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March 2024
“Waking up in India to the News that Mike is Dead” By Agnes Vojta
“Invisible Ink” By M.J. Arcangelini
“Fishing Both Sides of the River” By Cheryl A. Rice
“Floods and Fires” By James Croal Jackson
“On a Cold Afternoon at the Sit-N-Bull” By John Dorsey
“Running for the Bus in a Rainstorm” By Diana Rosen
“In Memory Of” By Howie Good
“the aforementioned skyline” By Jason Baldinger
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February 2024
“i hear it through the static,” By John Compton
“The Calm Before” By Jason Ryberg
“Taking My Students To See The Mayans And Aztecs But They Talk Me Into Staring At A Bunch Of Dead Things” By Kellie Diodato
“Ruminations of an Airplane Passenger Before the Flight Turned Around & Returned to its Departure Airport” By G.M.H. Thompson
“Getting a Haircut from the Only Woman in Monroe County, Mississippi, Who Was Willing to Go to Funeral Homes in the Middle of the Night and Style the Hair of Corpses” By Samuel Prestridge
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January 2024
“Pissant” By S. Stephanie
“How Birdwatching Saved Your Life” By Justin Karcher
“Privacy Setting” By Sarah Carleton
“My Favorite Poet in Town” By Michael Layne Heath
“Dear Eve,” By Jessica Wickens
“Sonnet for Redecorating Plato’s Cave” By Paul Ilechko
“Religion” By Ace Boggess
“In Memoriam” By Howie Good
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December 2023
“Every Day Is a Bleak Day in the Towing Yard” By Meg Freer
“Waiting for Cremation” By Susan Cossette
“Exhausted on the Way Down Front to the Altar: How We Loved Dr. Mike” By John Dorroh
“The Songbird of Brinley Avenue” By Cord Moreski
“The crack of the bat” By Dan Overgaard
“The Moon Illusion” By Ruth Bavetta
“Poem After Listening to Philip Levine” By John Dorsey
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November 2023
“On Ownership” By Madeira Miller
“Cast them into the wind” By Hilesh Patel
“Day -hab driver” By Melanie Browne
“17. 07. 2023” By Gwil James Thomas
“Homage to Jim Harrison” By Rusty Barnes
“What to Do After You Don’t Die on the Table” By John Dorsey
“Wednesday Morning” By Victor Clevenger
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October 2023
“Haiku from my Grandmother” By G. M. H. Thompson
“The Other Genesis” By Royal Rhodes
“Your Gift of Stars” By M.J. Arcangelini
“On Reflection” By Rose Mary Boehm
“Gloria Mundi” By Ed Ahern
“Afraid of Heights” By Larry Smith
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September 2023
“Crabbing at Nehalem Bay: a Virelai” By Jake Sheff
“Boarding House Bedroom” By Robin Wright
“Head Waiter” By Robert S. King
“Notice Served” By Steve Brisendine
“Who Wrote the Book of Love?” By Sue Blaustein
“Scarecrow Standing at a Crossroads” By Jason Ryberg
“On the Prospect of Dying in December” By John Dorsey
“On the Loss of a Daughter” By Michael G. O’Connell
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August 2023
“Flooded” By Erika Sashadri
“Riding with Monk” By Ken Gierke
“How to Own Nothing” By Rocío Iglesias
“Two Kinds” By Tina Williams
“You Are My” By Paul Koniecki
“Olives” By Jean Biegun
“Night Swimming” By Cord Moreski
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July 2023
“From this Height, Six Days Before 9/11” By Robin Wright
“Time Travel” By Ronnie Sirmans
“The Strip Mall” By Alexandria Tannenbaum
“The Floor” By Justin Hamm
“Mucus Fishing” By Jim Murdoch
“When Pigs Fly” By Jason Baldinger
“Dragging His Beast Around” By Rick Christiansen
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June 2023
“The Möbius Loop” By Barbara Daniels
“The Baffled King” By Timothy Tarkelly
“If I Ever Have a Daughter” By Savannah Lauren
“Age of Isolation” By John Brantingham
“Buttermilk Skeleton” By Jason Baldinger
“Life in Translation” By Paul Ilechko
“Purple Cabbage” By Jon Bennett
“Cat Tequila” By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
“Poem for Tohm Bakelas” By John Dorsey
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May 2023
“A Distant Hymn” By Sandra Rivers-Gill
“When I Was a UPS Man” By Richard Vargas
“Beanie Baby Angels” By Jennifer Klein
“Do You Think the Lobsters” By Geneva Webber
“Poppy” By James Croal Jackson
“Andy Says…” By Mike James
“What He Wore, What He Said, What He Did” Fay L. Loomis
“this poem was written for john dorsey in the el bronco bar, richmond indiana” By Jason Baldinger
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April 2023
“On Sin” By Alexander Perez
“Who Dreams Up this Stuff?” By Victoria Melekian
“Eating Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken with Larry Gawel” By John Dorsey
“Snake” By Paul Jones
“Another Ordinary Story” By Rose Mary Boehm
“After Wayne Shorter” By Ted Jackins
“With Stephen to an Inside Place” By Tom Gengler
“Why I Don’t Drive” By Diana Rosen
“A Lightness of Feathers” By CL Bledsoe
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March 2023
“Memoir” By Marlena Maduro Baraf
“Lilly Works the Nightshift” By Dave Newman
“Closing Shift” By Rocío Iglesias
