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81 works by 45 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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Poetry, photography, and art from the Open Arts Forum community during the pandemic. This Library edition gathers 49 works by 28 contributors from the original 2020 showcase. The…
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An OAF thematic collection. Five encounters with birds through poems, fiction, watercolor, and photography: backyard neighbors, remembered calls, vanished species, and unsettling visitors.
An OAF thematic collection. Office theft, checkout conversations, customer-service loops, and an unlikely waiting figure: six comic encounters with the rituals of ordinary life.
An OAF thematic collection. A childhood closet, a mother's pendant, a father's typewriter: five works about the belongings we inherit and the memories they carry.
A surviving issue of Clock Radio, the independently published literary magazine from the 1980s. This Bukowski-focused issue features work by Charles Bukowski, Robert Peters, Tom Clark, Janet Gray,…
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A long-out-of-print chapbook of concrete and experimental poetry by Jay Dougherty. Here the arrangement of language on the page is part of the work: these poems ask to…
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Bitchy Poems is a free poetry broadside by Leeza Simmons Sikes, published in the Ten Million Flies series with cover artwork by Jenn Zed. It was designed as…
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First published by Clock Radio Press in 1987, Half Memory of a Distant Life is a poetry collection by Douglas Goodwin, with an introduction by Charles Bukowski. The…
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A public swimming pool becomes a setting for exasperation and darkly comic observation in Daniel J. Flore III's SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK. The poet's self-described grouch at…
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Click or tap any image to view it full size. Artist Statement Urban Underdogs “Being beautiful isn’t about the way you dress or the pigments you put…
81 works by 45 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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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79 works by 43 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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Click on any thumbnail to see the image full size and launch a slideshow. Editor's note: Marcel Herms is a well-known Dutch artist. His paintings…
85 works by 52 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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320 works by 95 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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76 works by 41 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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83 works by 47 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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80 works by 47 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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81 works by 50 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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78 works by 41 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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317 works by 89 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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…
76 works by 44 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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78 works by 44 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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85 works by 42 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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327 works by 74 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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84 works by 35 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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…
86 works by 32 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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…
80 works by 41 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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77 works by 39 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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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243 works by 74 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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126 works by 36 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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.…
38 works by 25 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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,…
35 works by 23 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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44 works by 32 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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220 works by 64 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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65 works by 37 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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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47 works by 29 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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,…
47 works by 33 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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…
61 works by 33 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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I am fascinated by the notion of representing abstract terms with abstract art. —Michael Acker
65 works by 43 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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221 works by 81 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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…
72 works by 37 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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Click an image for full-screen viewing Acrylic, pencil, chalk, ink on Kraft 280gm corrugated cardboard paper
38 works by 26 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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…
46 works by 32 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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…
76 works by 42 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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253 works by 91 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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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65 works by 30 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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…
56 works by 35 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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.
56 works by 39 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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…
39 works by 32 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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227 works by 70 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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.…
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…
79 works by 42 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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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…
106 works by 34 contributors. Poetry, prose, art and photography from the Open Arts Forum community.
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