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November 5, 2022
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October 30, 2022
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October 27, 2022
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October 27, 2022
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October 27, 2022
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October 24, 2022
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Cutter Streeby|”A Review of ‘Ouafa and Thawra:|About a Lover from Tunisia’ by Arturo Desimone”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
October 8, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Mike Murray|”RESIDUUM”
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September 24, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Thomas Mitchell|”Sparrows”
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September 24, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Thomas Mitchell|”County Fair”
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September 23, 2022
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September 21, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nathan Nicolau|”Lunch with Frank O’Hara at the Mexican Cantina: Selected and Abridged”
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September 18, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Toshihisa Nikaido|”Meibunka (Life Culture)”
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September 18, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Americana||Jessica Purdy|”Murder in the House:|The ‘Nutshells’ of Frances Glessner Lee”
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September 12, 2022
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”||2022 Update||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|
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September 12, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Robert Bly’s|’Warning to the Reader'”
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September 2, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”Family Photo of America”
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August 31, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”IF YOU’VE EVER BEEN ASLEEP”
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August 31, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”FAMILY PHOTO OF AMERICA”
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August 31, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”WHAT HOLDS TOGETHER”
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August 29, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun|Americana||David Walsh|”Gettysburg”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 12, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Michael Mandlin|”Larks”
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August 1, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicole Rollender|”The Etymology of Sacrifice”
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August 1, 2022
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July 30, 2022
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July 28, 2022
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July 28, 2022
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July 28, 2022
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July 23, 2022
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July 21, 2022
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July 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Keith Polette|”War and Riff”
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July 20, 2022
Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Scheer|Flash Discourse: Fiction||”Sweet Cherry”
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July 20, 2022
Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Scheer|Flash Discourse: Fiction||”Springtime in Mississippi”
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July 18, 2022
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July 17, 2022
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July 14, 2022
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narratives||”The King of Capitalism”|Story and Art by Donald L. Patten
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June 19, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce Bond|”The Curve of the Open Page”
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June 18, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Joshua St. Claire|”les rois fainéants”
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June 18, 2022
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June 13, 2022
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June 13, 2022
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June 13, 2022
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June 13, 2022
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June 9, 2022
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June 6, 2022
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June 6, 2022
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June 4, 2022
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June 4, 2022
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June 1, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Brian Clements|An Essay on Craft||”Some Generic Notes on Short Prose”
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May 26, 2022
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May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Southern Fiction”
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May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Birdie”
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May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Radius”
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May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Prolegomenon to Any Future Poem”
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Buttonhook Press|2022 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Jason Thornberry|”Fool’s Gold”
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May 10, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Jim Meirose|”The Keys”
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May 10, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose poetry||Jason Thornberry|”Fool’s Gold”
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Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Marjorie Maddox/Anna Lee Hafer|”Switch”
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May 9, 2022
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Marjorie Maddox/Margaret Munz-Losch|”At the American Visionary Art Museum: White Rabbit”
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May 3, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Poet Brian Clements|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with poet Brian Clements”
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April 27, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ron Carlson’s|’The Tablecloth of Turin'”
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April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”MISERY THE TUTOR”
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April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”MAPPING”
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April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”THE GIFT OF YES”
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April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”DO GEESE SEE GOD?”
