Instant Karma


    


Instant Karma
    Enjoy the 2023 magazine collection book from Scars Publications and Down in the Dirt magazine, with the September-December 2023 magazine issues titled “Instant Karma”.
    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.

    





Instant Karma
Down in the Dirt
September-December 2023
issue collection book


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below is a listing of the accepted writers
and titles writing in this collection.



Down in the Dirt v211, September 2023
All the Stories

AUTHOR TITLE
Roger G. Singer unique soul
walk it out
Doug Hawley Gate
Bio
Daniel de Culla Fancy Woman - Billar y Bardos art
Tom Ball He Traveled Everywhere
Bio
Conjeevaram J Nandakumar Fool’s Mate VS. Scholar’s Mate
Jerome Berglund Untitles 05 photography
Bio
Nicholas B. Mayo Flight
Mariah H. N. Hawkins The Stolen Kingdom
Bio
Cailey Tin the dark seen in at daylight 23412 art
Bio
James Bates Titanium
Bio
Janet Kuypers Titanium to Spy (+ images 1, 2, 3, & 4)
Titanium (+ images 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5)
Bio
Kelley Jean White A NH car dealer is giving away an AK-15 assault rifle
Bio
Bill Tope Family Time
Isabel G. de Diego Isa1 art
Bill Tope Into the Mystic
Kyle Hemmings fakeGard photography
Bio
Dennis Piszkiewicz The First and Last Days of the Pandemic
Karen Hedges Beach in Mexico painting
Hannah Garson What Did You Ask Me For?
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Some Things Take Time copy art
John Grey Factories Along The River
Sky Quirks
The Old Man In The Bar, The Kids Outside
The Company We Don’t Keep
Bio
Tony Tinsley On That Day
Dawn DeBraal Two Funerals>
Elena Botts Untitled 65 art
Bio
Ron Riekki The Drowning Poems
I used to be in a punk band and we’d yell,
A friend of mine stopped being friends with me
after Jeff Buckley died,

Bio
John F. Fisher, MD The Phone and I
Scars Publications Old Phone and Metropolitan Phone
(Copyright © 2004 & 2005-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Christopher Strople Bay 1 photography
Shakti Pada Mukhopadhyay A Song of Humanity
Bio
Tom Ball Ugly World
Bio
Brian Lee i did the laundry on sunday
notes on reclaiming a lost letter
Bio
Bill Tope Perfection
Raha.M D2CF5CDD-B506 art
David Bradley The Valley and The Cross
David Russell Tuber art
Zach Murphy Lilydale
Bio
Radoslav Rochallyi Wings mathematical art
S. McManigal No One’s Daughter
John Farquhar Young Labyrinth
Bio
UnXPlained video still
(from the television show UnXPlained)
Donna L. Emerson Integrity at Seven
All the Stories
Vaishnavi Kolluru Free at Last
Helen Bird “inksanity” Star Gate ink drawing
Carl Peters Cool, Not Cool
Scars Publications 3 cars
Bad Gastein, Austria (Copyright © 5/12/03-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Samuel Sprague Family
Conduit
John RC Potter The Wingnut Whisperer
Bio
Hannah Jane Weber All Day
Bio
Kelsy Elefante Trophy Girl
Charlotte Jung Woman 2 art
Janet Kuypers even got to first base

Bases Loaded
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Bases Loaded”, “Somebody’s Scoring Somewhere” (+ sharing 2015 Poetry BombBases LoadedWrigley Field show image), & “New to Chicago (2015 baseball edition)” from the Down in the Dirt video 9-12/23 book “Instant Karma” to close her “Poetic License 3/3/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Young Dreams from a Potential Legend

Somebody’s Scoring Somewhere (+ image 1)
New to Chicago (2015 baseball edition)
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Bases Loaded”, “Somebody’s Scoring Somewhere” (+ sharing 2015 Poetry BombBases LoadedWrigley Field show image), & “New to Chicago (2015 baseball edition)” from the Down in the Dirt video 9-12/23 book “Instant Karma” to close her “Poetic License 3/3/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Time, Time, Time, See What’s Become of Me (+ image 1)
Bio


