Casting Off


    

Casting Off

    Enjoy the 2023 magazine collection book from Scars Publications and Down in the Dirt magazine, with the May-August 2023 magazine issues titled “Casting Off”.
    The author names in this listing appear as they are listed in magazine issue/books. For writings that appear in issues, the titles of their writing do not appear on this web page, but all of the names are linked to the individual issue/book that actually contains the material.
    To know exactly what is included in this collection book, view the listing below. All author entries are listed in this collection book as they are listed in magazine issue/books.

    
     The cover art is a small boat of people in the Southern Ocean investigating a sunken whaling ship at Enterprise Island 11/18/17 in Antarctica.     





Casting Off
Down in the Dirt
May-August 2023
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below is a listing of the accepted writers
and titles writing in this collection.



Down in the Dirt v207, May 2023: “I wrote this in the dark

AUTHOR TITLE
Relvin González Rodríguez The Gray
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Gray Day 7 art
Donovan Whitley Recovery
Kyle Hemmings Prison 17 photography
Bio
Daniel de Culla Constitution Day (poem & art)
Bio
William Doreski Casting Off
How Do Water and Stone Converse?
Bill Tope Peaked
Lover in Training
Craig Wells Stranger than Strange Fruit
Donald Reed Greenwood The Precipice
Scars Publications Ellen Sunset Silhouette
(Copyright © 1988-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Ken Goldman An Acquired Taste
Bio
Liam O’Buachalla You Have One New Message
Bio
Scars Publications Downed Airplane, Joliet, IL
(Copyright © 8/23/03-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Fred Cheney That Was Close
Scars Publications Sun Bear (066)
Lincoln Park Zoo (Copyright © 4/28/13-2023 Janet Kuypers)

Snake (034)
Brookfield Zoo (Copyright © 5/30/05-2023 Janet Kuypers)

Rayne Affonso Bus Route
Silence
Bio
Alan Altany Meditations: De Profundis
Bio
Dr. Steven M. Gerson And the morning sun trailed her bus in shadows
Wendy Taylor Metamorphosis
Isabel G. de Diego Cup & Glass with Desire art
Greta T. Bates Any Place But Home
Annette Gagliardi Cookin’
I wrote this in the dark
Bio
Duane Anderson Alarm Notice
An Abbreviated Resume
Philosophy 101
Bio
Frank De Canio Answering Machine
Bio
Jamie Johnson Harrison Ash
Christopher Strople Purple Bridge art
Isaac Breaux Breakdown
Susan Anmuth Andreas and I Had a Date For Me to Impart Wisdom
Denise McCabe Stanley’s Grandmother
James Bates Sulfur
Bio
Janet Kuypers Sulfur, Suddenly image
Sulfur
Bio
Bill Tope A Brick Wall
ayaz daryl nielsen Untitled (limb)
Untitled (warm)
Bio
Rod Raglin Cake Night
Bio
Steve Bailey Samuel’s Saga
Bio
Scars Publications Horse (02)
Puerto Rico(Copyright © 12/18&#-47;03-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Janet Kuypers Fighting for Freedom on Christmas
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ytterbium” from the books “It’s All About Impact” & “Periodic Table Poetry”, then “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” from the books “Casting Off” & “Every Event of the Year (Volume One: January-June)”, then “Just on Book” from the books “Casting Off”, “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, “Chapter 48 v2”, & “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” (+ bonus images 2/4/17 1 & 2, 8/4/17 1, 8/22/17 1 & 2, 8/23/17 1, & 8/3/20 1) video to close her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (in a video that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a BINARY NOTATION filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Bio
Sandip Saha Who is Better
Atomic weapons kill people even when not used
Bali a Hindu majority place
Bio
Janet Kuypers Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield
Bio
Richard Patterson Enlightenment
Kumar Mahat Window Snltt b photography
John Gerard Fagan Sometimes ye huv tae experience
the bad tae appreciate the good

Bio
Frances Gaudiano Victimless Crime
Saul Greenblatt Jason Was Lost in a Parallel World
Bio
Todd K. Denick A Deepest Crush
Bio
J. Ray Paradiso Pumps photography
Toney Dimos Alexandra
Karen Hedges The Islands painting
Janet Kuypers Kerning, Ballots, and Women’s Rights
Vote Changing: the System’s Solution
Eliminate All Rapists
Revelation One: One-Four
Revelation One: Five-Eight
Revelation One: Eleven
Bio


