Let's fight the fash.

New Orleans! Come celebrate the book release for
A Limited Number of Miracles by Jonathan Penton!

Bar Redux and Unlikely Stories present Fall of Freedom!

Submit a proposal to the New Orleans Poetry Festival!

Thirteen Photographs, October 2025

by Pat Jolly

One Night on Live at Five

by David E. Matthews

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"Spells for the Wicked" virtual book release party

with Caroline Hagood, dan raphael, Tara Campbell, and Marc Vincenz

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

"Lares et Penates," "Vox Populi, Vox Dei," and "A good goodnight"

by Mark Young

Again I am listening
to Miles. It becomes a
pattern. The heat, the
open Magritte on the
computer desk, the cat

Three Wrestling Matches

by David Moscovich

It's all here: ghastly
ghosts, bouncing
fruit, cute intermission cartoons,
obedient tentacles guided by the bloated
octopus of the state.

Who Else Follows You into The Night? No one.

by Sarah Padgett

My father, having stopped at the thermostat, perhaps thought he was being subtle. But the metallic screech still sliced through the pre-dawn quiet, clear as a bell, even when he only raised it a crack to duck under.

The Full Monty

by Tony Van Witsen

There’s a peculiarly modern kind of alienation built into losing in a contest deemed by the authorities to be fair. It’s enough to make you think unkind thoughts about whether the people who planned the game...

Do You See What I See

by Keith Buzzard

He would periodically forget that he was holding a pistol down at his side, and when he became conscious of its weight, he brought it up to the ready position before ultimately becoming overwhelmed with confusion and fear and letting his arms fall to his side only to repeat the process.

Pauline

by Maris Catherine Tiller

He shut the door and had her undress and wrap herself in a stiff paper gown. He made her do everything Dr. Wolf would have had her do, yet there was something about his methods that felt different to her.

"Les Deux Alpes," "The Teacher," and "There is you"

by James Steck

You have to sing but not too much.
You have dance but not too much.
You have to help but not help.
You have to access their confidence but not too much.
You have to be honest but not too honest.

"Days" and "The Garden"

by Peycho Kanev

There are a lot of them when I can't
even say your name
then I lay down in a heap of heavy sighs
and the night presses me under itself like
a lonely widow dressed in black

East vs. West

by David August

He was terrified that his parents would kill each other if he did nothing to stop them. At the same time, he felt a fierce resentment rise up inside of him. He wanted to help them, but he also needed to punish them...

Gold for the Good

by Regina Rheda

“He was not, really; he was a rich bourgeois nationalist. He just wanted to do some reforms, like land reform and nationalizations, and he was OK with diplomacy with Cuba and the Soviet Union. But rich capitalists here and in the United States wouldn’t have any of it.”