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- [Free Braille & Audio Materials](https://smallprintmagazine.com/free-braille-audio-materials/) - U.S. citizens/residents who are unable to read due to a visual or another handicap might be eligible for free Braille and/or audio materials. The sign-up process takes very little time. Visit the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) at: From the website: NLS: That All May Read Eligibility of Blind and
- [UNC Writing Center Handouts](https://smallprintmagazine.com/unc-writing-center-handouts/) - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill maintains a list of writing-related, instructional handouts on its website: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/ Overview of Handouts [one_half padding="0 10px 0 0"] Writing the Paper Argument Audience Brainstorming College Writing Color Coding Conclusions Drawing Relationships Evaluating Print Sources Evidence Fallacies Figures and Charts Flow Getting Feedback Introductions Outlines Paragraph
- [Small News](https://smallprintmagazine.com/small-news/) - Response We've had, and continue to have, a great response to the Spring/Summer 2014 issue of Small Print Magazine. If you haven't downloaded the PDF version of the Spring/Summer 2014 issue, take a few minutes to download a copy or order a print copy through MagCloud/Blurb. You'll find wonderful artwork, moving stories and poetry, and
- [Writers Dispatch, Issue 9](https://smallprintmagazine.com/writers-dispatch-issue-9-by-small-print-magazine/) - net neutrality
- [Writers Dispatch, Issue 8](https://smallprintmagazine.com/writers-dispatch-issue-8/) - Writing Tips
- [Murder Your Darlings](https://smallprintmagazine.com/murder-your-darlings/) - Origins Most writers know the phrase "murder your darlings" or "kill your darlings" that advises deleting what Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch called extraneous ornamentation. Deliberate or not, such self-indulgent writing draws attention to sentence-level mechanics or clever observation, but it often does little to strengthen a story or further an argument. The meaning of this phrase
- [Writing Cabin Not Required](https://smallprintmagazine.com/writing-cabin-not-required/) - Uninterrupted blocks of time are a requirement of any serious practice, but author Lev Grossman cautions against falling for the romantic notion that a writer needs to live in self-imposed exile to create great work. Visit BuzzFeed to read his article "How Not to Write Your First Novel," which revisits his attempt to live in
- [Peter and the Wolf](https://smallprintmagazine.com/peter-and-the-wolf/) - Peter and the Wolf By Gene Wilburn For those who grew up with television, it’s hard to fathom the grip that radio once had on the imagination. In the small blue-collar town of Rock Falls, Illinois, in 1951, I was six years old and radio captivated me; I listened each week to episodes of The
- [Raymond Wong Memoir Released](https://smallprintmagazine.com/im-not-chinese-the-journey-from-resentment-to-reverence/) - Raymond Wong, whose creative nonfiction and book reviews appear in Small Print Magazine, has released a memoir I'm Not Chinese: The Journey from Resentment to Reverence (Apprentice House). Raymond's creative nonfiction piece "Foreign" (p. 14 in the Spring/Summer 2014 issue of Small Print Magazine) appears in I'm Not Chinese. I’m Not Chinese: The Journey from
- [VirusTotal](https://smallprintmagazine.com/virustotal/) - In addition to using your locally run anti-virus, VirusTotal is good tool to scan files and websites.
