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Not Quite Stranded

Brookes Moody While I might not have been in the exact emotional state of Lester Bangs, “nerves shredded and ghosts and spiders looming and squatting across the mind,” there was a time I too...

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Amanda Hartzell

“The View is not the Route” “Elegies are not symphonies” “Verbena” Amanda Hartzell AMANDA HARTZELL is a writer, artist, and mom. She is the author of two poetry books, The Heart Never...

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Kes Crow

“Leaves” Kes Crow KES is an illustrator, author, and artist, based in Lincolnshire, England. “I create mostly minimal work with delicate lines and subtle colours, inspired by the quiet, nature,...

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On a Desert Planet

Robin Babb “Utopia is uninhabitable. As soon as we reach it, it ceases to be utopia. As evidence of this sad but ineluctable fact, may I point out that we in this room, here and now, are inhabiting...

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Elizabeth Schoonmaker

“Harvest Moon” “Hot Pink” “Fpainting” Elizabeth Schoonmaker ELIZABETH SCHOONMAKER is a multidisciplinary artist and lives in the Town of Plainfield in Upstate N.Y. Through her...

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The Rowan Berries of Winter

Phillip Crymble ——— for Robert Lowell   At Roosevelt, the orderlies were forced to break your wrists — the large brown-paper parcel  that you clutched against your breastbone heldin place...

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Aluu Prosper

“Stern” “Can you feel our pain” “Envisage” “Critical” “Autopilot” Aluu Prosper Born and raised in Nigeria, West Africa, PROSPER ALUU makes figurative and expressive...

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I am Creating a New Drug

J.C. Rodriguez By rolling together gray hairs, capers, nettles, & tuna in a page ripped from an old tabloid. A tube seared into existence from burnt dust & browned butter. It’s smokable,...

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Kenneth Ricci

“There is a beauty that remains” “Every woman deserves” Kenneth Ricci KENNETH RICCI is a self-taught NYC artist who has been creating collages for the past seven years.  In that time his...

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clove hitch

p. hodges adams2023 Greg Gummer Prize Runner-Up come hear me, in my twenty-fifth yeari stopped having sex with gender i meanmy lovers all favored the vestibule of language outside the party i mean i...

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