    Enjoy the 2022 magazine collection book from Scars Publications and Down in the Dirt magazine, with the January-April 2022 magazine issues titled “The Ice that Was”.
    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 Ice
that Was
Down in the Dirt
January-April 2022
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 v191, January 2022 “Impeccable Warriors”

AUTHOR

TITLE

Conjeevaram J. Nandakumar

Across the Arena of Corona

Kate Falvey

In Kitty Liffey’s Bar and Grill, Last Round
Miranda in Nighttown
Playtime
Bio

Elena Botts

I thought of you caught in that riptide
the white? flag across the road
sure, you love
Bio

Robert P. Bishop

Insurrection
Bio

Jade Quinn

The Mango Tree

Richard K. Williams

The way to Means (+ image)
Gravity Off
The Old Port

R.T. Castleberry

How Deceptive The Moon
The Curiosities Of Decline

Tohm Bakelas

epitaph for every poet
prayer for brokenhearted misanthropes

James Bates

Phosphorus

Janet Kuypers

Phosphorus: Strike That, Red
Phosphorus: Willie Pete
Phosphorus

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, “Phosphorus: Willie Pete”, and “Phosphorus” from the 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Phosphorus: Strike That, Red”, “Phosphorus: Willie Pete”, and “Phosphorus” from the 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

White Phosphorus (+ image)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen” and “Now That You Got Me” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View”, then her poem “White Phosphorus” (+ image) from the Scars Publi cations Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” during her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22” 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, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Hydrogen” and “Now That You Got Me” from the v195 5/22 Down in the Dirt book “In Plain View”, then her poem “White Phosphorus” (+ image) from the Scars Publi cations 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” during her “Poetic License global open mic 5/1/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with an Old b&w Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Bio

Joan McNerney

Knave
riding dark horse nightmare
Summer Stupor
Then

Mark Pearce

Blindness
Sideshow
Bio

Edward Michael O’Durr Suprenowicz

Side Show Slide Show art

Mike Rader

Sour Grapes for the Gestapo
Bio

Judge Santiago Burdon

Tales My Grandfather Told

Christopher Strople

Grange art

Peter Bernstein

Bad Energy

Radoslav Rochallyi

spy mathematical art

Donna Dallas

It Came From the Fire
Creepers
Sinner

Arjun Earthperson

haze-space

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)

T. N. Roman

The dead tide

Nova Mladenovic

Childhood

NASA

Nova image

Charles J. March III

Celibacy Psychiatry word art

Travis Green

We Are A Trinity Of Impeccable Warriors

Mark A. Murphy

Lacrimosa
Thinking Without A Bannister
Under Poplars
Bio

John Grey

Drowning Victim And The Next Steps
The Glass Bride
Bio

ayaz daryl nielsen

Untitled (gossamer)
Bio

Alexander Wijangco

Ribbed
Bio

Ivan de Monbrison

Lost memories in English & Russian
September in English & Russian

John Chinaka Onyeche

Art And Ritual

John Farquhar Young

Family secrets
Bio

Daniel de Culla

Happy New Year photography
Bio

Mahmoud Suleiman Abdi Dualeh

Karen, the Misbehaved Girl

John L. Stanizzi

Cicada
Uprooted and Broken
Bio

K. McAllister

The Day She Disappeared

Roger G. Singer

opening up
soft the unknown

David Sapp

Salute
The Watercourse Way
Our Married Biology
Bio

Janet Kuypers

Qualms with a Headache
Kind of like a City (+ image)
Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces
Quilled for Poets

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Qualms with a Headache”, “Kind of like a City” (+ image), “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, and “Quilled for Poets” from the 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Qualms with a Headache”, “Kind of like a City” (+ image), “Volumes of Philosophical Masterpieces”, and “Quilled for Poets” from the 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

Village is Complete with a Community

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Village is Complete with a Community”, “nature I” (+ image), “Vegetarians, One Meal at a Time”, and “Order in the Chaos” from the 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Village is Complete with a Community”, “nature I”, (+ image), “Vegetarians, One Meal at a Time”, and “Order in the Chaos” from the 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” 5/4/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for and in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (video filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers

nature I (+ image)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her haiku “nature I” from the books “the 2023 poetry review date book” (for the day before this was read in this video), “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, & “The Ice that Was” as a bonus reading during her “Poetic License 1/7/24 global

open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 & a Samsung S9 camera w/ a Paper Tear filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Paper Tear filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Vegetarians, One Meal at a Time
Order in the Chaos

