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  • Fifties Feature | Poem by Linda Straub
    “50’s Feature” by Linda Straub Mother wore an off the shoulder dress that swirled ’round her slender waist and kissed a starched crinoline. Father’s hair was ebony black, a series of soft waves rolling down his scalp, breaking on a rocky spine. I sat in the back of their ’57 Chevrolet eating popcorn and watching … Read more…
  • Notecards | Donald Goines | High Dive Board | Poems by Peter Mladinic
    Notecards “Boobs in a church.” The frat boy “Boobs in a church.” What did you say? in the front row looked at me, I at him. out nouns in magic marker: umbrella/ Monday night, Freshman Comp. I’d passed courthouse; rabbit’s foot/ tunnel; wallet/ gym. Boots/ church, her prompts. From the back, her high-pitched voice, boots … Read more…
  • If I Stand Beside a Door Poem by Hardley R Eady
    If I Stand Beside a Door Poem If I stand beside a door It’s the door she adores If I stand beside a tree She’s a tree hugger, you see. There is nothing she sees in me. It is natures way for the male to display and whether he stays or flies away is her’s … Read more…
  • Sleep | Poem by Alisha Fitzjarrald
    I want to slip into the darkness and wear it like a coat, say goodbye and drop into the abyss and become unknown. Let the darkness cradle me and the silence sing to me with the sound of my own heartbeat. You don’t fall, you just float in the breeze like the leaves off of … Read more…

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Poetry Posts

  • Notecards | Donald Goines | High Dive Board | Poems by Peter Mladinic
    Notecards “Boobs in a church.” The frat boy “Boobs in a church.” What did you say? in the front row looked at me, I at him. out nouns in magic marker: umbrella/ Monday night, Freshman Comp. I’d passed courthouse; rabbit’s foot/ tunnel; wallet/ gym. Boots/ church, her prompts. From the back, her high-pitched voice, boots … Read more…
  • Janet Kuypers’ June 2022 Book reading 6/6/18 at Austin’s Community Poetry
        June 6th marked the reading space where Janet Kuypers read material from new Scars Publications books for Community Poetry@Half Price Books, which was the only meeting like this at Half Price Books (5555 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX). June 6th also marked a June 2018 Book Release Reading of new books from Scars Publications, which saw the … Read more…
  • Poesía en Toledo con Amparo Arróspide y Eva Chinchilla
      En el Festival Voix Vives, día domingo 4 de septiembre. Con Javier Gil Martín (Cartonera del Escorpión Azul). Actuación con lectura de los libros “Deshacerse” y “Aventuras de BitBot”             Amparo Arróspide (Argentina) is a poet and translator. She has published seven poetry collections, Mosaicos bajo la hiedra, Alucinación … Read more…
  • Still that Shy Little Girl Poem by Marilyn McIntyre
    #47 Later and Dog Speaks by Marilyn McIntyre #47 later I’m still that shy little big girl able body frowning face a voice that dooms to speak golden-haired with a mean left not much has changed i still put my trousers on one leg at a time but backwards. ***

Art Posts

  • How to Use Chromatic Black in Oil Painting
    How to Make Chromatic Black For Painting | Artist #shorts How To Mix Your Own Black Oil Paint – Chromatic Black Color Mixing Oil Paint | How I Paint Realistic Skin Tones REALISTIC PAINTING – FUR TECHNIQUES, GRASS AND FOLIAGE, GLOWING SKY, BIGHORN SHEEP How to mix black with primary colours: Part 2 Chromatic black … Read more…
  • Ekphrastic Poem Peace and Motion by Shakiba (Yorkshire Arts) and Tony Martin Woods
      Shakiba (a Persian word for a patient, tolerant and gentle person) is an artist based in Leeds, Yorkshire, since 2014. She is self-taught and works with Acrylic Pouring Techniques. Painting helped her to overcome the stress of her PhD thesis in a scientific discipline, which she completed in 2020. Editor’s note: for further viewing … Read more…
  • Poetry Robin Ouzman Hislop’s books on Goodreads
      All the Babble of the Souk by Robin Ouzman Hislop Robin Ouzman Hislop, born UK, graduate in philosophy & religions, has travelled extensively throughout his lifetime but now lives in semi- retirement as a TEFL teacher and translator. Robin was editor of the 12 year running on-line monthly poetry journal Poetry Life and Times. … Read more…
  • Séraphine de Senlis | A Poem by Titania Starr
        Séraphine de Senlis   (Seraphine Louis 1864 -1942. French Painter)   Paintings grew out of you like trees. In glowing light on your knees You painted each leaf tending over it, Perfecting it, giving it life, Singing as you worked, as you painted, As you planted each tree into the canvas.   The … Read more…

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