“Floodlight” By Yvonne Morris
“Cancer Song #9” By John Dorsey
“On the Ledge” By Robin Wright
“The Pope Coffin” By Agnes Vojta
“Rent Due” By Tim Peeler
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February 2023
“Wasting Disease” By Jeanette Hutzell
“Noah’s Bones” By John Barnes
“And since you are part of this world, you too are changeable” By V.S. Ramstack
“Francisco Goya’s The Disasters of War: This Is the Worst” By John Brantingham
“Magdelen with the Smoking Flame” By Susan Cossette
“Garden Spider” By Dan MacIsaac
“The Green Lizard” By Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
“The End of It” By Holly Day
“Items from the Wreckage” By R.T. Castleberry
“Kick the Bucket” By Sterling Warner
“Childhood’s End” By Howie Good
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January 2023
“Self-Portrait as Ariel from The Tempest“ By Alexander Lazarus Wolff
“Guidelines for House Gecko” By Sarah Carleton
“August 5, 2020” By Paul Lamar
“The Topography of Grief” By Agnes Vojta
“Found Boy” By Steve Brisendine
“Discontent” By Rose Mary Boehm
“The Only Other Thing is Nothing” By Jason Baldinger
“Why I Can’t Play Poker” By Ace Boggess
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December 2022
“Veiled Fatale” By Kathleen Hellen
“Cod Flashes” By Brian Boies
“Updates from Sour Lake” By Carolyn Sperry
“your fear becomes holy” By John Compton
“A Year Turned Upside Down” By Ruth Bavetta
“For Mom” By Tony Gloeggler
“At 45” By John Dorsey
“The Bones Know” By Susan Cossette
“Questions and Answers” By Mike James
“Armor” By LB Sedlacek
“Passion Flowers and Puzzle Boxes” By Jason Ryberg
“Triptych for Clayton” By M.J. Arcangelini
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November 2022
“Playing at Forever” By Richard Levine
“Smashing A Spotted Lanternfly At The 35th Annual Fall Festival” By Lara Dolphin
“Here’s Looking at You, Kid” By Damian Rucci
“WD 40” By Kathleen Hellen
“Sturm and Drang” By Tim Peeler
“Stargazers” By Ruth Bavetta
“cold water glistens” By Jason Baldinger
“Code Names” By Mike James
“Kiss the Chef” By John Dorsey
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October 2022
“A Thank You Card” By Tiffany Troy
“Quotations” By Mike James
“Infrequent Flyer” By Cheryl A. Rice
“The History of Rivers” By John Dorsey
“A Thread of Winter” By Dan Raphael
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September 2022
“Fathers” By Oscar Moreno
“Dew Drops” By Rocío Iglesias
“Anthropomorphic Junkyard” By Sterling Warner
“Newspaper on a Rainy Day” By Renwick Berchild
“Slow Denial” By Leslie M. Rupracht
“The Wooden Cross” By Marc Janssen
“Valley of the Dolls” By Michael Gushue
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August 2022
“The Good Half” By Rocío Iglesias
“Whale Watching” By Christian Paulisich
“Searching for the Rosetta Stone” By Diane Kendig
“Memorial Day” By Cameron Morse
“Wedding-Bound Million-Dollar Dream” By Tiffany Troy
“the nonhuman from polaris” By Tohm Bakelas
“Ashtray” By Cheryl A. Rice
“Mood Piece” By Howie Good
“The Night I Lost My Souvenir Bucket Hat” By Leslie M. Rupracht
“Night Conversations” By George Freek
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July 2022
“Do the Next Right Thing” By Beth Kanell
“On My Road” By Meg Pokrass
“Casual Friday” By Cord Moreski
“Winter Apples” By Jon Bennett
“Sirocco” By Rose Mary Boehm
“The Gentle Hours” By John Macker
“Expiration Date” By Ken Hines
“Real” By Matt Dennison
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June 2022
“Stay a Spell” By Hannah Bagley
“Traveling on our Stomachs” By Diana Rosen
“5 Erasure Poems” By John Dorsey
“After Surgery” By Agnes Vojta
“Daddy, We’re Engaged” By John Grey
“New Highway Promises Development for Local Communities” By Samuel Prestridge
“Housesitter” By Meg Pokrass
“Nobody Wants to Die But I Don’t Mind” By Gale Acuff
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May 2022
“The Prodigal Daughter Searches for her Home” By Sally Dunn
“Collection Days” By John Grochalski
“In my Mother’s Kitchen” By Agnes Vojta
“The Scientist After the Operation” By Joe Mills
“The Healing Properties of Tony B” By Victoria Twomey
“Pig Roast Sonnet” By Paul Ilechko
“Black Truck, Stopped” By LB Sedlacek
“Where do you See Yourself in Five Years?” By CL Bledsoe
“Forecast” By Carolyn Adams
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April 2022
“Homage to Angelica” By Joanne Durham
“Overboard” By Alex Z. Salinas
“She is the Legend, I am the Storyteller” By Melody Wang
“Abbotsford Cemetery” By Troy Schoultz
“Eggshells” By Lynn White
“Bare a Heart” By R.T. Castleberry
“Monsters” By K. Andrew Turner
“Cumbrian Summer” By Rose Mary Boehm
“The Ear and the Eye” By George Freek
“The Gray King of Winter’s End” By Steve Brisendine
“Slippage” By Caleb Bouchard
“She Says Her Cat is in Love with Javier Bardem” By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
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March 2022
“March 31, 1852 in Thoreau’s Journal” By Larry Smith
“Woodpeckers” By Joanna George
“Little Windows and the People Behind” By William Taylor Jr.