- [Writers Dispatch, Issue 1](https://smallprintmagazine.com/writersdispatch_1/) - September 15, 2014 • ISSUE 1 • News, Notes, & Events for Writers Welcome to issue #1 of Writers Dispatch, brought to you by Small Print Magazine. Links of Interest Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/why-writers-are-the-worst-procrastinators/283773/?single_page=true Author Marketing 101: The Verdict On Kindle Unlimited http://matthewkadish.com/author-marketing-101-verdict-kindle-unlimited/ Free Online Novel Writing Software -
- [Writers Dispatch, Issue 2](https://smallprintmagazine.com/writersdispatch_2/) - September 22, 2014 • ISSUE 2 • News, Notes, & Events for Writers Welcome to issue 2 of Writers Dispatch, brought to you by Small Print Magazine. ARTICLES Top Ten Best-Selling Ebooks -- Week of September 13 | Digital Book World http://www.huffingtonpost.com/digital-book-world/top-ten-bestselling-ebook_25_b_5835438.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000031 Amazon Refreshes Its Kindle Line - NYTimes.com http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2014/09/17/amazon-refreshes-its-kindle-line/ 7 Ways to Expertly
- [Writers Dispatch, Issue 3](https://smallprintmagazine.com/writersdispatch_3/) - September 29, 2014 • ISSUE 3 • News, Notes, & Events for Writers Welcome to issue 3 of Writers Dispatch, brought to you by Small Print Magazine. ARTICLES Photo courtesy of Amtrak Amtrak Residency offers 24 writers a desk during a long train ride | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/amtrak-residency-offers-24-writers-long-train-ride/ Still from the TV
- [Writers Dispatch, Issue 4](https://smallprintmagazine.com/writersdispatch_4/) - October 6, 2014 • ISSUE 4 • News, Notes, & Events for Writers Welcome to issue 4 of Writers Dispatch, brought to you by Small Print Magazine. NEWS & NOTES Literary Lions Unite in Protest Over Amazon’s E-Book Tactics by David Streitfeld | NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/business/literary-lions-unite-in-protest-over-amazons-e-book-tactics.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=3 Google’s Play Newsstand App Makes Reading Print Magazines On
- [Writers Dispatch, Issue 5](https://smallprintmagazine.com/writers-dispatch-issue-5/) - October 13, 2014 • ISSUE 5 • News, Notes, & Events for Writers Welcome to issue 5 of Writers Dispatch, brought to you by Small Print Magazine. NEWS & NOTES Print Books Outsold Ebooks In First Half Of 2014 by Claire Fallon | The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/ebooks-print-books-outsold_n_5940654.html I’m Not Not Telling the Truth by
- [Writers Dispatch, Issue 7](https://smallprintmagazine.com/writersdispatch_7/) - May 27, 2015 • ISSUE 7 • News, Notes, & Events for Writers Welcome to issue 7 of Writers Dispatch, brought to you by Small Print Magazine. Small Print Magazine News in Brief The Spring/Summer 2015 issue of Small Print Magazine is nearly ready for release. Once this issue is out the door, Writers Dispatch
- [Writers Dispatch, Issue 6](https://smallprintmagazine.com/writersdispatch_6/) - October 20, 2014 • ISSUE 6 • News, Notes, & Events for Writers Welcome to issue 6 of Writers Dispatch, brought to you by Small Print Magazine. NEWS & NOTES Australian’s P.O.W. Novel Wins Man Booker Prize by Alexandra Alter | The New York Times | http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/business/media/richard-flanagan-wins-man-booker-prize-for-tale-of-world-war-ii-pow.html?_r=0 McSweeney’s to become nonprofit publishing house by John
- [Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press](https://smallprintmagazine.com/project-gutenberg-self-publishing-press/) - Project Gutenberg offers free ebook distribution for authors. From PG's website: The purpose of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is to encourage the voluntary creation and distribution of electronic books. Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing’s purpose is to create a cloud service for contemporary writers to share their works with readers. From Project Gutenberg, the first
- [Style Sheet for Your Manuscript](https://smallprintmagazine.com/style-sheet-for-your-manuscript/) - Literary agent Rachelle Gardner offers good advice for keeping track of style, setting, names, and preferred spelling. See Rachelle Gardner's article "How to Create a Style Sheet for Your Manuscript." http://www.rachellegardner.com/2013/06/create-a-style-sheet-for-your-manuscript/

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- [Cartoons](https://smallprintmagazine.com/cartoons/) - Cartoonists FEATURED —Dimitra Rizou Howard Margulies is a writer of sorts living in the Hudson Valley of New York. His drawings have disgraced the pages of numerous national magazines and cartoon anthologies. You can view more of his on-going work on Instagram (@hmargulies111). Wear his cartoons! Visit Society 6! https://society6.com/hmargulies111
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- [A Conversation with Calvin Mills by Lauren Davis](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/interview/a-conversation-with-calvin-mills-by-lauren-davis/) - A Conversation with Calvin Mills by Lauren Davis
- [INTERVIEW](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/interview/) - INTERVIEWS A Conversation with Calvin Mills By Lauren Davis "Originally drawn to serious reading by the spare prose of Hemingway and Carver, and the less spare novels of Steinbeck and Kerouac, I later found weird fiction wrestling for my heart." —Calvin Mills Read Here Chris Baty Creative Catalyst NaNoWriMo Founder Chris Baty Interviewed by Steve
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- [For the Love of Ebooks by Gene Wilburn](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/creative-nonfiction/love-of-ebooks-by-gene-wilburn/) - We usually called him Ches. He was short and stooped, with a little belly, his steel-gray hair brushed straight back, fragrant, stiff and sticky, as if he’d just patted it in place with cologne. He had a red flushed face, moist blue eyes and thin pale lips that quivered slightly sometimes when he spoke, as if he might burst into tears if he couldn’t quite think of the right thing to say.
