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March 7, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”Poems for Families”
June 1, 2023
O:JA&L Featured Artist Masters Series:|Digital Artists|2023 Portfolio Spotlights||Edward Supranowicz|Selected Images (with links)
June 1, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cynthia Good|”Something to be Thankful For”
June 1, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cynthia Good|”What’s True”
May 31, 2023
O:JA&L Featured Artist Masters Series:|Established Artists|2023 Portfolio Spotlights||Gery Kempczynski|Selected Images
May 25, 2023
Flash Fiction||Christine Vartoughian|”The Benefits of Being Misunderstood”
May 24, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage|One-Act Play||Paul Bowman|”Street Scene”
May 24, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Editor-at-Large Rachel Custer|”What Lies Submerged: Myth and Monster|in Natalie Young’s ‘All of This Was Once Under Water'”
May 24, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ryan Griffith’s ‘Thrill of Fire’”
May 23, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Lyrical Essay/Memoir||Mea Cohen|”How not to come down”
May 22, 2023
Buttonhook Press: 2023 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku|A Writer’s Portfolio||Jerome Gagnon|”Night Train”
May 20, 2023
Buttonhook Press: 2023 Pamphlet Series|Americana|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Writer’s Portfolio||Jeffrey Gray|”The Aquarian Foundation”
May 5, 2023
Hot Button Press|2023 Broadside Series|Flash Discourse: Creative Nonfiction||Aarron Sholar|”To Hate My Female Body”
May 3, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Steve Myers|”Prologue”
May 1, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Richard Stimac|”Epiphany”
May 1, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||Steve Duprey|”Women of a Certain Age”
April 30, 2023
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for Page or Stage||William Ivor Fowkes|”The Seeker”
April 28, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ace Boggess|“Why Are You Feeling Blah?”
April 28, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Anu Kumar|”The Sound of Planes”
April 19, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Jeffrey Gray|”Homiletic Ode to the Everly Brothers”
April 19, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Jeffrey Gray|”Seattle Induction Center, 1967″
April 18, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Essay||Paul Perilli|”THE MAYAN BALL GAME”
April 18, 2023
Flash Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Alden Cullinane|”The Porcelain God Is Female”
April 10, 2023
Buttonhook Press: 2023 Pamphlet Series|A Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Steve Myers|”Once There Was a Way”
April 9, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Steve Myers|”Epilogue”
April 9, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Steve Myers|”Once There Was a Way”
April 6, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jill Ruscoll|”Lightness in Winter”
April 4, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Contemporary Issues||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Diversophiles Everywhere!”
April 4, 2023
O:JA&L Public Service Announcement|Featured Event||”Saturday Afternoon Poetry Workshops|with Terry Lucas “
March 29, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jacqueline Hughes Simon|”In the Walking”
March 29, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Brendan Rowland|”Inverness”
March 29, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Shawna Ervin|”L”
March 29, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Shawna Ervin|”P”
March 28, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Experimental Discourse: Fiction||Blossom Hibbert|”Six Coffees with a Madman”
March 28, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Kimberly Nunes|”In Rome”
March 26, 2023
Buttonhook Press: 2023 Pamphlet Series|A Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Edison Jennings|”Local Habitations”
March 24, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”WHY WE DON’T OPEN THE CLOSET”
March 24, 2023
Poetry: all forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”SLEEPY HOLLOW”
March 24, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”LISTENING TO THE CD YOU MADE FOR ME, ONE CHRISTMAS TEN YEARS AGO”
March 24, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”MY VIRTUAL SON”
March 24, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sharon Kennedy-Nolle|”A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WAR OF REBELLION”
March 23, 2023
Poetry: all forms & styles||Jason M. Thornberry|”Surrender”
March 23, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Lee Varon|”Eclipse”
March 23, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ben Jacques|”Jackhammer Poems”
March 21, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||James Roth|”Jacob: a Greendale Garden Boy”
