The Earth Cried


    


    Enjoy the 2025 magazine collection book from Scars Publications and Down in the Dirt magazine, with the May-August 2025 magazine issues titled “The Earth Cried”.
    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.

    
     Cover scene was photographed 6/10/07 at Chicago’s lakefront during the Cool Globes exhibition. The font cover is of image 544 and the back cover is of image 543 of a “conserve water” globe with water handles on land and faucets on the oceans. Superimposed 20% over the globes is image 502 of a globe with a rendition of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” painting.     





The Earth
Cried

Down in the Dirt
May-August 2025
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below is a listing of the accepted writers
and titles writing in this collection.



Down in the Dirt v231, May 2025: “The Earth Colony

AUTHOR TITLE
James Bates Californium
Bio
Janet Kuypers Californium’s a double-edged sword
(+ poem image)
Californium-252: communication, thanks to nuclear
(+ poem image)
Californium
(+ poem image & 10/26/13 Nashville feature poem image)
Bio
Alan Ford The Good Nazi?
K. P. S. Plaha Al Is In Underland
Wes Heine DSCN1530 art
Peter McMillan The Barbershop
Bio
Janet Kuypers only (+ 100 Haikus book cover & Partial Nudity book covers)
Bio
Peter McMillan The Earth Colony
Bio
Gil Hoy Those Snowy Mornings
Bio
Scars Publications Gettysburg image 051
(Copyright © 8/26/04-2025 Janet Kuypers)
Douglas Young Needing a New Job
Bio
Scars Publications a Sally Lightfoot crab on lava
Punta Cormorant, Floreana Island, Galapagos Islands
(Copyright © 12/26/07-2025 Janet Kuypers)

Dolphins
at the Galapagos Islands (Copyright © 12/28/07-2025 Janet Kuypers)
Jimmy R. Coleman Odessa, Putin’s gambit
Bio
Scars Publications image 089 of St. Petersburg from the water
Russia (Copyright © 5/28/06-2025 Janet Kuypers)
Lenny Levine Assholes Anonymous
Bio
Elena Botts Untitled 38 art
Bio
Ebony Mitchum A Night at the Laundromat
Stuti Jain Scars
learning is embedded in my skin like a grave
When the Box is a Casket
Bio
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Lips and Diamonds art
James Croal Jackson A Morning at The Abbey Butler Street
Bio
Tatiana Sanjuan The Depths of My Silence
Søren Sørensen Dream 4 art
Craig Kirchner She thinks I’m a Poet
Bio
Tom Ball Forbidden Aging
Bio
John Yotko The Milky Way 8/31/18 photography
Joan Mach Two Brothers Diner
Paul Stansbury House Rules
Bio
Isabel G. de Diego Sea And Sky In a Glass Cup 8 photography
Vahid Zakeri Flower Grower
Flower Grower (in Persian)
Protest
Protest (in Persian)
Bio
John Farquhar Young The stool
Bio
Kyle Hemmings Broadway BW photography
Bio
Patrick G. Roland When Wonder Fades
Bio
Mike Dean The Chronosphere and Retrocausality: a talk
Daniel de Culla Sacred Shore 2 photography
Bio
Anthonia Bakare Sleepless
Bio
Nancy Byrne Iannucci John Hughes
Just as They Were About to Bloom
Bio
Nancy Machlis Rechtman Answered Prayers
Bio
Matthew J Richardson Listen
Bio
Bill Tope The Gauntlet
Devin Sparkman There Is Still Hope in All the Brokenness
Raha.M 141E096C-8FAC art
Janet Kuypers A Retired Policeman Talks About
 Suicides He’s Seen.

(+ 7/17/07 Living in a Big World poem image)
Fighting I Can Do
I Want
On An Airplane With A Frequent Flyer
(+ 7/17/07 Living in a Big World poem image)
Paranoia
Private Lives 2005 (the elevated train, Chicago, Illinois)
The Carpet Factory, The Shoes
You Once so Confidently
(+ 8/8/07 Beach Poets poem image)
To The River
(+ 8/2/11 gull at wood in Chicago river image)
Bio


Down in the Dirt v232, June 2025: “Testing the Darkness

AUTHOR TITLE
James Bates Time Will Tell
Bio
Alan Ford Rent-a-Womb
Patrick G. Roland Testing the Darkness
Bio
Nancy Machlis Rechtman High Five
Bio
Jimmy R. Coleman Bush had it right... There were indeed
active WMDs in Iraq!