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- [The Camper](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/fiction/the-camper-by-bob-ritchie/) - Elderly couple move to camper where they spend their last days near a hospital.
- [POETRY](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/) - POETRY TWO POEMS JEFFREY HOWARD FIVE POEMS JUNE KINO CULLEN SIX SMALL POEMS After Alexej Jawlensky KAREN HOLDEN Good Morning CAMERON MORSE Astrocytoma CAMERON MORSE Concord ELIZABETH CROWELL online soon I Can Say Now That Things Are Not What They Seem MARIE KANE Permission MARIE KANE Old Year Psalm CALVIN AHLGREN Lupine Field: Moosehead Lake
- [An Aging Poet Considers an Alternative Occupation by Jeffrey Howard](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/an-aging-poet-considers-an-alternative-occupation-by-jeffrey-howard/) - CONTENTS 1 | An Aging Poet Considers an Alternative Occupation 2 | Heirloom Baby Jeffrey Howard An Aging Poet Considers an Alternative Occupation He glides each morning toward washed-out light Sifting through the dormer. Robins splash in a birdbath Of carved granite, mere feet from the caged Romas He received as starts from a former
- [Heirloom Baby by Jeffrey Howard](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/heirloom-baby-by-jeffrey-howard/) - CONTENTS 1 | An Aging Poet Considers an Alternative Occupation 2 | Heirloom Baby Jeffrey Howard Heirloom Baby Reluctant to rely on mere medical wisdom, you consult the internet about your stewing prune. Every Monday your searching eye garners messages to warm your mind: “Your baby is now the size of a kumquat.” For days
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- [CRAFT BOOKS](https://smallprintmagazine.com/resource/craft-books/) - Craft Books (Listed by subject, then author. Titles linked to booksellers.) COMPOSITION Zinsser, William On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction EDITING Brown and King Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print Ross-Larsen, Bruce Edit Yourself: A Manual for Everyone Who Works with Words FICTION
- [A WEE BIT SUPERNATURAL: Scottish Novelist Regi Claire](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/interview/interview-regi-claire/) - Interview with Scottish Novelist Regi Claire
- [SELF-PUBLISHING](https://smallprintmagazine.com/self-publishing/) - SELF-PUBLISHING Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing Publish your books independently with Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) on the Amazon Kindle Store. Here's how you benefit: Keep control. Make changes to your book at any time. Distribute globally. Publish once and reach readers worldwide. Get to market fast. Publishing takes less than 5 minutes. Your book appears on
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- [Diamonds in the Light by Eddie Gomez](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/creative-nonfiction/diamonds-by-eddie-gomez/) - We usually called him Ches. He was short and stooped, with a little belly, his steel-gray hair brushed straight back, fragrant, stiff and sticky, as if he’d just patted it in place with cologne. He had a red flushed face, moist blue eyes and thin pale lips that quivered slightly sometimes when he spoke, as if he might burst into tears if he couldn’t quite think of the right thing to say.
- [RESOURCE](https://smallprintmagazine.com/resource/) - RESOURCE Book Reviews, Tool Review & Resource, Craft Articles, Craft Books, Links for Writers, Self-Publishing BOOK REVIEWS 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers by Peter Selgin Reviewed by Raymond M. Wong Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg Reviewed by Raymond M. Wong The Lifespan of a
- [FICTION](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/fiction/) - FICTION Calls from Home by Tim Bass My college roommate stopped going to classes after one week. Kyle lasted through Math 113 on the Tuesday after Labor Day. That afternoon, he slunk back to our dorm, bookless, and flung himself on the bottom bunk. “Polynomials can lick my log,” he muttered as he toed off
- [CREATIVE NONFICTION](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/creative-nonfiction/) - CREATIVE NONFICTION Childhood’s End: 10 Assumptions for a Secular Humanist Life by Gene Wilburn As secular humanist with no religious inclinations, I frequently ask myself: where do I fit in with the cosmos? What are my bedrock, fundamental assumptions? As a freshly minted 75-year-old, I’ve come up with the 10 following assumptions that have guided
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- [Elements of Craft in John Updike by Sean Madden](https://smallprintmagazine.com/craft/fiction-at-the-sentence-level-elements-of-craft-in-john-updikes-the-happiest-ive-been-by-sean-madden/) - We usually called him Ches. He was short and stooped, with a little belly, his steel-gray hair brushed straight back, fragrant, stiff and sticky, as if he’d just patted it in place with cologne. He had a red flushed face, moist blue eyes and thin pale lips that quivered slightly sometimes when he spoke, as if he might burst into tears if he couldn’t quite think of the right thing to say.
