Tuesday’s Stone (Six Of Stars.)

Poetry Starr -
I pay attention to sunlight, watch it ribbon in the tops of trees. (Kisses are not the answer.) I'm at war with the walls watching summer branches bend in the...
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The Gig Econ

Poetry Lawrence George -
Uber drivers drive reckless, they loop, round and round circling Big Ben, throwing fade patterns impossible to defend selling shirts, touchdown! outside Heinz Field coming out the woodwork they dream of paper straws covered...
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Perverse and Saintly

Poetry Cameron McClure -
it started by sucking cyanide from the pits on the edge of a berried desert brutal emptiness dripped from within cramping confusing causing seizures a mexican stand-off between indigestible...
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Waning & Waxing

Poetry silent lotus -
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she has a couple of rugs

Poetry Soodabeh Saeidnia -
silk for those who gladly take off shoes wool for those in fear of dancing barefoot
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One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds

Poetry Dick Holmes -
One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds with a tip of the hat to Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is to go from...
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Encounter with a clown

Poetry Marc Woodward -
I met a clown in plain clothes drinking in a bar—of course. He told me a kid once asked him “Are you a real clown? Underneath the make...
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Experiments with a copy machine part 1

Art Marcel Herms -
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Anna and the Scourge

Poetry RC James -
We memorized poems to pass them on, past the strident winds out of the Kremlin. When I walk the avenue lined with our history, I trust you to guard the ashes...
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Electric pH Acid Test (collage by Bernie Langs)

Art Bernie Langs -
I created this collage for an employee art show at a medical research institution. It plays on the idea of pH litmus tests for...
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San Francisco

Poetry Marc Woodward -
“It’s an odd thing but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.” —Oscar Wilde Sundown sets the painted ladies dancing on the eastern...
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The Great Hanah Jon Taylor on Sax

Photography george roesch johnson -
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Polar Ideas

Art Dale Patterson -
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Dancing in December

Poetry Trish Saunders -
Frost everywhere this morning; those roses never knew when to quit. Look at their withered petals, like peering into my own face. I’m inside this watering can...
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The man who pretends he knows it all

Art Marcel Herms -
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Before Divorce

Poetry Eliot Jacobson -
We bought our Ford Falcon for $200. There were spiders in the ashtrays. You kept a closet full of men's XL shirts and always used the upstairs bathroom. The dogs...
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Hiding from the sun

Poetry Michael Ashley -
there’s only a few stupider things to waste your time on like avoiding death or praying
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Toby, Tobias Dog

Poetry Doug Flaherty -
He mouths a left-over thigh, whines a new path in the grass, tries to tell himself about bone, tongue-licking the marrow to taste of the once-living. I did...
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Con man

Art Marcel Herms -
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Code: Acrylic and hardboard series

Art Jenn Zed -
Code 1 Code 2 Code 3 Code 4 Code 5 Code 6 Code 7 Code 8 Code 9 All paintings acrylic on hardboard
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.the gardener.

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
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A Man, a Banana, Panama!

Poetry Edmund Conti -
(Just so you know, I usually take a walk after breakfast. And as I leave the dining room I may take a banana with...
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You’re Fired, Psycho

Poetry Lawrence George -
i fell in love with my former employer in the East Village, NYC he owns a Testudines sanctuary in central California after termination and my great wandering i found myself standing on the side...
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Keeping up appearances

Art Marcel Herms -
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digital/mixed media art

Art Doug Flaherty -
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 the Universe Sammy Mi Casa...
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Het contact met de medemens verliep moeizaam

Art Marcel Herms -
mixed media on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm, 2019
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u&me

Poetry Tiko Lewis -
. . . 1. . it's not like we'll be here foreverwe must give thanks for the blistersthanks for the tarps we hide underfor the shame of being human -like everyone elseage teaches...
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.reborn.

