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Month: April 2025

April 17, 2025

Poetry: All forms & styles|Poetry-In-Performance|Reader: Tianna Sheppard||Dr. Ernest Williamson III|”The Beautiful Life”

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April 15, 2025

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||A Close Reading of W. Somerset Maugham’s|“The Appointment in Samarra“

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April 14, 2025

Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||James Roderick Burns|”Skein of geese”

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April 13, 2025

Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||James Roderick Burns|”Seasons Change”

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April 10, 2025

Flash nonfiction|Personal essay/Memoir/Vignette||Janelle Cordero|”Broken”

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April 8, 2025

Flash nonfiction|Personal essay/Memoir/Vignette||Janelle Cordero|”Donut Parade”

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April 7, 2025

Flash nonfiction|Personal essay/Memoir/Vignette||Janelle Cordero|”Health Class”

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April 5, 2025

Flash nonfiction|Personal essay/Memoir/Vignette||Joanne Furio|”WHAT DADDY DIDN’T KNOW”

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April 3, 2025

Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Prose Poetry/Flash fiction|A Writer’s Portfolio||David Person|”little prose”

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