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Peggy Dobreer's "What the Bones Weigh," "Metamorphosis And a Fountain", and Three Photographs

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Peggy Dobreer is a poet, choreographer, and curator who brings movement, somatic meditation, and a deep love of letters to her Slow Lightning Lit daily online practice. Dobreer studied poetry at Charles University, School of Anglophile Studies in Prague, received a residency with Suzanne Lummis at the Institute for the Study of Los Angeles, at Occidental College, and is a 2021 Sharon Olds Fellow at Community of Writers in Poetry.   Dobreer has two collections from Moon Tide Press: In the Lake of Your Bones , 2012 and Drop & Dazzle , 2018, and a recent chapbook, Forbidden Plums , with Glass Lyre Press, Chicago. She was awarded Downey Symphony Orchestra’s 2017 Poetry Matter’s Prize, in association with NASA, and has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. With over 100 poems in publication, Dobreer was most recently anthologized in Kyoto Journal: Reflections from Asia, Cultural Weekly, Aeolian Harp Review , Volumes I & V, and is upcoming in Beat Not Beat: An Antholo

Jared Pearce's "New Mexico" (Thurs, Oct 27)

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Jared Pearce's books include Down Their Spears (Cyberwit, 2021), and The Annotated Murder of One (Aubade, 2018). Further: https://jaredpearcepoetry.weebly.com . New Mexico I’ve been with the hard earth, boulders racked against the pylons of the sky like waves sloshing the piers, the masts like metronomes ticking out ruin, the weary wash and dramatic slash of the cliff above the harbor as the flood finally bites and buries a stack of rock. A spurt of rain, a peck of snow, what can they do against the bleak mountain set to tear down heaven: no spear of tree, not even the charm of sage, only its bare arms, shoulders, wedged, bent on cracking the door. © 2022 Jared Pearce

Marieta Maglas' "Aurora Borealis" (Mon 11/07)

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The Oddville Press, Sybaritic Press, Prolific Press, Silver Birch Press, Ardus Publications, and some others published the poems of Marieta Maglas in anthologies like Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art Inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler , The Oddville Press Summer 2018, Nancy Drew Anthology: Writing&Art Featuring Everybody's Favorite Female Sleuth , Three Line Poetry, Ta nka Journal, The Aquillrelle Wall of Poetry , edited by Yossi Faybish, who edited, also, her poetry book, Cubic Words . She is a co-author for A Divine Madness: An Anthology of Modern Love Poetry, for Enchanted- Love Poems and Abstract Art , and some other anthologies. Aurora Borealis   Green in the frozen snow, paralyzed as in a blind panic, as near death— divine eyes clouding over,   prerequisites for white to drift up and downstream the upcoming meltwater runoff—   pure spiritedness to counteract thirst in the quiescent seed of life.   (This poem has been published in The-Oddville-Press-Summer-2018)

Lynn White's "The Crossword Man"

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  Lynn White lives in north Wales.Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud 'War Poetry for Today' competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee, Firewords, Capsule Stories, Gyroscope Review, and So It Goes.   Find Lynn at: https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/ The Crossword Man We saw him often during our stay in Moscow. Every time we passed the opulent public building he’d be sitting there in his ‘Enquiries” cubicle intent on his crossword. We watched in awe  as the small queues formed, marvelled at the increasingly imaginative ways devised to attract his attention. All failed. The women in high heels, the m

Hedy Habra's "Visiting the Generalife"

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  Hedy Habra is a poet, artist and essayist. She is the author of three poetry collections from Press 53, most recently, The Taste of the Earth (2019), Winner of the Silver Nautilus Book Award and Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award; Tea in Heliopolis Winner of the Best Book Award and Under Brushstrokes , a Finalist for the Best Book Award and the International Book Award. Her story collection, Flying Carpets , won the Arab American Book Award’s Honorable Mention and was Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. She is a seventeen-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the net. https://www.hedyhabra.com/ I linger along the rose orchard cooled by water fountains. A suspension of iridescent droplets rises and falls in splashing loops, trickles through inlaid channels. Here, air speaks with caressing syllables and fragrant language; each lemon tree heavy with golden globes, its crisp shiny leaf ready to break under my fingers’ slightest touch, oozes essential oils. Each

Robert S King's "No Road Ends Forever"

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                                                                              © marie c lecrivain Robert S. King lives in Athens, GA. His poems have appeared in hundreds of magazines, including Atlanta Review, California Quarterly, Chariton Review, Hollins Critic, Kenyon Review, Main Street Rag, Midwest Quarterly, Negative Capability, Southern Poetry Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review . He has published eight poetry collections, most recently Developing a Photograph of God (Glass Lyre Press, 2014) and Messages from Multiverses (Duck Lake Books, 2020). His personal website is www.robertsking.info. Many roads go through Déjà Vu. Some speed through Euphoria, whose streets below the surface, like all, are mud or dust and remind of Purgatory. Our blisters prove no road is kind, just kind of lost or twisted into ruts, yet bound on the never-ending way to Wanderlust, a large city of the mind where footprints and tracks go beyond dead ends. One end leads to another, and no road we could