alterations Beatific Vision Girl with Polka Dots Creation of…

Encrypted Message Joint Venture Stainless Brick Garage Still Life Street-Wise Bands Tarpedo Green Redecoration Paint Pirate

The Euphoria of Koi in Springtime Is it possible to create a haiku with form and color rather than words? Something to strive for. Could You Put…

So when he left I longed for the old house I had. So often, late summer in that house, marigolds on the steps for a lost weekend. One…

.john threatens mary. .attempted murder. .there were traces of blood. .hiding the body. .the confession & doing time. .john reflecting on his behaviour.


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Reset The Humans loved to burn things up—witness what they did with Mars eons ago. After they torched Earth’s exquisite atmosphere, the cold blew in from beyond and…


There is a sense of humor to this project, but I hope to also stir thoughts around the rituals many develop around food. What foods do you like, but…

Shadow Existence On the way to work a large bird flew overhead. I wouldn't have known it was there had it not wedged itself between me and the…

. small item . what you see is magnified. they leave here larger than life petrified in their own forests. scan beds and lens. light the cracks, the…

positive side effect i woke up a few mornings ago with what seems to be a sprained ankle although i can't remember having done anything to sprain it.…

My first beer of the Christmas season I knew in the candlelight against the stained oak countertops that I should be out smoking a cigarette under the sandpaper…

hotel room in little rock there were three of them forceful drunk too angry to care whether she lived or died she swung the cardboard pizza box like…


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These poems speak in the manner of hard-boiled detective fiction, rich in the dictions found in Chester Himes, Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald and Dashiell Hammett & as do…

These are the few poems I managed to write about the very intense and sometimes violent relationship I had with a woman called Miki who I met on…
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