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
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Last Note

Poetry Trish Saunders -
Little shell of a poem, I wanted to send you into the world rich with meaning—mine. Here you come back empty-hulled. Anyone with dregs to share, pile in. Seaweed or...
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Hidden Riddles

Poetry Maria Mazzenga -
A quest for spiders might lead to entrapment in silk threads Palm reading: infinity is embedded in the ice crystals of hand-shaped clouds Music vapors sing:...
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Arctic

Video Jenn Zed -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSz7rZzZQRM Music and video - Jenn Zed Cello composed and played by Yukiko Louvière, Berlin This is a pre-release track from my forthcoming album 'Gradients of Light...
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A dangerous journey

Art Marcel Herms -
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in Wait of Return

Poetry silent lotus -
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Patterns and Light

Photography Mark Preier -
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Stubble

Poetry Cameron McClure -
usually I wear tweed like the ageing bachelor I am carry a pipe in an inside pocket behave politely give thanks and compliments about the food then leave early as if...
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After the coquilles Saint Jacques

Poetry silent lotus -
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Erasures

Poetry Joan Colby -
Begin redacting. Blacking out Until what’s left is cryptic With knowledge only you can Penetrate. Choreographer of Significance. The words pirouette At the barre. Lozenges like Coffins of those shipped...
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This fierce year paces

Poetry Sara Clancy -
behind every plan to bring her home. Like the burning bush landmark on Tiger Mountain Road, she is a bright detail withdrawn by the season and...
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Jennifer Harley

Poetry Lawrence George -
you’re insane she says you’re just another one of those assholes who falls in love one of those fools who rides motorcycles through big cities
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Death comes flying

Art Marcel Herms -
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The Juggler’s Eyes Look Up and Beyond

Art Dale Patterson -
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Brain dead fuckwits everywhere

Poetry Michael Ashley -
waxing their cars on Sunday afternoons plodding towards darkening horizons pushing their prams eating their leggings at the back end and stuffing a Gregs into the front all of...
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Flipping Through Pages to Get to the End of the Story

Art Dale Patterson -
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The Blue Ghost

Fiction Ann Kammerer -
He gave her a book that was navy blue and hardcover and had a strip of numbers taped on the spine. “You’ll like it,” he...
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Tokyo Jazz

Art Dale Patterson -
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A shame for the angels

Art Marcel Herms -
mixed media on canvas, 22 x 27 cm, 2019
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Only Black: Selected Photographs

Photography Jem Raid -
Amber bridge A footpath and bridlepath that was once a proper field road leads down steeply to the river. As well as the footbridge there...
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You can’t do that in front of decent people

Art Marcel Herms -
mixed media on paper, 21 x 25 cm, 2019
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Selections from “A Thousand and One Cranes”

Poetry Miya Ko -
Last Word Before he left, his finger on my arm drawing something, I said it quick: blossom, but it felt like goodbye. Lesson for Gluttons I didn't know how to devour passion fruits 'till...
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Tokyo Subway Salary Men

Photography george roesch johnson -
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The Minister’s Daughter

Art Dale Patterson -
The technique is called blockout poetry, a type of found poetry. I used selected words from a page in one of Flannery O’Connor’s short...
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Before Dreaming You Fall Through a Hole

Art Dale Patterson -
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It’s okay (we love you anyway)

Art Marcel Herms -
mixed media on canvas, 22 x 27 cm, 2019
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.threads.

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
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Experiments with a copy machine part 1

Art Marcel Herms -
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Chef vs. Waiter

Poetry Lawrence George -
come at me, Chef get yourself within my radius I warn you I’ve armed myself with a corkscrew and a ballpoint pen my cocktail tray is a Spartan’s shield and...
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After Crossing Bobtail Creek

Poetry Doug Flaherty -
There are voices in me so old, I cannot decipher. Like divers they speak to each other under water. They bubble up grains of sand-- a burnt-out...
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I Am Not the One

Music Bernie Langs -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uceoCDf9JGA
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It’s been a half century since the fair

Poetry Sara Clancy -
and I have given up naming cars, waist length hair and wishing for a horse. I do not believe I will live in a spare, but...
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Artificial Intelligence

Poetry Morgan Driscoll -
The last time at the office of the otolaryngologist I had smartly typed my next appointment promptly on my smart phone screen at the same time it...
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Rainmaker, make it rain

Art Marcel Herms -
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Corona

Photography Thomas Yarbrough -
My Father carried this with him in a leather board case in the 50's and 60’S working for the Atkinson County Citizen newspaper along...
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A Train Whistle Announcing the Arrival of Cousin Harrietta

