2019 anthology


    

“Burning Bridges” front cover

Welcome to the 2019 collection book
Burning Bridges”...

    Enjoy the 2019 poetry & flash fiction (and don’t forget the artwork) collection book anthology from Scars Publications, titled “Burning Bridges” of select poetry, flash fiction, & art in this one-of-a-kind annual 2019 anthology collection book, which contains select accepted writings chosen from 2019 issues of both cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine...

Burning Bridges
the Scars Publications 2019 poetry,
flash fiction, prose & art collection anthology

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    To know exactly what is included in this collection book, view the listing below... If your writing or artwork appears in this collection book (or if you know someone with material in this book, or if you just want to pick up a great book to read), order a copy of “Burning Bridges” today!


   And HEY! Any video recorded readings of material included in this date book are also listed here, so check out the video links here as well...

    





below is a listing of the accepted writers and titles
(of writing or artwork) in this collection.

all artwork printed inside the book is in grayscale.

AUTHOR TITLE
 

Poetry
(plus artwork)

Erren Kelly Amerasian
Coffeehouse Poem # 168
ayaz daryl nielsen the cauldron of sunset
David Michael Jackson Creek painting
Dan Fitzgerald Alley Way
How Disturbing
Linda M. Crate moments like these
Helen Bird “Inksanity” Data Transfer ink drawing
I.B. Rad Zombie Platitudes
Why Poetry In America’s a No Sale
Marc Livanos a/k/a Panhandle Poet In-sanity
David Russell Charcoal 1 drawing
Greg G. Zaino Collapse
Kevin Michael Wehle Blue Moon
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Moon Sacrifice art
Thom Woodruff Hollow Light
Griffin Silver The White Lines of a Parking Stall
Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal Heavy Sleep
Aaron Wilder 18, 19, & 20 le Monde images
John F. McMullen God?
David J. Thompson As Long as I Wanted
Rose Hollander Vending Machine
Michael Ceraolo Things Found in Books, 4
Scott Thomas Outlar Go Cult Yourself
John Maurer The Body in the Brain
Üzeyir Lokman Çayci UZEYIR CAYCI A298 art
John Kojak A Guy Walks Into a Bar
Kyle Hemmings Piano Bar BW photography
John Sweet king of kings no. 1
Chris Butler Church and State
Alistair Forrester Spring Begins
Doug Van Hooser people
Travis Green Life or Death
Keith Mark Gaboury Naked
Ian Mullins Being Human
Joan McNerney Night
RC deWinter the nun’s apostasy
Mark Antony Ross Fighting Bull in Madrid
Winston Derden Execution Style
Vern Fein Artistry
Death Angel
David Sapp Lilith
Valeri Paxton-Steele lost in a winter city at 4:00 a.m.
Gregg Dotoli Geomart Sale
Marlon Jackson Beauty All Around Me
Marc McMahon Bound
Joséphine Sourgnes A work of regret
Alberto J. Montero In the maelstrom
Victoria Otto Franzese Counting Backwards
Caitlin Cherniak Breathe
Janet Kuypers Thirteen Seconds
(a poem about an event on the bridge on the cover of this book)
video See YouTube video as Janet Kuypers sings the Depeche Mode song “One Caress”, then reads her poem “Thirteen Seconds” from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges” (a poem reflective of the book’s front cover image), then sings her song “In Love I Abide”, live 1/18/20 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (filmed on a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video as Janet Kuypers sings the Depeche Mode song “One Caress”, then reads her poem “Thirteen Seconds” from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges” (a poem reflective of the book’s front cover image), then sings her song “In Love I Abide”, live 1/18/20 at Austin’s “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (filmed on a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).


Ana M. Fores Tamayo He, Unknown
Xanadu Constructivist Universe
Abrianna Johnson Ode to The Melanin Crown
Cheyanne Brabo Dirty Girl
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Accusations art
R. N. Taber Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow
Ahsan Jilani Only Humans Kill for Gain and Lust
Thom Woodruff I Am Grateful That We Gather
Michael Ceraolo Mabel’s Adventures
Michael H. Brownstein Imagery of Place
Kenneth DiMaggio City
Seward Ward Like a Rocket
Laurie Calhoun birth of another tragic bureaucrat
John (“Jake”) Cosmos Aller Unhinged Lunatic Howling at the Full Moon
Vaughan Wesley Be Real
Mike L. Nichols Lullaby
Milenko Županović Burned Bridges
Lydia Flores From the Melting Pot
Joseph S. Pete The Drunk
Armine Zohrabian The Home of Hip-Hop
Jaquayah Williams Road Kill
Mbizo Chirasha Slum
Denny E. Marshall Haiku (universe)
John Tustin Bullies Then and Always
Heath Brougher Gasmask Anthem
David Boski Regretful Ending
Judge Santiago Burdon My Siblings’ Father
Pawel Markiewicz IV Moment (2015)
Latoya Kidd A father’s revenge
Jules Elleo Coming home
Bojana Stojcic To whom it may concern
Dawid Juraszek Andromeda
John L. Stanizzi 1.15.19, 7.49 a.m., 14 degrees
Roger G. Singer Holding On
Paul Bernstein deathtrip
Mark A. Murphy Clear Conscience Paradox
John Raffetto Climate Change
DS Maolalai Sky burial
Joe Seale cleaver
Paweł Markiewicz haiku
Thom Woodruff Clock Forests
Emily Jo Scalzo Why I Haven’t Worn Shorts in 23 Years
Alison McBain Shared
Donna M. Davis Inaccessible
Felix Purat Lost in a Society That Longed For a Beach
Kyle Hemmings CP1 photography
Simon Perchik Untitled (night moves under you)
Laura Johnson southwest side
Eleanor Leonne Bennett P14802771 photography
Christine Liwag Dixon Legacy
John Yotko legs photography
Carol Lynne Knight rust
Janet Kuypers like nothing ever happened
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).


