Year in Review: Our 50 Most Popular Posts of 2022

As the Managing Editor of As It Ought To Be Magazine, I want to thank all of our contributors and our readers. 2022 was a great year for poetry and I am grateful for everyone who shared their work with AIOTB. Here’s to another bumper crop of poetry, reviews, and nonfiction in 2023!

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-Chase Dimock

Managing Editor

As It Ought To Be Magazine

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POETRY

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Hannah Bagley

-Stay A Spell

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Jason Baldinger

– i remember the royal river

– temporal, temporary, and gone

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Ruth Bavetta

– Stargazers

– A Year Turned Upside Down

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Jon Bennett

– Winter Apples

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Rose Mary Boehm

– Sirocco

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Ace Boggess

– End of the Fence

– Psychic Day

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John Brantingham

– Joan Miro’s Portrait of Vincent Nubiola

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Rick Christiansen

– Anarchists in the Kitchen

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Susan Cossette

– The Persistence of Memory

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John Dorsey

– Five Erasure Poems

– The History of Rivers

– Paul & the Trailer Park Tornado

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Joanne Durham

– Homage to Angelica

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Ryan Quinn Flanagan

– She Says Her Cat is in Love with Javier Bardem

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Tony Gloeggler

– For Mom

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Nathan Graziano

– Stuck Inside the Supermarket with the Beautiful Blues Again

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Bill Griffin

– Prescribed Burn

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Ruth Hoberman

– Planaria

– Make Way for Ducklings

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Mike James

– Quotations

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Marc Janssen

– The Wooden Cross

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Beth Kanell

– Do the Next Right Thing

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Diane Kendig

– Searching for the Rosetta Stone

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Richard Levine

– Playing at Forever

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Cord Moreski

– Space Shuffle

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Christian Paulisich

– Whale Watching

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Marissa Perez

– Shark Smile

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Meg Pokrass

– On My Road

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Cheryl A. Rice

– Ashtray

– Infrequent Flyer

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Damian Rucci

– Here’s Looking at You Kid

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Leslie M. Rupracht

– The Night I Lost My Souvenir Bucket Hat

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Jason Ryberg

– Passion Puzzles and Puzzle Boxes

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Alex Z. Salinas

– Overboard

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Anna Saunders

– A New Skin

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Carolyn Sperry

– Updates from Sour Lake

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William Taylor Jr.

– Little Windows and the People Behind

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Tiffany Troy

– Wedding-bound Million-Dollar Dream

– A Thank You Card

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K. Andrew Turner

– Monsters

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Victoria Twomey

– The Healing Properties of Tony B

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Agnes Vojta

– I don’t usually dream

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Laura Grace Weldon

– Butternut Ridge Cemetery

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Julia Wendell

– Owl

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Robin Wright

– Make-believe

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REVIEWS

Mike James 

– Howie Good’s Path of Most Resistance 

– A Review of James Dickey: A Literary Life