Poetry Trish Saunders -
In memory of Harrietta Lee Watanabe, 1944-2001 She was born in Volcano, Hawai’i and so we put dwarf palms around our patio. That will do, said...
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Dear Donald

Art Jenn Zed -
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Meaning

Poetry Michael Acker -
Is it found in the thickets that line the paths through our minds, or in the simple words that form so easily out of our mouths? Words like "good morning, sweetheart," or "you are beautiful"— those...
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First we release the horses

Poetry Trish Saunders -
I keep hearing them at night. Maybe they have already died, but beautifully, the way a fire can be gorgeous as a red berry- stained mouth, luscious...
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How to win an argument: lesson #17, Dad

Poetry Eliot Jacobson -
it's an obscure ornithological fact the lifespan of a common hummingbird is 20 to 25 years and i know hummingbirds i feed them equal portions water and sugar hung in a red-tinted...
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Uncle Darryl and Aunt Rhonda at Yosemite Falls, 1965

Art Bill Flanagan -
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A dangerous journey

Art Marcel Herms -
mixed media on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm, 2019
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Hanne

Art Jenn Zed -
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Summer of Crows

Fiction Ann Kammerer -
The cawing started in the morning at no particular time, unlike the trills of songbirds that started at dawn. Instead, the cawing began with...
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Yugen

Poetry Tom Strong -
Who tells the bird it’s time to fly, what is far beyond a horizon, where is a cloud going, why did a branch split there, when will next...
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Uncomposed

Photography Morgan Driscoll -
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Another Friday Night II

Poetry Cheryl Leverette -
Rita calls. She's coming over for a girl's night-in because she likes the name of the wine— Yellow Tail. She says, I like tail, and laughs till she chokes. She doesn't knock; she...
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peep show politics

Poetry Tiko Lewis -
don't look now we be at the bottom of the hole with the butterflies and pony shit they taught us to shoo gnats when cameras were around because it was...
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Everybody Swims/Lino Cut

Art george roesch johnson -
She is so new, I am not sure which swimmer is her. With caps and goggles and sleek bodies, I am surrounded by porpoise pleasures, until this one pinches...
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Shaman

Art Jenn Zed -
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The Gardener

Poetry Ann Kammerer -
He had tended the garden pruning stems and branches with long-handled shears melded to his hands. He returned that winter, cradling a plant in a clay-colored pot, a plaid sleeve dangling where...
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Shutters

Poetry Martin Slavin -
Being the hybrids that we are, neither fully prey nor fully predator, we make our rounds each night, closing windows and locking doors. We are more like hyenas and...
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Winter’s Come and Gone

Music RC James -
A capella rendition of a song by Gillian Welch, in memory of poet Cheryl Leverette. https://soundcloud.com/rc-james-user841120068/lb3  
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no reminders

Poetry Cheryl Leverette -
the clench in my brain is like imagination on speed ghosts fly behind my back my mom's sweet white hair the door ajar her eyes peeking through the pale blue...
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Life Supplies

Poetry Lance Jencks -
—for Cheryl Leverette Life gets lost in the top right drawer of my desk. Those three pairs of scissors once purchased? Stuffed there way in the back. And here's...
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The curve of tenderness

Poetry Trish Saunders -
In the curve of her neck, there’s longing for the man. In her closed throat, fear. Through sheer will she freezes the waiter’s sleeve mid-air as he presents...
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Ageless

Poetry Amanda Villafranco -
in my eyes, we’re ageless in my eyes, each exploding star dust Pangeal atom that conspired in our conception has always existed we have always existed the galaxy flashes in reverse,...
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Templar

Art Jenn Zed -
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Backside

Photography Kim Toft -
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Poem for Bobby

Poetry Sara Clancy -
Let's unwind the world a little for you and the curly haired girl in your class. For your parents, your aunts, your cousins and neighbors, for the...
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Spring Portfolio 2019: Selected Photographs

Photography Mark Preier -
Encrypted Message Joint Venture Stainless Brick Garage Still Life Street-Wise Bands Tarpedo Green Redecoration Paint Pirate
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The Euphoria of Koi in Springtime & Other Works

Art Bill Flanagan -
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...
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Hyperstition

Art Jenn Zed -
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Pain Scale in the ER