For Far Too Many Years
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).


Other People’s Worlds
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).


Kyle Hemmings Abstract Rainbow photography
 

Flash Fiction
(haiku and artwork interspersed in italics)

Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Sure Thing
Line of Sight
Leash
Monsters
Charles Hayes The Kill
Wes Heine 10645007 photography
Oz Hardwick Escape Velocity
Flotsam
Tearing Diaries into Small Pieces
Jon Brunette Shattered Glass
Fabrice Poussin To Eternity photography
Dev Pati Ghost
Tom Ball The Science of Physiognomy
Allan Onik Royal Rumble
Charles McFadden Elle
Janet Kuypers left living haiku
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).


Hope Ruiz Spain
Üzeyir Lokman Çayci UZEYIR CAYCI 21 ARALIK
    2016 ART290VAN art
Kyle Hemmings 34th b&w photography
Ian Sims No Preacher Man
Lewis Horwitz The Battle Field of Love
Allen F. McNair A New Couple in Love art
Riley Smith Was
Kyle Hemmings The Bridge photography
D. D. Renforth Locals Only
Aaron Wilder Balkh, Bamyan, Daykundi 3 map paintings
W. Dean Marple Lost
Üzeyir Lokman Çayci UZEYIR CAYCI ART384 art
Doug Hawley Intelligent Design?
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz designsonwhai art
Robt. Emmett Rich’s Auction Barn
Bonnie E. Carlson No Choice
Helen Bird, “Inksanity” Within these Walls ink drawing
Mary Bargdill Rocky’s House Trailer
Oliver Fox Slow Drag Maddie
Eleanor Leonne Bennett Spit 400 photography
Kody Ford Origami Roses
J. Ray Paradiso 3 kisses 2 art
Ben Brown Gnarl
Erica Marchant The Tides
David Russell Dark Blue Photosketch 0001 art
Julie Henderson Different Forms of Freedom
Helen Bird, “Inksanity” Yellow Brick Road Two ink drawing
Tracey Underwood The Hand
Olivier Schopfer Roundabout photography
Corrina-Corinna A Rose by Any Other Name
Christian Fennell In Death I Dream of You Yet
Tom Ball Future Transsexuals
Sharon Frame Gay Fascination
Kyle Shultz Story at a Campfire
Janet Kuypers our differences haiku
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).


Todd Mercer Cartagena
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz a Little Twisted Copy art
K. Stacy To My Dismay
James Hold The Heart of the Matter
Janet Kuypers after
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Burning Bridges” book poem “After”, her editorial “Weighing on my Soul”, and her micro-prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
Janet See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Burning Bridges” book poem “After”, her editorial “Weighing on my Soul”, and her micro-prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).


John Conaway No Hard feelings
Annin Brothers Of All the Words
Susie Gharib Palpitations
Janet Kuypers Prescribe them Something, Anything
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).


Matt Matkowski Room 26C
Cameron Patterson The Dialogue Project
Wes Heine DSCN2272_1 photography
Michaiah Vosberg Gestures
Janet Kuypers choke
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Like Nothing Ever Happened”, “For Far Too Many Years”, “Other People’s Worlds”, “left living”, “our differences”, “Prescribe Them Something, Anything”, and “choke”, all read from the Scars Publications 2019 collection book “Burning Bridges”, during her January 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).


Daniel Owens April in November
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Blue Ghosts art
Norm Hudson The Christmas Card Caper
Olivier Schopfer Backyard - London, UK photography
Katheryn Everson To Be Queen
Mike Schneider Friends
Carolyn Poindexter Simplicity graphite drawing
Janet Kuypers Weighing on my Soul
Dandelions for a Passing Stranger
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Burning Bridges” book poem “After”, her editorial “Weighing on my Soul”, and her micro-prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted through a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
Janet See Facebook live video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Burning Bridges” book poem “After”, her editorial “Weighing on my Soul”, and her micro-prose “Dandelions for a Passing Stranger” during the “Poetic License open mic 5/3/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (from a Samsung S9 camera).




Order “Burning Bridges”
the 2019 poetry, flash fiction,
prose & artwork anthology
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6" x 9" paperback ISBN# book:

“Burning Bridges” front cover