welcome to volume 178 (the December 2020 issue)
of
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Table of Contents

AUTHOR TITLE
Darren Clisch The Man Who Ran Out of Gas and The Peanut Farmer in Georgia
Richard K. Williams Look Up
Snow Day New Day
Scars Publications Tobacco / Barn (Copyright ” 2008-2020 Janet Kuypers)
Sandip Saha Extinction is ideal
I believe in my own Self
Spiritual salvation versus self imposed extinction
Bio
Terry J. Allen Always Nice to Meet a Fan
Doug Hawley Intimate
Scars Publications Barbies 3 (Copyright ” 2020 Janet Kuypers)
Benjamin Davis Invasion of Fundiks
Bio
Travis Green When My Mother Used To Braid My Hair
P.C. Scheponik Two Photographs
Iftekhar Sayeed A Market for Freedom
The Loyalty of Slaves
About Iftekhar Sayeed
Tom Ball Future History Lesson
The Old One
Wayne F. Burke Little God
New Kid
Spartacus
About Wayne F. Burke
Zach Murphy Elevator Pitch
A Fair Amount of Ghosts
Bio
a stump The Falling Woman
Janet Kuypers Everyone Will React
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 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). #janetkuypers
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 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


micro-poem image
Bio
Andrew Miller No Skin in the Game
Janet Kuypers brittle
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 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). #janetkuypers
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 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


micro-poem image
Bio
Alan Cohen Another Country
Cacophony
Doing
Independence
Bio
Alex Watt Better Days
Helen Bird “inksanity” City Sky Line Large ink drawing
Alison Ogilvie-Holme The Girl Next Door
Isabel G. de Diego To pick up & go art
Michael Fitzgerald The Sex Machine
John F McMullen Coronavirus: Fools Rush In
Coronavirus: Travel
Ayesha Perveen Wordsmith
Patrick T. Reardon My brother’s afflictions and mine
Teach
Bio
Grace Nask The Power of the Sun
Twinkle, Little Star, Until You Fade Out
About Grace Nask
Yvonne Nguyen Minefield
The Places We Inhabit
Richard K. Williams Traffic
Enobong Emmanuel White Lie
Radoslav Rochallyi Unnoticed mathematical art
Suzanne S. Eaton Silent Rebel
Bio
James Ware Gladiator
Kings
Susie Gharib A Realist
Serpentine
Bio
James Bates Silent Night
Kyle Hemmings Cars photography
James Bates Paradise
Robert S. King A Cage to Call My Own
Dystopia
The Choice
About Robert S. King
Ivan Klaric Sketches of August / Skice Kolovoza (Serbian poem)
Airplane Runway / Avionska Pista (Serbian poem)
Zach Murphy Why the river?
In Rotation
Bio
Despy Boutris Monsoon in my Throat
On Being Gay in Yemassee
Bio
Kathleen Kempert I’m Tired
Fred Miller Tokens
Christopher Strople CTown2 art
Dan Cuddy Not Hart Crane’s River
About Dan Cuddy
Steven G Merson Haunted
Teeter totter
Telescopes
Mrs. Browns Grave (poem and art)
Janet Kuypers Your Burden
Under Our Own Feet
Quiet as a Painting
Until all the Pieces Connect
Understand the Power
Usual Conquest Style
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 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). #janetkuypers
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 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


Exploit the Island
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 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). #janetkuypers
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 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
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Uprising for Revolution” from the cc&d 12/20 v304 book “Reptile Lust”, “Exploit the Island” from the Down in the Dirt 12/20 v178 book “Spartacus”, and “Us, Actually Touching” from “the 2021 poetry review date book” at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/6/20” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page, which led to John Yotko reading his poem The Deer, and then Zoom host John F. McMullen reading the intro of, and Janet Kuypers read his poem Gods, both also read from “the 2021 poetry review date book(this video was filmed from a from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Uprising for Revolution” from the cc&d 12/20 v304 book “Reptile Lust”, “Exploit the Island” from the Down in the Dirt 12/20 v178 book “Spartacus”, and “Us, Actually Touching” from “the 2021 poetry review date book” at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 12/6/20” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page, which led to John Yotko reading his poem The Deer, and then Zoom host John F. McMullen reading the intro of, and Janet Kuypers read his poem Gods, both also read from “the 2021 poetry review date book (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Kiribati
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 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). #janetkuypers
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Everyone Will React”, “brittle”, “Your Burden”, “Under Our Own Feet”, “Quiet as a Painting”, “Until all the Pieces Connect”, “Understand the Power”, “Usual Conquest Style”, “Exploit the Island”, and “Kiribati” from the v178 issue of the Down in the Dirt magazine 12/20 book “Spartacus” 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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