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Nine Paintings, July 2025
by Carrie Beene
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Paintings and Images, May 2025
by Jamie Chiarello
'The Center Cannot Hold', Oil on panel, 8" x 10", 2025, 'What the Shoreline Was', Oil on Yupo paper, 5" x 7", 2024
A Reading through Strange Times
with Tobey Hiller

A Reading through Strange Times
with Wendy Taylor Carlisle

A Reading through Strange Times
with Aileen Bassis

A Reading through Strange Times
with Xander Bilyk

"Tomorrow We Break New Ground" and "Tag You're It"
by Gerald Yelle

But why wait –let’s do it now –break something we can build on.
Maybe we won’t have to break anything after all.
Maybe if we leave it whole and our
organs don’t fail and we love one another 
maybe we can fill up on junk and forget to feel alone. 
I Want A New Drug
by Zeke Jarvis

Lewis could feel the heat from Brady’s body. “Listen, if you want, I can try to get you some, but this isn’t something that you fuck around with, right? This is something that you have to go into with your eyes open.”
"Time And Place," "Freire And Illich Are Dead," and "Tired of Waiting"
by Lynn White

What did he do
that little boy
when he Resisted
the Occupation,
for that was the charge
against him.
Alpha Male 2024
by Todd Cirillo

all tough,
high-fiving,
talking about bitches
and how they are going to
tear Bourbon Street up dawg!
"Vestibule," "Obscura," and "Irresponsibility"
by Rats Alice Trujillo

I know I will not commit suicide
because the world all wants me to die and
I hate the world more than it could
ever make me suffer
"Miranda" and "Winter in Ukraine"
by Erick Garske

A gentle snow flurry
covers footprints on a Sunday
open-air market
in the shadow of the church.
 
The sirens subside.
Tip of a Leaf
by Rekha Valliappan

That's what the pandemic viral desperados did to us, a chance to cry like never before longer besides sending us six feet under. It emptied our shared vanity, singling our lachrymose ducts, victims in our own ceremonies, and uncompromisingly masked for keeps.
May I Offer You a Moral Panic?
by Jon Wesick

Pornographers’ rights take precedence over parents giving. malevolent have free rein to prey on our children. Walls keep God away from schools, but can’t lock up pushers, thieves and murderers
Shell Game
by Peterson Toscano

Retired from dictating, Pinochet spent the mid-1990s cruising around Santiago in one of the three cars, a security measure should the convoy be attacked by one of his many enemies.

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Nine Paintings, July 2025 by Carrie Beene
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