Down in the Dirt v208, June 2023:
Some Things Are Universal

AUTHOR TITLE
Toney Dimos Inès
Charlotte Jung Woman 3 art
Kirk Alex Mack the Knife
Bio
Beata Stasak So Much Makes Sense Once We Get the Connections
Bio
John Ragusa Night of the Banshee
Kenneth Parsons The Rite of Spring
Bio
Susie Gharib Edgar Allan Poe
Bio
Tom Ball Dome Technology
Bio
Eleanor Leonne Bennett P1450895 photography
Bio
ayaz daryl nielsen Untitled (existence)
Untitled (mists)
Untitled (sunrise)
Untitled (humanness)
Untitled (covers)
Bio
J. M. Garcia A Day Doesn’t Go By That I Don’t Have Regrets
Gillian Tregidgo Seagull
Messages
Scars Publications Gulls taking flight off Lake Michigan
(Copyright © 7/4/15-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Douglas Young The Clinic
Bio
Elena Botts Untitled 16 art
Bio
Nolo Segundo Ode to Mrs. Miller
On Seeing an Old, Old Friend
as One Plague Ebbs and Another Progresses
Karen Lee Stradford Dancing Machine
Die
Donna Dallas Better Off Dead
Nub
Daniel Princewill Tell Me Lies
Kiss me to Sleep?
John Farquhar Young Purpose
Bio
Y. Len A Tooth for a Tooth
Bio
Isabel G. de Diego Corner photography
Michael Brockley Kinky Boots, Commuter Train Sunglasses
and Other Labor Day Celebrations

Bio
Marc McMahon How Am I Supposed To Feel?
Bio
Christopher Strople Proto Collage art
Terry Sanville Pullin’ Toward the Pigs
Stories We Tell Ourselves
The Sirens of Slack Street
Bio
Clementine Zei Bury Me in West Coast Waters/A>
Roger G. Singer resurrected
passion by the hour
overhead
Thomas Elson August 27th at 3:43 p.m.
One Damn Photograph
Overlapping Timelines
Bio
William Ogden Haynes Snowfall
Bad Weather
Reflections on a Distorted Life
Bio
Dennis Piszkiewicz The Survivor
Scars Publications Dachau Gate (top) 219
(Copyright © 5/15/03-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Miranda Clarity The Daily Rut
Silence
Bio
Donald Reed Greenwood Some Things Are Universal
Jerome Berglund Untitled 03 photography
Bio
Peggy Gerber The Cake that Melted Sorrows
Samantha Griffis We Were Here
Peter Gregg Slater What War was That Again?
Bio
Raha.M A17F5D2E-106A art
Smrithi Senthilnathan The Nightmare Of Reality
Bio
George Beckerman Don’t Mess With The Rotation: A Cautionary Yarn
Bio
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz V Neck art
Janet Kuypers Oddly Enough, A Non-Sentient Phone
and a Swath of Hair (dreams 12/4/21)

True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit)
kitsch when “woke”
The Truth is Out There

Just One Book
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Ytterbium” from the books “It’s All About Impact” & “Periodic Table Poetry”, then “Fighting for Freedom on Christmas” from the books “Casting Off” & “Every Event of the Year (Volume One: January-June)”, then “Just on Book” from the books “Casting Off”, “(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems”, “Chapter 48 v2”, & “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” (+ bonus images 2/4/17 1 & 2, 8/4/17 1, 8/22/17 1 & 2, 8/23/17 1, & 8/3/20 1) video to close her “Poetic License 12/3/23 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (in a video that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a BINARY NOTATION filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Everything was Alive and Dying
(2016 cruelty to animals edition)

Bio


Down in the Dirt v209, July 2023 “Lonely_Visitor

AUTHOR TITLE
Gillian Tregidgo Aailyah
Scars Publications the Highlands (image 1955)
Santa Cruz Island, the Galapagos Islands (Copyright © 12/27/07-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Kirk Alex Night Shift
Bio
Sherry Shahan Love collage art
Bio
Karen Court Beating the Curse
Bio
Scars Publications King Tut human statue (image 105)
outside of the Louvre in Paris (Copyright © 5/21/03-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Elena Botts xenophobia in south africa
Bio
Zirui Feng Your Love
Joe A. Oppenheimer What is War?
Gifting
Blades
Bio
John Ragusa The Companion
Scars Publications Katie 1
(Copyright © 2000-2023 Janet Kuypers)
John Ragusa The Rising Water
Scars Publications Shower Head (Slide 0116)
from the show “Death comes in Threes” (Copyright © 3/17/03-2023 Janet Kuypers)
CLS Sandoval I Should Have Said (+ image 6559)
Send the Note (+ image 6412)
At the Park Today
Bio
Drew Marshall Grandparents
Kumar Mahat Grill Rings photography
Stephen Tillman Wet Work
Bio
Susie Gharib Decadence
Bio
Lesley L. Smith Portrait of William
Raha.M Image 0 art
John Farquhar Young A suitable place
Bio
Eleanor Leonne Bennett P1450113 photography
Bio
Brenda Mox Ghost Trapped
On Stones and Bones
Slip Through
Latoya Kidd Before and after the Atomic bomb
Bio
Janet Kuypers Einsteinium
Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds
(+ image)
Fermium (+ image)
Bio
Joan Mach My Father Crosses the Equator and Wins the War
David Sapp Challenger
Bio
Scars Publications Space Shuttle
Cape Canaveral (Copyright © 2000-2023 Janet Kuypers)
also used in the “Changing Gears” show 6/17/03
Bill Tope Ellison
What’s Old is New Again
Teru Auditory Indiscretion
Bio
Tom Ball Hologram Worlds
Bio
T. L. Sullivan Hand collage art
Bio
Richard K. Williams Kisses, Passionate Or Otherwise
Joe Chiudina Sympathy for a Face
Bio
Zee Miller Lydia, The Vulture, and The Ram
Mike Rader Goldilocks & the three little pigs
Bio
David Berger Arnie, Please
Kyle Singh Brother
Karen Lee Stradford Lonely visitor
Jacoby Harbison Rose Knows
Fabrice Poussin Sisters art photography
Bio
Chelsea Orozco Acromatic
Scars Publications jellyfish (image 087)
(Copyright © 1/30/13-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Christopher Strople Night Tree art
Maria Elena
David Newdorf Amor vincit omnia
Bio
Isabel G. de Diego Picasso Women painting
TaLisa Smith Monsters of the Past
Gil Hoy Salesman
Bio
Janet Kuypers on the way to a NOLA funeral
from In the Air (+ Shattering the Glass Ceiling cover)
Expecting Rights after Losing Rights
(+ Testament cover)
Everyone’s Afraid
your body from the tub (dreams 3/30/21)
Uncontrollable Car (dreams 3/23/21)
Bio


