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| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly | |
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| Issues | 148 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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Are Intimate Dinners a Thing?
Years ago, it would’ve been a party of up to 20-30 people, Live music might have been on tap. Of course, there would’ve been lots of food. That was then.
This is now.
On Saturday night it was an intimate din...
The Thread and the Seeker
As I was teaching a poetry class last week, one of the students (Frank Crespin) read a poem by another poet (below). That reading and those words put me in a tailspin.
The Way It Is
by William Stafford...
Take a Chance, Take Your Time
The sun has been shining upon us, here in Albuquerque, for almost one week, after some very good rain squalls and it does feel great to be able to venture out on occasion. Whenever I do go out, I am sure to gr...
The Sun Still Rises
I recently accepted an offer to produce four book covers for poetry anthologies, with Southwest images of the topic. It didn’t take me long to produce three of the images and I just needed one more to complete the proje...
Owning Up to the Truth
A few months ago, I created a situation whereby I accepted too much work. The month was working out to be much longer and more challenging on my bank account.
As I was working through the month, I realized something...
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Tim publishes Shadow & Light Magazine, a bi-monthly, 100 page photography magazine. He is also a writer/poet and published Frame of Mind, a poetry book, a few years ago. He publishes regularly online in Medium, and through several newsletters.
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