March 20, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Heikki Huotari|”How the Mayfly Got Its Megaphone”
March 13, 2023
HOT BUTTON PRESS|2023 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Contemporary Issues||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Democrats be Trippin'”
March 12, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Adjei Agyei-Baah|”Tales of the Kite”
March 9, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Pamphlet Series||Spencer Silverthorne|”Occasions for Listening”|(Excerpts from WIP)
March 2, 2023
O:JA&L Public Service Announcement|Featured Event||Team NeetiBisht®|”The GROUP ART EXHIBITION”
February 27, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Experimental Nonfiction (XP)|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Ron Theel|”the long goodbye”
February 25, 2023
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Americana||Jim Meirose|”An Appreciation for Statuary”
February 24, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir|Americana||Kerstin Schulz|”Collections”
February 24, 2023
Special Announcements|Volunteer Opportunity at O:JA&L||Wanted:|Editorial Assistants: Readers-in-Performance|(Voice Artists)
February 23, 2023
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Amita Basu|”Walking”
February 21, 2023
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||James Joaquin Brewer|”Juan and Donne”
February 21, 2023
Special Announcement|HOT BUTTON PRESS (Contemporary Issues)|An imprint of OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)||OPEN CALL for Submissions|as articles, editorials, or position papers|concerning the contemporary state|of literary and fine arts
February 17, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Experimental (XP)/Hybrid||Spencer Silverthorne|”The Speaker is Listening to ‘You Make Me Like Charity’|by The Knife On The Occasion of A Sudden Departure|from a Benefit in the Park”
February 17, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Italo Calvino’s|’The Man Who Shouted Teresa'”
February 16, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jane Schapiro|”Black Hole”
February 16, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Michael Ansara|”SPRING MORNING, 2021″
February 13, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Anne Whitehouse|”LADY BIRD”
February 9, 2023
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Ray Gonzalez|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer & artist Ray Gonzalez”
February 9, 2023
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||K.A. Nielsen|”The Real You”
February 5, 2023
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mitzi Dorton|”Shelter”
February 2, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Memoir||Ellen Brown|”Better Times”
February 2, 2023
Poetry: all forms & styles|Americana||Michael Brosnan|”Sixth Floor, Alley Window”
February 1, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Michael Brosnan|”The Blur”
February 1, 2023
Poetry: all forms & styles||Cathy Allman|”OUR THIRD ACT—THE SUNSHINE STATE”
January 30, 2023
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series||Ray Gonzalez|”The Book of Whispers”
January 21, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Anne Whitehouse|”Being Ruth Asawa”
January 20, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Suzanne O’Connell|”When I Left”
January 15, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Lori Rottenberg|”1940 Census”
January 8, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Andreea Finichiu|”Playing Fetch”
January 8, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku & Senryu||Hassane Zemmouri|”School Songs”
January 7, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Richard Plant’s|’Flatland'”
January 6, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Broadside Series: Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Patricia Cannon/Autumn Foote|”Ohio Night”
January 6, 2023
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Patricia Cannon/Autumn Foote|”Ohio Night”
January 4, 2023
Buttonhook Press|2023 Pamphlet Series|Editorials on Issues of Contemporary Aesthetics||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Perseus with the Head of Medusa”
January 4, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Lori Rottenberg|”What Handsome Harry Carried in His Wallet|for 70 Years”
January 4, 2023
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Lori Rottenberg|”Inheritance”
January 4, 2023
Poetry: All forms & styles||Rochelle Jewel Shapiro|”READING CHARLES BUKOWSKI”
January 2, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor tano rubio|”Finishing Incomplete:|A Review of Yasmin Mariam Kloth’s|Ancestry Unfinished: Poems of a Lost Generation”
January 1, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Essay|Editorials on Issues of Contemporary Aesthetics||Contributing Editor Mick McGrath|”Perseus with the Head of Medusa”
December 22, 2022
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series||Mark Budman|”Flash Fiction: Read Deeper. Have More Fun.”