Poetry Sara Clancy -
She wants me to calibrate against the wing-beat of searing fluorescents, the examining room bright with her skeptical forbearance. I tell her since I've never been flayed or broken...
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Growth on the Job

Fiction Tom Riordan -
In the meantime, I'm here and they're not. I have learned one thing, because I get treated very unfairly, that's what I call it,...
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Last Days at Acme

Poetry Daniel J. Flore III -
The last days of Acme looked like the end of the world or maybe a food pantry. Mostly empty disgusting cream and brown shelves...
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Swamp Thing

Poetry alan catlin -
It came from the depths of the sewhers of New York: Pasty faced Flaming orange hair Highlighted, feral raccoon eyes Swamp Thing Decades in the making This instant horror classic...
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Master of Decay

Art Shannon Elizabeth Gardner -
Ink on Paper
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Snapback

Poetry Jordan Trethewey -
I tried to catch a snapping turtle in an old tin pail. She ducked and dove. I hopped and turned. It was to no avail. Half in, half...
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Four by Phyllis Green

Art Phyllis Green -
Harmeet prefers orchids Violetta finds courage Two tough gals Theadora
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I’m Heading South

Poetry John Austin -
As the days draw in I will head south, past the lake’s glacial blue, up the curving road where the mountain shines, beyond the musterer’s hut on whose walls names...
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Softer Truths in City Parks

Poetry Tara Hagen -
I found them there in a still spare spring under cottonwoods grown in unnaturally straight lines in small-eyed ducks and a young girl balancing on the lip of a fountain in...
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after the reading,

Poetry
a reporter for the student paper asked me what career i would take if i wasn’t a writer. i looked at him and said: at this point in my life i guess porn star is...
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The Atom of Language

Poetry Michael Acker -
u                                                                                                                                                                                                                      i                                                                                                                                                                               a                             nvrjcdfk                                                                                     xmybqtg                                                                                     lsczhwrp                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             e                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    o
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“The Quiet One”: Song by C. Kendrick & Bernie Langs; Recording & Video, Bernie Langs

Music Bernie Langs -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NMtWcxW6Tw My college buddy from years ago, the brilliant keyboardist Curtis Kendrick, met me in a NYC practice room and we bashed out basic chords,...
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Some Men

Showcase Lyn Lifshin -
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 year I raked maple...
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Suicidal in Tuscany

Poetry Jenn Zed -
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Summer Sun Solstice Viewing

Art george roesch johnson -
Oil on canvas, 3'x4'
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Void

Poetry Amanda Villafranco -
We will speak, all wind and hail icy tambourine of tin roof or nights I sat on your bed folding warm towels, pairing socks, still inside out with...
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Black and black

Photography Kim Toft -
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The wall

Photography Kim Toft -
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OFFICE THIEF

Poetry Jefferson Carter -
I’m not hungry.  I appraise the contents of the office fridge anyway: a carton of soy coffee creamer, three sack lunches, a four-pack of flavored coconut water, someone’s bottle of...
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Blue RGB Primary 240°

Music Jenn Zed -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsPi3hE640o Guitar and video - Jenn Zed Cello composed and played by Yuki Louvière, Berlin This piece of music is a pre-release from my forthcoming album -...
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Those who look straight forward

Poetry Michael Ashley -
jaded by the complexity of it all sometimes it's best to focus on a single thing: the tops of your shoes we just keep walking, though traffic whistles...
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Untitled

Poetry Amanda Villafranco -
After the Violin Gypsies from Spain cause their own heartbreak Anthony Bourdain said I don’t know what that means maybe we all cause our own disasters in search of something...
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Femmes Fatales

Photography Nichole Spates -
As a tango dancer as well as a photographer I wanted to find a way to combine my two passions, so  I experimented with composing...
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Heart Attack

Poetry Randi Cramer -
She tells me I am panicking, to try to take steady, slow breaths. I wasn't panicking when this started, I was asleep. Asleep sitting up, of...
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The state of things

Poetry Matt Dennison -
Water in toilet is frozen. Shit piling up on top (took a good one this morning, though I don't know from what). Mop bucket of water harvested ten days ago to flush...
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Lyn Lifshin Honored At Albany Public Library Foundation

