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    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 1 >
      • NEVER, NEVER LAND, MY SHIP by Mark Pearce
      • THE SMILE OF MONA LISA by Fatima Ijaz
      • OUROBOROS by Esme Sammons
      • THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA by Margaret D. Stetz
      • SNICKER-SNACK by Bruce Meyer
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 4 >
      • THE OWLET AND THE TURTLE by Greg Sendi
      • BRACTS and other poems by Nathaniel Calhoun
      • ANSWERS TO NON-EXISTENT QUESTIONS and other poems by Kevin Griffith
      • NEVERENDING KNOT by Jodie Dalgleish
      • LEARNING TO WALK by Jodie Dalgleish
      • OVERSOUL by P.S. Lutz
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 3 >
      • MAP OF MEMORY by Jesse Schotter
      • BISMILLAH by Abby Minor
      • MICROMORTS by Veronica Tang
      • LOVE LETTER TO LANGUAGE: AN ABECEDARIAN by Saramanda Swigart
      • IF YOU WERE ALL WATER by M. Ann Reed
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 2 >
      • CONTRA FORMALISME by Leland Seese
      • DRUNKEN MAN ON A BICYCLE by Dan Butterworth
      • WOLF TICKETS THROUGH THE FERAL WINTER by Kirk Marshall
      • SYLVANUS, BARD by Marc Lerner
      • THE LOOKING GLASS OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM by Frank Meola
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 1 >
      • INTIMATE THINGS by Laylage Courie
      • A SERIES OF PUNCTUATION by Hajar Hussaini
      • ROT AND GLORIANA by Laurel Miram
      • BLUES ON RED by Elie Doubleday
      • MY FICTION: REMEMBERING 50 YEARS OF WORK by Richard Kostelanetz
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 4 >
      • ENDNOTES FOR AN ALLOCUTION by Peter Freund
      • UKEMI (and other poems) by Nicole Vento
      • MEMORANDUM ON DESIRE by Laylage Courie
      • THE HOLYWOOD DEUTERONOMY by Jim Shankman
      • AT THE MAD HATTER-MARCH HARE ART GALLERY (and other poems) by M. Ann Reed
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 3 >
      • THE MACHINE, STOLEN FIRE, and PERFORMANCE by Vivek Narayan
      • FIRST FRUITS by Stephen Massimilla
      • ONCE UPON A TOMORROW-TIME by Christopher Routheut
      • YIELD LIGHT OF WAY by Ken Goodman
      • SEVEN TALES by Sara Streett
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 2 >
      • THE PUNCH-CARD CIPHERS by DF Short
      • SHE WAS THE FIRST TO GIVE A TOAST by Kelli Russell Agodon
      • HABLU L-WARIDI by Jesse Hilson
      • THE KEY TO DREAMS by Sean S. Bentley
      • SOFA, SO GOOD, SORT OF by Remy Ngamije
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 1 >
      • STAMPING THE DEAD by Habib Mohana
      • LEGS by A. Joachim Glage
      • I THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX by Heikki Huotari
      • LUŽÁNKY by V.B. Borjen
    • ARCHIVES: VOLUME 3 >
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 4 >
        • TALES UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN by Devon Ortega
        • WAKE UP by JayJay Conrad
        • AMONG THE MEN IS APRIL by Logo Wei
        • SWEET by Melinda Giordano
        • BLACK ROSES by Osamase Ekhator
        • MEET ME TONIGHT ON METAPHOR STREET by Vivek Narayan
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 3 >
        • MENAGE A TROIS, WITH HORSE by Don Dussault
        • THE BLACK by Ben Colandrea
        • BLUE SKY LANGUAGE by Christien Gholson
        • UN DETECTIVE VIEJO by Franco Strong
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 2 >
        • THE CLEANSING by Linda Dennard
        • SHUFFLE by Debbie Fox
        • DID YOU FALL OR RISE FROM THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING? by M. Ann Reed
        • THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE PORNQUEEN by Omar Sabbagh
        • KIGALI MEMORIAL by Carlos Andres Gomez
        • PANTOUM OF THE MEAT by Ouita Rogers
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 1 >
        • HOW TO WRITE A BIOGRAPHY by Joanne B. Mulcahy
        • PROTOCOL NINE-NINE-NINE-NINE by Kenneth Hanes
        • LESS' MORE by TWIXT
        • POINTLESS MR. PROBST by Beatriz Seelaender
    • ARCHIVES: VOLUME 2 >
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 4 >
        • SYLVAN PASSAGES by Dan Wood
        • SISTER ALONE by Janet M Powers
        • CENTURY 2.1 by Alan Flurry
        • CLAIMED BY THE SEA by Sam Reese
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 3 >
        • CROSSHATCHING by M.K. Rainey
        • LULLABY by Barbara Daddino
        • HOUSEMOUTH (and other poems) by Anhvu Buchanan and Brent Piller
        • THE RESIDUE IN PUBLIC TEA AND COFFEE CUPS by V.B. Borjen
        • SYZYGY (and other poems) by Malorie Seeley-Sherwood
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 2 >
        • DRAGONFLIES: A DISCOURSE ON ANXIETY by Lara Lillibridge
        • AND RICHARD BURBAGE ALSO HAD A SISTER by Freya Shipley
        • THE WATCHERS by M.K. Rainey
        • JAZZ INTERACTION WITH SYMBOLS by Sarah T.
        • SPIDER (and other poems) by Natalie Crick
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 1 >
        • ECHOES by Daniel Freeman
        • MAPS by Susan Brennan
        • EDGAR'S FATHER'S MAGIC WORDS by JWM Morgan
        • LOCKJAW: IN TWO ACTS by James Blevins
        • WHAT THE LIVING DO by Susan Wadds
    • Archives: Volume 1 >
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 10 >
        • SUSURROS DE RECURRENCIA by Franco Strong
        • THE OLD MAN by Sarah T.
        • PERMUTATIONS by Laura Cesarco Eglin
        • WORLD PEACE 3 by Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 9 >
        • LITTLE GHOST by Danny Judge
        • THE LAST ALLUSIONIST by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • CHURCH by Diana McClure
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 8 >
        • DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS by Nancy Flynn
        • WHAT I COULDN'T SAY by Erika Ranee & Diana McClure
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 7 >
        • BRASS TYRANT AND THE AMERICAN THIRST by Kirk Marshall
        • LADY KILLER by Monika Viola
        • THE RIBBONS by Ferguson Williams
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 6 >
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (ACT 2 - Part 1) by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • NEW AGE UNCAGED by Frank Light
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 5 >
        • THE TRIALS OF TOBIT by Joseph Lisowski
        • LIKE MANY GIANT FOOTPRINTS (and other poems) by William Doreski
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (ACT I) by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 4 >
        • WARDENCLIFF by Barbara Daddino
        • BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY by Reg Darling
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (LIBRETTO) by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 3 >
        • LAWTON, OKLAHOMA by Mark Lawley
        • TWEETY BIRD'S GRACE by Diana McClure
        • CONTAGION AND THE DINNER GUEST by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • ON POETRY AND PROSE by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 2 >
        • TWO MICE IN A BLACK BOX & THE DECONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 1 >
        • CHARACTER SKETCHES by Diana McClure
        • SEASONS ON A GRAVESTONE by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • COCKTAIL PARTY by Diana McClure
        • DESUETUDE by Sakina B. Fakhri
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Lazuli Reading Series