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April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”DESIGNS”
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April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Catherine Reef|”This Evening”
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April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”Kid Stuff”
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April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”The Longer Dead”
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April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”Mendonoma”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTS
April 4, 2022
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction||Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis|”Rip Torn”
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March 28, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|2022 Feature: Americana||Barbara Daniels|”Street Shrine”
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March 28, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|2022 Feature: Americana||Barbara Daniels|”Unknown American Paintings”
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March 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Tustin|”RUINED”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTS
March 24, 2022
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction||David Herman|”The Lost Notebooks of Black Beauty”
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March 24, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Adjei Agyei-Baah|”Scaring Crow”|With a Foreword by Hiroaki Sato
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March 9, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Owen Bullock|”Modal”
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March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”MOTHERS’ DAY”
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March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”The Latest Articulation Errors”
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March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”[How to Finish the End Paper]”
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March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”Persephone in the Tunnel of Love”
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March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson||”HIGHLINE PARK IN NYC”
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March 7, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”AT STONY LANE POOL, GLADWYNE”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”ETHNOGRAPHY OF HORROR, DOMESTICATED”
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March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”WESTERN PSYCHONAUTS of the POSTPARTUM PERIOD”
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March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”COMING HOME”
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March 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Jianqing Zheng|”Delta Notes”
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February 26, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Lyric Essay||Scott F. Parker|”Between Other Countries”
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February 23, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||John-Michael Bloomquist|”Hanno”
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February 23, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||John-Michael Bloomquist|”La Primavera According to Savonarola”
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February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”REVISED LONELY PLANET GUIDE TO HOLY MEN”
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February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”QUARANTINE DREAMS”
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February 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poem as CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Yasmin Mariam Kloth|”At the Souk”
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February 13, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘Therapists'”
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February 9, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Lauren Camp|”Faraway Love”
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February 8, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce Robinson|”Comedy Hour”
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February 7, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kerry Rawlinson|”the girl who swallowed a bird”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 6, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||J.R. Solonche|”FALSE MESSIAH”
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February 6, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Abbie Doll|”boxing it all up: a recap from when my father died”
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February 4, 2022
Performance Arts: Oral Interpretation/Spoken Word|Poetry: All forms & styles|Original Prose Poetry||Joel Peckham|”The Last 25: On Trying to Record a Cover|of ’25 Miles’ by Edwin Starr”
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February 4, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mark Blickley|”Hunger Pains”
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February 2, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Personal Essay||Elena Botts|”Braamfontein”
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January 30, 2022
Performance Arts: Oral Interpretation/Spoken Word|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Zack Rogow|”FOR THE LOST CAUSES”
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January 30, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Nadja Maril|”Admiration for my Grandmother’s Pitcher”
Non-fictionBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
January 29, 2022
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”Reviews of Anne Whitehouse’s Chapbooks|’Surrealist Muse’ and ‘Escaping Lee Miller’”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
January 28, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Cesca Janece Waterfield|”Anamnesis”
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January 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Blake Everitt|”THE PROBLEM WITH HOPE”
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January 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||E.R. Lutken|”Conservation of Momentum”