December 20, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Claudia Serea|”Self-portrait on Independence Boulevard”
December 19, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Claudia Serea|”If I could go back in time”
December 19, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Crockett Hill|”Abecedarian for Lost Time”
December 19, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||James Roderick Burns|”Nightcap”
December 18, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Karen Schauber|”Flâneur”
December 18, 2022
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay|Americana||Logan Silva|”A Feast of Spread”
December 15, 2022
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narrative||James Notarianni|”Alchemy of the Mind”
December 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Richard Widerkehr|”As We Walk West in Late Afternoon: Ira Speaks”
December 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Villanelle|Americana||Kimberly Coburn|”Villanelle for Townes”
December 6, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Claudia Serea|”In the city with tired bones”
December 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Claudia Serea|”The Statue of Liberty goes home to Brooklyn”
December 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Claudia Serea|”Minestrone Soup”
December 5, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Don Noel|”Talking with Ravens”
December 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Jennifer Clark|”A Balloon Called Young America”
December 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Tim Hunt|”The Fiddler”
December 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press|Authors available on Amazon||James Weitz||”The Pandemic Letters:|Interviews with travelers trapped abroad|during COVID”
December 3, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Tim Hunt|”Saying Grace”
December 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Jennifer Clark|”Almost a lullaby on this cold night”
December 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Anne Myles|”On Chrystie Street”
December 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Anne Myles|”Girl in a Red Dress with Cat and Dog”
November 30, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Fine Art Photography||Adjei Agyei-Baah & Jerome Berglund|”High Fashion”
November 23, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Ryland Shengzhi Li|”Close by”
November 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Owen Bullock|”Moons”
November 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Owen Bullock|”The Alan Gogoll Trio”
November 18, 2022
Buttonhook Press|Authors available on Amazon||Pamelyn Casto||Flash Fiction: Alive in the Flicker|A Portable Workshop
November 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mark Belair|”MAY SNOWFALL”
October 30, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Bethany Reid|”Lessons in Beekeeping”
October 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & Styles|Americana||Priscilla Long|”What Happened This Morning”
October 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Priscilla Long|”Strip Mine”
October 27, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Priscilla Long|”Chester River Reverie”
October 24, 2022
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Cutter Streeby|”A Review of ‘Ouafa and Thawra:|About a Lover from Tunisia’ by Arturo Desimone”
October 17, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Mark Budman|Interview||Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with writer Mark Budman
October 8, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Mike Murray|”RESIDUUM”
October 6, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Prose Discourse: Short Story to 10000 words||Mike Murray|”Salton Sea”
September 25, 2022
Special Announcements|OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)|2023 Calls for Submissions|All categories||Buttonhook Press|2023 Calls for Submissions|Broadsides/Pamphlets/Chapbooks
September 24, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Thomas Mitchell|”Sparrows”
September 24, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Thomas Mitchell|”County Fair”
September 23, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Mixed Forms|Irish/English Haibun||Gabriel Rosenstock|”The Selborne Haibun”
September 21, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nathan Nicolau|”Lunch with Frank O’Hara at the Mexican Cantina: Selected and Abridged”
September 18, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Toshihisa Nikaido|”Meibunka (Life Culture)”
September 18, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Americana||Jessica Purdy|”Murder in the House:|The ‘Nutshells’ of Frances Glessner Lee”
September 15, 2022
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narrative||Nicolò Monti & Alessandro Saccotelli|Graphic Adaptation|Ernest Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain”
September 12, 2022
Flash Discourse: Travel Writing|Featured Series: Personal Essay|2020 Theme: “The Pandemic Letters: Trapped Overseas”||2022 Update||Associate Editor Jim Weitz|
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'”
September 9, 2022
Buttonhook Press||Special Project Sponsors & Patrons
September 2, 2022
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September 2, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”Family Photo of America”
August 31, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”IF YOU’VE EVER BEEN ASLEEP”
August 31, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”FAMILY PHOTO OF AMERICA”
August 31, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynne Potts|”WHAT HOLDS TOGETHER”
August 29, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun|Americana||David Walsh|”Gettysburg”
August 12, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Michael Mandlin|”Larks”
August 1, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicole Rollender|”The Etymology of Sacrifice”
August 1, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Nicole Rollender|”Yesterday’s Gutted Girl”
July 30, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Greg Sendi|”A Compass for Ariadne”
July 28, 2022
Featured Writer Wayne Scheer|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with flash fiction writer Wayne Scheer”
July 28, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction||Wayne Scheer|”Zen and the Art of House Painting”|New and Selected Work
July 28, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana|| Steve Myers|”Dove, South Mountain”
July 23, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Elena Botts|”Thanks for Calling”