Blog Open Arts Forum -
The Albany Public Library Foundation celebrates poet and teacher Lyn Lifshin this year as a 2019 Literary Legend, together with author Peter Golden and...
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Abstract Art Is Better in the Abstract

Art David E. Matthews -
After a long period of introspection, I have come to believe two things: 1) that human intelligence is vastly over-estimated and 2) that human...
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Submittable: Too Expensive

Blog Open Arts Forum -
This year, Submittable raised its prices by over 100% to publications that previously received literary journal pricing. In our case, this price hike went...
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Jhonny Flaymz and Jadah Queen Dada

Music RC James -
https://soundcloud.com/rc-james-user841120068/z0001186 Jhonny Flaymz wuz tha mos’ baddass rocah in da sevun sounze districk dountoun dadda. Cum bak to da flatt wun nycht hardon mynd trubbled extreeme ubout Jadah...
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Visionaries

Poetry Michael Acker -
One night, as they stood outside their cave, the stink of smoked leaves and urine still choking their breath, they had visions of mushroom clouds. Terrified, they ran back...
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.john threatens mary. & other tales

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
.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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Apocalypsis

Poetry Maria Mazzenga -
On the last day a homeless man offered a woman with a briefcase a lecture on living                                 & she listened & the man with a daisy applique on his...
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Tax Returns

Poetry Tom Riordan -
The IRS said: By law we are prohibited from releasing hatchling barracudas hiphop trains into the tunnel Screw’s censored 2013 wall calendar footage from the show a profile of the...
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CQ DE OU-OZ HANNE

Art Jenn Zed -
Oil on hardboard - 100cm x 51cm
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My Beautiful Grief

Art Elina Ghanbari -
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Let’s have sex on my birthday

Poetry Cheryl Leverette -
Sometimes a discussion helps. Sometimes it doesn't. It won't hurt to give it a try. I could lose those 10 stubborn pounds. You could harden a muscle or...
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51 Years of White Noise

Art Jenn Zed -
Acrylic, pencil, chalk, ink on Kraft 280gm corrugated cardboard paper – 30cm x 37cm. After an image by Kent Williams.
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The Hawk

Poetry Ann Kammerer -
Standing on a stump, he talked of Peru and the mountains that pierce violet clouds. I am the hawk. Watch me soar. He spread his arms and spun, his poncho...
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Lunch Date

Poetry Sara Clancy -
The first thing I noticed about the golden eagle​ perched in our dead acacia tree was its shadow falling over mine like a pall. The second...
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A Cowboy in Therapy

Poetry Mike Casetta -
I worked hard to callous my hands so I could touch her. I worked hard to strengthen my arms so I could hold her. She should have known she was raking...
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Neither Nature nor Nurture

Poetry Tom Riordan -
A wallow started by the hippos is the haunt of warthogs now. The sounder’s trine of little pigs raise holy heaven, godly grunts as though flung mud will...
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Just Rest

Poetry Lance Jencks -
The reason for writing will come. Birds will peck at the lime outside your door. The solid gray density of fall along the coast will someday make...
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Lockproof: Canine Sleuth

Poetry Brendan Christopher -
From T.S. Eliot’s “Macavity.”  Master criminals of the world, beware of blood on the seat, and prints on the stair. There’s no malefaction you can circumvent: Lockproof is on...
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Jesus Visits the Central Bus Station

Creative Non-Fiction Daniel Beaudoin -
I feel a pull at my trouser leg while I wait for the light to turn green. I glance down to my right and...
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Swan Diver

Poetry Ann Kammerer -
She started taking small steps that grew longer until she reached the end and bounced her sleek body rising as she arced her arms outstretched before slipping into the water. Later she did...
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Quiet Baby

Poetry Ann Kammerer -
He worked as a framer, sawing and nailing rough-hewn boards for rooms made of drywall, climbing ladders until he blew out his knees. We have nothing in common, she said, but...
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Skinny Legs

Poetry Ann Kammerer -
Girls called her Skinny Legs taunting her in gym and pulling off her towel to see the galaxy of sores erupting on her back. I can’t eat, she said. But...
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The House of the Children

Poetry Margarita Serafimova -
One day in the torridness, they were riding the railing in the white shadow of the arches, and laughing forever.
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Just dancing

Showcase Kim Toft -
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Goslings at Wilde Lake

Photography Jay Dougherty -
Click an image to open full-screen viewer.
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The air conditioner repairman left his sweaty towel on my dishwasher

Poetry Cheryl Leverette -
He was hot and so was I.
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Distillations

Showcase Mark Preier -
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Breed the Messenger

Showcase Maria Mazzenga -
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...
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Bilde 002

Photography Kim Toft -
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.early morning tea.