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January 27, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brad Rose|”Funny You Should Ask”
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January 22, 2022
Special Announcements||Buttonhook Press,|an imprint of OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)|2022 Open call for chapbook submissions|Poetry: All forms & styles
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January 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Gabriela Gonzales|”packing”
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January 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose poetry||Gabriela Gonzales|”Stendhal”
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January 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF (Creative Nonfiction)||Hermione Laake|”Palindrome”
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January 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ernie Brill|”Tommy”
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January 16, 2022
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2021 theme: “1 of 24– the story of an hour”||Jim Meirose|”Superman’s Picnic Table”
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January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Michael Steffen|”Precedented Times”
Flash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Howie Good|”Apocalyptically Yours”
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January 16, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||DA Hogan|”LOVE TOO SOON”
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January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Alter Inertia|”on the way from summer’s”
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January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jason M. Thornberry|”Residue of Yesterday”
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January 15, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||James Croal Jackson|”Carl Reiner Photoshoot”
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January 15, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Oyama|”What I do not think”
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January 11, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Anne Whitehouse|”AUDEN’S BOOKCASE”
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January 10, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Anne Whitehouse|”DANTE’S TOMBS”
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January 3, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of A. M. Homes’s|’With One Wheel Gone Wrong'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||RC deWinter|”ghosted”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Patricia Cannon|”Breaking That Empty Plate in the Sky”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Cassady O’Reilly-Hahn|”Eviction”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
December 21, 2021
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Jianqing Zheng|”Attachment”
PoetryLyricLITERARY ARTS
December 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Hermione Laake|”Dance for me, Baby”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”Rendezvous Monochrome”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”Burrator Reservoir”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”A Bout de Souffle”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach|”Grief Ode”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach|”Horizon”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
December 6, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Allisa Cherry|”Mogollon Rim”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Allisa Cherry|”Exegesis”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach”There Must Be”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Allisa Cherry|”Here I Take”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
November 26, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2020 Chapbook Series|Mixed Forms: Haibun||Jeff Streeby|”WILE: Sketches from Nature”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 24, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Michael Colonnese|”Birding in the Tidal Estuary|After Visiting a Friend in Hospice”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 21, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Yasunari Kawabata’s|”The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Frederick Pollack|”Interruption”
Non-fictionCNF/MemoirEssay, PersonalLITERARY ARTS
November 7, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Dan Shewan|”The Wrong Kind of Bastard”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Arturo Desimone|”Eritrean Neighbourhood in South Tel Aviv”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
November 6, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Arturo Desimone|”Poem scrawled on a maize-sheaf for her (last offering)”
OtherLITERARY ARTSFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Mixed FormsOtherPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordTHEATER ARTS
November 4, 2021
Mixed Forms|Flash Discourse: Fiction/Theater Arts||Mark Blickley|”A Milkman’s Serenade”||Performance by Robert Funaro|Production/Direction by Joe John Battista
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||John L. Stanizzi|”Early Fall”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Halsey Hyer|”Elegy for Olivia”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Jan Karlo Lopez|”Heartbreak Heist”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anthony DeGenaro|”All I know of Coal”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 3, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anthony DeGenaro|”Aria for Poland Woods”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
October 27, 2021
Flash Discourse: Historical Fiction||Aurelien Hannoyer|”Artemisia”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
October 21, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘The Mice'”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTS
October 3, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Gordon Taylor|”When You Attached”
STUDIO ARTSDigital Art
September 29, 2021
Studio Arts: Digital Imagery|Artist Portfolio||Edward Michael Supranowicz
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)STUDIO ARTSPainting and DrawingLITERARY ARTS
September 29, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Sean Padraic McCarthy|”Topping”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)Experimental DiscourseXP Prose
September 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Short Story||Jim Meirose|”Deep Fry”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTSProse Discourse: Long forms (to 10,000 words)
