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		<title>Josje Weusten</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cardboard Car Hanger &#160; Its needle-sharp smell penetrates the cheap shop, the type where people riffle through racks, thoughtlessly throwing underpriced things into carts. Intended purchases left behind in places different from where they were picked up. &#160; It isn’t supposed to be lying between the car window screens, let alone stripped of its plastic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Daniel Thompson</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bettor in the Giant’s Den &#160; The heart of the stone sweats In the foothills of some place or another (I forgot where now in Nevada). The wet stone, moldy-in-sweat, Moss drenched, marinated in Fungus-warmth, red-splotched. &#160; The casino is a lichen (or a mold) In dragon colors and scaly, Smelling of synthetic pine. Somewhere [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>M. Brooke Wiese</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unfavorable Weather Over the Bay &#160; All week the wind pushed rough water up over the bulkhead, wave on wave as far as you could see to the other side of the bay. Buffleheads and gulls, unfazed, &#160; bobbed up and down like surfers calmly waiting for the perfect ride, disappearing, reappearing. A week of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dawson Steeber</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Are You Coming Back &#160; Last night I tossed and turned, the night torn mad with slamming doors and clanging radiators. I threw pillows and covers all over the room, woke in a terrible cold sweat. I walked to the kitchen gingerly, feeling the swollen, sore pad of my foot where I picked up that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Travis Stephens</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Angels in the Architecture Suppose there are angels in every room, sometimes seen, at times confused with ghosts, but no, ghosts are impatient wanderers, quick to put on boots &#38; stomp through the hedges. Angels, half-asleep, thinking of cellos &#38; the flicker of a candle flame reflected in a lover’s eye Angel in the kitchen [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mia Sitterson</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[what will I do until then? &#160; buy seven white nectarines at the farmer’s market, eat one each day, do this over and over as the nectarines become pears, the pears become &#160; winter, the leaves will turn to eggshells underfoot, and I won’t remember what it was like to live in a green world [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>R James Sennett Jr</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With Barely a Smack on the keister, our young brother was sent back down home to till his soil solo, Vesuvius bile vomited out of bitter lips &#8211; even still! Venom unabated, poison spittle distorting the crops we consume: hell, it’s in our clothing! Endgame? Dissolution of the collective dream. &#160; R James Sennett Jr [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jim Ross</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fred Johnson Carousel, Johnson City, New York, one of six old carved carousels in the Binghamton metro area, known as the &#8220;carousel capital of the world.&#8221; &#160; Jim Ross Jim Ross jumped into creative pursuits in 2015 after a rewarding career in public health research. With a graduate degree from Howard University, he&#8217;s published nonfiction, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rina Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Rina Park She is a sophomore at Chadwick International School in Incheon, South Korea. She has a deep interest in photography as a means of capturing the essence of society through everyday events and human relationships. She uses her camera to explore the impact and benefits of social dynamics and behavior, focusing on how [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Scott Penney</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Polynomial Lines as points that flow from the first to last, planes as groups of lines that define a surface, &#160; some rippling surface a topographic map defined by rippling lines also to mean mountains &#160; but they move too fast to define a moving figure a human figure computed in its sudden contortions on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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