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Aluu Prosper

“Finding Unity in Sound” Aluu Prosper ALUU PROSPER was born and raised in Nigeria, West Africa. He makes figurative and expressive paintings. His usually stylized figures show the use of...

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Jim Ross

“Flames of Climate Change” “Flower Siam Splash as Flame” Jim Ross JIM ROSS  jumped into creative pursuits in 2015 after a rewarding career in public health research. With...

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Sharp Objects

Alyssa Froehling          She takes me to a motelin the winter, a two-star with a white tilebathroom stained with drips of bloodand coffee....

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It’s an Empty-Headed Move I Love the Most

Adam Houle I swear I’ll leave your ass in Tennesseewith the trumpet vines and BarcaLoungersslumping under carports. Maybe at a BPnear the bottom of a hill, where a state roadcurves that way and a...

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Scree: Hiking in the Foothills

Laura Meyer We don’t talk about babies anymoreAnd we haven’t been drunk together in ten years. My friend tells me about a strategy for receiving long-term care in your home.I tell myself: You...

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On Leaving

Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer It is the season of thinning out the herd, and I am leaving Brooklyn. October is in the city: bright colorful leaves and a track fire on the J, stalling all trains.Over...

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Elvis Died When I Was Seven

Michael Montlack and I learned there was no castto mend a spirit, no flashlightto guide you out of a cave that dark,my older sister unwilling to bathefor weeks, my parents unwillingto make her, her...

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For Will

Cat Newton And Martin told Dan he was going to wear a top hat/ and Amaris told Alexa that she’d be in that knee length dress that has started to remind me of death/ and Reggie told me that he...

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Apocalypse 2012                                         

Martin Shapiro Hardtops sit sun-roasted in rowson a plain of asphalt:  at its far end,a megachurch in session. My Ford Feo’s a.c. eats horsepower.Eliseo doesn’t sweat this jungle...

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Valence

John Nieves When sleep slips and the walls slip and the newsof the day is about who has slipped out of selfand into numeration, into a graph of a graph, thisis how we lose our breath. We lose it...

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