September 23, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2021 theme: “1 of 24– the story of an hour”||Bruce Robinson|”Several Rooms”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
September 19, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ursula Hegi’s ‘Doves'”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
September 17, 2021
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage||Mark Blickley|”Troupe 621″ (A play in one act)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
September 12, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Megan Marie Sullivan|”The Stylist”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
September 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||L. Shapley Bassen|”Grisaille”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
September 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Marte Carlock|”The Deserter”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 30, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||R.A. Shockley|”When to Cry on the Bus”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 30, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Melissa E. Jordan|”The Sedoka Interviews: Cycle 1″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 30, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Melissa E. Jordan|”The Sedoka Interviews: Cycle 2″
Broadside SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titles
August 29, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Andrey Gritsman|”Light in the Cathedral”/”CBET B XPAME”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 26, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Stephanie Anderson|”Grief in Miniature”
TranslationPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Translation||Andrey Gritsman|”LIGHT IN THE CATHEDRAL”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet SeriesTranslation
August 25, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Andrey Gritsman|”Light in the Cathedral:|Russian/English Poems”
TravelEvents/Projects/CollaborationsNon-fictionInterviewTravel Writing/Literary TourismLITERARY ARTS
August 22, 2021
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”||2021 Update||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|”Trapped in Vietnam:|The Experience of an Australian Nomad”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 21, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Austin Horn|”Ahead of Time”
ArtsSpecial AnnouncementsCall for Submissions
August 10, 2021
Special Announcements||OPEN CALL for Submissions|Theater Arts: Drama as Plays for Page or Stage
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||D.S. Maolalai|”A Sacrament”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Wendy Taylor Carlisle|”Dogwood”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||D.S. Maolalai|”My dog makes a metaphor”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Charlie Brice|”Nuremberg”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Julia Chiapella|”HOW TO FORGIVE”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
August 2, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Paul Ruta|”The Arc of a Bullet”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 31, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ray Corvi|”[SPEAX THE SPEECH]”
Broadside SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titles
July 23, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ruhi Jiwani|”Buffalo”
THEATER ARTSScreen writing
July 20, 2021
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Richard John Miller|”The Trenton Six”
THEATER ARTSDrama for stage or page
July 19, 2021
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage||Donald Dewey|”Sweeps”
THEATER ARTSScreen writing
July 18, 2021
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Natascha Graham|”French Beans & Inner Peace”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
July 18, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Widerkehr|”Deer in Fog at Twilight Near Squalicum Lake Road”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 18, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction/Memoir||Edward M. Cohen|”Tea and Sympathy and Lies”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Deer in Fog At Twilight Near Squalicum Lake Road”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mercury-Marvin Sunderland|”In. And Out.”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Stanizzi|”FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sandra Newton|”CUTTING BACK”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sandra Newton|”Warnings”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Sympathy for the Scarecrow”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Spin The Bottle: 1958″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”At O’Hare Airport: Her Foxgloves”
Chapbook SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titles
July 15, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction||Wayne Cresser|”Here Comes Herodotus, Again!”
ArtsTHEATER ARTSScreen writingSpecial AnnouncementsCall for Submissions
July 14, 2021
Special Announcements||Open Call for Submissions|Theater Arts: Screen Writing|Feature Film Screenplay/Concept Video/Series Pilot Script
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Pamela Huber|South Lake, Tahoe
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
July 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Pamela Huber|”Clams”
ArtsSpecial AnnouncementsAwards Announcement
July 1, 2021
The First Annual O:JA&L Prize for Flash Discourse||Selected and with an introduction by|Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
June 4, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”Democracy Has Lifted Its Voice”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
June 4, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Kyle Ingrid Johnson|”It’s Time to Go”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
June 3, 2021
Featured Series: Works by Members|of the Two-Year College Caucus at AWP|Flash Discourse: Fiction||2YC Member Steven R. Wolfe|”The Pit”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
June 2, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Poetry & Prose||Works by Members|of the Two-Year College Caucus at AWP|”2YC Review: THE WORKS”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
June 1, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Amanda Leal|”Gratitude”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTS
May 28, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning||Anne Whitehouse|”Soldier, Sailor:|Edgar Allan Poe and His Brother Henry”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