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
john ordered mary to make his hot drink. later mary killed him.
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.attempted murder.

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
the first failed attempt by mary     to kill john under the  guise of sport.
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ConTEXTnaTURE

Photography Nichole Spates -
The images presented here represent a portion of my series "ConTEXTnaTURE," developed in 2017 and finessed in 2018. The impetus behind this project is...
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A Boat Called Isabelle

Poetry Margarita Serafimova -
There she goes, through the sultry, the murky waters, her name in dainty handwriting on a dark stern of Swahili mangrove— Allah’s signature in blue on the bow— as...
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Using again …

Art Jenn Zed -
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Untitled Freckles (a portrait study)

Art Subhadeep De -
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Harmeet prefers orchids

Art Phyllis Green -
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The Dark

Poetry Susan Peters -
The Dark I am not afraid of the dark. Sometimes it purrs at my feet, in a puddle, round and still. It oozes along the floor and climbs the wall and hovers...
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haphazard

Poetry Michael Acker -
throughout my life i held them responsible for the haphazard way they went down their roads dragging us along, but now that they are gone and I wander down...
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Jazz Tuba

Poetry Jefferson Carter -
“How Deep Is the Ocean,” his solo like Buddha preaching, telling us what we didn’t know we knew.  When my son was born, I stopped judging my own parents, my mother practicing cello...
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Ink and Pencil

Showcase Jenn Zed -
 
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Grave

Photography Jay Dougherty -
Visited Fitzgerald's grave recently...it's in Rockville, Maryland, next to a busy highway, in a small, nondescript graveyard next to a bunch of others who, by the...
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Sistering

Photography Pradeep Maheshwari -
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particularities

Showcase Sarah Simon -
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...
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.home.

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
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Bonds

Poetry Amanda Villafranco -
“There are years we lose to people we didn’t realize we never loved.” —Philip Schaefer There are years we lose people. We didn’t realize how much we loved the...
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Shadow Existence and other poems

Poetry Cheryl Leverette -
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 late morning sun. Bird...
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Me and my zine

Readings Daniel J. Flore III -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9-iQVu66BQ Me and my zine Submissions are open for The Swaying Drunkard's Moose, and I'm so excited to start reading your poems! Unless they're about your cat. Your...
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Rezubian

Art Jenn Zed -
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Down to the dust

Music RC James -
Guitar and voice by RC James https://soundcloud.com/rc-james-user841120068/z0001070 Ain’ nuthin’ left here ‘cep six uv us an’ dry stahks ‘a corn. We’re up ta movin west soon as I sort...
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The Secret of Wan Li

Photography Mark Preier -
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separation

Poetry Soodabeh Saeidnia -
I left you without saying goodbye though you wouldn't care I was Pluto and you the Sun an indifferent smog grew shrouding a giant with thousands of heads you cried...
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Buddha Man Blues

Poetry RC James -
for Muddy Waters On the Mississippi bottoms West African griot rhythms filter through Spanish moss swaying over the river bank. Lovers find their own cadence, song settling into their hands moving...
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Catastrophic thinking

Poetry Sara Clancy -
is the diagnosis that dings even your casual observation that things may have finally gone to shit. Your joke that mouse droppings in the garage will carry...
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Beneath These Boards

Poetry Michael Thomas Ellis -
I’ve laid by her for ten years now beneath these creaking boards an axe between my long-gone eyes a spectacle of gore. She rests beside me so composed in...
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The Battle

Art Renee Elizabeth -
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.the boat.

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
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My friend has

Poetry Sara Riley -
had a baby. I go online, buy a present, click ‘gift wrapped’ (I don’t need to see tiny, sleepsuit feet). I visit them, hold him, even carry him to his nursery, sit in a rocking...
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Return Policy

Poetry Megan Merchant -
There’s a squabble of greying women knitting at our local coffee stop. They are talking about dumpster diving—how survival is another’s refuse. I swipe hairs from...
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.life forms.

