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Friday, December 15, 2023: Ann Tweedy's "Self-Guided Tour" (and accompanying photo)

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  Ann Tweed’s first full-length book, The Body’s Alphabet , was published by Headmistress Press in 2016. It earned a Bisexual Book Award in Poetry and was also a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and for a Golden Crown Literary Society Award. Ann also has published three chapbooks, Beleaguered Oases , White Out , and A Registry of Surviva l. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Literary Mama, Clackamas Literary Review, Naugatuck River Review , and many other places, and she has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and two Best of the Net Awards. A law professor by day, Ann has devoted her career to serving Native Tribes. She currently teaches at University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law. Read more about her at: www.anntweedy.com. Twitter: atweedy01 Instagram: nightpoet1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anntweedypoet © 2023 Ann Tweedy Self-Guided Tour self-guided tour the thing is i am not generous i can remember countless times i thought of being good and giving like i wa

Friday, December 1, 2023: Pushcart Prize Nominees

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  This year’s Pushcart Prize nominees are: L. Ward Able “Cartographer” (poem) Lorraine Caputo  “Wraiths” (poem) Eric Lawson “ Ultimate Bingo ” (fiction)              4. Sarah Sarai “ This Way and That ” (poem)                    5. Anne Tweedy “ Axis ” (poem)                   6)  Kelley White “Winnipesaukee, Snow Moon" (poem) Congratulations to the nominees. Please enjoy their work, and the work of all the other worthy poets, writers, and artists. Thank you for your readership, and your support. Marie C Lecrivain Curator Dashboard Horus

Thursday, November 16, 2023: Charles A. Perrone's "OV"

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Charles A. Perrone was born in the Empire State of New York, grew up in the Golden State of California, last studied in the Lone Star State of Texas, worked in the Sunshine State of Florida, and returned to the West Coast to retire between seashore and redwoods. His published poetry spans the Americas, the oceans, and the Internet, appearing in books and journals (print and digital) in USA, Canada, UK, Mexico, Brazil and Australia. His chapbooks were published by moriapoetry and his volume Designs: Blueprints of Floorplans of a Provisional Residence was released by cyberwit (2022). OV   Oh, this Odyssean Voyage makes me shiver so. Like waves of Ulysses with wings, soaring over Dublin, and the wake of Finnegan finding its way home. Years at sea, Penelope weaves and thrives and leaves nothing to chance or the imagination. James does not recognize me, and Joyce is not his mistress. If I am not careful I shall land on an Isle of Distress. Thus is my trip, hip to pages, ages past, and ston

Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023: Lorraine Caputo's Upon the Ruins"

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Bio: Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 400 journals on six continents; and 23 collections of poetry – including On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019) and Patagonian Sketches (Origami Poems Project, 2023). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. Her writing has been honored by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011) and nominated for the Best of the Net. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth. Follow her travels at: www.facebook.com/lorrainecaputo.wanderer or https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com . Upon The Ruins     The cathedral lies in ruins,  the steps broken,  weeds growing between the gulfs.    I ascend to the atrium.  The bell towers are cracked,   the cross fallen to one side,  the clocks stopped 12:30 on the other.    Within the temple,  the altar is an island floating

Thursday, October 19, 2023; Sarah Sarai's This Way and That"

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  Oberon and Titania on a Lily (William Blake) Sarah Sarai’s poems are in Sinister Wisdom, Barrow Street, New Ohio Review, The Southampton Review, Wallace Stevens Journal, Pine Hills Review , and many others. She is author of various poetry collections and chapbooks, among them The Future Is Happy (BlazeVOX), T he Risen Barbie (Dusie Kollektiv), and Geography of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent). This Way and That       It was a fairy funeral. [William Blake] On the garden bed of Blake’s fairy procession roll this and that, these ways of midnight pleasure in enchantment and commonplace wisdom like don’t touch the fairies, they’re sensitive. Act within a soul populated by sightings and wistful affection, see the filmstrip is at high-enough speed life’s fluidity’s felt, as at the funeral Blake saw, a bodylet laid out on a leaf. Authentication enough for me [that fairies exist] I e-mailed you who reminded me Blake saw God when he was four. God got down on Her omni-aching knees now and the

Thursday, October 5, 2023: Duane L. Herrmann's "Texas Exit" and "Almost Meeting"

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  A reluctant carbon-based life-form, Herrmann was surprised to find himself on a farm in Kansas in 1951. He’s still trying to make sense of that, but has grown fond of grass waving under wind, trees and the enchantment of moonlight. His work has been published in print and online, even in languages he can’t read. He has carried baby kittens in his mouth, pet snakes, and held conversations with owls, but is careful not to anger them! All this, despite a traumatic, abusive childhood embellished with dyslexia, ADHD, cyclothymia, an anxiety disorder, a form of Mutism, and (now) PTSD. Texas Exit Out in the country, way, way out, where officialdom is far distant, and despised, we make our own rules when convenient, and no one cares. For instance when I want to leave the interstate, when my road is near, I just drive off – across the shoulder, across the grass, to frontage road – and home! No one objects. Almost Meeting Two boys, age nine, or ten, or so, in separate cars going opposite direc