“It Is Still, Now” By Sheila Saunders
“Washington” By Matthew Wallenstein
“Joan Miro’s Portrait of Vincent Nubiola” By John Brantingham
“At Shearness Pool” By Barbara Daniels
“Prescribed Burn” By Bill Griffin
“Temporal, Temporary, and Gone” By Jason Baldinger
“Consequences of Elections” By Mike James
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February 2022
“Owl” By Julia Wendell
“Anarchists in the Kitchen” By Rick Christiansen
“For Terrestrial Bodies” By Emily Martin
“A Theory of Justice” By Howie Good
“Make Way for Ducklings” By Ruth Hoberman
“Stuck Inside the Supermarket with the Beautiful Blues Again” By Nathan Graziano
“A New Skin” By Anna Saunders
“Psychic Day” By Ace Boggess
“The Persistence of Memory” By Susan Cossette
“i remember the royal river” By Jason Baldinger
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January 2022
“Shark Smile” By Marissa Perez
“Butternut Ridge Cemetery” By Laura Grace Weldon
“Space Shuffle” By Cord Moreski
“I Don’t Usually Pray” By Agnes Vojta
“Paul & The Trailer Park Tornado” By John Dorsey
“Make-Believe” By Robin Wright
“The End Is Near” By Tohm Bakelas
“Supporting Characters” By Mike James
“End of the Fence” By Ace Boggess
“Planaria” Ruth Hoberman
“Chihuly’s Baskets” By Jenna Funkhouser
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December 2021
“A Race of the Red-Tailed Hawk” By Gerald Friedman
“Pelican” By Lorraine Henrie Lins
“Bat in the Attic” By John Grey
“Precious Little Sister” By Julene Tripp Weaver
“Ebb & Flow” By Sterling Warner
“Remember the Goldfish Will Be Dead By Morning” By Cheryl A. Rice
“Empties” By Jim Murdoch
“How It Feels to Be Bodiless” By Jo Angela Edwins
“Epilogue” By John Macker
“Pilot” By Meg Pokrass
“Microscopy” By Sue Blaustein
“Contemporary Tanka” By Victor Clevenger
November 2021
“A Photograph of Two Women” By Sarah Daly
“OST DOG” By Lorraine Henrie Lins
“Suffocating Lawns of Skylark” By Michael Catherwood
“Magnificent Frigatebirds” By Paul Jones
“Buzzards” By Sarah Carleton
“We Didn’t Bother with the Rose Garden” By Candice Kelsey
“Scales and Cataracts” By Holly Day
“One Cool Customer” By John Dorsey
“William Carlos Williams” By John Compton
“Framework” By Joseph Mills
“Housewarming Party” By Jo Angela Edwins
“Pickling” By Steve Brisendine
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October 2021
“Sustainable Energy” By Rose Mary Boehm
“Four Contemporary Tanka” By Victor Clevenger
“Pumpkins” By Leslie Dianne
“After the Mermaids have Gone” By Joe Milford
“Bargains” by Joan Mazza
“Lift” By Dan Overgaard
“Taken Up by Song” By Mike Cole
“Walt Disney and Richard Branson Will Meet Again at Freedom Mausoleum” By John Dorsey
“Five Fragments of a Narrative” By Paul Ilechko
“Erasers” by Larry Smith
“Booklife” By Ronnie Sirmans
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September 2021
“The Human Body is a Nightmare” By Rocío Iglesias
“Fragments” By Shushant Thapa
“Heart Leaves Whispering” By Brian Rhilmann
“When He Gets Bored” By Raul G. Moldez
“Language of Love” By Frank C. Modica
“A Thousand Miles from your Bedside” By Imran Boe Khan
“A Chicken Strip in the Shape of a Seahorse” By John Dorsey
“Signals” By Ruth Bavetta
“Mother’s Day 2021” By Tohm Bakelas
“An Emergency Somewhere Else” By John Grey
“These Blue Veins” By Jason Baldinger
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August 2021
“Cygnus” by Ronnie Sirmans
“When I Die, Liken me to the Sparrow” By Melody Wang
“Paradox” By Curtis Hayes
“Spell to Name the Unnameable” By Ruth Bavetta
“Coyote” By Samuel Prestridge
“Love Should be More Like Yarrow” By Maryfrances Wagner
“Pity for Sale” By Tony Brewer
“Guitar Lesson” By Larry Smith
“Edgemere Road” By Jeremy Nathan Marks
“Circles on a table” By DS Maolalai
“Storm is Chasing [SIC]” By Tim Heerdink
“Waiting Room” By Fabrice Poussin
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July 2021
“Losing Cousin Carolyn” By Maryfrances Wagner
“The Relative Sanctity of Objects” By M.J. Arcangelini
“When Drinking Alone, the Mind Ponders Unknowable Things” By Kerry Trautman
“hymn to groundhog day” by Jason Baldinger
“White” By Greg Field
“Rest in Peace” By Sue Blaustein
“Gas Money” By Troy Schoultz
“The Light at the End of the Tunnel” By Lynn White
“Hybrid” By Sam Barbee
“Green” By Guy Elston
“Poem for Danny Bell” By John Dorsey
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June 2021
“Auditorium” By Alex Z. Salinas
“All That My Mother Cultivates” by Melody Wang
“Absolute Clearance” By Joe Milazzo
“Context” By Kerry Trautman
“Weekend’s End” By Lorraine Caputo
“Witnessing the Arrival” By Eric Burgoyne
“Dreaming Through Covid” By Maryfrances Wagner
“For the Parking Lot Kids” By Damian Rucci
“Hands” By Diana Rosen
“Scott Wannberg Prays for Rain” By John Dorsey
“Waiting for News From the Hospital” By Agnes Vojta
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May 2021
“Prefilled Communion Cup” By Aarik Danielsen
“The Magician’s Handbook” By Lisa Creech Bledsoe
