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Jul 29

THIS IS POETRY VOLUME 2: THE MIDWEST POETS

THIS IS POETRY VOLUME 2 THE MIDWEST POETS PRE-ORDER NOW $12 for shipping August 13th regular price $15 CONTINENTAL USA ONLY BUY NOW Paperback: 168 pages Publisher: Citizens for Decent Literature Press (August 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 0692495886 ISBN-13: 978-0692495889 CONTRIBUTORS: Mark James Andrews, James Babbs, Walter Beck, David Blaine, Sirenna Blas, April Michelle Bratten, …

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Dec 29

In the year 2012

Now Playing @ Citizens for Decent Literature began publishing poetry, short stories, essays and rants on January 1, 2012 every third day. In August 2012 the publishing schedule switched to monthly issues with the first issue on August 15th. http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/ Contributors Afzal Moolla, Alan Britt, Aleksandr Smechov, Alex Nodopaka, Ally Malinenko, Andrew Rihn, Anneliese Mackintosh, …

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Dec 04

CFDL Micro Award Nominations

Citizens For Decent Literature is proud to announce its nominations for the Micro Award. The Micro Award is a literary prize presented annually for fiction not exceeding 1000 words. The winner and finalists will be announced on the Micro Award website (http://www.microaward.org/) on Mar. 17, 2013. The author of the winning story shall receive $500 …

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Oct 16

New Issue at Citizens For Decent Literature

the third online issue of CFDL is now live. Issue #3 – Indulge http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/ James Babbs, Brenton Booth, Mike Boyle, Wanda Morrow Clevenger, Carl Miller Daniels, Brian Fugett, Nick Gerrard, John Grey, John Grochalski, Teri Louise Kelly, George Korolog, Keith Landrum, Catfish McDaris, Tim Murray, Josh Olsen, Rob Pierce, Kevin Ridgeway, Jason Ryberg, Amy Sasser, …

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Oct 15

Meth Pipe

by Josh Olsen While walking my dog, Kelso – a merle, Australian Shepherd/Collie mix – I came upon what I believed to be a meth pipe. It was left in plain view, on the sidewalk, in front of one of the many foreclosures in our neighborhood, and when I breathlessly relayed this information to KT, …

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Sep 18

New Issue at Citizens For Decent Literature

Citizens For Decent Literature’s second issue is now live online. http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/ Julia Coleman, Frankie Metro, Bud Smith, Frank Walsh, Anneliese Mackintosh, Karley De la Filth, Josh Olsen, Matthew Pasquarello, Carl Miller Daniels, Jason Hardung, Luis Rivas, William Doreski, Brad Hamlin & Mort Todd, Gene Fehler, Dan Provost, J. Claudius Cloyd, Michael Grover, Mark Wisniewski, Corey …

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Sep 15

Unshaved

by Josh Olsen The hangover was almost more than I could stand. I hadn’t vomited yet, but my body was wrenched with pain and I constantly felt like I was on the brink of shitting in my pants and, to top it all off, a woman was standing less than ten feet in front of …

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Aug 15

Two sides

by Josh Olsen “Sometimes,” my grandfather hesitantly confessed from his bed, “I wonder if we made the right choice keeping you away from your father.” But my grandmother quickly interjected, “Of course we made the right choice!” and that was the end of the conversation. I wasn’t exactly shocked by what my grandfather had stated. …

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Aug 15

Soft

by Josh Olsen A dog was lying in the middle of 96. A dead dog. Black and white. Shaggy. It wasn’t the first time I’d seen a dead dog. Hell, it wasn’t even the first time I’d seen a dead dog on that very same strip of highway. But this time the shock of it …

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Jan 17

Zygote in my Coffee #136

Zygote in my Coffee #136 features the work of Heather Ann Schmidt, Katie Moore, Michele McDannold, James Babbs, Andrew Rihn, Kenneth P. Gurney, Paul Tristram, Kyle Jaeger, Josh Olsen and Karl Koweski.

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