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Close Reading/Analysis/Explication

August 12, 2026

HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”ATTENDING TO THE QUIET: A Reading of Gabriele Micozzi’s ‘Inventory of the Grandmothers Who Stayed’”


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July 25, 2026

O:JA&L FREE PRESSES||HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library Pamphlet Series


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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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April 20, 2026

HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”The Burdens of Intimacy|A close reading of ‘Two Solitudes,’|a poem by Richard Widerkehr”


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August 28, 2025

Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10,000 Words|Mixed-form essay/memoir/vignette||James Joaquin Brewer|”Pilgrim Ways and Voices:|Bryars’ Tramp and Salinger’s Glasses”


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August 25, 2025

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||A Close Reading of Franz Kafka’s|”Up in the Gallery”


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August 15, 2025

Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10,000 Words|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”A Review of Adrienne Fidelin Restored (2025)|by Anne Whitehouse”


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August 15, 2025

Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10,000 Words|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”A Review of Frida (2022)|by Anne Whitehouse”


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July 17, 2025

Flash Nonfiction|Craft Essay/Analysis/Explication||María DeGuzmán|SUBTLE MATERIALIZATIONS OF MEMORY


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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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LATEST NEWS

  • Buttonhook Press|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|A Writer’s Portfolio||JIANQING ZHENG|”Mama’s Song” September 15, 2026
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