20230124

Issue sixty-eight Date of Publication February 1, 2023.
Individual pieces Copyright © 2023 by their respective creators.

Editor: Mark Young

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Michael Ruby
from TRANCE POSITION + Three Poems

Karl Kempton
portraiture: oceano dunes to tide line
Part 5: rolled by the waves
rolled by the waves (cont'd)

Robin Wyatt Dunn
Four Poems

Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Happy Norway and a stroll in the "sublime"
Beyond the question of: nature vs culture
Snow Maps

Sanjeev Sethi
Four Poems

Richard Kostelanetz
from NEWFIE

Margaret Karmazin
I Hear You

Judith Skillman
Four Paintings

Robert Lietz
Three Poems

Nico Vassilakis
Cracked Open, A – M
Cracked Open, N – Z

Ken Poyner
Three 100-Word Stories

Roberta Beach Jacobson
Four Short Form Poems

Mehreen Ahmed
Boots for Kings

Alexander Lazarus Wolff
Two Prose Poems

Mario José Cervantes
Eleven Visual Poems

Tom Beckett
What Kind of Fool am I?

KJ Hannah Greenberg
Four Photographs

Robert Ronnow
Purposes Incomprehensible and Wonderful as These Purposes

Harrison Fisher
Six Poems

Ruggero Maggi
Five Art Works

Michael Orr & Texas Fontanella
Three Vispo Collabs

Owen Bullock
Seven Poems

Grzegorz Wróblewski
EARTH RESEARCH, Plates 12 to 16

Lachlan J McDougall
Thin Distance I Ride the White Lightning

Jim Leftwich
NO WRONG NOTES
Four Poems

Olchar E. Lindsann
Six Poems
Three Translations

Henry Felerski
A Night of Longing

Jennifer Weigel
LOST

Joel Chace
from A Ship

Daniel Barbiero
Toward an Idiolectical Aesthetic

Doren Robbins
Late Love with Photomontage

Jack Galmitz
Shining My Shoes For The End Of Days

Clara B. Jones
A Closer Look

Tony Beyer
On Cold Mountain

Gao An
POEMS REVISED FROM AN OLD NOTEBOOK

Daniel f Bradley
from The Latter Day Twitter Warz

Keith McKay
Six Asemic Stone Poems

John M. Bennett
An Ox Crow
Twelve Pieces of Vispo

John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich
Thirteen Pieces of Vispo

Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett
Three Poems

Todd Matson
Whalers Field

petro c. k.
Five Poems

Nathan Anderson
Five Poems

Eric Hoffman
A Translation of Sumitaku Kenshin's 試作帳 (Experiment Book)

Texas Fontanella & John M. Bennett
Twelve Pieces of Vispo
Twelve More Pieces of Vispo

John Tustin
Two Poems

Martin Edmond
Three Poems


Michael Neal Morris
Two Pieces of Flash Fiction

R L Swihart
Three Poems

Dave Read
Ten Asemic Writing Visuals

Thomas Fink
Two Poems

Rich Murphy
Five Poems

Carol Stetser
Decoys

John Bradley
Six Poems

Pat Nolan
Needles Auto
MODES OF NOTHINGNESS

Pete Spence
Eight Poems

Jeff Harrison
Two Poems

Vernon Frazer
Four Poems

Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
Three Poems & A Drawing

Peter Cherches
Three Text Pieces

Mayu Kanamori
Making of a Family Portrait
Making of a Family Portrait (cont'd)

Damon Hubbs
Five Poems

Paul Dickey
Three Poems

Joshua Martin
Five Poems

Alan Catlin
from Memories Ate

Communications Arts Students at the University of the Philippines Los Baños
Seven Poems

Bob Lucky
Five Poems

Ian Willey
Five Prose Poems

Diana Magallón
Two Tesselations

Laurent Grison
Saturation, 1 – 3,

Jim Meirose
One Moment Please While We Adjust the Equipment

Nicholas Wright
Four Poems

Dzenis Burzic & Texas Fontanella
Untitled Visual

Sanket Mhatre
DIVIDED BY TWO, MULTIPLIED BY ONE

Louis Armand
from DI/ODE

Michael J. Leach
Three Poems

Rose Knapp
Five Poems

Keith Nunes
Four Poems

Oz Hardwick
Four Prose Poems

Mark DuCharme
Five Poems

Maggie Yang
Two Poems

Jon Cone
XII POEMS

Richard Magahiz
Three Poems

Michael Battisto
Five Poems after Paintings by Paul Klee

John Digby & Bill Wolak
Eight Collages

Bill Wolak
Three Collages & Five Photo Collages

Susan Gangel
Four Matinées

Vassilis Zambaras
Fifteen Poems

Stephen C. Middleton
Five Poems

Christopher Barnes
Townscapes 31 – 35

Andrew Maximilian Niss
ad infinitum

Elmedin Kadric
untitled

Kevin Browne
Hannibal morning

David A. Bishop
Degeneration

Patrick Sweeney
Ten One-Line Poems

Stephen Mead
Two Poems

Hrishikesh Srinivas
Two Poems

Jared Chipkin
Five Poems


M.J. Iuppa
Three Poems

Linda King
Two Poems

Steven Waling
Five Poems

Kenneth Rexroth
Five Columns from San Francisco Magazine
Five More Columns from San Francisco Magazine

Jen Schneider
Four Text Pieces

Elena Zalogina
Grains and Chaff

Heath Brougher
Four Poems

Jeff Bagato
Codex Null
Five Poems

Penelope Weiss
Three Poems & A Visual

Marilyn Stablein
Triptych: Three Collaged Heads

John Levy
Two Poems

Elaine Woo
Rubber Faces: The Emoters

Edward Kulemin
Strategic Squares

Lawrence R. Smith
Three Poems

Cherie Hunter Day
Six Collages

Kit Kennedy
Six Poems

Paul Ilechko
Six Poems

Keith Higginbotham
Five Poems

Antonio Devicienti
Pencil's Landscape 1 – 3

Bob Heman
from INFORMATION

James Hannon
Three Prose Poems

J. D. Nelson
Nine Short Poems

Joseph Salvatore Aversano
Three Poems

Nathan Whiting
THE GAME ROOM

Isabel Gómez de Diego
Eight Paintings

Daniel de Culla
Four Photographs

Mark DeCarteret
Sartre in the key of

Marzi Margo
Two Poems

John Vieira
13 Epigrams

Lorraine Caputo
Two Poems

Marcia Arrieta
Five Collages, Seven Poems

Mark Blaeuer
Three Poems

Tim Suermondt
Four Poems

Texas Fontanella & Chris Edwards
Catcher: pp. 65 - 75
Catcher: pp. 76 -85

Mariel Herbert
Silkwhirm

David Jalajel
26 SNAPSHOTS FROM THE ARK (DEAD DUCKS)

Peter Yovu
Eight Poems

Sheila E. Murphy
Two Poems

Rico Cleffi
Three Poems & A Short Story

nicky melville
from Power Cuts

Edinburgh Mews
A mews' bouche (a language event)

Paul Pfleuger, Jr.
Spat Series

bart plantenga
mARk / bARt / pARis: Friendship Is A Strange Bond

Roger Mitchell
Four Poems

Angelo 'NGE' Colella
Four Visual Poems

Réka Nyitrai
Three Poems

Adriána Kóbor
from Cléverre

Michael Moreth
Three Pencil & Watercolor Paintings

Eileen R. Tabios
Four Poems

Márton Koppány
Disambiguation (Ellipsis No. 22)


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