HOOT POSTCARD 169, SEPTEMBER 2025

EAR HAIRby Crockett Doob illustration by author Crockett Doob’s work has been published or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, Cleaver Magazine, The Good Life Review, and Does It Have Pockets. He lives in Rockaway Beach, NY, and does not surf. 

HOOT POSTCARD 167, JULY 2025

Rental by: Alina Zollfrank Alina Zollfrank dreams trilingually in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has been published nationally and internationally and nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart. She’s a disability advocate and hopeful gardener.

HOOT POSTCARD 166, JUNE 2025

Worryby: Marcia L. Hurlow art: Gregory Stump Marcia L. Hurlow‘s chapbook of poetry, Dog Physics, was published by Main Street Rag Publishing, fall 2024. Her second full-length collection, Practice Rapture, will appear June 2025 from Pine Row Press. 

HOOT POSTCARD 165, MAY 2025

Constellations by Ryan Brennan Ryan Brennan lives in the Catskill Mountains with a woman that he loves and a cat that he admires

HOOT POSTCARD 164, APRIL 2025

Shannon Frost Greenstein, a Philadelphia resident, lives with her family and cats. She is easily searchable online, indicating her presence in the digital space.

HOOT POSTCARD 163, MARCH 2025

PTO by: Shawn Slaven Shawn Slaven is a writer from Philadelphia living with his wife, Sam, and his dog, Vader. He likes making hot sauce, art, and wrestling. Be kind, be weird.

HOOT POSTCARD 162, FEBRUARY 2025

pink cloud background and in the foreground is a scrap of paper with a prose poem titled Mid-August Blues and in the corner of the piece of paper are monarch butterflies

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).

HOOT POSTCARD 161, JANUARY 2025

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.

HOOT POSTCARD 160, DECEMBER 2024

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.

HOOT POSTCARD 159, FALL 2024

a pen and ink sketch of three faces to the right of the document, to the left is a poem titled Zone Three

Zone Three by: Cynthia Atkins art by: Octavio Quintanilla