May 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Luna Dragon Mac-Williams|”Fossils”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 25, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Elaine Neil Orr|”Shared History Is|the Chimney that Doesn’t Burn Down|Even if the Rest of the House Does|Or,|How to Stay Married
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Judy Decroce|”Bad News”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
May 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Cezarija Abartis|”The Angel Fairy”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
May 24, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||William Neuenfeldt|”The Day We Stopped Laughing”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
May 23, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||William Neuenfeldt|”Swedish Knight”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
May 23, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ellis Elliott|”Promises”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
May 22, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Madison Smartt Bell’s|’The Naked Lady'”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 16, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ellis Elliott|”Lineage”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cal Freeman|”Self-Portrait as a Straw Man Rowing in Place”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cal Freeman|”Giacommetti’s Heads”
Broadside SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titles
May 13, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”Winter’s Orphan”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”U.S. Covid-19 Deaths Top 76,000″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”Hyenas”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”Conversation with a Skunk”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
May 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”As Though the Narrative Went Out for a Smoke”
Non-fictionBook ReviewFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
May 10, 2021
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Flash Discourse: CNF||Karlene Bayok Edwards|”Brian Doyle’s ‘One Long River of Song:|Notes on Wonder'”
LITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental DiscourseXP Prose
May 7, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2021 theme: “1 of 24– the story of an hour”||Jim Meirose|”In the Shadow of the World’s Largest Cross”
Available titlesPamphlet SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
May 7, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series|Flash Discourse: Annual Call for Themed Submissions|Super-Flash (100 words)|2021 theme: “Vignette/The Open Window”||O.G. Rose|”The Open Window”
Chapbook SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titles
May 4, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Chapbook Series||Don Robishaw|”Just Willie Please: Eight Flash Fiction Tales”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||George Rawlins|”Chatterton Meets Rimbaud”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
April 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||George Rawlins|”Grub Street Parties”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesBroadside Series
April 26, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series: Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Fine Art Photography||Marjorie Maddox/Karen Elias|”X-Ray/Chiaroscuro” (A collaboration)
Events/Projects/CollaborationsPoetryLyricNarrativeSTUDIO ARTSFine Art PhotographyLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
April 26, 2021
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Fine Art Photography||Marjorie Maddox/Karen Elias|”X-Ray/Chiaroscuro”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 20, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ariel M. Goldenthal|”A Life in a Day”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 20, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ariel M. Goldenthal|”Cicada Love”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 16, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Kathleen Powers-Vermaelen|”No Joke”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
April 15, 2021
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Todd Robinson|”Nebraska”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Samantha Terrell|”Solace”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 11, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Samantha Terrell|”There’s a Saying, ‘Live, Laugh, Love’”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 11, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Jessica Manack|”Just Say No”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)Essay, PersonalFlash Essay (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
April 11, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Jessica Manack|”The Boy Who Went to Divinity School”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
April 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Alan Perry|”In Jeopardy” (for Alex Trebeck)
Mixed FormsSequential Art Stories/Graphic novelsSTUDIO ARTSLITERARY ARTS
March 19, 2021
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narratives||”The Mark”|Story and Art by Siolo Thompson|Lettering by Michael Stock
Non-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSExperimental Discourse
March 17, 2021
Experimental Discourse|Interview||”Contributing Editor WJP Newnham|talks with Freya Howarth concerning|the new Australian XP anthology Dizzy Limits”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Jerome Berglund|”Exalt”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 12, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Allison Whittenberg|”Life as a Cliché”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Tyler Jacobs|”ELEGY”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Erik Harper Klass|”Bruno Jasieński”|from Polish Poets in Beds with Girls,|and Other True Stories (Part II)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Erik Harper Klass|”Jan Lechoń”|From Polish Poets in Beds with Girls,|and Other True Stories (Part II)
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
March 8, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Erik Harper Klass|”Antoni Słonimski”|from Polish Poets in Beds with Girls,|and Other True Stories (Part II)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Carolyn Martin|”An Elegy in Two Memoirs”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
