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Current Issue: Volume 11, Issue 1 (2026) Special Poetry Issue II
Through the Door Slightly
Poetry Editor's Preface is included as the first item of this issue.Article
The Saving Grace of Hypochondria
Brad Buchanan PhD
Poems
Preface to Poetry Issue II (Vol 11, Issue 1, 2026)
Steven B. Katz
Photography from Greece
Edward Tick
How the Gods Speak: Four Poems
Edward Tick Ph.D.
Mary Remembered, and Others
Steve Popkin
Cranial Nerve VII
Nicole M. Fye MD
Body Turned Battlefield
Melanie Page
How To Die
Prisca Mbonu
Two poems: Searching for Solace, and Dead on Arrival
Katrina Bandeli
Photography from Greece II
Edward Tick
Herclitus, Fragment 11
Edward Tick
The Venus of Willendorf
Nidhi Agrawal
"The PTSD Counselors"
Ron Riekki
Barefoot Tango
Wendi XIĀO
The Decision
Kshitija Kale
Abortion Barbie Dives into the Wreck
Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose
Finding Myself: New Poems by Kate Dahlstedt
Kate Dahlstedt
Archival Trip, Dec. ‘23
Sara C. Doan
Two Poems-Lady Looking and Deer Hunting in Wisconsin
Christine Boese
Who Lives There?
Steve Popkin
Prose Poems from _These Forevers_
alicia strand
Photography from Greece III
Edward Tick
Book Review
Forthcoming Omnibus Edition
The Omnibus edition (Vol 11 Issue 2) of this issue (11.1) but containing ALL the files in one folder, will be published in a few days.