July 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Keith Polette|”Enkidu”
July 21, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Mixed Forms: Haibun||Keith Polette|”War and Riff”
July 21, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Keith Polette|”War and Riff”
July 20, 2022
Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Scheer|Flash Discourse: Fiction||”Sweet Cherry”
July 20, 2022
Writer’s Portfolio: Wayne Scheer|Flash Discourse: Fiction||”Springtime in Mississippi”
July 18, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Irish/English Haiku||Gabriel Rosenstock|”A Sweater for the Tayfel”|A Celebration of the Art of Issachar Ber Ryback
July 17, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Mixed Forms|Haibun||Taofeek Ayeyemi|”Dust and Rust”|with a foreword by Rich Youmans
July 16, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce Bond|”The Curve of the Open Page”
July 14, 2022
Mixed Forms: Sequential Art Narrative||”The King of Capitalism”|Story and Art by Donald L. Patten
June 19, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce Bond|”The Curve of the Open Page”
June 18, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Joshua St. Claire|”les rois fainéants”
June 18, 2022
Poetry: All forms 7 styles|Haiku||Joshua St. Claire|”a gnomon”
June 13, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Richard Widerkehr|”When A Hawk Flushes An Undulating Flock Of Dunlins”
June 13, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Richard Widerkehr|”In Grandma Hale’s Painting, Which She Gave Me”
June 13, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Aaron Guile|”Bit by Bit”
June 13, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Aaron Guile|”A Response to Classical Theology”
June 9, 2022
Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series||Brian Clements|”Seductive and Subversive Prose Poetry”
June 6, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Jim Meirose|”At Jesse Owens’ Grave”
June 6, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Emerging Writers|Poetry: All forms & styles||Jacob Laba|”Bareness”
June 4, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynn Hoggard|”RED-BILLED, BLACK-BELLIED, WHITE-WINGED TEXAS WHISTLING DUCKS”
June 4, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Americana||Lynn Hoggard|”PRAYER”
June 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press||The Chapbook Series
June 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press||The Pamphlet Series
June 1, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer Brian Clements|An Essay on Craft||”Some Generic Notes on Short Prose”
May 26, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Edward Supranowicz|”Never Again”
May 25, 2022
Buttonhook Press||The Broadside Series
May 20, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Melinda McCamant’s|’Clamming Up’”
May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Southern Fiction”
May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Birdie”
May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Life of the Hermit”
May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Radius”
May 19, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Writer|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Prolegomenon to Any Future Poem”
May 12, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Jason Thornberry|”Fool’s Gold”
May 10, 2022
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)||Jim Meirose|”The Keys”
May 10, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose poetry||Jason Thornberry|”Fool’s Gold”
May 9, 2022
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Marjorie Maddox/Anna Lee Hafer|”Switch”
May 9, 2022
Featured Collaboration|Poetry: All forms & styles/Visual Arts||Marjorie Maddox/Margaret Munz-Losch|”At the American Visionary Art Museum: White Rabbit”
May 3, 2022
The O:JA&L Masters Series|Featured Poet Brian Clements|Interview||”Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|talks with poet Brian Clements”
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'”
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”MISERY THE TUTOR”
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”MAPPING”
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”THE GIFT OF YES”
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”DO GEESE SEE GOD?”
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mary Ann Dimand|”DESIGNS”
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Catherine Reef|”This Evening”
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”Kid Stuff”
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”The Longer Dead”
April 5, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Keith T. Fancher|”Mendonoma”
April 4, 2022
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction||Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis|”Rip Torn”
March 28, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|2022 Feature: Americana||Barbara Daniels|”Street Shrine”
March 28, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|2022 Feature: Americana||Barbara Daniels|”Unknown American Paintings”
March 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Tustin|”RUINED”
March 24, 2022
Experimental Discourse: Flash Fiction||David Herman|”The Lost Notebooks of Black Beauty”
March 24, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Adjei Agyei-Baah|”Scaring Crow”|With a Foreword by Hiroaki Sato
March 9, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Owen Bullock|”Modal”
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”MOTHERS’ DAY”
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”The Latest Articulation Errors”
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”[How to Finish the End Paper]”
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Christine Hamm|”Persephone in the Tunnel of Love”
March 8, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson||”HIGHLINE PARK IN NYC”
March 7, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kirby Olson|”AT STONY LANE POOL, GLADWYNE”
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”ETHNOGRAPHY OF HORROR, DOMESTICATED”
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”WESTERN PSYCHONAUTS of the POSTPARTUM PERIOD”
March 6, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”COMING HOME”
March 3, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Jianqing Zheng|”Delta Notes”
February 26, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Lyric Essay||Scott F. Parker|”Between Other Countries”
February 23, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||John-Michael Bloomquist|”Hanno”