Down in the Dirt v212, October 2023
The Beach at Night

AUTHOR TITLE
Bill Garten Password Question
Did You Have Sex With The Plaintiff?
Pseudodysphagia
Bio
Evalyn Lee I Return Home After You Die
Adam Brinckerhoff Need To Know
Bio
Elena Botts Untitled 33 art
Bio
Kenneth DiMaggio Conversations With My Late Mother (#2)
Lynn Hoggard Dirt
Bio
E.P. Lande Her Dilemma
Daniel de Culla All Need Love photography
George Beckerman Karla Takes A Karma Crap On Corporate
Bio
Scars Publications Occupy Wall Street (image 193)
Manhattan, New York (Copyright © 10/26/11-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Dinamarie Isola Something Old, Something New
Bio
Jerome Berglund Untitled 07 photography
Bio
John Ragusa New Year’s Death
Rob Tannahill You Can’t Catch What I Have
Bio
Kumar Mahat City light 3 photography
Mary Clare O’Grady Early Release
Tom Ball Future Amusement Park
Bio
Kathylynne Somerville Gloria
A Hat for Every Occasion
Currents
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle Nick, Patrick, and the Nightmares in Building 57
Greystone Chip Shots
No Shoes, No Body
Bio
Arshya Prinja The Truth about Music
Sherry Shahan Juke Joint collage art
Bio
Susie Gharib Golden Fleece
Bio
Alison Hicks Invasives
Airborne
The Vietnam Era in a College Town
Edward N. McConnell Blue-Eyed Sea Monster
Bio
Scars Publications Enterprise Island (574)
marooned whaling ship, also used for the cover of Down in the Dirt
(v153, Jan. 2018) “Farewell to Seafaring”(Copyright © 11/18/17-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Noelle Shoemate Unnamed
Bio
Bill Tope Maybe We Should Arm the Children Nex
Make Believe
Cailey Tin the dark seen in at daylight xo art
Bio
Maureen McDole Great Grandmother
The Beach at Night
The Pink Castle
Jaws
My Grandfather’s Typewriter
Bio
Donald McMann Cellar Dweller
Binod Dawadi Metaphorical Mind art
Bio
Makyla Flowers Sister Thelma
James Bates Vanadium
Bio
Janet Kuypers Vanadium (+ image, show image, & Georgetown image)
Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle (+ show images 1, 2, 3, & 4)
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Instant Karma” book poems “Vanadium” (+ element image & show image, which also appears in the book “Periodic Table Poetry”) & “Vanadium: Beauty with Mettle” (+ show images 1 & 2, which also appear in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) as a bonus reading during her “Poetic License 2/4/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a video Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera and given a Starburst filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
Bio
Jeanne Rana Haiku (rain)
The Old Woman Speaks of Privilege
Bio
Bill Tope Night on the Town, #2
Wes Heine FOT396F photography
Gail Nielsen Goodbye in Two Parts
Roly Andrews Tingle
Bio
Robert Nimmo Discovery
Hospice Departure
Margaret B. Ingraham Marvelous
Bio
Leila Farjami Birthing
You in Space
Bio
John F. Fisher, MD Do Turtles Go to Heaven?
Scars Publications a Tortoise swims (2723)
Tortoise at Water (2173)
on Santa Cruz Island & Black Turtle Cove . the Galapagos Islands
(Copyright © 12/30/07 & 12/27/07-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Janet Kuypers Entering the War Room (+ image)
Job that Only Paid the Bills (+ images 1 & 2)
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quell the Vibrancy” (+ sharing show images 1 & 2), “Entering the War Room” (+ sharing image), & “Job that Only Paid the Bills” (+ sharing images 1 & 2) from the Down in the Dirt 9-12/23 book videoInstant Karma” to close her “Poetic License 2/4/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Starburst filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Killing the Survivor Bug (+ image)
Haiku (poet)
(+ 8/13/19 show images 1 & 2, + 8/15/19 show images 1 & 2, + poem image)

Quell the Vibrancy (+ show images 1 & 2)
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Quell the Vibrancy” (+ sharing show images 1 & 2), “Entering the War Room” (+ sharing image), & “Job that Only Paid the Bills” (+ sharing images 1 & 2) from the Down in the Dirt 9-12/23 book videoInstant Karma” to close her “Poetic License 2/4/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Starburst filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


I’m not sick but I’m not well (Future Imperfect edit)
(+ show image 1, and show images 1, 2, & 3)
Bio


Down in the Dirt v213, November 2023
Distances

AUTHOR TITLE
Tom Ball Invention of the Human Soul and Heaven, Limbo and Hell
Drugs, A.D. 2149
Bio
Mary Paulson Distances
Swallow
Telling
Save Me First
Bio
Susie Gharib Taboo
Black Pens
The Eye
Bio
Sa’Mya H. She’s Made Her Appearance
Mika Yamamoto Cave
Elena Botts Untitled 25 art
Bio
Robert H. Guard Dysthymia
Memo
Two Dream
Bio
Adam Brinckerhoff State
Bio
Cailey Tin the dark seen in at daylight 3 art
Bio
Marcia Yudkin But My Dance Card Isn’t Yours
Bio
Bree LeMaire The Aids Quilt
Bio
Isabel G. de Diego Hollywood painting
Lorna Roberts On the Edge
Eva-Maria Sher When I Laid My Blue-Veined Hand
Robert Beveridge Genetics
Right to Life
Six of Pentacles
Bio
Donald Reed Greenwood The One That Got Away
Helen Bird “inksanity” The Twins ink drawing
Deirdre Fryer Baird What Jenny Knew
Clay Coppedge Instant Karma
Daniel de Culla Fancy Women - Cleopatra drawing
John Farquhar Young Key Performance Indicator
Bio
J. Ray Paradiso Two Left photography
RM Yager Maneuvering the circles and Spaces
around my parents Significant Others

