welcome to volume 184 (the June 2021 issue) of Down in the Dirt magazine internet issn 1554-9666 (for the print issn 1554-9623) http://scars.tv/dirt, or http://scars.tv & click Down in the Dirt Janet K., Editor

Table of Contents
	AUTHOR		TITLE
	John Ragusa		The Mysterious Matter of the Musician’s Murder
	Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz		Blues on a Grey Day art
	Thomas Elson		Next Father’s Day about Thomas Elson
	Richard K. Williams		Cruise Heroes
	David Sapp		Nina or Bessie Wooster Road Suicide Bored, Bored, Bored Brief Biographical Information
	P. L. Grimaldi		Drive Morning
	Heather Sager		Nightmare Bio
	Steve Carr		Arcadia Steve Carr Bio
	Scars Publications		Moose Head 50 photographed 8/2/15 in Ohiopyle, PA (Copyright ” 2015-2021 Janet Kuypers)
	Roger G. Singer		night battles
	James Bates		Heroes
	Scars Publications		Art Gallery the cover spread collage from the cc&d 11/20 book “What He’s Trying to Paint” of many famous paintings (Copyright ” 2003-2021 Janet Kuypers)
	L.B. Sedlacek		Exchange Rate Bio
	Scars Publications		Coins (Copyright ” 2003-2021 Janet Kuypers)
	Miles Ryan Fisher		With Both Arms
	Michael Gigandet		The Stepfather Bio
	Scars Publications		Opened Books (Copyright ” 2020-2021 Janet Kuypers)
	Jen McCartin		Taxco Bio
	Patrick Thibeault		Ketchup Bio
	Olivier Schopfer		Every Which Way photography Olivier Schopfer Bio
	John Raffetto		Dex A Snarled Glow Visitation About John Raffetto
	Linda Caradine		The Sliver of a Lie
	Janet Kuypers		On the Surface See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, and “Extra Blade” from the v184 May 2021 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual first Wednesdays time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, and “Extra Blade” from the v184 5/21 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading Bio
	Ava Collopy		Trailer Park Kids About Ava Collopy
	Shi Yang Su		Bathing About Shi Yang Su
	Jim Woessner		The Page About Jim Woessner
	Tom Ball		Lovicide
	John (“Jake”) Cosmos Aller		Lone Foreigner Hiking the Seoul City Walls An Old Man Visits His Wife’s Grave
	Christian Ward		Drive In Spock Bio
	Harrison Linklater Abbott		A Change of Key Bio
	John C. Krieg		The Tank Bio
	John Ragusa		The Crash Maker
	Anita G. Gorman		Cheating Husbands
	Carolyn Poindexter		shamoy graphite drawing
	John Farquhar Young		The lady with the secateurs Bio
	Mike Rader		In the Blood Bio
	Isabel G. de Diego		Be Quiet painting
	Mike Rader		Deadmeat Bio
	Kyle Hemmings		Prison 3 photography
	James Bates		Beryllium
	Janet Kuypers		Beryllium Shimmers (+ image) See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, and “Extra Blade” from the v184 May 2021 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual first Wednesdays time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, and “Extra Blade” from the v184 5/21 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading Bio
	David Angelo		And Love Hurts Dear Bottle Why does the sea have to be in every poem? Bio
	Allan Onik		The Fallen
	Danielle An’Mai		Your Instructions: Write Everywhere I’m going someplace where it’s warm... Bio
	R. L. Peterson		Bill, Polio and Big-League Dreams
	Stephan Lynn Dowless		The Dream Game art
	Terry Sanville		Blue Bio
	Travis Green		Your Love Was Killing Me
	Jacob LePretre		Unsupervised Guidance
	Paul Tanner		5p sociology course blames, blames I identify as “shop worker”
	Mike Schneider		Bank Job Mike Schneider Bio
	April Blair		Suspended Animation Sprung from Grief
	S.M. Moore		the house sparrow sings Bio
	Janet Kuypers		Over the Lives (+ image) Elaborate Exaltation (+ image) Quesadich in our Underworld Extra Blade See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, and “Extra Blade” from the v184 May 2021 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual first Wednesdays time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, and “Extra Blade” from the v184 5/21 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading Learning More (2020 edit) Vortex Sucks Us In See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, “Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up”, “Voice and Word”, and “Your Essence” from the v184 May 2021 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual first Wednesdays time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, “Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up”, “Voice and Word”, and “Your Essence” from the v184 5/21 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” from the v184 6/21 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, then her poem “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, then her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Deuterium: How Sweet It Is” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 6/6/21” 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 #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” from the v184 6/21 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, then her poem “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, then her Twitter-length Periodic Table poem “Deuterium: How Sweet It Is” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 6/6/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up Voice and Word Your Essence See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, “Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up”, “Voice and Word”, and “Your Essence” from the v184 May 2021 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual first Wednesdays time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, “Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up”, “Voice and Word”, and “Your Essence” from the v184 5/21 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading Bio

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