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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  

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Photo of a scaffolding pole with a sticker that says "Protect Trans Kids"

Untitled in Philadelphia

HOOT POSTCARD 157, OCTOBER 2024

Silhouette of a woman looking upward surrounded by the silhouette of birds. To her left is a piece of flash fiction titled "flight"

Flight by: Kat Martuccio Kat Martuccio is a copywriter in New York, NY. Find more of her work at blueitalics.com.

HOOT POSTCARD 156, SEPTEMBER 2024

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.