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A Review of Love Breaks My Bones, and I Laugh by Couri Johnson

A Review of Love Breaks My Bones, and I Laugh by Couri Johnson

Kym Cunningham March 20, 2023 0

The Lang Fairy Books

The Lang Fairy Books

Review of Lilies on the deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems

Review of Lilies on the deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems

Making Friends the Deadly Way

Making Friends the Deadly Way

Feline Fright

Feline Fright

Art
Summer Study

Summer Study

Anna Sui June 20, 2022 0

Summer Study is an acrylic on canvas painting inspired by the blooms and foliage in Ontario’s national and provincial parks.

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in cemento veritas

in cemento veritas

Mario Loprete March 20, 2022 1

Clothes that survived covid 19, very similar to what survived after the 2,000-year-old catastrophic eruption of Pompeii.

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Jellyfish and Microbeads

Jellyfish and Microbeads

Maureen C. Berry December 20, 2021 0

By pairing the natural with the unnatural, I create a subtle awareness of the plastic pollution crisis. Mixed media watercolor on paper.

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Peppers for a Stew

Peppers for a Stew

Abby Ripley December 20, 2021 0

This is a watercolor of three peppers in orange, yellow, and red being cut up to be put in a meat stew with other vegetables.

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Covidscapes

Covidscapes

Cynthia Yatchman September 20, 2021 0

These images were done during our Covid isolation.

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Time

Time

Gino Parisi June 20, 2021 0

Time is inspired by the emotions of time. The now is where time does not exist.

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A Spring Collection

A Spring Collection

RC deWinter March 20, 2021 0

A collection of artwork with Spring in mind.

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3 Untitled Portraits of Young Men On the Verge Of Infamy

3 Untitled Portraits of Young Men On the Verge Of Infamy

Jeremy Szuder December 21, 2020 0

The illustrations are done with ink on paper and all measuring @ 5″X7″.

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Elvis Has Left the Building

Elvis Has Left the Building

Lorette C. Luzajic March 20, 2020 0

This artwork uses layers of collage and mixed media to portray memory, drawing on city life, poetry, art history, and other urban influences.

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Diversity Dance

Diversity Dance

Jenn Ashton December 20, 2019 0

Celebrating the differences. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas.

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Birdhouse in the Birches

Birdhouse in the Birches

Cheryl Bezuidenhout September 20, 2019 0

A quiet scene from the Reiffel Bird Sanctuary on the Fraser River Estuary, near Vancouver, B.C.

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In cemento veritas

In cemento veritas

Mario Loprete June 20, 2019 0

Paintings and sculptures.

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Garcia Lorca

Garcia Lorca

James Eret March 20, 2019 0

Drawing of Garcia Lorca.

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Articles
A Review of Love Breaks My Bones, and I Laugh by Couri Johnson

A Review of Love Breaks My Bones, and I Laugh by Couri Johnson

Kym Cunningham March 20, 2023 0

A book review of Couri Johnson’s latest novella of fabulist short stories.

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The Lang Fairy Books

The Lang Fairy Books

Robert Boucheron March 20, 2023 0

A brief overview of the famous series edited by Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, and his wife Nora, who did much of the rewriting.

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Review of Lilies on the deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems

Review of Lilies on the deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems

Ryan Brinkhurst March 20, 2023 0

A review of Lilies on the deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems by Oisín Breen, published by Beir Bua Press.

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Review of The Mayapple Forest

Review of The Mayapple Forest

Jacob Butlett December 20, 2022 0

A review of Kim Ports Parsons’ book of poetry The Mayapple Forest.

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The Hongwu Emperor, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and “The Hundred Word Eulogy”

The Hongwu Emperor, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and “The Hundred Word Eulogy”

Douglas Colston December 20, 2022 0

“The Hundred Word Eulogy” as pro-Islamic is challenged by translations that suggest the material fulfills two functions of a eulogy.

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The Jejune

The Jejune

Ashish Dwivedi September 20, 2022 0

The jejune shares a handsome similitude with Mammon, in his politically-correct dysplasia, and  his ability to fake.

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Review of The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar

Review of The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar

Ryan Brinkhurst September 20, 2022 0

A review of Emily Schulten’s book of poetry The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar.

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Thoughts on Modernist poetry

Thoughts on Modernist poetry

Colin Ian Jeffery June 20, 2022 0

The modernist poetry movement has radically changed the rules in form, style, stanza, and rhythm.

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Political challenges in a selected section of ‘Insights and Poems’ (1975) by Huey Newton and Ericka Huggins

Political challenges in a selected section of ‘Insights and Poems’ (1975) by Huey Newton and Ericka Huggins

Alan Garrigan June 20, 2022 0

A review of insights and poems by Huey Newton as well as extensive political commentary on the overarching significance of the man.

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Helen, Life and Times – Unafraid Minutes on Hindustani Cinema and its Deployment of Helen

Helen, Life and Times – Unafraid Minutes on Hindustani Cinema and its Deployment of Helen

Ashish Dwivedi June 20, 2022 5

This book can elicit an infectious curiosity about Bollywood amongst audiences beyond the mediascape of India/South Asia.