Bio
Scars Publications Oil Pump in desert
Texas oil pump 6/20/21 on top of sand from image 1365 on Santa Fe Island
at the Galapagos Islands 12/24/07 (Copyright © 12/24/07-2025 Janet Kuypers)
Holly Thomas Conversations with a Nihilistic Rainbow Trout
Isabel G. de Diego Palms 2 photography
Pam Munter The Alphabet Streets Are Gone.
Bio
Scars Publications California beach
(Copyright © 1997-2025 Janet Kuypers)
John Farquhar Young Ex!
Bio
Horia Alexandru Pop Dreams of Escape photography
Bill Tope I Remember
Force of Habit
Stuti Jain Toys
completion
outcast
Bio
Alan Ford The Winning Loser.
Laura Zucca-Scott The monster within
Bio
James Nelli Taps on the Ceiling
Daniel de Culla Sacred Shore 5 and 6 photography
Bio
Humayun Malik Immorality
Bio
Wes Heine types written illustration
Allan Onik Pizza Parlor
Mike Rader Read all about it!
Bio
Janet Kuypers Newspaper Ink’s the Blood of a Dying Species
(+ 8/22/17 “This Just In” show images 1 & 2, and the
“(pheromemes) 2015-2017 poems” front cover image)

Fingers Black
(+ “partial nudity” & “tweet”, book covers containing this poem)
Bio
Jacob Alexander Cameras
Clarence Allan Ebert War, Blood & Red Ants
Bio
Iftekhar Sayeed strange, strange fruit
Bio
David Sowards On the Subject of Abortion
Janet Kuypers Using the Nazi Approach to Women’s Rights
(+ 8/9/23 show images 1, 2, & 3, and
“Testament” front cover image)

Only Pose What I Know
(+ 6/28/23 show images 1 & 2)
Bio
Jason Ryberg Strange Frequencies
Bio
Ramiro Valdes Lips
Bio
June Wolfman Three O’clock Fights Six O’clock
Donald Reed Greenwood Glendalough drawing
Meg Newman Down by the River
Bio
Binod Dawadi Cubism Drawings art
Bio
Sterling Warner 69: The Delma/Willow Line
Bio
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz A Curious Incident art
Elena Botts Breaking into the Liberal Arts Industry
Bio
Raha.M FCn832xXEAUDrxw art
Yucheng Tao Crows
Bio
Terry Tierney Gravity
Bio
Lee Hammerschmidt Bottoms up drawing
Bio
Laura Zucca-Scott The music played
Bio
Sara Vernekar Borderland
Bio
Ebisike Chinedum Kenneth Two-Faced drawing
Bio
Peter McMillan Imperial Musth and the Gifted Brain
Bio
David Sowards “Bread” cartoon
Barbara Krasner Teaching the Holocaust:
An Eight-Exercise Preparation Guide

Bio
Scars Publications Arbeit Macht Frei gate
Dachau, Germany (Copyright © 5/15/03-2025 Janet Kuypers)
Ciara M. Blecka The Death of Empathy
Tanner Scott Inheritance
Janet Kuypers Yeah
(+ A Foot Fantasia 10/07 2 images from animated lead image,
and photograph from show)

Your Soul is Shaking
(+ video still from performing the poem)
Story Telling
(+ 3/28/15 Journey show images 1 & 2)
Bio


Down in the Dirt v233, July 2025:
Tugging At The Thread

AUTHOR TITLE
Nancy Machlis Rechtman The Earth Cried
Bio
James Bates Storytime
Bio
Isabel G. de Diego Flower photography
Jimmy R. Coleman Now I NOSE About ALLERGIES!
Bio
Isabel G. de Diego Sea And Sky In a Glass Cup 2 photography
Iris Wei The Great Ratpocalypse of 2024
Daniel de Culla Untitled drawing
Bio
Bill Tope Foodies R Us
Stuti Jain Blue Remembrances
All the Words I Cannot Feel
Bio
Duane Anderson Letter to Myself
Bio
Blackbird André
Kyle Hemmings The Bench photography
Bio
Fox Pearl Wilder The Building on the Corner Street
Bio
George Beckerman MARI↔TAL ARTS
Bio
Oakoak kick street art
Scars Publications Graffiti Wall art 049
Austin, TX (Copyright © 2/18/17-2025 Janet Kuypers)
Michael Fitzgerald In Strange Ways
Priyanka Pathak Rising from Heartbreak: Shayla’s Journey
from Betrayal to Legal Triumph
Cailey Tin the dark seen in at daylight 234 art
Bio
Phillip Elliott I Still Remember
Tugging At The Thread
Ben Macnair The Orange
The Village Cricket Team, 1913
Bio
John Farquhar Young At a distance
Bio
Fred Klein The Truth About UFOs
Bio
Binod Dawadi Spaceship art
Bio
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Across the Sky art
Doug Hawley Trauma
Bio
Ebisike Chinedum Kenneth Veiled Identity art
Bio
Joan Mach The Vanished Student
Elena Botts Untitled 09 art
Bio
John Randolph Tick, tick, tick
David Sowards crash cartoon
Johnny Matherne Sister
C. Inanen Now She’ll Fly
Scars Publications Downed airplane images from side & front
(Copyright © 8/23/03-2025 Janet Kuypers)
Shinshaku Ashida Conscience
Scott Taylor What Happens When Ya Wanna Write, But Can’t
Bio
Lee Hammerschmidt How Low Can YOU Go art
Bio
Asmi Mahajan Paper Birds
Weightless
Laura Zucca-Scott Leaving
Bio
Mord McGhee Window Out Back
Wes Heine DSCN0982 art
Alan Altany Ugly Revisited
Bio
Ralph Bland Senior Year
Ken Kapp Three Tall Men
Bio
Alan Ford The Shamed Woman
Janet Kuypers Unless it’s about suppressing life
+ the “Testament” CyberWit.net book front cover with the
7/2/23 “Bringing women’s Battles to the Beachfront cover,
plus live images poem, images 2 , 1, & 3