- [A Strapping Young Man](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/creative-nonfiction/a-strapping-young-man/) - A Strapping Young Man by Marshall J. Pierce
- [RALPH_1](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/ralph_1/) - CONTENTS 1 | ABOUT RALPH'S POEM 2 | WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE? Glossary From New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 2010, 2013 AI (Artificial Intelligence): The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.
- [RALPH_2](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/ralph_2/) - CONTENTS 1 | ABOUT RALPH's POEM 2 | WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE? RALPH Where Have All the Flowers Gone? MODEL PROMPT >>> Where have all the flowers gone? RALPH: They can't be planted anywhere. They can't be planted in the middle of the street, And they can't go into the woods
- [Ex Inferis](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/fiction/ex-inferis-by-michael-davis/) - FICTION Ex Inferis by Michael Davis Astrid climbed the spiral staircase and, keeping her knees bent, made her way to the back corner of the train’s deserted observation deck where her mother sat knitting and frowning at Nebraska. “This state is endless,” her mother said, an expression of abject disgust in the turned-down corners of
- [Childhood’s End: 10 Assumptions for a Secular Humanist Life by Gene Wilburn](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/creative-nonfiction/childhoods_end_by_gene_wilburn/) - We usually called him Ches. He was short and stooped, with a little belly, his steel-gray hair brushed straight back, fragrant, stiff and sticky, as if he’d just patted it in place with cologne. He had a red flushed face, moist blue eyes and thin pale lips that quivered slightly sometimes when he spoke, as if he might burst into tears if he couldn’t quite think of the right thing to say.
- [Sometimes Moving, Sometimes Stuck](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/creative-nonfiction/sometimes-moving-sometimes-stuck/) - William Blomstedt's notes from a Bolivian bus journey
- [Interview with Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/interview/interview-robert-sawyer/) - Science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, author of twenty-two novels and three short story collections, has won all three of the world’s top science fiction awards for best novel of the year. He talked to Small Print Magazine’s Gene wilburn about his writing process, the business, and his advice for writers.
- [What is Markdown?](https://smallprintmagazine.com/resource/tools/what-is-markdown/) - What is Markdown? by Gene Wilburn TOOL RESOURCE Several of the products mentioned in “Tablet Writing” and “Distraction-Free Editors” are Markdown editors. Markdown is essentially a way to insert common typographic characters into plain text files to create attributes such as bold, underscore, italic, ordered lists, unordered lists, program coding examples, indented text, and URL
- [Tablet Writing](https://smallprintmagazine.com/resource/tools/tabletwriting-by-gene_wilburn/) - Tablet Writing: iPad & Android by Gene Wilburn TOOL REVIEW When it comes to portability, it’s hard to beat a shiny new tablet PC whether it be an iPad, iPad Mini, Nexus 10, Nexus 7, Kindle Fire, or Galaxy Note, to name a few of the tablets on the market. Tote it in a bag, switch
- [Five-Poems-by-June-Kino-Cullen-5](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/five-poems-by-june-kino-cullen-5-lift-me-close/) - CONTENTS 1 | RED STREAMER 2 | SURRENDER 3 | WORLD WAR II 4 | FOR ONE NIGHT 5 | LIFT ME CLOSE June Kino Cullen Lift Me Close A typhoon alert. There will be no school today. No bullies to pull my hair, no scowls from the teacher. I run to the front window,
- [Five-Poems-by-June-Kino-Cullen-4](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/five-poems-by-june-kino-cullen-4-for-one-night/) - CONTENTS 1 | RED STREAMER 2 | SURRENDER 3 | WORLD WAR II 4 | FOR ONE NIGHT 5 | LIFT ME CLOSE June Kino Cullen For One Night Outside, snow spins, glides with the wind. In the corner of my son’s room, a toy piano. I sit on the floor, rest my hand on
- [Five-Poems-by-June-Kino-Cullen-3](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/five-poems-by-june-kino-cullen-3-worldwarii/) - CONTENTS 1 | RED STREAMER 2 | SURRENDER 3 | WORLD WAR II 4 | FOR ONE NIGHT 5 | LIFT ME CLOSE June Kino Cullen World War II For my grandmother, Akiko Utsunomiya, Japan Past midnight she hears boots crunch against gravel, then a soft knock. She rises out of bed, opens the door.