“Dreams of Empty Houses” By Jason Ryberg
“On ‘The Answer is No’ By Kay Sage” By Nadia Arioli
“We Still Call It the Strawberry Patch” By K. Andrew Turner
“Red Rosa” By Howie Good
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April 2021
“Echo’s Song to Her Lover” By Nada Faris
“Sedition” By Leonard Kress
“Five Poems About the Santa Ana Winds” By John Brantingham
“Neurology” By Meg Pokrass
“I Have to Get Better” By Giovanni Mangiante
“Why Have You Made the Church So Cold?” By Kelley White
“Grief into Mourning” By Larry Smith
“Leaf Blowers” By Alice Teeter
“Nostalgia Poem” By John Macker
“She Waits Behind the Drapes” By Susan Cossette
“Bathtub Madonna Washes” By Wesley Scott McMasters
“Some Revelation is at Hand” By Lisa Creech Bledsoe
“Just to Waste the Morning” By R.T. Castleberry
“Persephone” By Jenna K. Funkhouser
“Die and You Go to Heaven or Hell” by Gale Acuff
“Never Enough to Go Around” By Jason Ryberg
“How the Day Gets Away” By Jeff Hardin
“Lake Origin” By James Diaz
“Service” By Max Heinegg
“Resurrecting Roadkill” By Corey D. Cook
“Donations” By Dan Overgaard
“Working Out a Splinter at Three O’clock on Good Friday Afternoon” By Steve Brisendine
“Doing Dishes” and “Eating Ribs” by Bill Gainer
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March 2021
“That Cloud Looks Like a Typewriter” By Sarah Carleton
“The Roaring 20’s Are Roaring Already” By Ron Riekki
“Delayed Rays of a Star” By Ilari Pass
“The Prettiest Girl at Dirty Frank’s Bar” By John Dorsey
“On ‘A Bird in the Room’ by Kay Sage” By Nadia Arioli
“The Shape of my Name” By Frank Gallimore
“Nursing Home Visit in Times of Corona” By Agnes Vojta
“Let Go of Atlantis” By Jason Baldinger
“In the Image of God” by Tali Cohen Shabtai
“Last Call” By Ivan Jenson
“The View from Here” By Howie Good
“On Hubbard Street” by Sue Blaustein
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February 2021
“Love, After Fifty Years” By Agnes Vojta
“Holy Girl” By Michael Masarof
“The Prettiest Girl in Byron, Missouri” By John Dorsey
“Marbled Cat-Eyed Snake” By Jonel Abellanosa
“They Gave Me the Last Rights” By Daniel J. Flore
“Time Went the Way of the Buffalo” By Jason Baldinger
“On ‘The Fourteen Daggers’ By Kay Sage” By Nadia Arioli
“Last Poem Before Zoloft” By Tim Peeler
“timmy neuman and the zippo of the apocalypse” by Paul Koniecki
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January 2021
“Piñon Tree” by Sonia Wohletz”
“When the Dance Instructor Says “Follow Your Partner’s Lead” By Joseph Mills
“On “I Walk Without Echo” By Nadia Arioli
“1976” Paul Koniecki
“My Drunken Alibi” By MJ Taylor
“Anilius” By Jonel Abellanosa
“Posterity’s Grave” By Omobolanle Alashe
“1976” Paul Koniecki
“Evolved Reptile Brain From Arrakis” Paul Corman-Roberts
“Imagination’s Real” Lynn White
“Feeder” By Samuel Prestridge
“Holy” By Ace Boggess
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December 2020
“The Fifty-Year Anniversaries Are Almost Over” By Sue Blaustein
“Progress” By Bryan D. Price
“A Room Forever” By M.P. Powers
“Kings Bridge Armory May 6 1919” By Jason Baldinger
“Something Wonderful” By Paul Jones
“An Elephant in Every Room” By M.J. Arcangelini
“And I Call Myself a Poet” By Brian Rhilmann
“The Art of Manliness” By Troy Schoultz
“I Wish I Hadn’t” By Scott Silsbe
“An April Wet” By John Grey
“Scrap Dog 27” By Tim Peeler
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November 2020
“Blueberry Blue” By Meg Pokrass
“Flight Risk” By Ace Boggess
“that stuff that gets passed down that no one wants anyhow” By Emalisa Rose
“Stopping to Leave” By R.T. Castleberry
“The River’s Gift” By Peggy Turnbull
“Ridiculous Male Bravado” By John Grochalski
“Child Migrant” By Sheena Bradley
“Where Are You Now Benny Santiago?” By Jason Baldinger
“Ad Interim” By Ariel Beller
“’70 Chevelle” By Tim Heerdink
“Newman’s Own Goons” By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
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October 2020
“After Another Deluge” By Sheena Bradley
“Cherish” By Omobolanle Alashe
“Imitation Unicorns” By Chase Dimock
“Mrs. Reagan, Who Lived Next Door” By Diana Rosen
“Drive-in 21” By Tim Peeler
“I Know Now I Did Not Fabricate the Sky” By Loisa Fenichell
“New, But Borrowed” By Nathanael Stolte
“A Horse Named “Can-Ball-the-Flowers” By Sue Blaustein
“Reason to Believe” By Howie Good
“Ramps” By Aster Perkins
“Welcome to Paradise” By Mickey J. Corrigan
“Night Ferry” By Peggy Turnbull
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September 2020
“Prometheus Speaks” By Allison Grayhurst
“The Summer the Apricot Tree Died” By Andres Cordoba
“This Ghostly Ambience” By Jason Baldinger
“Dead Books” By Stew Jorgenson
“Wednesday Eve at the Doughnut Shop” By Delora Sales Simbajon
“Movies With Momo” By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
“Hollywood Freeway” By Diana Rosen
“Roundabout” By Jon Bennett
“Drifting Off” By Dan Overgaard
“Mr. Sanchez” By William Taylor Jr.
