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Mid-August Blues by: Jessica Purdy Jessica Purdy’s two recent chapbooks are: The Adorable Knife poems based on The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (Grey Book Press), and You’re Never the Same: Ekphrastic Poems (Seven Kitchens Press).
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Big If by Robert Estes art by Kim Göransson Robert Estes, who lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, got his Physics PhD at UC Berkeley and worked at major research institutions until retirement. He’s published 40-odd poems in literary journals, including Gargoyle, The Moth, and Constellations.
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Last Summer’s Sandals by: Scott LaMascus art by author Scott LaMascus is a writer and public-humanities advocate living in Oklahoma City. He hosts the McBride Center series for national writers who visit Oklahoma, most recently including David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon.
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Zone Three by: Cynthia Atkins art by: Octavio Quintanilla
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Untitled in Philadelphia
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Flight by: Kat Martuccio Kat Martuccio is a copywriter in New York, NY. Find more of her work at blueitalics.com.
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Was He The King Of Baking Powder? by Nina Prater Nina Prater is a poet, mother, and farmer. Her first poetry chapbook is forthcoming with Belle Point Press. Nina, her husband, and their two inquisitive children live on a small farm in the Arkansas Ozarks.
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GIRL’S NIGHT by Lisa Allen Lisa Allen lives in the suburbs of Kansas City and holds MFAs in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction. With Poet Rebecca Connors, she is the co-founder/director of the virtual literary arts space The Notebooks Collective.
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Fish by Remi Recchia, PhD Remi Recchia, PhD, is a Lambda Award-winning poet, essayist, and editor. He is the author of six books and chapbooks, most recently Addiction Apocalypse (Texas Review Press, forthcoming), and the editor of Transmasculine Poetics (Sundress Publications, 2024).
HOOT POSTCARD 153, SUMMER 2024
Selected lines from Freeloader with Fresh Towels by Alexandra Naughton Alexandra Naughton is a writer, publisher, and literary events organizer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the founder of Be About It Press, established in 2010. Follow her on Instagram @alexandranaughton
