
The Garden 22 by Stéphane Vereecken
Stéphane Vereeckenʼs works are centered on the human being, the different stories surrounding our species and our goal in a constantly...
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Art by Janelle Cordero
"Bell", "Mina", & "Anika" Watercolor and ink on watercolor paper I make art because it fulfills my needs for contemplation and prayer....
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"Please Remain Calm" by Ashley Cai
Watercolor, ink pen A thin pane of glass is the only thing that separates her from the fiercely passionate mayhem that awaits outside....
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Art by Vivi Niya Gao
The City of Individuals Acrylic, 60” x 96” Previously found in Etobicoke School of the Arts PDX Solo 2019, University of Toronto Trinity...
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Art by Karl Zuehlke
Earth Acrylic on masonite; 12”x 11 3/4” Valley and plow—patterns of nature and humanity—occupy the furrow of the visible world. That...
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"Have you seen this bird?" by Liz Wride
Liz Wride is a writer from Wales. Her short fiction has appeared in Elle UK, Trampset, Fiction Kitchen Berlin, Okay Donkey Magazine and...
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"autopsy, but flourished with prayer" by Youngseo Lee
in the backseat of a honda civic i pray for the yellow roses already mushrooming between my fingers: may flowers grotesquize in the...
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"Good Daughter" by Katie Grierson
I like the feel of grass, little paint brushes up my arms and legs and the back of my neck. I giggle like hehehe and mama says my nose...
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"Culture Vultures Bereft" by William Doreski
Look at how lowbrow the sky has become. The opera has closed, leaving tenors gasping. The museums have sold off their holdings, and the...
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"Strangers" by William Doreski
At the farm stand a woman is coughing, coughing, coughing, laying down a trail of fever that will track her for days until it kills her....
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"Fustian" by William Doreski
When I look hard at the light and shade of prismatic sunsets, I never catch the colors real poets detect. They describe puce, ecru,...
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"Joan of Arc Invented the Bob" by Taylor Garrison
while standing in her father’s garden. God at her ear, billhook in her palm. The angels just wanting to watch. Bangs being far too...
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"the age-old struggle of being a woman in love that still plagues the 21st century" by Poppy Rosales
let's take away my roots. let’s make me a generic girl with a generic flower name and maybe make a joke or two about that–– about how you...
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"Prayer for Doomed Girls" by Gaia Rajan
The driver on the way here joked about Bundy, how he could be a serial killer with a little more eyebrow, and he laughed and laughed and...
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"Poem Inside A Locker Room" by Gaia Rajan
Golden Shovel from the Access Hollywood tapes Girl, this is how you die the first time. Just ten minutes behind a locker. This kiss could...
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"One Night, When the Dread is Hard to Shake, I Ask Whoever Is Up There" by Jonny Teklit
How come there aren’t any black ghosts? When we die, we’re dead. There’s no floating through decrepit houses, no possessing of living...
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"Notes on Anger" by Jonny Teklit
after Mary Ruefle ANGER AS STONE What do I do with all this resentment thrown like a stone into the lake of my body? It’s too deep to...
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"Forgive Me If I Say" by Darnell "DeeSoul" Carson
I do not subscribe that strongly to astrology and still speak in the tongue of the truest believer. What I mean by this is, my sister and...
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"Red Chair With Potential" by Alina Stefanescu
I stared at the red chair until it turned into a boulder in a chestnut grove where dolls remove their clothes and cry. But first, it was...
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"The Krakow Nude" by Alina Stefanescu
The framed photo used to hang in the hall of my single-mom apartment: hair loose, lips lit by laughter, me naked but for a man's white...
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