- [Five-Poems-by-June-Kino-Cullen-2](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/five-poems-by-june-kino-cullen-2-surrender/) - CONTENTS 1 | RED STREAMER 2 | SURRENDER 3 | WORLD WAR II 4 | FOR ONE NIGHT 5 | LIFT ME CLOSE June Kino Cullen Surrender For Sumiko Yokohama, Japan 1956 She spots a boy seated between his mother and father under a weeping cherry tree. Her scarred wrists bandaged like grafted branches reach
- [Five-Poems-by-June-Kino-Cullen-1](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/five-poems-by-june-kino-cullen-1-redstreamer/) - CONTENTS 1 | RED STREAMER 2 | SURRENDER 3 | WORLD WAR II 4 | FOR ONE NIGHT 5 | LIFT ME CLOSE June Kino Cullen Red Streamer Yokohama, Japan, 1959 A gray April morning aboard a U.S. Navy ship. Mother and I spot her standing on the dock. I yell, Obachan, Grandma. Her obsidian
- [Six-Small-Poems-by-Karen-Holden -1](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/six-small-poems-by-karen-holden-1-anemonen/) - CONTENTS 1 | ANEMONEN, 1936 2 | AUTUMN SOUND, 1918 3 | YOUNG GIRL, 1915 4 | CHORDS IN REFLECTION, 1917 5 | SAVIOR’S FACE: Last Look, 1919 6 | THE RESURRECTION, 1920 1 —SIX SMALL POEMS— After Alexej Jawlensky by Karen Holden Anemonen, 1936 by Karen Holden Simple black-eyed flower Petals red as
- [Six-Small-Poems-by-Karen-Holden -2](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/six-small-poems-by-karen-holden-2-autumnsound/) - CONTENTS 1 | ANEMONEN, 1936 2 | AUTUMN SOUND, 1918 3 | YOUNG GIRL, 1915 4 | CHORDS IN REFLECTION, 1917 5 | SAVIOR’S FACE: Last Look, 1919 6 | THE RESURRECTION, 1920 2 —SIX SMALL POEMS— After Alexej Jawlensky by Karen Holden Autumn Sound, 1918 by Karen Holden Smeared on my memory, like
- [Six-Small-Poems-by-Karen-Holden -3](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/six-small-poems-by-karen-holden-3-younggirl/) - CONTENTS 1 | ANEMONEN, 1936 2 | AUTUMN SOUND, 1918 3 | YOUNG GIRL, 1915 4 | CHORDS IN REFLECTION, 1917 5 | SAVIOR’S FACE: Last Look, 1919 6 | THE RESURRECTION, 1920 3 —SIX SMALL POEMS— After Alexej Jawlensky by Karen Holden Young Girl, 1915 by Karen Holden There are eyes upside
- [Six-Small-Poems-by-Karen-Holden -4](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/six-small-poems-by-karen-holden-4-chordsinreflection/) - CONTENTS 1 | ANEMONEN, 1936 2 | AUTUMN SOUND, 1918 3 | YOUNG GIRL, 1915 4 | CHORDS IN REFLECTION, 1917 5 | SAVIOR’S FACE: Last Look, 1919 6 | THE RESURRECTION, 1920 4 —SIX SMALL POEMS— After Alexej Jawlensky by Karen Holden Chords in Reflection, 1917 by Karen Holden What music is
- [Six-Small-Poems-by-Karen-Holden -5](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/six-small-poems-by-karen-holden-5-savioursface/) - CONTENTS 1 | ANEMONEN, 1936 2 | AUTUMN SOUND, 1918 3 | YOUNG GIRL, 1915 4 | CHORDS IN REFLECTION, 1917 5 | SAVIOR’S FACE: Last Look, 1919 6 | THE RESURRECTION, 1920 5 —SIX SMALL POEMS— After Alexej Jawlensky by Karen Holden Savior’s Face: Last Look, 1919 by Karen Holden Sad, but
- [Six-Small-Poems-by-Karen-Holden -6](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/six-small-poems-by-karen-holden-6-elongatedheada/) - CONTENTS 1 | ANEMONEN, 1936 2 | AUTUMN SOUND, 1918 3 | YOUNG GIRL, 1915 4 | CHORDS IN REFLECTION, 1917 5 | SAVIOR’S FACE: Last Look, 1919 6 | THE RESURRECTION, 1920 6 —SIX SMALL POEMS— After Alexej Jawlensky by Karen Holden The Resurrection, 1920 by Karen Holden The resurrection is not
- [Astrocytoma by Cameron Morse](https://smallprintmagazine.com/showcase/poetry/astrocytoma-by-cameron-morse/) - POETRY Astrocytoma by Cameron Morse Jeff, a former navy man, rides a butterfly needle into my vein: The line leaps with my red river of platelets, lymphocytes, white blood cells. How long does it take to become a phlebotomist? He shakes the vial, a cocktail of yellow gunk and blood, his arm a blurred mermaid,
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