The Next Morning
Bio
Janet Kuypers For Far Too Many Years (+ images 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5)
Bio
J L Higgs Christmastime In America
Bio
Kyle Hemmings Shadows photography
Bio
J.P. Hill Chance
Mystery
Trauma
James Bates Argon
Bio
Janet Kuypers Argon, like my Exes (+ images 1, 2, & 3)
Argon (+ images 1 & 2)
Bio
Thomas Van Street Dull Monsters
Bio
Raha.M 1BAA5BA3-0AF7 art
Edward N. McConnell Black Bonneville
Bio
Bill Tope Adventure to Bizarro World
Christopher Strople Pica 1 art
Dennis Piszkiewicz Taking Over the Streets
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz The Night Has Many Eyes art
Emilie Cole Lost Planet
Eleanor Leonne Bennett Cove 3 photography
Bio
Althena Clark Closed Encounters with a twist
Sherry Shahan Free Write collage art
Bio
Brenda Mox A Few Puzzle Pieces
Benjamin Harnett The Ancient Model
John Ragusa The Visitor
Wes Heine PostHuman art
Lucy Sage Sunday at the Beach
Bio
Lee Varon Helga
Bio
Janet Kuypers Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta
ever was in real life (as an image)
quote unquote love for your government (+ image)
right direction (+ image)
Meningitis, Six Feet Under

Death takes many forms. (Concrete Mist edition)
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Death takes many forms. (Concrete Mist edition)” from the Down in the Dirt 9-12/23 collection book “Instant Karma” to close her “Poetic License 4/7/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting video and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Charcoal filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Elementary, the Coronavirus (+ images 1 & 2)
One Year After, the Icing on the Cake (+ image)
Bio


Down in the Dirt v213, December 2023
Wintering Over

AUTHOR TITLE
Gil Hoy Smoke and Whiskey
Bio
Christopher Kuhl Disconnect
Trudging Toward Nightfall
Iftekhar Sayeed The Club
Bio
Karen Hedges Afternoon Shadows painting
Anita G. Gorman Everything Comes in Threes
J. David The Attic
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz We Live in Crooked Houses art
Sara Sanguinetti Swamp Girl
Isabel G. de Diego Sea Cathedral photography
Ben Macnair Stars
Bio
JJ Harrigan A Christmas Present 2006
Bio
Adam Brinckerhoff False Negative
Bio
Cailey Tin the dark seen in at daylight 4 photography
Bio
John C. Krieg Dateline New York City
Bio
Daniel de Culla Ossuary photography
Srihith Jarabana Onerous
Bio
Charlotte Jung Woman 1 art
Mark Pearce The Hanging
Bio
Matt Stanley Itchy (Trigger)
Bill Tope Tete Noire
Suzanne O’Connell Not Like Her Flesh
Colors Of a September Night
Baking As Therapy
Bio
A.R. Williams Four scenes outside my office window: 4:38 pm
Bio
Mark Belair The Living Shadow
The Pause
The Scrapbook
Heather Rutherford Top of the Line
Bio
John Farquhar Young Watch
Bio
Scars Publications Tag Heuer watch
(Copyright © 2003-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Devon Silverfox The Great Hunt
J. Ray Paradiso Shebra photography
Emma Salmons Missed The Bus
Eleanor Leonne Bennett P1450159 photography
Bio
Alan Gartenhaus Unfinished Business
Kierra Jefferson Trials and Turbulence
Scars Publications airplane flying from Miami International Airport
12/26/08 also used for the “Come Fly With Me” cover
(Copyright ” 2008-2021 Janet Kuypers)
Alan Swope The Growlery
The Near Future
Wintering Over
Bio
Amy Lowe Chucks
Mitchel Montagna A Devilish Grin
Helen Bird “inksanity” Speed of Light ink drawing
Robert Rothman Memorial Day
Bio
David William Jurgenson The Crimson Killer
Raha.M 7C2A8BBE-1B56 art
Donald Reed Greenwood Ethan
Binod Dawadi Zombie Land art
Bio
Marissa McCarthy Mimosa
Brandon Perez End of Agony
Sherry Shahan Danger Sign California Coast collage art
Bio
James Bates Calcium
Bio
Janet Kuypers Calcium
Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Instant Karma” book poems “Calcium” (+ show images 1 2, & 3, which also appears in the book “Periodic Table Poetry”) & “Calcium, Osteoporosis and Meat” (which also appear in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) as a bonus reading during video her “Poetic License 2/4/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed live during the open mic from a Samsung S9 camera and given a Starburst filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Calcium: voltage to the brain image
Calcium can be good for the o-zone too image

Know When to Play it Safe
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 9-12/23 book “Instant Karma” book poems “Know When to Play it Safe” (which is also in the book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”) & videoWho I Was Supposed to Be (dreams 10/31/19)” during her “Poetic License 4/7/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
You can also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Charcoal filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Xenophobic Sociopaths and the Delusional Recluse
Orangello
Kept Religion out of Politics
N C P D
Learning More (2019 edit)
Jails Almost Broke Me

Who I Was Supposed to Be (dreams 10/31/19)
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 9-12/23 book “Instant Karma” book poems “Know When to Play it Safe” (which is also in the book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”) & videoWho I Was Supposed to Be (dreams 10/31/19)” during her “Poetic License 4/7/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
You can also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Charcoal filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Bio


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