Oasis
welcome to volume 215 (the January 2024 issue)
of
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Table of Contents

AUTHOR TITLE
Michael Ansara History Lesson
Bio
Heath Brougher Slaves to the Pixel
The Trap House
Bio
Sam Kilkenny Corn Chips
Homecoming
Kenneth DiMaggio Conversations With My Late Mother (#3)
Conversations With My Late Mother (#4)
Vivian Lawry Running on About Beach Week
Mark Pearce Buttons (& front page photo)
Bio
Scars Publications Uno 1 and Uno 2
(Copyright © 8&$047;17 & 8/19 ᰰ23 Janet Kuypers)
Adam Brinckerhoff User Data
Bio
Elena Botts Untitled 17 art
Bio
Sam Ambler Son of the Man
Bio
Susan Eve Haar Seventy
John Ragusa The Magnificent Matarsi
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Carnival of Colors art
Stephanie Kaplan Cohen I Make Up Stories Because
Cathy Allman All Those Windowed Rooms
Neal Burnham Lucite Embodiment
Bio
Scars Publications Golfer nutcracker
(Copyright © 11/30/23 Janet Kuypers)
Patricia Brawley Downsizing Surprise
Bio
Peter J Barbour Enough is Enough
Bio
Kevin Hopson The Long Way Home
Bio
Eleanor Leonne Bennett Cove 3 art
Bio
Sandip Saha Heart broken
Bio
Lynn White Sandcastles
Bio
David Parker On The Tarmac
Bio
Lena Mandel Voices translation of
Karineh Arutyunova writing

Bio of Translator
Tohm Bakelas i am pro-title haikus
on telling Joseph Fulkerson about
receiving scathing rejections
because I title my haikus

on the morning commute
perspectives
John Raffetto Oasis
Fiver Lewis I can’t acquire my Life
Bio
Daria Lojko Corkscrew
Bio
Ian Mullins Breaking Out
Man Born of Woman
The Holding Pen
Tom Merrill Saying It Eastern-Style (haiku 1)
Saying It Eastern-Style (haiku 6)
Why Truth Is Unpopular
Bio
Angie Minkin Chutes and Ladders
Bio
James Bates Chromium
Bio
Janet Kuypers Chromium Shine
Chromium
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v215 1/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Oasis” poems “Otherwise Forget Life” & “Verses on Display”, then her poem “Chromium” (which is also in the book “Periodic Table Poetry”, + show image 2) & “Chromium Shine” (which is also in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, and show images 1, 2, & 3) during her videoPoetic License 1/7/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this “Poetic License” video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (that was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Paper Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Bio
Bill Tope Swan Song
David Sapp Here and Gone
Our Absurd Suffering
Bio
Daniel Bliss Post-Pandemic Barstool
81 Exit
Bio
John Wagner Barbecue
Bio
Scars Publications Butterfly collage
(Copyright © 8/1/21-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Janis Kingsley Ten
Isabel G. de Diego Sea And Sky In a Glass Cup 1 photography
Mona Angéline Motherless
Bio
Diana Becket Family arguments
Bio
John Grey Going Nowhere
The In-Law Invasion
Bio
Bakhtiar Ahmed On Happiness
Mat Waterman Just Read the Script
Scars Publications Corvette 1 and Corvette 2
(Copyright © 2023 Janet Kuypers)
John Farquhar Young Ravine
Bio
Daniel de Culla Beauty photography
Jeff Vollmer How to Build a Match
Brian Lee postcard #500
Bio
Janet Kuypers Otherwise Forget Life
Verses on Display (+ book cover)
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v215 1/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Oasis” poems “Otherwise Forget Life” & “Verses on Display”, then her poem “Chromium” (which is also in the book “Periodic Table Poetry”, + show image 2) & “Chromium Shine” (which is also in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”, and show images 1, 2, & 3) during her videoPoetic License 1/7/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this “Poetic License” video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (that was filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a Paper Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoeticlicense


Violent Endeavour
Bio
John Yotko lunar eclipse and Milky Way photography
Janet Kuypers Jupiter Revealing Neptune
Phobos Fears his Future
Vacant Spaces (dreams 4/10/20)
Surmising the Semblance (dreams 4/14/20)
Bio

 
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