Bio

Down in the Dirt v192, February 2022 “And I Disappear”

AUTHOR

TITLE

Mike Rader

The Strange Death of Dr. Carew
Bio

Christopher Strople

Waterville photography

Travis Green

Stillbirth
This Is Me
The Aftereffects Of Bullying

Nancy Machlis Rechtman

And I Disappear
Evening Sky
Bio

Ciara M. Blecka

Behind the Mask

Mark Pearce

Art Museum
Bio

Eleanor Leonne Bennett

P1450204 photography
Bio

Heather Chandler

Healing Herbs

Richard K. Williams

Eternally his Girlfriend and her Brother
Ghosts
History Repeated

Michael Lee Johnson

Deep in my Couch (V2)
Poets Out of Service (V6)

Arjun Earthperson

biscuits

Isabel G. de Diego

Image 3 photography

Don Tassone

The Return
Bio

Janet Kuypers

Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants (+ image)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon”, “Learning how Love Lasts”, “Evil is Tricky”, “Barium Dateline”, “popular and useless”, “Gold for the foolish at heart ” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 7/6/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Lanthanum: the shoulders of giants” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon may have killed the dinosaurs after all” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), “Carbon”, “Learning how Love Lasts”, “Evil is Tricky”, “Barium Dateline”, “popular and useless”, “Gold for the foolish at heart ” (+ shared the image from the online release of the poem), and “Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 7/6/22, the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST in honor of the “Community Poetry” reading (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a b&w Old Film filter). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Bio

Tom Davison

My Yard
Bio

Kyle Heger

A Jolly Good Bonfire
Reflections on Darth Vader
You Call this a Community?
Bio

Mike Rader

In Cobbler’s Gully
Bio

Dee Allen

Discovery [ Excerpt ]
Fantastique
Bio

Jon Carter

fear
garden
the wind

Jeffrey Marshall

The Ice that was

Devin Vandriel

Transport

Scars Publications

airplane flying over Miami International Airport 12/26/08
(Copyright ” 2008-2022 Janet Kuypers)

B.W. Carter

Gatekeeper

Scars Publications

Zach under blankets 7/5/08 (Copyright ” 2008-2022 Janet Kuypers)

Georgia May

Child of War
Crystal Palace
Running Out of Time

James Bates

Carbon
Bio

Janet Kuypers

Carbon may have killed
the dinosaurs after all (+ image)
Carbon

Bio

Tom Ball

Amazon Warrior Priestesses
Jokeville

Rachel Sievers

The Absence of Light

Scars Publications

Delhi street signs, Delhi police, Delhi building
3 photos taken in Delhi 1/15/15 (Copyright ” 2015-2021 Janet Kuypers)

Tony Brewer

The Social Safety Net
20th Anniversary
They Always Come Back
Wolf Trap
Bio

ayaz daryl nielsen

rediscovered
Untitled (perspective)
Bio

Edward N. McConnell

Where Harry’s Buried
Bio

Scars Publications

Gettysburg unknown soldier graves
8/25/04 (Copyright ” 2004-2022 Janet Kuypers)

Arlington National Cemetery
8/25/03 (Copyright ” 2003-2022 Janet Kuypers)

Changming Yuan

Man’s Last Position
Reach out in Yearning: for Qi Hong
Tuner: for Qi Hong
Bio

Robyn Michaels

On The Water

Scars Publications

Ellen sunset silhouette
photographed in Michigan along Lake Michigan in 1998
(Copyright ” 1988-2022 Janet Kuypers)

Chicago skyline from Lake Michigan
photographed in the mid-1990s
(Copyright ” 19958-2022 Janet Kuypers)

Kathleen McCluskey

Remember

Tom Squitieri

February 30
Warm Bread At Morning

Janet Kuypers

Learning how Love Lasts
Evil is Tricky
Barium Dateline
popular and useless
Gold for the foolish at heart (+ image)
Xynotyro: It’s Not Ricotta