March 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Carolyn Martin|”Ben Franklin”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSSubmissions
March 2, 2021
Buttonhook Press|Open call for chapbook submissions: 2021|Flash fiction or flash nonfiction
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Alec Schmidt|”The Last Woman”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 22, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicholas Samaras|”This Is Not Here” (An Apology)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 22, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicholas Samaras|”Apologies”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Charlie McCormick|”Cocked”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Charlie McCormick|”A Fond Farewell For a Friend: October 21st, 2003″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 21, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kai Zweibel|”Is That Enough?”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Terri Drake|”Thin Veil Through the Thinning Trees”
ArtsSpecial AnnouncementsCall for SubmissionsPublic Service Announcements
February 20, 2021
Public Service Announcement|Call for Contest Submissions: Gunpowder Press|”The Barry Spacks Poetry Prize”
FictionShort Story (to 10,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Long forms (to 10,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 18, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Harriet Garfinkle|”The Ghoul and the Gunslinger”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”|Brett Thompson|”An Elegy for Richard Nixon”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Brett Thompson|”For This”|
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
February 8, 2021
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Alex Andy Phuong|”A Review of The Last Tiger Is Somewhere|Poetry by Robert Carney and Scott Poole”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 8, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Travis Stephens|”THE BROWNS VS THE BLUES”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Laura Sweeney|”At the Fountain”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Laura Sweeney|”I Listen to the Soundtrack from A Star Is Born”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
February 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Quincy Gray McMichael|”What Was Lost”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Don Louis Robishaw|”Whatever Happened to the American Dream”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Amanda Leal|”Clues”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
February 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Amanda Leal|”The Telephone Game”
Available titlesPamphlet SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
January 30, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Atar Hadari|”Last of the Gallants, Elegies”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kamil Czyz|”Patria Nostra, my family”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kolbe Riney|”lenses”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kolbe Riney|”textures”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Kolbe Riney|”obol”
Special AnnouncementsEditor's AdviceArtsNon-fictionEssay, CraftPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)STUDIO ARTSTHEATER ARTSLITERARY ARTS
January 25, 2021
Contributing Editor Hermione Laake|Editor’s Advice|”How to Prepare a Professional|Biographical Statement”
Special AnnouncementsEditor's AdviceNon-fictionEssay, CraftPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)STUDIO ARTSTHEATER ARTSLITERARY ARTS
January 25, 2021
Contributing Editor Hermione Laake|Editor’s Advice|”How to Submit via Submittable”
Broadside SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titles
January 24, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Laura Ohlmann|”Cycling Around Lake Davis”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 18, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Victor Pambuccian|”Seeing in Hiding”
UncategorizedPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 18, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|Victor Pambuccian|”Visibly Missing”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 18, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Victor Pambuccian|”Elegy”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Steve Gehrke|”Rousseau at the Giant Burger”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Steve Gehrke|”Out into the Day –Marfa, TX, 2009″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Steve Gehrke|”The Hole”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 16, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Steve Gehrke|”Reverse Abecedarian Prayer”
Non-fictionEssay, CraftPERFORMANCE ARTS (As Audios/Videos)Oral Interpretation/Spoken WordTHEATER ARTSLITERARY ARTS
January 14, 2021
Contributing Editor Hermione Laake|Editor’s Advice|”How to Record Voice”
Available titlesPamphlet SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
January 14, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles|Sloan Asakura|”How to Love a Headstone”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
January 12, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2020 Chapbook Series||”O:JA&L Pushcart Prize Nominees: 2019″
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesChapbook Series
January 10, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Chapbook Series||”O:JA&L Pushcart Prize Nominees: 2018″
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Pedro Hoffmeister|”OR THE DEATH OF JIM LONEY”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Laura Ohlmann|”NUCLEAR”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Carl Boon|”The Troubles”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Barry Seiler|”In Memory of Show Business”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
January 5, 2021
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Anna Cates|”Love in the Time of Covid”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
January 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Christopher Ruff|”Moonrise, Late Autumn”
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Gene Twaronite|”Be Safe”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 4, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Oyster shells can sing if they are empty”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 4, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”In Our House”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 3, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Kamikaze bugs look like my hands|when i’m holding onto him”
XP ProseEvents/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental Discourse
