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below is a listing of the accepted writers
and artists in this collection.
(all art on inside pages of this book appears in black and white.)
part one: “Spitfire”
the September-October 2018 issue of Down in the Dirt, v160
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Frederick Pollack
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Ornament
The School |
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Ashley Layco
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Spots |
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Travis Green
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90’s Vibe
Friday Night Football
Someday I Will Move Up to Cleveland, Ohio
Working Days |
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Andrew Cyril Macdonald
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Lake Huron |
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Doug Hawley
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Better
Testament |
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Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz
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Why Me art |
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Ronald Charles Epstein
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Ashley Layco
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Storm |
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Gabriella M. Shlyakh
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Mustard Frames |
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Mike Schneider
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Feet |
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J. Ray Paradiso
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High Step photography |
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Te’Livyvonne Starks
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Day Gone By |
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Mark Joseph Kevlock
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Heroes Save The World |
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Olivier Schopfer
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Crisscross photography |
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Pavol Janik, PhD.
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An Emergency Landing in your Hair
Circling
Wiser for your Death |
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James Mulhern
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A Nun’s Arse |
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Drew Marshall
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Bread and Bombs |
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Patty Ayers
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The Hearing we Didn’t Hear |
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Khalilah Okeke
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Magic |
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Helen Bird, “Inksanity”
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a Place Unknown art |
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Zac Harris
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Hype Support |
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Richard Lind
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The Secret Weapon |
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Allan Onik
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The Apple Tree
Lightfoot |
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John L. Stanizzi
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Crash
Spondylolisthesis Christmas |
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Tim Dadswell
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Signals |
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Anne Mikusinski
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Week’s End |
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Grace Ware
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The competition between the sexes has led to
an evolutionary sexual arms race |
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John Zedolik
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Consider Giving
No Encore Necessary
This Team |
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Layla Lenhardt
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Dissociative Eulogy
Jawns
When They Made Me Leave London |
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Ben Brown
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The Junkie’s Reward |
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John Kaprielian
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Shackles
Washining Swamp |
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Sara Codair
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The Prison Din |
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Ashley Layco
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Spots |
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Sarah Henry
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The Flood |
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Hector Ramos
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Filthy Blood |
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Andrew Cyril Macdonald
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Lake Huron |
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Doug Hawley
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Better
Testament |
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Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz
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Why Me art |
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Ronald Charles Epstein
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Inappropriate Toys |
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Eric Dreyer Smith
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5 Minutes before Nagasaki |
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Jeff Briskin
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Untaken |
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Fabrice Poussin
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The Smokies 2 photography |
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Janet Kuypers
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Communication
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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and What I Want to Know
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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And I’m Wondering
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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part two: “Hurricane Katrina”
the June 2018 issue of Down in the Dirt, v158
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Adam Nagy
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The Glitch |
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Doug Hawley
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Sensate
Scenes |
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Travis Green
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Got To Love Those Hips
Hurricane Katrina
Standing at The Bridge
The Girl in the Next Room
Foster Home |
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Pavol Janik, PhD.
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The Report from the End of the Cold War
On the Line Man – Woman and Back |
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Kristin Cavalieri
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Grey Bird |
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Eric Dreyer Smith
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What They Knew |
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Allan Onik
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Independence Day
Fury |
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Dan A. Cardoza
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Burning Cities
I Finally Let Go Today |
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Demond J Blake
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here say
Other people
You will know us |
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Rachel B Walker
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Poetry for Birthing, 1972 |
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Helen Bird “Inksanity”
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inksanity forever drawing |
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Eterigho Oghenekome Humphrey
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Who Can Dress the Scar? |
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Roger G. Singer
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Without Stop |
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Mike Schneider
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Most Exciting Series Ever! |
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Andrea Wilson
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Bad Habits |
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Daniel de Culla
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Viva el Arte art |
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David Gershan
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On The Peshtigo |
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Tom Ball
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Convicted Murderer in Space
The Big one
The Curious Case of J.C.
The Drug Gym
The Strange History of the Children who Never Grew Up |
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John W. Dennehy
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Lesson Learned |
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Lael Lopez
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Dark Love
Little Times |
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Anupama Kadwad
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Survival |
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Vincent Bennett
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Sins of The Father |
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Mark Joseph Kevlock
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The Annihilation |
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Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz
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Guardian of the Temple art |
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Marc McMahon
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Rachel’s Story |
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Janet Kuypers
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dreams
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Janet Kuypers poetry reading from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament” and the cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live” 3/6/19 live at Half Price Books In Austin, TX
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her haiku “dreams” from the Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, then her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, “You and Me and your Girlfriend”, “The Way you Tease Me”, and “True Happiness in the New Millennium (an extreme Sestina variation)” from the cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her haiku “dreams” from the Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, then her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, “You and Me and your Girlfriend”, “The Way you Tease Me”, and “True Happiness in the New Millennium (an extreme Sestina variation)” from the cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Posterize filter).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her haiku “dreams” from the Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, then her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, “You and Me and your Girlfriend”, “The Way you Tease Me”, and “True Happiness in the New Millennium (an extreme Sestina variation)” from the cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ March 2019 Book Release Reading 3/6/19, where she read her haiku “dreams” from the Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, then her “In Autumn, Love is in the Air” show poems “Who You Tell Your Dreams To”, “You and Me and your Girlfriend”, “The Way you Tease Me”, and “True Happiness in the New Millennium (an extreme Sestina variation)” from the cc&d issue book “This is Where I Live”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, with a Threshold filter).
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Rod Martinez
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Heads |
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Eleanor Leonne Bennett
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the Wind Breaking Umbrella photographyo |
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Thomas M. McDade
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What Ballgame? |
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Terri Martin Lujan
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Southern Lights
Tongue-Tied |
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Matthew Roy Davey
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A Brief History |
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Julie Weiss
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Bedtime Story
Dinner For Eight
The Price of Words |
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Anoop Judge
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A Cockroach in my Bed |
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Aparna Pathak
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Aching Tree photography |
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Veronica Grose
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The Uninvited Camper |
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Michael Mogel
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Mirror Between Me |
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Judi Dettorre
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Cubicle Dream |
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Zac Harris
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Twenty-Eight |
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Doug Van Hooser
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birds in a tornado
compass |
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Alistair Forrester
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Van Gogh
Live |
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Violet Mitchell
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I Stopped Wearing Bikinis at Age 16 |
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Ryan Pahlkotter
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Color Blind |
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Janet Kuypers
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the things warren says
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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Japanese Television
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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Christmas Eve
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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Coquinas
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ February 2019 Book Release Reading 2/6/19, where she read her her “Live at Café Aloha” show poems “Communication”, “And What I Want to Know”, and “And I’m Wondering”, then her “Seeing Things Differently” show poems “the Things Warren Says”, “Japanese Television”, “Kurt Irons (it’s just a girl)”, “Bizarre Sexual Stories in the News”, “Christmas Eve”, and “Coquinas” from the new Down in the Dirt issue book “Ornament”, in Community Poetry @ Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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part four:
“kissing the stitches”
by ayaz daryl nielsen
November 2018 Down in the Dirt chapbook
part five:
“the Blood of Poets”
by Milenko Županović
November 2018 Down in the Dirt chapbook
Stars on fire
Prison of infinity
Burned Bridges
Votive tiles
Circle
Angel
Poetry
Family
Skull
Dreams of the Gods
Crying
Glory
Ocean
Sinners
The blood of poets
The seventh day
Sound
Salvation
Dark stars
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