Showcase Sonja Benskin Mesher -
.the bear. .lucky elephant. .monkey. .mouse. .yellow bird. .the hawfinch. .words.
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A Tennessee Fainting Goat in Texas

Poetry Mike Casetta -
The first time this goat fainted I wanted to pack him in a crate & ship him back home for his safety. It’s hard as hell to...
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Down to the dust

Music RC James -
https://soundcloud.com/rc-james-user841120068/z0001070 Ain’ nuthin’ left here ‘cep six uv us an’ dry stahks ‘a corn. We’re up ta movin west soon as I sort out the T-Ford. Jenny, ma wife,...
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Photographs from the Georgia O’Keeffe Home, Abiquiu, New Mexico

Photography Kelly DuMar -
In November 2017, when the cottonwood trees were golden leaved, I toured Georgia O'Keeffe's home in Abiquiu, NM. —Kelly DuMar ...
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Man on Knees

Video Lance Jencks -
Can't recall when the conceit of breaking through barriers into a different & more colorful world occurred to me, but it did. In the...
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Alleys 3

Photography Buku Sarkar -
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Lost In Transportation

Photography Mark Preier -
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Gravity

Poetry Miya Ko -
I play with friction, skin and air, a ripe blueberry between my lips.
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It’s About to Get Awkward

Poetry Bruce Alford -
The Autobiographical Note I walk through the gym doors. Steve is doing chest-flies. He yells Hey, Flash! (Steve doesn’t know my name.) Third Person, Past Tense The sky...
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Pre-linguistic

Poetry Bruce Alford -
A child chews on his toy Lucid imbecility A baby’s lallation All his l’s are r’s— My dumb joy When I talk like him.
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Interior Decorating for the Autistic Mistress

Poetry Cheryl Leverette -
You are obsessed with the furniture. I don't really care about the furniture. I am lucky if I get to sit on the couch and watch...
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Loose Change

Poetry Ian Badcoe -
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Roses

Music Avery Fogarty -
https://soundcloud.com/avery-fogarty/roses-original1 I used to be sorry all the time I used to love you I swim in and out of your mind I used to be sorry all...
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Muddy Water Woman

Music Michael Thomas Ellis -
https://soundcloud.com/user-417500652/muddy-water-woman Muddy Water Woman Down in Missisisippi where the catfish grow long I found her and I promised her someday I’d write a song About a rebel woman...
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River Rock

Poetry Nancy Johnson James -
It’s hot the breeze just lifts and settles. A man sways to dangerous angles. The kids look quick but play anyway. A possum half crushed is half alive so...
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.little things.

Showcase Sonja Benskin Mesher -
. 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 boxes. tie...
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Sunny Corner Stories: Opening Monologue

Fiction Corenski Nowlan -
How’s she goin’? Just passing through, eh? Course you are. They all are. Don’t get much traffic up around these parts anymore. Odd tourist who maybe got...
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In Guadalupe’s Bed

Poetry Tom Riordan -
The straightest way to get from this life to the next is by climbing through the sliced-open belly of sky left behind by the stoop of a falcon, she explained. Then...
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Zombies Bless America

Poetry Maria Mazzenga -
never tell a zombie the truth never lie to a zombie never say things to a zombie you wouldn’t say to your own mother never stare directly...
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Impact of War

Poetry Morgan Driscoll -
Boneyard leaking bones till shifting rivers, tilting hummocks tilling plows of oxen turned to tractor, turned to combine, pull the last remaining shrined remains, and leave the now unhallowed soil to rest...
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Nebula Heartstrings

Art Taylor Bain -
I painted this in my grandma's old shed, so things got a bit dirty. I kind of liked how dirt looked, so I just...
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New Year’s Day

Poetry Starr -
Streets seem tired, city, at rest. We move through balloons, confetti, Moët, leftover eggrolls, last night's jest.  
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Woken by a dove tapping

Poetry David Belcher -
A bare-bottomed girl runs to a window. Last night her grandfather muttered of a world full of violence, the dread of never- ending rain, fountains overflowing their pools, the earth a...
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HYPATIA