The Lazuli Reading Series aims to explore the intertextual connections between works published in our journal, AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought, and classical and theoretical pieces of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The guided discussions may feature author readings, dramatic performances, and live insights by expert scholars.

"Think of yourself rather as something much humbler and less spectacular, but to my mind far more interesting—a poet in whom live all the poets of the past, from whom all poets in time to come will spring. You have a touch of Chaucer in you, and something of Shakespeare; Dryden, Pope, Tennyson—to mention only the respectable among your ancestors—stir in your blood and sometimes move your pen a little to the right or to the left. In short you are an immensely ancient, complex, and continuous character, for which reason please treat yourself with respect and think twice before you dress up as Guy Fawkes and spring out upon timid old ladies at street corners, threatening death and demanding twopence-halfpenny." - Virginia Woolf, "A Letter to a Young Poet"

PAST EVENTS

The Comic-Grotesque in Poetic Performance: 
Dan Butterworth's drunken man on a bicycle in conversation with poetry by Yeats, Eliot, Auden, & others.

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​The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach,
The Ogre cannot master Speech:
About a subjugated plain,
Among its desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips.”

-W.H. Auden


​In this seminar, we will do a close reading of AZURE author Dan Butterworth’s multi-part poem “drunken man on a bicycle” in the context of works by Auden, Yeats, Eliot, and others. Michael Tingley will do a performative reading of various stanzas, and--after our discussion--author Dan Butterworth will share some thoughts on his poem.

W.H. Auden: “September 1, 1939” / “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” / “Spain” / “Casino” / “Jumbled in the common box…” / “Mundus Et Infans” / “Under Which Lyre” / “Memorial for the City” / “Under Sirius” / “Vespers” / “August 1968”

Charles Baudelaire: “Au Lecteur”

T.S. Eliot: “The Waste Land” / “The Hollow Men”

W.B. Yeats: “Easter, 1916” / “Byzantium” / “Lapis Lazuli” / “The Second Coming”

Edgar Allan Poe: “The Conqueror Worm”

Sylvia Plath: “Circus in Three Rings”

Many of these poems are political in nature and interact, in some manner, with the themes in “drunken man on a bicycle.” We will be exploring the conceit of a “play within a play,” examining how an aesthetic distance affects our perception of the grotesque, or how metaphoric and scientific language can place us at a sometimes-analytic, sometimes-comical, but ever-illuminating distance from political realities in our midst. The shifting perspectives (I, you, me, we), the constant expanding and contracting of scale from the particular to the universal (rendered both in form and content), and the themes of childhood, sickness, religion, and rhetoric will also figure in our discussion. Finally, we will dig through Butterworth’s references that span periods of historical time and fictive mythology (from Tiresius and Medusa to Napoleon and Stalin) and compare the effect of these allusions to those found in the poetry of Auden, Eliot, and Yeats.

