August Almanac

Falling

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Wedding Tree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7F7n55hpnE “I watched it through the kitchen window, up to my elbows in dishes and meat burning on the stove, but I couldn't take my eyes off it,...
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Trinity Park (with audio)

https://soundcloud.com/sherry-170780609/trinity-park S E V E N B E L L S They are studying homelessness at the high school, that’s what the kid said, as if...
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Watch

Artist Postcard: Isaac Aden

We shot this in early 2024 and Finished it this past Fall. I wrote and directed it with Max Cox. Isaac’s show is called The...
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Artist Postcard: Jillian Li

This is our second Artist Postcard, featuring Jillian Sarette Li!​
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Features & Departments

Art

Two Acrylic Paintings by Vincent Bihn II

The Watcher Acrylic on untempered Masonite. 17" x 25". _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bobcat Acrylic on untempered Masonite. 12" x 16". Artist's Note: This is my newest painting. The struggle was...
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Writing

Circa

  Before ashes and amulets, before the icon and the archetype, before the last time was the last time, before I leaned into the wind, before the early morning...
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Photography

Summer in Iberia Photo Gallery

The 8 photographs in this series were taken in Meseta de Segovia, Spain. Summer 2026. __________________________________________________________________________________________   *********
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Music

Jenn Zed’s “The Shape of Your Mouth” Is Now Streaming Everywhere

Open Arts Press is pleased to announce the release of The Shape of Your Mouth, the new album by Jenn Zed, now available on...
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From the Archive

Crossing Orion

  having watched the stars on so long a flight Uni was hungry, tired having arrived in the landfill she devoured what cats wouldn’t eat and followed them home ________________________________________________________________ Artwork is by the author. 
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Oh my Haiti — your stirring, bubbling soul!

Sugar canes and machetes. Coconut juice. Here! have a bonbon. Here! Have some cassava and natural peanut butter. Have you tasted the rice? You’ll never forget it....
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Morning Sketch, AQI 147, 78, Rain

Elbert Finegold looked in the nano-mirror and found his ultimate demise thought he could self-replicate and would build at the atomic level cell by cell and come into being searching for a virtual companion in synthetic space virtual...
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