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August 2020
“So Together, So Soon” By Brian Chander Wiora
“Hill Hours” By Jennifer R. Lloyd
“Almost Autumn and Time to Go” By Mike James
“Neil’s Dad” By Timothy Tarkelly
“And Other Drugs” By Tessah Melamed
“The Politics” By Alan Semerdjian
“The Work-Horse God” By DS Maolalai
“For B” By Elana Rubin
“Show Don’t Tell” By Hilary Otto
“Lost Man’s Candle” By Victor Clevenger
“The Finger Has Got To Come Off” By John Dorsey
“When You’re Poor” By Damian Rucci
“Beef, It’s What’s For Dinner” By Jason Ryberg
“today the sky is
a flag that helps everyone” By Paul Koniecki
“Altered State” By Z.D. Dicks
“Beauty is a Rare Thing” By Jason Baldinger
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July 2020
“The Pipe Smoker” By Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
“People Get Ready” By Howie Good
“Underworld” By Hilary Otto
“What the Children Know” By Ken Hines
“Golden Chain” By Anna Saunders
“How Life is Like a Jigsaw Puzzle” By Larry Smith
“Reading “The Metamorphosis” with My Daughter” By Nathan Graziano
“The Old Ways” By Sue Blaustein
“On Wednesdays” By Damian Rucci
“Charles Bukowski is Dead” By Shawn Pavey
“The Cruelest Month” By Chuck Kramer
“Neruda in Six Haikus” By Alex Z. Salinas
“A Perfume” By DS Maolalai
“Thursday Evening in September” By Victor Clevenger
“Everybody Likes the Person Who Brings Muffins” By Agnes Vojta
“Frequencies” By Carson Pytell
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June 2020
“The Question Is” By Matthew Borczon
“Of Aging” By Ajah Henry Ekene
“Cape Henlopen Blues” By Jason Baldinger
“Chewy Circle” By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
“Hastings: A Remembrance” By Timothy Tarkelly
“Thirteenth week of Lockdown- woke wondering if I were a ghost.” By Anna Saunders
“I Read It Here First” By John Grey
“Rain/Snow Mix” By Ace Boggess
“Getting Old” By Fabrice Poussin
“One For Sorrow, Two For Sorrow” By Geoffrey Heptonstall
“Birds of A Feather” By Tony Pena
“Brothers” By Leslie M. Rupracht
“Reading Rich Gegick’s Greasy Handshakes at Neighbors Tavern in Jeannette, Pennsylvania” By Scott Silsbe
“Low Flying Birds” By Victor Clevenger
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May 2020
“Song I Sing” By Bunkong Tuon
“Thanksgiving Hurt” By John Haugh
“Van Gogh, Roses, 1890” By Brendon Booth-Jones
“Legend” By Agnes Vojta
“Lemonade” By Paul Ilechko
“Rock Garden” By Ace Boggess
“Another Monochrome Day” By Jason Baldinger
“Patience, Not Panic” By Jenny Bates
“July, Roadhouse Dinner” By R.T. Castleberry
“Ten Movies” By M.J. Arcangelini
“Christo’s Bridge” By Thomas M. McDade
“A Song For Noise” By Sue Blaustein
“You’d Think the Mafia Would Take the Year of the Rat More Seriously” By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
“Open Letter to Ezra Beeman” By Max Heinegg
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April 2020
“Seagull” By Jonathan K. Rice
“At the Country Store” By Larry Smith
“Certainty” By Brian Rihlmann
“Revolution in a Dress” By Michael T. Smith
“Belle, Missouri, During the Pandemic on a Wednesday” By John Dorsey
“Hess Trucks and the End of the Double Standard” By Leslie M. Rupracht
“$5.00 Wok” By Victor Clevenger
“Sloughing Words” By Ronnie Sirmans
“April Visitor” By Sheila Saunders
“Passing by Polloe/A Slice of Life” By Gwil James Thomas
“Down Cold Lanes” By R.T. Castleberry
“A Few Random Thoughts” By M.J. Arcangelini
“Lisel Mueller Died at 96” By Bunkong Tuon
“Letter to April” By John C. Mannone
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March 2020
“A Song for Harvest Spiders” By Sue Blaustein
“Unholy” By Mike Acker
“Low Risk Fuel” By Ben Nardolilli
“The Third Reich of Dreams” By Howie Good
“Beautiful Mournings” By Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
“In 2010” By Matthew Borczon
“Forest Dream” By Seth Jani
“Eternal Puff of Hot Air” By Thomas M. McDade
“Engine Block” By Stephen Barile
“Higher Paint” By L.B. Sedlacek
“AAA” By Jonathan K. Rice
“Union Town” By Larry Smith
“Saint Jayne Mansfield” By Mike James
“Abundance” By John Macker
“A Word that Means Standing Between Each Moment” By Jeff Hardin
“20/20” By Daniel Romo
“Milkman’s Mustache” By Victor Clevenger
“Jaguar” By Jonel Abellanosa
“Hospice” By Jean Biegun
“Natchez Green” By Robert A. Morris
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February 2020
“that which” By Rob Plath
“5 Geezus” By Stew Jorgenson
“Maud” By John Grey
“The Act of Working” By Rusty Barnes
“A Seventeen Dollar Glass of Wine and the Early Works of Matisse” By William Taylor Jr.