Bio

Down in the Dirt v193, March 2022 “Just a Few Butterflies”

AUTHOR

TITLE

Tom Squitieri

Just a Few Butterflies

Andrea Smith

Rest in Peace

Scars Publications

Newly Buried lot (Copyright ” 2003-2022 Janet Kuypers)

Bill Stenson

Bless My Bleeding Heart

Olivier Schopfer

Fun Ride photography
Bio

Haqim Abolaji

This time, We Don’t Know a Good Man

Mark Pearce

Schpittdrueller
Bio

Kyle Hemmings

Prison 2 photography
Bio

Jo Bower

Common Dream I
Our Last Day
Bio

Ben Umayam

Flaming Leaves
Bio

Christopher Strople

Blossoms photography

Gunther Boccius

Flight of Fancy
Imagine
Brushing off Joe Blank
Carl Waverly

Conjeevaram J. Nandakumar

The Techie Syndrome

Nielina Babajee

meredith
(eye) balls
auction

George M. George,
Daniel R. George,
Grant Meese

British Invasions
Bio

Dennis Piszkiewicz

The Genius on Wheels

Eleanor Leonne Bennett

Rekinde 105 photography
Bio

Xiao Gan

Boring dystopia
Thanatophobia

Owolusi Lucky

Tears of a Sun
Bio

Nicole Bird

Dating in LA
The Freedom of Having Nothing
Tipping Point
Bio

Brian Peter Fagan

Watching Fires
Bio

Eleanor Leonne Bennett

Everything 097 photography
Bio

John L. Stanizzi

Closing Time at the Venus Lounge
Tanna
Trumpet Creeper
Bio

Richard K. Williams

Poor Choices
Diamonds
Modern Campground
Education

Susan Sanders

For Jess

Jeff Rosen

Smoke on the Water

Sherry Shahan

Not Alone collage art
Bio

Robert Plunkett

Commitment Issues

James Bates

Boron
Bio

Janet Kuypers

Boron’s Birth (+ image)
Boron nitride stretching (+ image)

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zap My Will” (+ image), “Ruthenium for Free” (+ image), and “Ruthenium” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business”, then her poems “Boron’s Birth” (+ image), “Boron nitride stretching” (+ image), “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Lithium”, and “Nitrogen with an icy heart” (+ image) from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoetry

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zap My Will” (+ image), “Ruthenium for Free” (+ image), and “Ruthenium” from the cc&d 1-4/22 issue collection book “Unfinished Business”, then her poems “Boron’s Birth” (+ image), “Boron nitride stretching” (+ image), “Lithium to Calm my Nerves”, “Lithium”, and “Nitrogen with an icy heart” (+ image) from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Bio

Allison Baggott-Rowe, M.A.

Wounded Birds

Scars Publications

Birds on Algae (Copyright ” 2006-2022 Janet Kuypers)
Birds of a Roof, Austin (Copyright ” 2016-2022 Janet Kuypers)
Irving Park dead Bird 8/9/13 (Copyright ” 2012-2022 Janet Kuypers)
Chicago dead Bird 6/25/15 (Copyright ” 2015-2022 Janet Kuypers)

Sandip Saha

Most people are immersed in filth
Karma will not pardon the culprits
Bio

Robert Funderburk

As a Shadow
Her Echo
Bio

Andrew Kolarik

Letters To My Younger Self
Bio

Janet Kuypers

How a Woman Falls in Love
Seven Miles

Soybeans

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “How a Woman Falls in Love”, “Seven Miles”, “Soybeans”, and “Brushes with Greatness” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (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 and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading “Soybeans”, her prose from the books “the 2023 flash fiction date book” & “The Ice that Was” as a bonus reading during her

“Poetic License 1/7/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera and given a Paper Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Brushes with Greatness

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “How a Woman Falls in Love”, “Seven Miles”, “Soybeans”, and “Brushes with Greatness” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading

fox in the snow
“the Robot Zombie Witch Girl” revisited
Exposed and Abandoned (dreams 3/24/20)