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Don’t Miss Your Connection: an Interview with Best-Selling Author Jonathan Evison  

Don’t Miss Your Connection: an Interview with Best-Selling Author Jonathan Evison  

Shaun McMichael March 20, 2022 0

An interview with Best-Selling Novelist Jonathan Evison about his new book, Small World (2022).

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An Apology for M.Phil.

An Apology for M.Phil.

Ashish Dwivedi March 20, 2022 0

A globally-acknowledged degree, of respected stature and ancient origins, does not find a place in the popular imagination.

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Quirks and Quiddities

Quirks and Quiddities

Mehreen Ahmed December 20, 2021 0

All about the dangers of soil erosion in Bangladesh, the fate of farmers, and what is being done to prevent it.

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Short Stories
Making Friends the Deadly Way

Making Friends the Deadly Way

Stephanie Daich March 20, 2023 0

Can you recall a time when you didn’t fit in? Tyrone finds a path to popularity, only to discover its source bursting with radiation.

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Feline Fright

Feline Fright

Mary Mills March 20, 2023 0

All too often, cats are underrated and underappreciated. Jasper is a cat who demands to be valued.

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The Course of Kind

The Course of Kind

William Baker March 20, 2023 2

An interplay of preconceptions, the arts, faith, acceptance, discovery and love.

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The Voice In Your Head

The Voice In Your Head

Ben Bolton March 20, 2023 1

Stew has some problems with anxiety and self doubt, which manifests itself as Andy, the voice in Stew’s head.

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A Bruise And A Cut

A Bruise And A Cut

A.C. March 20, 2023 0

A visit to a sexual health clinic makes a young woman re-think the imbalance of her relationship.

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Flight AWE613

Flight AWE613

Emma Murray December 20, 2022 0

Michael finds himself reevaluating his priorities and delving into precious memories as the plane he’s on seems doomed to crash.

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Jack’s Gamble

Jack’s Gamble

Tammy Huffman December 20, 2022 0

Good and evil, virtue and vice…is it all just a toss of a coin?

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Donkeys

Donkeys

Andy Ayash December 20, 2022 0

Remember when the kid turns into a donkey in Pinocchio? Wasn’t that messed up? This is a rebuttal to my nightmares.

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Irene and June

Irene and June

Jacqueline Erasin December 20, 2022 0

A darkly comic story about two elderly friends in a retirement home. What is truth and what is imagination?

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Romantique

Romantique

Jonathan Ferrini December 20, 2022 0

A “slice of life” pirouettes upon the palate reminiscent of a sweet and tart wedge of Lemon Meringue pie served with afternoon tea.

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Her Red Dress Matches Her Eyes

Her Red Dress Matches Her Eyes

Don Louis Robishaw September 20, 2022 1

A former librarian is hired as a secret agent with her government, and all hell breaks out.

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Nature Doesn’t Bend

Nature Doesn’t Bend

Jonathan Ferrini September 20, 2022 0

Gender identity, politics, and the criminal justice system collide like a car crash.

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The Contract Broken

The Contract Broken

Marco Etheridge September 20, 2022 0

Voltaire and Rousseau discuss where modern society is going wrong.

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Poetry
the land of body is tired and needs to rest from entertaining immature tourists

the land of body is tired and needs to rest from entertaining immature tourists

Suzanne S. Rancourt March 20, 2023 0

I write of smells, cutaneous sensations, truth. Sometimes the Natural World is a place of rage, power, reprieve, and wonder.

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Weather Map

Weather Map

Stephen Mead March 20, 2023 0

A work of evocative impressionism rooted in reality and history but suffused through the psyche to be dream-like.

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Dear G

Dear G

Paul Butterfield Jnr March 20, 2023 0

Dear G
You’ve asked me what makes a poet

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Hope

Hope

Hajarah Edun March 20, 2023 1

“Hope” is a poem that focuses on dealing with life challenges plus having the faith and belief that things will change for the better.

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Marilyn In Miles

Marilyn In Miles

Rebecca Papin March 20, 2023 0

“Marilyn In Miles” is my attempt to process the loss of my stepmother, Marilyn, who died from cancer last summer.

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To Cody

To Cody

Elizabeth Crowell March 20, 2023 0

Reflecting on myths and stories and how they inform how we think about things, with a curiosity about time and how it passes.

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Fog

Fog

James T. Stemmle March 20, 2023 0

A poem about disinformation

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This Time of Year

This Time of Year

Wayne Russell March 20, 2023 0

A reflective piece of poetry, that asks the what-ifs of this life, pondering the duality of life and death and missed opportunities.

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Please

Please

Ashish Dwivedi March 20, 2023 0

please do not bleed,
not right now.

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I Dreamed I Closed My Eyes Forever

I Dreamed I Closed My Eyes Forever

H.L. Dowless March 20, 2023 0

This is a poem about a dream I really had.

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A Second Life

A Second Life

Dale Cottingham December 20, 2022 0

Much will be forgiven those on whom not much has dawned. But let me ask: How could you not see the signs? What with the oceans rising…

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We Swamp Creatures

We Swamp Creatures

John Grey December 20, 2022 0

The joys, or otherwise, of the swamp.

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Journal Entry: Germination

Journal Entry: Germination

David B Prather December 20, 2022 0

Inspired by the gift of tomato seeds. Associative and journaling techniques were used to flesh out some kind of meaning.

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