“Vesper” By Seth Jani
“Perpetual Motion” By John Dorsey
“Large Bull Thistle” By Ben Nardolilli
“The Moon’s Trees” By L.B. Sedlacek
“Last Riff for Chet” By John Macker
“Ants” By Wayne F. Burke
“Ill-Defined” By Mike Acker
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January 2020
“In the Days of Drones” By Larry D. Thacker
“Sleepless” By Z.D. Dicks
“True Story” By Caroliena Cabada
“A Namelessness of Starlings” By Jeff Hardin
“The Main Event” By Daniel Romo
“It Was a Golden Time” By Jason Baldinger
“Bestiary” By Glen Armstrong
“Strange Rumination” By Kevin Ridgeway
“Nonreturnable” By Mather Schneider
“Dinner at Six” By Diana Rosen
“When There’s Nothing Left To Say” Richard Houff
“Downsizing” By John Grey”
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December 2019
“Sisyphus Calls it Quits” By Agnes Vojta
“A Letter to Hart Crane” By William Doreski
“Picker” By John Dorsey
“Getting Any Feed For Your Chickens” By Jason Baldinger
“Golden Gate” By Jeffrey Betcher
“Sixousie Sioux Poster” By Avignon Marr
“Rub” By Gale Acuff
“Directionless” By Alice Teeter
“Grape Drink and Snuff” By John Grochalski
“74th Birthday” By Martina Reisz Newberry
“Son of the Late Bloomer Bandit” By Kevin Ridgeway
“A Drunk” By Connor Stratman
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November 2019
“The Story of Stones” By Larry Smith
“Naked Machines” By Richard Houff
“Remind Me What We Believe” By William Doreski
“Kezar Pavilion” By Jeffrey Betcher
“Blind into Leaving” By Jason Baldinger
“Vineyard in Dresden” By Agnes Vojta
“Poem for Curtis Hayes” By John Dorsey
“Pen Dream” By Alex Z. Salinas
“Dietmar and I Talk of Angels” By Martina Reisz Newberry
“Ex” By Mike Acker
“Understudy” By Cord Moreski
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October 2019
“We Should Have Seen It Coming” By Lynn White
“Changing Viewing, Passing” By Geoffrey Heptonstall
“The Remains” By Matt Duggan
“Billy Dew Meadow” By Jeffrey Betcher
“Doug At My Age” By Connor Stratman
“The Story of Rugs” By Larry Smith
“Venerating the Transitory” By Martina Reisz Newberry
“Someday” By Cord Moreski
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September 2019
“Good Timing” By Kevin Ridgeway
“The Assistant Marshal Makes an Error in Judgement” By Kory Wells
“Transplant” By Tony Gloeggler
“Dear Allen Ginsberg” By Jeffrey Betcher
“The Whole Point of the Game” By Brian Rihlmann
“Blend” By Gwill James Thomas
“Epistemology of Touch” By Jai Hamid Bashir
“Pillows on the Interstate” By Jonathan K. Rice
“We Might Have Existed” By Brian Chander Wiora
“I forgot the earth and heaven” By Jason Baldinger
“I Have Returned Home” By Dameion Wagner
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August 2019
“Old Notebooks” By Hugh Blanton
“In the Drowned Woods” By Anna Saunders
“Hound Speak” By Damian Rucci
“Billy Collins Stole My Memories” By Nathan Graziano
“A Familial Scene” By Tiffany Troy
“Poem for Demetrius M. Salada, Admiral (RA) of the Golden Arc Spaceship” By Scott Silsbe
“Unknown Soldiers” By Brian Rihlman
“The President Called the United States a Company” By Prince Bush
“Downpour” By Z.D. Dicks
“A Disappearance” By Dameion Wagner
“And Why Am I a Free Man?” By Ace Boggess
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July 2019
“Hearts Break All The Time” By Jeanette Powers
“Move On” By John Grey
“The Great Thing About Driving With a Crack in Your Windshield” By Alex Z. Salinas
“When Cancer Comes to Evansville Indiana” By Jason Baldinger
“Homework on Uranus” By Nathan Graziano”
“One For Cory” By Damian Rucci
“Sunday Mourning” By Mike Acker
“Stravinsky in the Shower” By Jonathan K. Rice
“The Delusion of Glass” By Anna Saunders
“The Oysters” By Brian Chander Wiora
“Artisanal Birds” By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
“Double Downriver” By Scott Silsbe
“Two Prose Poems” By Howie Good
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June 2019
“And on the Seventh Day” By Agnes Vojta
“I Never Lack Conviction” By John Patrick Robbins
“Are Your Emotions More or Less Intense?” By Ace Boggess
“My Mother on Her Deathbed” By Bunkong Tuon
“Aubrie” By Cord Moreski
“Cycles of Grief Go On and On” By Jeanette Powers
“A Man, His Family Killed By War, Returns to Aleppo” By Steven Croft
“Eat Rain” By Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
“to abby wherever you are” By John Grochalski
“When the Watched Pot Boils” By Kory Wells
“Punchline” By Nathan Graziano
“Two Prose Poems” By Mike James
“A Good Bad Day” By Tony Gloeggler
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May 2019
“Melancholy & The Afterglow” By Damian Rucci
“Forget Math and Science” By Larry Smith
“Explaining Depression to My Cousin” By Nathan Graziano
“Why Did You Try to Sober Up” By Ace Boggess
“Listening to Blue Monday on a Friday” By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
“One of Pessoa’s Ghosts” By William Taylor Jr.