February 23, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||John-Michael Bloomquist|”La Primavera According to Savonarola”
February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”REVISED LONELY PLANET GUIDE TO HOLY MEN”
February 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Adrie Kusserow|”QUARANTINE DREAMS”
February 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poem as CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Yasmin Mariam Kloth|”At the Souk”
February 13, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘Therapists'”
February 9, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Lauren Camp|”Faraway Love”
February 8, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Bruce Robinson|”Comedy Hour”
February 7, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Kerry Rawlinson|”the girl who swallowed a bird”
February 6, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||J.R. Solonche|”FALSE MESSIAH”
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”
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”
February 4, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mark Blickley|”Hunger Pains”
February 2, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Personal Essay||Elena Botts|”Braamfontein”
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”
January 30, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|Personal Essay||Nadja Maril|”Admiration for my Grandmother’s Pitcher”
January 29, 2022
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”Reviews of Anne Whitehouse’s Chapbooks|’Surrealist Muse’ and ‘Escaping Lee Miller’”
January 28, 2022
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Cesca Janece Waterfield|”Anamnesis”
January 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Blake Everitt|”THE PROBLEM WITH HOPE”
January 27, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||E.R. Lutken|”Conservation of Momentum”
January 27, 2022
Buttonhook Press|2022 Chapbook Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brad Rose|”Funny You Should Ask”
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
January 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Gabriela Gonzales|”packing”
January 17, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose poetry||Gabriela Gonzales|”Stendhal”
January 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF (Creative Nonfiction)||Hermione Laake|”Palindrome”
January 17, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Ernie Brill|”Tommy”
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”
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Michael Steffen|”Precedented Times”
January 16, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Howie Good|”Apocalyptically Yours”
January 16, 2022
Flash Discourse: Fiction||DA Hogan|”LOVE TOO SOON”
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Alter Inertia|”on the way from summer’s”
January 16, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Jason M. Thornberry|”Residue of Yesterday”
January 15, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||James Croal Jackson|”Carl Reiner Photoshoot”
January 15, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles||Richard Oyama|”What I do not think”
January 11, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Anne Whitehouse|”AUDEN’S BOOKCASE”
January 10, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Anne Whitehouse|”DANTE’S TOMBS”
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'”
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||RC deWinter|”ghosted”
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Patricia Cannon|”Breaking That Empty Plate in the Sky”
January 2, 2022
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Cassady O’Reilly-Hahn|”Eviction”
December 21, 2021
Mixed Forms: Haibun||Jianqing Zheng|”Attachment”
December 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Hermione Laake|”Dance for me, Baby”
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”Rendezvous Monochrome”
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”Burrator Reservoir”
December 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Robin Knight|”A Bout de Souffle”
December 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach|”Grief Ode”
December 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach|”Horizon”
December 6, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Allisa Cherry|”Mogollon Rim”
December 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Allisa Cherry|”Exegesis”
December 5, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Valerie Bacharach”There Must Be”
December 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Allisa Cherry|”Here I Take”
November 26, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2020 Chapbook Series|Mixed Forms: Haibun||Jeff Streeby|”WILE: Sketches from Nature”
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”
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”
November 20, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Frederick Pollack|”Interruption”
November 7, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir/Personal Essay||Dan Shewan|”The Wrong Kind of Bastard”
November 7, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Arturo Desimone|”Eritrean Neighbourhood in South Tel Aviv”
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)”
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
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||John L. Stanizzi|”Early Fall”
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Halsey Hyer|”Elegy for Olivia”
November 4, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Jan Karlo Lopez|”Heartbreak Heist”
November 4, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anthony DeGenaro|”All I know of Coal”
November 3, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Anthony DeGenaro|”Aria for Poland Woods”
October 27, 2021
Flash Discourse: Historical Fiction||Aurelien Hannoyer|”Artemisia”
October 21, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘The Mice'”
October 3, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Gordon Taylor|”When You Attached”
September 29, 2021
Studio Arts: Digital Imagery|Artist Portfolio||Edward Michael Supranowicz
September 29, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Sean Padraic McCarthy|”Topping”
September 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Experimental Fiction (XP)|Short Story||Jim Meirose|”Deep Fry”
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”
September 19, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ursula Hegi’s ‘Doves'”
September 17, 2021
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage||Mark Blickley|”Troupe 621″ (A play in one act)