Some of these poems are lengthy (not to mention our feature poem), so do be sure to allot enough time to read them before our discussion. Although we will not have time to delve into every single poem in detail on the day itself (unfortunately!), your having read them beforehand will prepare your literary palate for a textured reading of “drunken man on a bicycle.” I will pull particularly relevant lines from some of the material so that we can focus our time on close reading rather than generalized impressions of all of this lovely, infinitely discussable poetry.

All poetry and supplementary readings are free, and these documents and links will be e-mailed to you once you sign up; that being said, the majority of the works we will be reading are by Auden, so if you’re an Auden-enthusiast you might want to obtain a paper copy of one of his anthologies!

Sunday, May 16: 5-7pm ET

Attendance fee: $35

“Still Sort of Weeping the Substance”: Sugar Cane and Blood in the Artistic Imagination​

​Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood. 
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—Edwidge Danticat in The Farming of Bones (1998)
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Discussion: Monday Mar 29, 7-9 pm ET

Online Event (Zoom)
When sculptor Kara Walker installed “A Subtlety” (2014) in New York’s defunct Domino Sugar factory, she described her entire body of work as somehow “subsumed or consumed” by history. She was, in that instance, linking her 75-foot long, sugar-covered mammy sculpture to several centuries of sugar cane as a crop, commodity, and cause for cruelty. Since 1493, sugar cane has implicated itself in this hemisphere’s conscripted labor, enslavement, and other imperialist indulgences that have not escaped the attention of our artists. As a source of greed and sweetness—steeped in violence, rebellion, delight, and diabetes—sugar cane continues to capture the attention of creatives who bear witness to its significance. Many of these artists continue to make clear that we are “still sort of weeping the substance” of sugar, as Walker said of the Domino factory walls dripping in molasses.
 
On March 29th at 7 pm, join poet and scholar Sarah T. in her exploration of this history through the aesthetic choices of artists from across the Caribbean and the Americas.  This 2-hour seminar samples work that invokes sugar cane across a broad range of topics, with special emphasis on Walker’s installation, Euzhan Palcy’s Sugar Cane Alley (1983), Jean Toomer’s Cane (1923), and Sarah T.’s own adaption (2016) of Toomer’s work. Multi-award-winning voice actor  Jeannie Brown Johnson will read one selection aloud.
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Course Materials
 
Course materials are under $10.00, total. They are easily accessible and can be studied over the course of a weekend or one very long, lavish, literary day:
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  • Jean Toomer Cane (1923), Part 1: “Karintha” through “Blood Burning Moon”
  • Pablo Neruda “Furies and Sorrows” (1934) poem
  • Pablo Neruda “Ancient History” (1950s/60s) poem
  • Audre Lorde “Summer Oracle” (1970) poem
  • Audre Lorde “Teacher” (1973) poem
  • Grace Nichols “Sugar Cane” (1983) poem
  • Euzhan Palcy Sugar Cane Alley (1983) film
  • Suze Baron “They Say” (n.d.) poem
  • Isabel Allende Island beneath the Sea (2010) novel excerpt
  • Sarah T. “The Old Man,” (2016) vignette

Monday, Mar 29: 7pm-9pm ET
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Attendance fee: $35

Sarah T. is a poet, a spoken word artist, and a creative nonfiction writer.  She practices research-based, archivally sourced writing in each of the creative forms that she engages. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Everyday Feminism, The Washington Independent Review of Books,  AZURE literary journal, the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Quarterly, DCist, Sally Hemings Dreams 'zine, Grace in Darkness anthology of DC metro-area women writers, Radical Teacher, 1455, and Voice Male. She has written two books: It Was the Scarlet that Did It (poems, 2019) and This Past Was Waiting for Me (essays and poems, 2018). In 2019, she was awarded the American Studies Association's Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award for Independent Scholars for her body of work.
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Virginia Woolf & Luzanky

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Discussion: Saturday Feb 27, 2-4 pm ET
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​Reading Rooms
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"Luzanky" by V.B. Borjen (short story)

in conversation with:

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf 
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

With author V.B. Borjen
Discussion led by Sakina B. Fakhri (editor of AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought and co-founder of Lazuli Literary Group)

We will begin with an author reading of the short story "Luzanky" and discuss this work in relative isolation to Woolf; next, we'll move into a brief analysis of certain components of Jacob's Room, focusing on methods of external character construction, letter-writing, and absence; finally, we will spend the bulk of our time discussing Mrs. Dalloway. For the last portion of the session, we will do a re-reading of certain passages from "Luzanky" in light of Woolfian things and observe whether new reflections arise as a result of this interaction of styles.