“My Grandad” By Bruce Hodder
“Monologue in a Room with the Portraits of My Dead Brother” By Nome Emeka Patrick
“Women’s March in Albany” By Bunkong Tuon
“Chimney Swifts” By Marc Frazier
“In the Building” By Tony Gloeggler
Two Prose Poems By Howie Good
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April 2019
“Reflections in the Windows of Your First Car” By Jeanette Powers
“Fake Dad” By Kevin Ridgeway
“Midnight Shenanigans” By Kevin Ridgeway
“The Legend of Cousin Wally” By Randall Rogers
“Untold Story” By Kory Wells
“No Walls” By Larry Smith
“Down Tobacco Road, Where the Leaves Fell” By Nick Soluri
“Why Answers are Never the Answer” By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
“Tightrope Dancer” By Bunkong Tuon
“The Fire of Now” By William Taylor Jr.
“Flotsam” By Agnes Vojta
“Frontiers are frontiers but once” By Jeremy Nathan Marks
“Visitor’s Day at the Group Home” By Tony Gloeggler
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March 2019
“Out of the Blue” By Mike Acker
“My Nephew and I Escape from Prison” By Kevin Ridgeway
“Remainders” By Marc Frazier
“Wages” By Larry Smith
“It’s a girl I can tell, we’ve had nothing but trouble” By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
“The Bite” By Bunkong Tuon
“Jhelum Is Disappearing” By Ishrat Bashir
“Mementos” by Nick Soluri
“Me, and the Hecate” By Margaret Crocker
“Dracula” by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
“Crossing” By Tony Gloeggler
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February 2019
“The Word with a Schwa that’s Really a U” By Ronnie Sirmans
“Murmuration” By Amy Watkins
“Plus Ten” By Jeremy Nathan Marks
“Gender Danger” By Bunkong Tuon
“Sent My Way” By Marc Frazier
“Ode to Dolores O’Riordan, The Spirit of Protest, & Zombie by The Cranberries” By J.B Stone
“Before Evening Med Pass” By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
“Hit and Run” By Steve Cushman
“Cards” By Jonathan K. Rice
“The Selfie” By Mike Acker
“Ice Cream” By Bunkong Tuon
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January 2019
“My Joints Hurt and Other Fascinating Topics of Conversation” By Margaret Crocker
“Gutter Angels” By Mike James
“Moving Again” By Mike James
“Betty Doesn’t Know Who She Loves More” By Daniel Crocker
“Dreamcatcher” By CL Bledose
“Dolly Floats” By Stephen Roger Powers
“Remembering the Great Flood in the Frozen Food Aisle” By Ronnie Sirmans
“Creatures of Our Better Nature” By John Dorsey
“When I was a Child” By Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal,
“Robbie the Owl” By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
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December 2018
“Small Gifts” By Steve Cushman
“He Brought His Canvases Over” By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
“Dear Bruce Wayne” By Nicky Beer
“Anthony Bourdain Crosses the River of the Dead” By John Dorsey
“Larry” By Tim Peeler
“The Art of Acquiescence” By Margaret Crocker
“Maiden Voyage” By Howie Good
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November 2018
“Mull to Ulva” By Tobi Alfier
“The Ferry Captain” By Jeffrey Alfier
“What Do You Call This? Bubba Ganush?” By Mike Acker
“Springmaid Pier” By Jonathan K. Rice
“Daphne’s Broken Sonnet” By Iris Jamahl Dunkle
“Eve” By Sister Lou Ella Hickman
“Wildfire” By Ruth Bavetta
“Five Hundred Channels and Nothing On” By Kevin Ridgeway
“The Jaroslavl Fresco” By David Chorlton
“Paramnesia 2” By Tim Peeler
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October 2018
“The Pop Up Halloween Store” By Chase Dimock
“Women Who Love Men Like Ours” By Rebecca Schumejda
“Earth, Air And Lynda Carter” By Margaret Crocker
“the bleeding horse at sea” By John Sweet
“All of the Above” By Jason Ryberg
“Sally with the Accent” By Kevin Ridgeway
“Cape Split” By Tobi Alfier
“Walking West on East 5th Street” By Jeffrey Alfier
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September 2018
“Blackout” By Andrea Sherwood
“Modernist Hay Making” By Tim Peeler
“Relics” By David Chorlton
“Neon Boneyard” By Ruth Bavetta
“Disobedience” By Ruth Bavetta
“O’Brien’s Tower” By Stephen Roger Powers
“Punk Rock at 45” By John Dorsey
“Grace” By Mike James
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August 2018
“Sometimes the Moon is Nothing More than the Moon” By Jason Ryberg
“i don’t want this poem to be about the death penalty, but it is” By Rebecca Schumejda