September 12, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Megan Marie Sullivan|”The Stylist”
September 6, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||L. Shapley Bassen|”Grisaille”
September 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Marte Carlock|”The Deserter”
August 30, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||R.A. Shockley|”When to Cry on the Bus”
August 30, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Melissa E. Jordan|”The Sedoka Interviews: Cycle 1″
August 30, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Melissa E. Jordan|”The Sedoka Interviews: Cycle 2″
August 29, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Andrey Gritsman|”Light in the Cathedral”/”CBET B XPAME”
August 26, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Stephanie Anderson|”Grief in Miniature”
August 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Translation||Andrey Gritsman|”LIGHT IN THE CATHEDRAL”
August 25, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Andrey Gritsman|”Light in the Cathedral:|Russian/English Poems”
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”
August 21, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Austin Horn|”Ahead of Time”
August 10, 2021
Special Announcements||OPEN CALL for Submissions|Theater Arts: Drama as Plays for Page or Stage
August 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||D.S. Maolalai|”A Sacrament”
August 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Wendy Taylor Carlisle|”Dogwood”
August 9, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||D.S. Maolalai|”My dog makes a metaphor”
August 2, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Charlie Brice|”Nuremberg”
August 2, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Julia Chiapella|”HOW TO FORGIVE”
August 2, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Paul Ruta|”The Arc of a Bullet”
July 31, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ray Corvi|”[SPEAX THE SPEECH]”
July 23, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ruhi Jiwani|”Buffalo”
July 20, 2021
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Richard John Miller|”The Trenton Six”
July 19, 2021
Theater Arts|Drama: Plays for page or stage||Donald Dewey|”Sweeps”
July 18, 2021
Theater Arts|Screen Writing: Feature Film||Natascha Graham|”French Beans & Inner Peace”
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”
July 18, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction/Memoir||Edward M. Cohen|”Tea and Sympathy and Lies”
July 17, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Deer in Fog At Twilight Near Squalicum Lake Road”
July 15, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Mercury-Marvin Sunderland|”In. And Out.”
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||John Stanizzi|”FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD”
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sandra Newton|”CUTTING BACK”
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Sandra Newton|”Warnings”
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Sympathy for the Scarecrow”
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”Spin The Bottle: 1958″
July 15, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Writer’s Portfolio||Richard Widerkehr|”At O’Hare Airport: Her Foxgloves”
July 15, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Chapbook Series|Flash Discourse: Fiction||Wayne Cresser|”Here Comes Herodotus, Again!”
July 14, 2021
Special Announcements||Open Call for Submissions|Theater Arts: Screen Writing|Feature Film Screenplay/Concept Video/Series Pilot Script
July 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Pamela Huber|South Lake, Tahoe
July 5, 2021
Flash Discourse: Fiction||Pamela Huber|”Clams”
July 1, 2021
The First Annual O:JA&L Prize for Flash Discourse||Selected and with an introduction by|Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
June 4, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”Democracy Has Lifted Its Voice”
June 4, 2021
Flash Discourse: Nonfiction|CNF/Memoir||Kyle Ingrid Johnson|”It’s Time to Go”
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”
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”
June 1, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Amanda Leal|”Gratitude”
May 28, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Academic Writing|Issues of Aesthetics & Meaning||Anne Whitehouse|”Soldier, Sailor:|Edgar Allan Poe and His Brother Henry”
May 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2021 theme: “Lost Cause”||Luna Dragon Mac-Williams|”Fossils”
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
May 25, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Judy Decroce|”Bad News”
May 24, 2021
Prose Discourse: Fiction|Short Story||Cezarija Abartis|”The Angel Fairy”
May 24, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||William Neuenfeldt|”The Day We Stopped Laughing”
May 23, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles|Featured Series: Elegy|2020 theme: “Public Servant or Cultural Icon”||William Neuenfeldt|”Swedish Knight”
May 23, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Pamphlet Series: Writer’s Portfolio|Poetry: All forms & styles||Ellis Elliott|”Promises”
May 22, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Madison Smartt Bell’s|’The Naked Lady'”
May 16, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Ellis Elliott|”Lineage”
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cal Freeman|”Self-Portrait as a Straw Man Rowing in Place”
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Cal Freeman|”Giacommetti’s Heads”
May 13, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”Winter’s Orphan”
May 13, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”U.S. Covid-19 Deaths Top 76,000″
May 12, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Dana Sonnenschein|”Hyenas”
May 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”Conversation with a Skunk”
May 10, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||Mike Puican|”As Though the Narrative Went Out for a Smoke”
May 10, 2021
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Flash Discourse: CNF||Guest Editor Karlene Bayok Edwards|”Brian Doyle’s ‘One Long River of Song:|Notes on Wonder'”
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”
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”
May 4, 2021
Buttonhook Press|2021 Chapbook Series||Don Robishaw|”Just Willie Please: Eight Flash Fiction Tales”
April 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||George Rawlins|”Chatterton Meets Rimbaud”
April 27, 2021
Poetry: All forms & styles||George Rawlins|”Grub Street Parties”
April 26, 2021