2020 anthology


    

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the 2020 poetry collection book
inside the box”...

    Enjoy the 2020 poetry collection anthology from Scars Publications, titled “inside the box” of select poetry & art in this one-of-a-kind annual 2020 anthology collection book, which contains select accepted writings chosen from 2020 issues of both cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine...

    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 “inside the box” today!


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

    




inside the box
the Scars Publications 2020
poetry & art collection anthology

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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)

DS Maolalai Aiming at immortality.
David J. Thompson Even On My Knees
Church Of God photography
R. N. Taber Time Spent in a Valley
Eric Bonholtzer Image 4958 photography
Phelan Tinsley Experiments with Jesus
Linda M. Crate i keep dying
Aaron Wilder Amends One art
I.B. Rad Judy Chicago’s Diptych, “Banality of Evil/Then and Now”
Andy Botterill In Another Lifetime
John Yotko cc&d cover photography
John F. McMullen The End Times
Anupom Kumar Hazarika Sandcastles
Brian Hosey Dunes a-gogo White Sands photography
Michael Ceraolo A Failed Gamble
Greg G. Zaino Highway of Souls
Raymond E. Strawn III Won’t Stop until Equality is a Norm
Amanda Pugh Shattered
Karen Breen aesthetic
Thom Woodruff Sea Rounded Rocks
Dave Somerset Aurora
Elodie Rose Barnes Bereavement
Bruce Hodder When The Company Went Bust
Frederick Pollack Quote
David Boski For My Sake And Theirs
E. Martin Pedersen North Wind
Patrick T. Reardon Family package
Abigail Kipp A Queen
Mark J. Mitchell Mail
Travis Green Feminine Side
Juanita Rey Hookers On The Block
Woody Fran The homeless man
Josh Medsker Buy Now, Pay As You Go
S. Preston Duncan Watching the News in a Room that is Not Mine
Jon Carter Early Morning Train
Bonnie Stanard Computer Hacker and the Common Brain
Fairview Farmhouse
Inguna Brože A Letter to My Rapist
Stephen Emmanuel Ogboh Kill and Run.
Enda Boyle A scene from my Classical Education
John Zedolik Willing Ear
Danielle Hark Captive
Janet Kuypers Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers


Jamey Boelhower To the woman wearing two different shoes
Roger G. Singer Crested Lizard
Janet Kuypers Earth was Alive and Dying
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers


Lyle Estill Canned Peaches and Jam
Lola Stansbury-Jones The Feral Woman
Annette Gagliardi Foundations
John Tuttle Coming Together
Layla Lenhardt Life Science
Anthony Watkins Arbortorturaium vidas migratius
Susie Gharib The Arch of Triumph – Latakia
Samuel Swauger Rain Poem
james kenneth blaylock 431 Degrees
Moon Dust Floats
John Daugherty He must have had shoes.
Brian Rihlmann Formative
Marilee Pritchard Midnight Room Check— Code Blue 3 North Bed 2
ayaz daryl nielsen storks
Untitled (raindrops)
Untitled (stray cat)
Tapeshwar Amef Rustle
Milenko Županović Death Valley
Mark Young A line from Mary, Queen of Scots
Scott Waters Getaway
Ronald Charles Epstein Not Exactly Enlightened
Christina Culverhouse Multiplicity: the Story of THEM 889 art
David Michael Jackson Corona Poem: Everything’s Fine
Corona painting
Jerry Pendergast Six Feet
Cheryl L. Caesar Please Get Up
M.L. Fenton Family
Life on plane
Erren Kelly Amy...
Alan Catlin Amy Winehouse
David Michael Jackson Band painting
James B. Nicola Balance I
SHe, or, Now we know HimHer
Gregg Dotoli cold dark rain
Love Review
Bradford Middleton At Long Last
I.B. Rad Ad infinitum
Ava Collopy Pointing the Finger
Üzeyir Lokman Çayci 346 UZEYIR CAYCI art
Xanadu Life in Times of Corona
Charles Darnell Harvest
Üzeyir Lokman Çayci 1007 UZEYIR CAYCI ART 47A 15 SUBAT 2017 ABOMP art
Paul Telles So Much Moon
Thom Woodruff Garden
Hector Timourian The Supernova Breath of Life
Michael Lee Johnson Unknown Poet from Montpelier
James Croal Jackson The Violent Tendencies of Men
Allen F. McNair Timeline of Epic Poem art
Thom Woodruff Death Waits Outside
Preeti Singh Apple Pie
James Mulhern Piano
Wes Heine Piano Teeth art
Yash Seyedbagheri Dear Citizen
Fabrice Poussin Parting the sea
David Russell Sea Creatures 2 art
S.A. Boyd Half Naked with Deer Skull and a Roll of Quarters
Wes Heine 11889500 photography
Eric Robert Nolan The Writer
Radoslav Rochallyi omg mathematical art
Scott Waters Idol
Winston Derden Blessed Thought
David J. Thompson 503 photography
Tom Merrill Leitmotif
Giovanni Mangiante The fight still goes on
Dawid Juraszek Romulus
David Sapp The Ubiquitous Violence
William C. Blome To the Memory of Betty Carter
Jazzy Colbert Glass
William Doreski The Peruvian Language
Nissaka
Thulisile Ngomane Open Wounds
Sarah Henry Copyright
James W. Gaynor Then Suddenly
ayaz daryl nielsen evening’s shamans
Terry J. Allen Impossible Standards
Lee Clark Zumpe her addiction
Jonathan Hine the night she perceived death’s teeth
Wayne F. Burke Famous
Nancy Jo Allen On the Bones of an Endangered Species
Avery Goodman Check Her Out
Carla M. Cherry Assurance
Dylan Snyder Love?
Amy Nocton Melancholy Bloom of Day
Amanda Steel Pigeonholed
Richard Trebilcock The Killing Jar
Nancy Diamante Bonazzoli The Book
T.J. Butler Photograph
Alek The Poet Flying As Fast As The Freeway
Amanda Pugh A Simple Thing
Jack D. Harvey Idle Hands
Simon Perchik untitled (home)
Franco Cardiello Opened Arms, Closed Fists
P. L. Grimaldi Daylight Agony
Filled Now
Scott Varengo Paring
Bob Meszaros Panic
Susan N Aassahde Clout Shire
Joel Savishinsky Invitations
Camila Lopez-Passapera This Is for You
Ann Christine Tabaka Never Letting Go
Caitlin McCarthy He always loved me most when I was cruel.
AGNA Robots will be welcoming people at the Olympics
Melissa DeAmaral A Guide to Pain
Ian Powell-Palm Key
Jason Hyde Two Plus Two
Tammi Belko Broken
Brian C. Miller Faraway Scarecrow
L.B. Sedlacek The Empty Locker
M. West My Favorite
George Gad Economou The Reader
Samantha Rose To The Girl Who Couldn’t Say No (1/2)
Winter’s Corset
Monterey J you made me read your dirty poem
Kelley Jean White Incorrect Tanka
I never told my mother
Ron Torrence the other side of time
Victoria Hunter A Sick Love
Kenneth DiMaggio Nostalgia For a Time That Never Was,
Or, Whatever Happened to All Those
Missing Kids on Milk Cartons and
am I One of Them? (#5)
Scott Brown Depression
Chris Blake The Mire
Ian Mullins On Time
Patricia Walsh My Radio Sounds Different in the Dark
Bojana Stojcic Till death do us part
Iftekhar Sayeed Kerosene
Mickey J. Corrigan Allure of the Disaffected
Bijit Sinha Exigence
Kyle Hemmings Prison 11 photography
Irene Backalenick Slavery
Andrew Lasher The Crown
Timothy Resau Key West Poem
Christopher Strople Palms art
Janet Kuypers Xenogeny
Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed
Fantastic Car Crash
Quiet as a Painting
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers


Robert Ronnow Ectopic Heart
Holly Day After the Funeral
Judith Partin-Nielsen Rock Whisperings
Helen Bird “inksanity” We All Pay ink drawing
Pushkar Bisht A poem for my sister
Üzeyir Lokman Çayci UZEYIR CAYCI 21 ARALIK 2016 ART290VARA art
Krista Canterbury Adams Pandora
J.D. Isip Losing It (The Next Time)
Connor Orrico depression in a room
endless present
reasons to live
Michael T. Smith Untitled (blush)
Untitled (clear)
Untitled (goddess)
Untitled (thirsty)
Christopher Hivner Roll the Bones
Ziming Quan Firefly in the Night (Chinese & English)
Katherine Hyde Mom
Robert Funderburk Political Harvest
John Grey One Of Those Poems
Charlie Brice My Life in Oatmeal
Richard K. Williams Along for the ride
E.B. Bradley Armpit Hair
Moss-Covered Stone
Hope Vigil-Alvarez Lady Hawk
Christine Seery Implacable Spirit
Tom Carter Before the Verdict
Casey Killingsworth Manifold destiny
Alan Ford Psychopath
Daniel S. Irwin Cheery-Eyed Jackdaws
Second Thoughts
M.C. Rydel White in the moon my younger self appears
Meredith Wilshere the chain, the paper, the sun
Phillip Henry Christopher Mambo Urbano
Jack Galmitz Hell’s Kitchen
Sandip Saha Spiritual salvation versus self imposed extinction
Brent Lucia (Not Spoken)
The Algorithm
Carson Pytell Hand
Physis
Emory Jones Speaking of Daughters
David Francis Oil Town
Bryce Leiberman Poem 1
Anindita Sarkar Poet without a legacy
Al Case Pipe Dreams
Japhy Mitchell Ghost in the Dark
Marlon Jackson Just to See You Again
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Breath of the Dragon art
Karon Newbill Remorse
Rosy Mound photography
Shitta Faruq Ademola Leaning On The Shoulders Of A Girl’s Neglect
Janet Kuypers Death takes many forms.
Zeal was Unbridled
And I’m Wondering
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Earth was Alive and Dying”, “Xenogeny”, “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Fantastic Car Crash”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Death takes many forms.”, “Zeal was Unbridled”, and “And I’m Wondering” from the 2020 Scars Publications poetry and art collection book anthology “inside the box” 12/2/20, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed with a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers






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