welcome to volume 174 (the August 2020 issue)
of
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Down in the Dirt

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Janet K., Editor



Table of Contents

AUTHOR TITLE
Joel Savishinsky Misanthropology
Some Where
Biographical Statement
Bobby Bostic Bobby’s Crime & Punishment
Advice I Would Give To My Younger Self
Wes Heine 578350 art
Alison Ogilvie-Holme Art of Escapism
Scars Publications two School Buses image
Alison Ogilvie-Holme In Plain Sight
Melissa DeAmaral Did You Ever Meet A Stranger Stranger?
Destiny
Help
James Bates Earth Tea
Denny E. Marshall Branch Reincarnation drawing
Susie Gharib Gossamer
Mutilated Planets
Bio

a full view of Pluto’s Stunning Crescent Hubble image
light echo from mysterious erupting star Hubble image
Ron Torrence the other side of time
About Ron Torrence
Tom Ball Church of Alcoholics
I Could See the Moon
New Hitlers
The Itch of All Time
Zach Murphy The Real HarMar Superstar
Baggage
Double Shift
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Double Vision Collision art
Conjeevaram J. Nandakumar New Born
Scars Publications Cow image
Russell Heidorn The Cost of Winning
Bio
Scars Publications Stuffed Baseball image
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? (#1)

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)

Nostalgia For a Time That Never Was,
Or, Whatever Happened to All Those
Missing Kids on Milk Cartons and
am I One of Them? (#2)
ayaz daryl nielsen Untitled (trouble)
Scott Brown Depression
Sister
The Fence
About Scott Brown
Chris Blake The Mire
About Chris Blake
Paul F. Hyde Sea of Green
Jon Carter beams
fetus
the day begins
Ian Mullins A Small Unkindness
On Time
Personal Best
Patricia Walsh My Radio Sounds Different in the Dark
About Patricia Walsh
Irene Backalenick Cowboy Mania
Slavery
Bojana Stojcic Till death do us part
Travis Green Drowning In The Darkness
I Needed To Breathe
I Was Nothing
Wrecked
Rainbow Dreams
Foster Trecost Heart Shaped Charms
Bio
Carolyn Poindexter Jessie graphite drawing
Iftekhar Sayeed Kerosene
V
About Iftekhar Sayeed
Mickey J. Corrigan Red Lake
Allure of the Disaffected
The Evidence
The Question Mark Kid
This is Not a Whodunit
Bio
James Bates Transcendentalists
Bijit Sinha Exigence
Kyle Hemmings Prison 11 photography
Bijit Sinha Fold
Olivier Schopfer Lost photography
Olivier Schopfer bio
Andrew Lasher Eraser
Sun
The Crown
We Forgot Hong Kong
Timothy Resau Hotel Atlantic
Old Poets
Key West Poem
Bio
Christopher Strople Palms art
Michael Garriga It’s a Family Affair: Sellers v. Sellers
Brief Bio
Janet Kuypers Following in the Footsteps of Genius
Once You Found Fame
Value of What Money Does
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius” (written 8/13, International Left Handers Day), “Once You Found Fame” (written 8/15, the 1914 date a servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright’s Wisconsin home, Taliesin), and “Value of What Money Does” (written 8/24, the 1967 date when, led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party disrupted New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills on the trading floor) from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Following in the Footsteps of Genius”, “Once You Found Fame”, and “Value of What Money Does” from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Everyone is to Blame
Voyager
Use Your Mind
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone is to Blame” (written 8/31, the day in 1888 Mary Ann Burton was murdered, the first known murder by Jack the Ripper; the 1987 day Princess Diana died in a car crash, in front of paparazzi) and “Voyager” (written for the August 25, 2012 date NASA’s Voyager 1 started the Interstellar Mission into the unknown), and her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” (written 8/20, on National Aviation Day) from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone is to Blame” and “Voyager”, and her haiku poem “Use Your Mind” from the Down in the Dirt August 2020 book “Drowning in the Darkness” during the “Poetic License open mic 8/2/20 home edition” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Exploited Color in Books
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Exploited Color in Books” from the Down in the Dirt v174 8/20 book “Drowning in the Darkness” live 8/27/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Exploited Color in Books” from the Down in the Dirt v174 8/20 book “Drowning in the Darkness” live 8/27/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (from a Samsung S9 camera).


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