January 3, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Verena Mahlow|”Good-bye, Shoes”
XP ProseEvents/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental Discourse
January 3, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Oscar Davis|”To become an opera singer or a physicist”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”She wears me whenever I wear her jeans”
WritersPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
January 2, 2021
Writer’s Portfolio|Sloan Asakura|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”|”Altar”
XP ProseEvents/Projects/CollaborationsFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental Discourse
January 2, 2021
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Lauren Dennis|”This Guy.”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewPoetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
December 30, 2020
Special Feature|Executive Editor Cutter Streeby|”An Interview with the Poet: Victoria Chang”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 29, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Marina Rubin|”THE BARBER”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 29, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|Marina Rubin|”Citarella”
Featured ProjectFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalPoetryLyricNarrativeProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
December 16, 2020
Featured Series: Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash/Short Story to 2000 words|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)|Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||M Bennett|”I watch this new lover fire the whole world down & want to burn, too or sweetheart, let me tell you a ghost story”
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
December 15, 2020
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Owen Bullock|”U2″
Mixed FormsHaibunLITERARY ARTS
December 15, 2020
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Owen Bullock|”The Water Carrier”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Alan Clark|“…writes with flowers, colors with songs”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 15, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Alan Clark|”The View from Here- 10/31/20″
PoetryProse poetryLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 13, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Prose Poetry|2020 theme: “A Lover’s Complaint”|Brad Rose|”Lucky, I Guess”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
December 12, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Issues of Poetic Practice|Rachel Custer|”Against Art as a Radical Subjectivity”|(an excerpt from the 2019 O:JA&L interview)
Broadside SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titles
December 11, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Evegenia Jen Baraonova|”Ox-eye Daisies”|(Translated by Sergey Gerasimov)
Available titlesChapbook SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESS
December 11, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Chapbook Series|Experimental Discourse:CNF||Contributing Editor WJP Newnham|”Ray-the-Roo”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 8, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Mike Puican|”Praying Through the Ruins”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Joseph Hutchison|”Black Willow”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Paul Glenn|”Jack Kerouac”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 7, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Karla Linn Merrifield|”Duane’s Blues”
FictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Prose Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 7, 2020
Flash Discourse: Fiction|James Roderick Burns|”A Crack on the Head is What You Get for Not Asking,|And A Crack on the Head is What You Get for Asking”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Bonnie Larson Staiger|”A Second Finding”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Bonnie Larson Staiger|”Elegy for Mary Oliver”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured Project
December 6, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||Bonnie Larson Staiger|”The Rune’s Requiem”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
December 5, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”A Review of ‘Outside from the Inside’|Poetry by Anne Whitehouse”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
December 5, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Brady Udall’s ‘The Wig’”
Chapbook SeriesBUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titles
December 4, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Chapbook Series|”POETRY: Three Essays on Craft|by O:JA&L Featured Writers|Claudia Serea|Kendra Tanacea|Natalie Young”
XP ProseFictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)ExperimentalBUTTONHOOK PRESSDrama for stage or pageAvailable titlesLITERARY ARTSPamphlet SeriesFEATUREDFeatured ProjectExperimental Discourse
December 4, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Pamphlet Series|SPECIAL EDITION|Featured Series:Experimental Discourse (XP)|Double Flash to 2000 Words: Closet Drama|2020 theme: “Tranche de Vie” (Slice of Life)||Anthony Hamilton|”…are serious offenses, and…”
TranslationPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Translation from the Russian|Evgenia Jen Baranova|”Winter”|(trans. Sergey Gerasimov)
TranslationPoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Translation from the Russian|Evgenia Jen Baranova|”Ox-eye Daisies”|(trans. Sergey Gerasimov)
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
December 3, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Catherine Stansfield|”MAKIN’ MOVES”
Non-fictionFlash CNF/Memoir (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTS
December 3, 2020
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF||Melanie Brake|”Beyond Twenties”
PoetryLyricNarrativeLITERARY ARTS
November 26, 2020
Poetry: All forms & styles|Concrete Poetry|Abigail Ardelle Zammit|”Rodetes, Dama de Elche”
Non-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewLITERARY ARTSbook or article review or close reading
November 26, 2020
Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Contributing Editor Alex Andy Phuong|”A Review of Singing Back to the Sirens,|Poetry by Margaret Deritter”
BUTTONHOOK PRESSAvailable titlesPamphlet Series
November 22, 2020
Buttonhook Press|2020 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Issues of Poetic Practice|Rachel Custer|”Safe Spaces: A Pretty Lie”
WritersNon-fictionInterviewLITERARY ARTSFEATURED
November 18, 2020