“Farm Near a Bend in River Tummel” By Jeffrey Alfier
“Possession Sound, Whidbey Island, Washington” By Tobi Alfier
“Ballers, 2 The Star’s Monologue, 3” By Tim Peeler
“Pollock Paints Reflection of the Big Dipper” By John Sweet
“Motherless” By Erric Emerson
“Standard Time” By Stephen Roger Powers
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July 2018
“A Murder” By Ruth Bavetta
“Murmur” By Rhiannon Conley
“The Mark Twain Speech” By John Dorsey
“Two Ghazals” By Mike James
“Back from the Dead” By Emily Blair
“Period Film” By Emily Blair
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June 2018
“Under the Tamarind Tree” By Bunkong Tuon
“RIP, Laura’s Vagina” By Laura Read
“Paul Lynde” By Mike James
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May 2018
“Lies I Told about Father” By Bunkong Tuon
“Ringo Starr Answers Questions on Larry King Live about the Death of George Harrison” By Roy Bentley
“Fishing for Trey Platoo” By Bunkong Tuon
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April 2018
Poems from Deep Calls to Deep By Jane Medved
“Dancing Fu Manchu Master” By Bunkong Tuon
“The Moon Rising” By Lynn Powell
“At the Equinox” By Lynn Powell
“Saturday Afternoon at The Midland Theatre in Newark, Ohio” By Roy Bentley
“Snow Day” By Bunkong Tuon
“An Elegy for a Fellow Cambodian” By Bunkong Tuon
“Halloween, 1985” By Bunkong Tuon
“A May Evening, Everything is OK” By Heather Whited
“Nosferatu in Florida” By Roy Bentley
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March 2018
“In Jerusalem” By Hala Alyan
“Refresh” By Rachel Heimowitz
“Our Neighborhood in Revere, MA” By Bunkong Tuon
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February 2018
“From a Tree Limb” By Sean Karns
“Favorite Color” By Patrice Boyer Claeys
“The Apology” By Genesis Gonzalez
“Epistemology” By LA Johnson
“Split Level” By LA Johnson
“Holding a Freshwater Fish in a Pail Above the Sea” By Max Ritvo
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January 2018
“How to Use Water as Fuel” By Megan Wildhood
“At the Harbor Lights Motel After You Return” By Lynn Houston
“The Incredible Hulk Tries to Write a Poem” By Daniel Crocker
“I’m too sensitive for this world / this Foot Locker” By Marisa Crawford
“Fish Performance” By Sean Karns
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December 2017
“You Leave and I Can’t Sleep” By Lynn Houston
“That One Singer” By Mike James
“Beyond the Land of Misfit Toys” By Mike James
Poems from Malak By Jenny Sadre-Orafai
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November 2017
“On the Farm, Before You Leave for Afghanistan” By Lynn Houston
“Oh Daddy, Give Me a Quarter for the Time Machine” By Mike James
“Rebel, Rebel” By Mike James
“Mental Health Portraits” By Margaret Crocker
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October 2017
“Shell” By Robert Garrett
A Collection of #MeToo Poetry By Various Authors
Poems from The Treasures that Prevail By Jen Karetnick
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September 2017
Poems from They Were Bears By Sarah Marcus
“Prose Poem in the Wake of Charlottesville” By Brett Ashley Kaplan
“New Years Morning” By Helen Hunt Jackson
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August 2017
“The Man of Dirt Toils in the Laughter of His Wayward World” By Sean Karns
“The Son Witnesses” By Sean Karns
“A Solar Eclipse” By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“In the Afternoon, She Smelled Like the Earth” By Marianne Peel
“Wonder Beans” By Janet Kirchheimer
“Song of the Exiles” By Holly Karapetkova
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April 2017
“Listening to Death” By John Guzlowski
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March 2017
“The Idiot’s Faith” By Okla Elliott
“The Light Here” By Okla Elliott
Four Poems By Stacy R. Nigliazzo
“And There’s Something About Softness” By Gili Haimovich
“After the Squall” By Elise Paschen
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February 2017
Poems from In the Absence By Dara Barnat
Three Poems by Leah Umansky
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January 2017
“Fragments” By Bunkong Tuon
“Let Them Not Say” By Jane Hirshfield
“I Ask Forgiveness” By Alex Ben-Ari
“Between Klimt and Giacometti” By Hélène Cardona
“Unveiling Jean Cocteau” By Hélène Cardona
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