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May 21, 2026

HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”SPEAKING THE OVERFULL WORLD:|A Close Reading of Bruce McRae’s Poem “All In”


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May 14, 2026

Buttonhook Press|The 2026 O:JA&L Masters Series|Mixed Forms: Haibun|A Writer’s Portfolio||Featured Writer: Roberta Beary|”The Heart of Haibun”


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April 16, 2026

Buttonhook Press|The 2026 O:JA&L Masters Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Featured Writer: Richard Widerkehr|”What on Earth?”


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April 14, 2026

O:JA&L’s FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench Arts & Letters|Pamphlet Series|Flash Nonfiction||LT. Clement Valot|”Liberty: Part 1″ (WIP)|”The Arabian Sea”


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April 13, 2026

The O:JA&L Masters Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Writer: Bruce McRae|Interview||”Associate Editor Jeff Streeby|talks with poet Bruce McRae”


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April 12, 2026

The O:JA&L Masters Series|POETRY: All forms & styles|An Essay on Craft||Featured Writer: Bruce McRae|”My Craft and Sullen Art…


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March 24, 2026

Buttonhook Press Broadside Series|2026|Poetry: All forms & styles||Patrick Bradshaw|”PRAISE”


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March 10, 2026

Poetry: All forms & styles||Hekkei Huotari|”What Will Martians Make of Us?”


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February 11, 2026

Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles|Ekphrasis||Larry D. Thomas|”Stories Begging Color”


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February 9, 2026

Buttonhook Press Chapbook Series|An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles|Ekphrasis||John Brantingham|”MIRÓ’S WARS”


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LATEST NEWS

  • O:JA&L’s Free Presses||Masters Series Links September 18, 2026
  • HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|American Chapbooks: Reconfiguring Literary Prestige||”Kindred Fire”||Texas Quarterly as Literary Nexus: Connecting|Larry D. Thomas, Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes|through Aesthetic and Institutional Affinity” September 18, 2026
  • HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|O:JA&L Guides & Rubrics||O:JA&L’s Analytical Rubric|for Poetry-in-Performance September 16, 2026

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