Bio
Cantor Mitch Lucifer Speaks
Mona Mehas Downhill
Bio
Benito Vila Inversion
Bio
Manoela Torres River’s Clay
Bio
Tanya Delanor Welcome to Harry Gardens
Bio
Søren Sørensen Dream 5 art
Doug Hornig The Ballad of Sivvie and Yuke
Michael Pedretti I Wonder Why
Bio
Janet Kuypers Confident Women
Expecting the Stoning
“addict.”
Brewing the Coffee and Remembering Summer
The Cycle
Bio


Down in the Dirt v234, August 2025:
King of the Waves

AUTHOR TITLE
James Bates Emil’s Magic
Bio
Horia Alexandru Pop Clouds, clouds, clouds art
James Bates Fear of Snakes
Bio
Scars Publications Snake (image CDrw01_
(Copyright © 5/30/05-2025 Janet Kuypers)
used fro the cover of the cc&d book “Coiled Cobra𔔕
Bill Tope Confabulation
Wes Heine 100_0176 photography
Mike Sherer A Slice of Einstein’s Brain
Bio
Kyle Hemmings Einstein photography
Bio
Grace Fisher Dance Some days
Abayomi Ayo-Kayode When I Dream of Stars
Bio
Hibah Shabkhez Two and a Half Oranges
Bio
Karen Hedges Gordita painting
Shahla Fouladi A Cabin in the Sea
A Cabin in the Sea (Persian original)
Don Reilly The Ring
Bio
Mark Reasoner The Coach’s Advice
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Barrier to Darkness Copy art
Matthew Wherttam The Southern Stars
At the Library
Bio
Ciara M. Blecka The Death of Empathy Pt. 2
Heidy Portorreal Between Two Highways
Isabel G. de Diego Underworld Drums And Bugle 1 photography
Julia Kessler When Will I See You Again?
Rachel Ermutlu Expectations
Katharine Chung Lyceum
Bio
Iftekhar Sayeed hey, kids, leave ‘em teachers alone
Bio
Dylan James Harper The Drip
Daniel de Culla Kylian 2 photography
Bio
Terry Sanville Produce
Bio
Binod Dawadi Woman with Yellow Hair art
Bio
Antheia Heaven’s Greatest Sin is Love
Mourning an Absent Father
Bio
John Farquhar Young Shoes
Bio
Scars Publications Shoes hung over cables
Austin, TX (Copyright © 2018-2025 Janet Kuypers)<
WWII shoe collection
Washington, D.C. (Copyright © 2011-2025 Janet Kuypers)
Ute Carson Symbiosis
Bio
Zhu Xiao Di Blueberries
Poets
Bio
Ek. A. Butakova Onsra
Bio
Scars Publications Icicles 5236 & 5235
Louisville (Copyright © 2/27/10-2025 Janet Kuypers)
Susie Gharib Taciturn
Bio
John Sierpinski Still Life
Bio
Donna Dallas Queens-Broke
How to Begin
Alan Ford Don’t Bank On It.
Deborah H. Doolittle Like a Splinter
Bio
Mike DC Current A Dead March For a Wedding
Harsimar Kaur Breaking News from Nowhere
John F McMullen From Vietnam To Now
Bio
Susmita Ramani The Nursery
Bio
Ebisike Chinedum Kenneth Little One drawing
Søren Sørensen Dream 6 art
Kenneth DiMaggio Before the Next Exit, I Pull Over
to Roll a Joint and Write this
Poem to My Civilization (#5)

Before the Next Exit, I Pull Over
to Roll a Joint and Write this
Poem to My Civilization (#1)

Before the Next Exit, I Pull Over
to Roll a Joint and Write this
Poem to My Civilization (#2)
Donald Reed Greenwood No Regret
Doug Stoiber Smoke?
Bio
Douglas J. Lanzo King of the Waves
Bio
Scars Publications fire
portion of a car on fire on I35 in North Austin
(Copyright © 2015-2025 Janet Kuypers)
Janet Kuypers Robert
Chicago, West Side
She Told me her Dreams II
She Told me her Dreams III
She Told me her Dreams IV
She Told me her Dreams V
She Told me her Dreams VI
He Told me his Dreams II
He Told me his Dreams VI
Bio


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