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October 10, 2025October 10, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Four Hours, by Yannick Murphy

  Salt from his margarita sat on his lips. A grain had wound up on his face, sitting in one…

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October 8, 2025October 8, 2025 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Four Poems, by Paul Stubbs

The Religious Mood “Where does religious feeling come from? From the fact there is a world.” —Simone Weil   —Beginning…

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October 4, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

The Doctrine of Notions, by Martine Bellen

  Left alone, an empty jug will replenish, so it has been written; mirrors will cast flashes from one’s past;…

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October 2, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Eight Microfictions, by Joanna Ruocco

iDeath My father was driven to Drink and Despair in a donkey cart. Other men had died there, and the…

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September 18, 2025September 18, 2025 - Featured, Folio, Poetry, Reading, Translation, Writing

Hungarian Poetry Folio

Translations by George Szirtes   A Dream of Colored Inks By Dezső Kosztolányi Yellow is my favorite. How many letters…

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September 11, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Translation, Writing

Young Tide, by Can Xue

Translated by Karen Gernant   Not until dawn did the noise subside and all turned quiet. Tide fell asleep. He…

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September 4, 2025 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Four Poems, by Lisa Russ Spaar

Behind the Discount City Pelucid, limpid, scarified in tinsel flitch, a drove of damsel flies roves the standing ditch glancing…

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August 24, 2025August 24, 2025 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Five Poems, by Elaine Equi

  Writing Is Remembering But not remembering the past. It is remembering the future. How do you know a word…

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August 16, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Dead Hare Explains, by Chris Vaughan

“A dead hare appears, just like in a fairy tale…” —Joseph Beuys   You might know me as Joseph Beuys’s…

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August 9, 2025 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Dissolve to Cloud: Treatments for Five Frames from Tierney Gearon’s Explosure, by Tony Leuzzi

1: Frame 22, 2007 Our clouded heads dissolve to cloud. Some boy— enthralled by giant birds—jigs and stomps in pools…

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