Music Jenn Zed -
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Angry Mind

Art Taylor Bain -
Most of my abstract work is meant to capture an emotional state. Painting is often a cathartic exercise for me. I am naturally introverted,...
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Horsefly Don’t Bother Me

Showcase Gerald Locklin -
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. so...
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Against Poe

Poetry Jefferson Carter -
Poe wrote "To Helen," considered by many one of the great love poems. "Nicean barks" & "the glory that was Greece," admirable phrases, I admit, but to paraphrase Tina Turner, what's...
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A Flurry of Wings

Poetry Mike Casetta -
Today is not just one cup of black coffee after another. Today, I have enough melancholy stacked on top of more melancholy to climb up a...
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.eight.

Photography Sonja Benskin Mesher -
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Sabbath

Poetry Bruce Alford -
Angels enforce Holy Writ, while others veer toward the particular Here, children somersault on grass while the noonday sun, outstretched as thine hand O Lord  pours through a suburban...
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The 12 beers of Christmas

Poetry Daniel J. Flore III -
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...
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A Christmas Card from Charles Bukowski *

Poetry Charles Bukowski -
Christmas and New Year’s move toward us again the old sickening duet the masses coming out of their tv caves the family gatherings the gross dull nothingness, the fake drunks, the fake smiles, the fake people may we live through this somehow, one more time * This “found...
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Schrödinger’s Kitten

Poetry Miya Ko -
After I blunt Ming's grapnels with files and buffers, she wolfs down the meat off the pull cup. In the open yard where I grow blush Parfait, beside...
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Another Blue Room

Poetry David A Estringel -
Nights are hardest to bear. Alone, that smell of us, still heavy and with ghosts, our sweat, our heated exhales. I taste you. I pull you. I sink into a a tangle of tongues. I taste...
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I Fucked the Poet

Poetry Lance Jencks -
He was there at the mic with a glow behind his head like a literary god, so I fucked him. Me, two other women, and...
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You’re Strange

Music Jenn Zed -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgRU9GzElaw
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one of my first

Poetry
publishers is retired and living in France. he’s on his second wife and lives on a farm in the country. every now and then he sends me these long, long e-mails talking about...
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Help

Art Marcel Herms -
mixed media on paper, 2018
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Subtitles: 12

Fiction Matthew James Babcock -
Everyone believes the crippled kid.  A blind and mute paraplegic from birth, the crippled kid lets his older brother, Junior, pad his red wagon...
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I try not to depend on anyone

Poetry Cheryl Leverette -
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 a machete it was all...
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The Shearer

Poetry John Austin -
The shearer’s oilstone rides the blade’s silver edge. There is a swish as one blade closes over the other. It is a fine tool honed. He wears...
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Koan #5378 (Extended Version)

Poetry Dick Holmes -
Which came first, the chicken or the chicken, the egg or the egg? “Pass the Tabasco,” Buddha said. “By the way, where’s your bowl?” “In the cupboard, Noble One. Giving it a rest today. I’ve got...
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No Carp in the Park

Poetry silent lotus -
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What Do You Call This? Bubba Ganish?

Poetry Michael Acker -
They hug and whisper kind words in the other's ears. They share their home-cooked fares, and delight in the quaintness of the other's ways and customs. They express with...
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An Interview with Lyn Lifshin

Interviews Jay Dougherty -
Dougherty: Lyn, what would you say to a young writer who had her sights set on poetry? Lifshin: I’d probably suggest she go for a...
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Reverse Rumi

Poetry Paul Brookes -
Always live in regret. The past is ever present. There are no new days. Today is no better than yesterday. Look down and backwards with despair. The Almighty has planned...
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The Forest

Art Christina Quinn -
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Times Square Lady

Photography Stephen B White -
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Oldies but Goodies

Poetry Tom Riordan -
Yah! There’s something to be said for modern Hep B, HPV and AIDS, but gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia— the all-time greatest hits of STDs— keep raising their infection rates! Stick...
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Solitary: A Photographic Series

Photography Jing Lin -
This project grew out of my interest with the tension between the documentary nature of landscapes and the fiction of the story they tell....
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Three by Buku Sarkar

Photography Buku Sarkar -
Twin Journeys Bright Lights
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Dry Aquarium

Photography Mark Preier -
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