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part one: “Carpool”
the September 2017 issue of Down in the Dirt, v149

	AUTHOR		TITLE
	Lisa Gray		Rich Bitch
	Preeti Singh		Ominous
	Tim O’Keefe		“No Day Like It...Not Yet”
	Richard E. Gagnon		Smooth Bag of Bones
	Mary Kaye Valdez		How Much?
	Kassandra Heit		Do I Have It Wrong?
	J. Ray Paradiso		Left Foot Forward photography
	Leandro Pereda Pereda		The Man That Comes Around
	Randall K. Rogers		The Closet
	Janet Kuypers		exterior See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	John Grey		Waiting Room Mathematics Your New World
	Susan Kahil		Good deeed indeed
	John D Robinson		Supervision On Meeting an Underground Poet Pot Dealing Bird-Man
	Kari Livingston		Land of the Free
	Clarence Chapin		Shane
	Janet Kuypers		soul See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	Marlon Jackson		Internal Beauty
	Betty J. Sayles		The School
	Patrick Duzan		The Box Whisperer
	Hector Ramos		Recon
	Fabrice Poussin		Unfinished photography
	Tom Minder		Out West
	Janet Kuypers		earth See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	Brett Petersen		The Light in the Sky
	Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz		In The Soft Light 2 art
	Alan Swyer		Old Times
	Eleanor Leonne Bennett		P1450167 art
	Karon Johnson		He Sleeps
	Marcia Eppich-Harris		Carpool
	Adel Aaron		Mimosa
	Janet Kuypers		lost See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	Amber Shoemake-Doughty		Blacks and Blues
	Allan Onik		Pooldead
	Janet Kuypers		jumped See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	Stephon Sherrod		Theft, Hope, and A Coffee Stain
	Eric Wade		Prompt two
	S. J. Lebow		Is It Safe To Come Inside?
	Janet Kuypers		essence See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	Natalie Crick		Remember Her
	Patricia Walkow		It Sounded Like a Good Idea
	Janet Kuypers		Exempt from the Draft See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition) See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Just By Holding His Hand (extreme 2016 sestina variation) See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she read her Down in the Dirt magazine 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” poems “Verge on Meditation”, “Salesman”, and “Just by Holding his Hand” at the only “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” event, which she hosted during National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and this video was also released with an Edge Detection filter, a Posterize filter, and a Threshold filter). Only an Observer See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

part two: “a Finch in the Window”
the October 2017 issue of Down in the Dirt, v150

	AUTHOR		TITLE
	Amber Shoemake-Doughty		Red
	Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz		Big Red Copy art
	Denny E. Marshall		Haiku (away) Rays
	Liz Betz		A Finch at the Window
	Jennifer Libertini		Moving Day
	Lisa Gray		Bee Happy Honey
	John Yotko		bee photography
	Janet Kuypers		upside-down See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	Norm Hudson		A Temporary Life
	J. Ray Paradiso		Airborne photography
	Lee Conrad		Strange Cargo
	Kevin Sterne		Carrots
	Janet Kuypers		enjoy See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	Edward Daniel Hunt		Lines Not Crossed
	Allan Onik		The Lift The Glistening The Most Interesting World in the Man
	Emma Hines		Euthanize
	Kimberly Thomas		I Think I Love
	Shahyeim Oliveira		The Long Road
	Emiliano Vasquez		Haiku (keyhole)
	Anita G. Gorman		The Ministry of Games
	Reggie Mills		Parable
	Denny E. Marshall		Cracked Not Broken art
	Marc McMahon		The Girl Who Chased After Love
	Fabrice Poussin		The Storm art
	Kayla Scutti		What Would You Do?
	Kyle Hemmings		Holy photography
	Christiana Swain		The Tolerance of Her
	Andrew Yusi		The Hardest Decision
	Shelby Leet		Proper Hygiene
	Sandeep Kumar Mishra		I Painted an Ocean
	Shashi Ishai		Bludgeoning the Halvah in a Candy Store on Atlantic Avenue
	Janet Kuypers		imprisoned / ignorance See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	Cynthia Haggard		The Married Man
	Janet Kuypers		origin, from the macro to the micro violence and peace both work elusive imaginary creature See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
performance art poems from the 10/1/16 Austin show “Masquerading in Costumes and Personas”
	Janet Kuypers		Masquerade See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Curium This Halloween This Halloween Again Salesman See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she read her Down in the Dirt magazine 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” poems “Verge on Meditation”, “Salesman”, and “Just by Holding his Hand” at the only “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” event, which she hosted during National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and this video was also released with an Edge Detection filter, a Posterize filter, and a Threshold filter).

