welcome to volume 179 (the January 2021 issue)
of
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Table of Contents

AUTHOR TITLE
Despy Boutris This Morning, I Mistake the
Sound of Thunder for Bombs

On Overcoming Gamophobia
Verecundia
Bio
J. Ross Archer Ticket to Romance
About J. Ross Archer
Vern Fein Perception
Beautiful Baby Grand
Ferris E. Jones The Exit
John Zedolik Revenue
Snowbird
Patrick Eades They Shouldn’t Have Been on the Road
Christopher Strople 2 Avenues photography
Kali Parsons Always in the Background (+ art)
Author Bio
Roger G. Singer A Casual Moment
Overhead
Doug Hawley Funerunreal
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Remembering the Good Times art
Doug Hawley Altared States
Spin
Janet Kuypers nonetheless
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “nonetheless” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, then her poems “brittle” and “Everyone Will React” from the v178Spartacus” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” for The Café Gallery 1/27/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “nonetheless” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, then her poems “brittle” and “Everyone Will React” from the v178Spartacus” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” for The Café Gallery 1/27/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & given a Hue Cycling filter, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “nonetheless” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, then her poems “brittle” and “Everyone Will React” from the v178Spartacus” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” for The Café Gallery 1/27/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a iPhone 10 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “nonetheless” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, then her poems “brittle” and “Everyone Will React” from the v178Spartacus” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” for The Café Gallery 1/27/21 Book Reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery


nonetheless image
Bio
Drew Nacht Nothing At All
One Step Beyond Weariness
Before returning home to dress
Tom Ball Big Business Takes Over
Madlynn Haber We Knew His Name
Wounded
For No Reason
Bio
Bree L. Adly Hearts, Ravenous Lions,
and The Truth About People
Suzanne S. Eaton Expectations
Eight Hour Road Trip
Bio
Rita Plush That Done Look
Eleanor Leonne Bennett Going Underground photography
Reggie Gilliard A Sacrifice
Ciara M. Blecka Annihilation through Addiction
Mark O. Decker The Artist’s Surge
The Old Man Cracks Down
Young Warrior Speaks
Kenneth Canatsey I Killed a Sparrow the Other Day
Excerpts from the Plague Years
Tom Ball Virtual Christmas
Scars Publications Christmas Tree 2004 011 (Copyright ” 2004-2021 Janet Kuypers)
ayaz daryl nielsen Untitled (clinging)
Untitled (palms)
About ayaz daryl nielsen
Zach Murphy Grandma Lulu
This Place is No Longer Anyone’s Business
Aurora Borealis
Bio
Scars Publications Aurora Borealis (Copyright ” 2001-2021 Janet Kuypers)
Alison Bullock Long Term Plans
Isabel G. de Diego He’s floored painting
Anita G. Gorman Call Me Something
Fabrice Poussin Tennessee photography
L.B. Sedlacek Becky’s Lost Beach Chair
Pom Pom Meltdown
Bio
Harrison Linklater Abbott Remnants of the Night
Jackie Bayless John Watson
About Jackie Bayless
Conjeevaram J. Nandakumar Blind Man’s Buff
Stephan Lynn Dowless The Outer Realm art
Rachel Kaniuk The Returned
Bio
Kevin Riley Honey on the Couch
Reckoning
Travis Green Incapable Of Breathing
James Bates Hunting Crows
David Russell Bird Hill art
P. L. Grimaldi Carlo 74
Her Personality
Ran Walker Grandma’s Photograph
J. Ray Paradiso Self Portrait art
Mark G. Dziak Unbearable
Denny E. Marshall Wired Receptors art
Kenneth DiMaggio Somewhere Along A Stretch of
Highway Between The Last Military
Victory And The Next Robbery (#2)

Somewhere Along A Stretch of
Highway Between The Last Military
Victory And The Next Robbery (#3)
Michael Gigandet Peaches
Bio
Kyle Hemmings Juice photography
Consuelo Marie Barbetta ecstasy
one
Bio
Janet Kuypers Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen:
Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen

video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, “Quantum of Evidence” from the cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, and her fall 2021 poem “jar for my beating heart” at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 1/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen: Where We’ve Been and What We’ve Seen” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, “Quantum of Evidence” from the cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, and her fall 2021 poem “jar for my beating heart” at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 1/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Eighteen and Eight, Plus Eighteen Image

Plot and Wait
Plot and Wait Image
video See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keeps Repeating” and “Language” from cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, then “Plot and Wait” and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway” for The Café Gallery 1/5/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keeps Repeating” and “Language” from cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, then “Plot and Wait” and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway” for The Café Gallery 1/5/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery


Old Stomping Grounds
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Old Stomping Grounds” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women” from the cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, and her fall 2021 poem “dimensional shift” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 1/3/21” she hosted 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). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Old Stomping Grounds” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway”, “Killing, Loving, and the Power of Women” from the cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, and her fall 2021 poem “dimensional shift” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 1/3/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Waiting to Take the Plunge
video See the YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keeps Repeating” and “Language” from cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, then “Plot and Wait” and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway” for The Café Gallery 1/5/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Keeps Repeating” and “Language” from cc&d 1/21 v305 book “You Won’t See Me”, then “Plot and Wait” and “Waiting to Take the Plunge” from the Down in the Dirt 1/21 v179 book “a Stretch of Highway” for The Café Gallery 1/5/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery


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