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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!

 

"Grounding a Beef" and "Standing Wet in the Random"
by Vernon Frazer


Six Images, November 2025
by Edward Michael Supranowicz
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Thirteen Photographs, October 2025
by Pat Jolly
Howard Miller, Hope for Nola
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

Seven Paintings, August 2025
by Antoine Prince
Chillin' at the Drop, Wonderful Woman
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

The Warpland
by Jon Wesick

5928.5 is the cruelest stardate, breeding
Bracken’s World out of the airwaves, mixing
Westerns and cop shows, stirring
Ironside with Nielson ratings.
"The Cherry Tree and the Sheep" and "Is It Time To Eat Dessert First?"
by Jacqueline Jules

Another worry to push from my mind
as I stand on a manicured lawn
inhaling creation on a bright spring day
while wildfires rage in the distance.
Read or Listen
by A Sardine on Vacation

“Ever think of making A Sardine on Vacation an audio book? It has lots of dialogues.”
I would have, but publishers are keen on their audio products following large hard copy sales.
“You said you were against audio books,” Joe T. breaks in.
Against listening to them.
"Mother and Child Reunion, 2024" and "Nevaeh Versus Sasha, 2048"
by Marianne Szlyk

Mary wonders how her daughter would seem with the sound on. She is sure that she would sound like any other woman politician on the other side. She could not listen to her own daughter, she realizes as she closes the video on her device.
The Last Few Years of Life
by Arthur Davis

Half a decade after our father’s death, Ricard took his own life. Too weak from wracking pain, he couldn’t wait for natural causes to bring him a last breath. I was badly shaken. I had lost half of my soul and most of my conscience.
'A fleshed wedge -- seventy years on" and 'A guest which remembers when they'
by Joel Chace

Let someone other than she, she
decides, take the rap for causing
an embarrassment of witches.  My sorrow 
is my castle.  She winks, and
fifteen miles away, some car runs
over a cat. Simple earthly mechanics. 
"Entering Us Through Breath," "But It Is Forbidden," and "The Buddha Trees"
by PD Lyons

A woman’s voice
As if asking,
Could I take up my instrument once more
As if saying,
Together we could skip through spring once more
"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.

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