part three: “Monsters”
the November 2017 issue of Down in the Dirt, v151

	AUTHOR		TITLE
	Norm Hudson		Tea First
	Amanda Pugh		This Fire Burns
	Chinenye Aniekwe		the Visit of the Ghost
	Rene Diedrich		Negative Space (poem & art) Suicide Pact (poem & art)
	Ben Rasnic		At Sixteen in Nineteen-Seventy
	Denny E. Marshall		Haiku (hint) Haiku (stir)
	Lavren Le’Clore		Thundersnow
	Allan Onik		Checkmate Zero Hour Turncoat
	Abraham Myers		Goodbye
	Fabrice Poussin		Rule of the Sky photography
	Matt Rydeen		Monsters
	Sayuri Yamada		Good Sucides
	Janet Kuypers		knife See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	Stuart O’Rourke		A Love for Death
	Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz		Rose Colored Glasses art
	Tom O’Brien		The Queen
	Janet Kuypers		ghosts See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	Lotte Roy		Galaxy
	Drew Marshall		The Squirrel and the Rabbit The Night I met Groucho on Acid
	David Francis		A Villainess Restored Sight
	Adrian Villarreal		Systematic destruction of cloudy days 8/9/16 1:41am 8/8/15 4:46am
	Marc McMahon		The Other Side of Darkness
	Janet Kuypers		easy See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	McCormick Anderson		Karma’s A Witch
	Mariya Taher		American Daughters
	Eleanor Leonne Bennett		Getty 044 photography
	Kalah McLaughlin		Unemployment Cliff’s Edge
	Robert David Roe		As Passengers
	Kyle Hemmings		Dented photography
	Tommy Vollman		Boots
	J. Ray Paradiso		Trippen photography
	Tom Ball		Balls
	Sean Tierney		The Wanderer
	Janet Kuypers		Ernesto Just Thinking About It Political Merry-Go-Round Verge on Meditation See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ April 2018 Book Release Reading 4/4/18, where she read her Down in the Dirt magazine 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” poems “Verge on Meditation”, “Salesman”, and “Just by Holding his Hand” at the only “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” event, which she hosted during National Poetry Month (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, and this video was also released with an Edge Detection filter, a Posterize filter, and a Threshold filter).

part four: “the Lighthouse”
the December 2017 issue of Down in the Dirt, v152

	AUTHOR		TITLE
	Heikki Huotari		Gorilla My Dreams Stopping Time
	John (“Jake”) Cosmos Aller		Fallen Dreams Litter the Ground
	Allan Onik		Java
	David Francis		Sole Revelation
	Robert Bettelheim		The Sky Diver
	Janet Kuypers		falling See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	Denny E. Marshall		Haiku (stars) Haiku (galaxy)
	Tom Ball		E-Station
	Amanda Pugh		On A Rainy Day
	Natalie Crick		Midwinter
	Jim Farren		Déjà Vu All Over Again
	Janet Kuypers		xeric See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	Drew Marshall		December 8, 1980 Revisited
	Wes Heine		Malaizzze art
	Peter Gannon		Wanting Out
	Janet Kuypers		instead See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
	David Ames		The Lighthouse
	Fabrice Poussin		Infinite Dune art
	Mitchell Waldman		They Don’t Call It Crazy Anymore
	Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz		Crazy Crayons art
	Gwenellen Tarbet		Heart’s Ease
	Olivier Schopfer		Sunset photography
	Janet Kuypers		Earth was Alive and Dying See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 1/3/18 “ January 2018 Book Release Reading” feature through “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books”, with “exterior”, “soul”, “earth”, “lost (2017)”, “jumped”, “essence”, “Exempt from the Draft”, “Only an Observer”, “You Know What I’m Talking About (2016 grateful edition)”, “upside-down”, “enjoy”, “imprisoned / ignorance”, “Elusive Imaginary Creature”, “Masquerade”, “knife (2014)”, “ghosts”, “easy”, “falling”, “xeric”, “instead”, and “Earth was Alive and Dying” from the Down in the Dirt magazine’s 9-12 2017 issue collection book “the Light in the Sky” (the left image was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr; the right image was from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).