Down in the Dirt v210, August 2023: “At the Zoo

AUTHOR TITLE
Gil Hoy At the Zoo
Bio
Scars Publications Elephants, images 204, 188, and 194
at Illinois’ Brookfield Zoo (Copyright © 5/30/05-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Terry Sanville High Water
Bio
Elena Botts Untitled 64 art
Bio
Michael Lee Johnson Willow Tree Poem (V2)
Bio
David Jeffery Marlboro 16’s
Better get a lawyer, son
Sergio A. Ortiz Flame Trees
When Darkness Falls
Bio
Bill Tope Moving
John Ragusa My Personal Preference
Sterling Warner Buddy “L” Gas Station
The Invisible Waitress
Bio
Wendy Taylor Home Town Counterplay
Marc Colten The Littlest Narc Of Them All
Kumar Mahat IMG_8343 art
Luke Dylan Ramsey Cause and Effect: A Diptych
Vincent P. Désilets Layers
Scars Publications Everglades, water line
(Copyright © 1988-2023 Janet Kuypers)
John Farquhar Young The Flowering ‘thorn
Bio
Daniel de Culla Resurrection photography
Edward N. McConnell A Short Survey
Bio
Eleanor Leonne Bennett Cove 4 photography
Bio
Eric Robert Nolan Nothing
Sam Norman Emblem of Faith
Shrines
Tom Ball World of Bureaucracy
Bio
Raha.M 1B42B825-D51D art
Dee Artea Scipio & Tuppence
Richard K. Williams Inappropriate Perhaps
Mustard Seed
Chaim Jones A Fairy Tale
Pendulum
Bio
Nolo Segundo Flying over Vietnam, 1974
My Own Small Slice Of Paradise
Scars Publications Deer, Puget Sound
image 24 (Copyright © 2006-2023 Janet Kuypers)
LaVern Spencer McCarthy An Instance Of Karma
Charlotte Jung Woman 4 art
Bill Tope Picking Up Grandma at the Train
John Kucera Placebo
The Old Ones Claim
Daniel R. Snyder The Last Show
Christopher Strople Please Do Not photography
Gloria Lauris That’s Life
Bio
Leslie Ferdinand Forty Minutes to Disaster
Isabel G. de Diego Button art
Nancy Machlis Rechtman Say It Now
Bio
John F McMullen Chat, Bing, Bard, Boom?
Bio
Robert Feinstein Under New Management
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Some Things Take Time art
Donald Reed Greenwood Cross My Heart
Lawrence Zielinski Talk Louder
Bio
J. Ray Paradiso Tilt art
Tom Squitieri Adagio
Boarding
Last Gasp
Long Moonbeams In High Heels
Bio
Bill Tope It Doesn’t Matter
Clay Coppedge Dead Ringer
Binod Dawadi City Scape At Night 47 art
Bio
John Ragusa The Mysterious Matter of the Fortuitous Forecast
Cailey Tin the dark seen in at daylight 2345 art
Bio
Janet Kuypers one oh two destruction instructions: self-destructive
destruction instructions video stills 1 and 2
one, two, three strikes you’re out
2015 Poetry Bomb Wrigley Field video still
Eugene’s limit
Resistance is Futile poetry show video still 1
Red Matter
Full Stop
Resistance is Futile poetry show video still 2
bored the night before 9/11
Bio


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