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- Apr 30
- 1 min
The blood came
Experience the raw emotion of trauma, shame, and resilience in this evocative poem. A powerful message of hope and healing for all.

- Feb 20
- 1 min
Suffering, Shame, Rebellion
King Arthur pondered the question "Is might, right?" Thomas Taylor answered "Yes!" The poem
"Suffering, Shame, Rebellion" disagrees.

- Feb 14
- 1 min
Percy Bysshe Shelley Remembered Poetry Contest Winner: Mary’s Creature Speaks
Olivia Stogner explores what Dr. Victor Frankenstein's monster really is in "Mary's Creature Speaks." The monster is closer than we think.

- Feb 11
- 7 min
"I Work Hard But There’s Money"
If virtue signaling were an Olympic sport, Stephen Pearl Andrews would be surprised if Mark Nowak's Social Politics didn't win gold.

- Dec 27, 2022
- 11 min
Vampire Girl: Chapters 7-10
Girls just want to have one! But fun can become a challenge for a red in tooth and claw Vampire Girl.

- Nov 20, 2022
- 3 min
Volunteer
Volunteering for our communities, a time honored practice. Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis explores how we spend our time with these snapshots.


- Oct 18, 2022
- 26 min
Memoirs Of A Bearcat: Bombs Over Backwater
Part 6 of the Memoirs Of A Bearcat series. Time has passed since the events that transpired at Turtle Island in October 2016.

- Oct 17, 2022
- 3 min
Poems By Marie Anne
Inánime and limitless show an effortless interweaving of sound and sense, rhythm and thought.

- Oct 8, 2022
- 5 min
Vashti Poems By Carol Barrett
Vashti a prototype of abused women; she speaks in these poems with understanding and encouragement in the face of negation and exploitation.

- Oct 6, 2022
- 19 min
Open The Gates Of Those Who Exist Beyond Reproach
Nobody is beyond reproach, not even the gay community. Paul Smit explores the darkness of coping mechanisms within the gay community.

- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
An Old darkness deepens
In this story... an apple turns its back on the ripening sun.

- Aug 19, 2022
- 9 min
Vampire Girl: Chapters 4-6
Is being a predator the new feminism? Find out in Chapters 4-6 of Vampire Girl. At the very least, being a vampire girl is outrageous!

- Aug 11, 2022
- 4 min
Another Exhibit at the Museum of Darkness
Cranberry Sin is a guerilla for dignity and likes to combine lovesickness with depraved populist energy.

- Aug 10, 2022
- 4 min
Poems By Andrew Levy
Andrew Levy writes on the intersections of class and the ecology of commerce, and experimental music and the digitalization of freedom.


- Jul 28, 2022
- 6 min
Dim Bulbs
Gregg Williard's "Dim Bulbs" is an enquiry in words and drawings into right-wing "strategized" or "weaponized" stupidity

- Jul 22, 2022
- 2 min
Poems By Robert Beveridge
Three poems by Robert Beveridge that explore the East, divination, and the pursuit of life.


- Jun 22, 2022
- 3 min
Letter From The Editor: The Meta Ethics Of Poetry
A new editorial policy practiced here at The GroundUp.

- Jun 22, 2022
- 4 min
Burning Books
Steven Pearl Andrews thinks more texts should be bannable. Find out why!

- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Adam's Exile
Poem by Kris Green called “Adam’s Exile” wherein our presence in nature ensures that the worlds in which we inhabit remain touched and untou
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