Much of Virginia Woolf's fiction, non-fiction, and criticism exists in a continuum wherein the ideas and their applications appear to flow in and out of one another in a very organic way; that is, they inter-illuminate in a way that feels enriching rather than reductive. Woolf's literary advice is so keenly embodied within her own fictional experiments that it can be fascinating, I think, to read certain passages of writerly anxiety and ambition alongside their fictional manifestation--to see what was sought and the imaginative cloud of possibility that exists between that and what was written (the totality of which might be termed the creation itself). To this end, we will look at excerpts from the following essays in relationship to the works above:
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  • "On Being Ill" by Virginia Woolf
  • "Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car" by Virginia Woolf
  • "A Letter to a Young Poet" by Virginia Woolf

To be announced soon...


Blood Meridian & Lawton, Oklahoma

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Coming soon!
​"Lawton, Oklahoma" by Mark Lawley (Wikifiction)

in conversation with:

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (novel)
​and other texts

Discussion led by author Mark Lawley ​(Cormac McCarthy scholar)

Mark Lawley holds a BA from Dartmouth College, where he was a Rufus Choate Scholar and graduated with High Honors, and two master’s degrees in the humanities from NYU completed under Pulitzer Prize-winning and acclaimed professors. He has worked an adjunct lecturer at New York University, a guest lecturer at Stony Brook, and an adjunct professor at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. He chases his dreams by writing novels, short stories, and piano compositions and has won several national awards for his work.

Further details TBD

Edgar Allan Poe & The Looking Glass of Arthur Gordon Pym

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Coming soon!
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"The Looking Glass of  Arthur Gordon Pym" (short story) by Frank Meola

in conversation with:

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (novel)

Discussion led by Sakina B. Fakhri (editor of AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought and co-founder of Lazuli Literary Group)

Further details TBD
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  • ABOUT
    • Our Literary Aesthetic
    • Staff >
      • Writings by Sakina B. Fakhri
    • Contact Us
    • SUBSCRIBE
  • CONTESTS
  • AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought
    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 1 >
      • NEVER, NEVER LAND, MY SHIP by Mark Pearce
      • THE SMILE OF MONA LISA by Fatima Ijaz
      • OUROBOROS by Esme Sammons
      • THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA by Margaret D. Stetz
      • SNICKER-SNACK by Bruce Meyer
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 4 >
      • THE OWLET AND THE TURTLE by Greg Sendi
      • BRACTS and other poems by Nathaniel Calhoun
      • ANSWERS TO NON-EXISTENT QUESTIONS and other poems by Kevin Griffith
      • NEVERENDING KNOT by Jodie Dalgleish
      • LEARNING TO WALK by Jodie Dalgleish
      • OVERSOUL by P.S. Lutz
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 3 >
      • MAP OF MEMORY by Jesse Schotter
      • BISMILLAH by Abby Minor
      • MICROMORTS by Veronica Tang
      • LOVE LETTER TO LANGUAGE: AN ABECEDARIAN by Saramanda Swigart
      • IF YOU WERE ALL WATER by M. Ann Reed
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 2 >
      • CONTRA FORMALISME by Leland Seese
      • DRUNKEN MAN ON A BICYCLE by Dan Butterworth
      • WOLF TICKETS THROUGH THE FERAL WINTER by Kirk Marshall
      • SYLVANUS, BARD by Marc Lerner
      • THE LOOKING GLASS OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM by Frank Meola
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 1 >
      • INTIMATE THINGS by Laylage Courie
      • A SERIES OF PUNCTUATION by Hajar Hussaini
      • ROT AND GLORIANA by Laurel Miram
      • BLUES ON RED by Elie Doubleday
      • MY FICTION: REMEMBERING 50 YEARS OF WORK by Richard Kostelanetz
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 4 >
      • ENDNOTES FOR AN ALLOCUTION by Peter Freund
      • UKEMI (and other poems) by Nicole Vento
      • MEMORANDUM ON DESIRE by Laylage Courie
      • THE HOLYWOOD DEUTERONOMY by Jim Shankman
      • AT THE MAD HATTER-MARCH HARE ART GALLERY (and other poems) by M. Ann Reed
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 3 >
      • THE MACHINE, STOLEN FIRE, and PERFORMANCE by Vivek Narayan
      • FIRST FRUITS by Stephen Massimilla
      • ONCE UPON A TOMORROW-TIME by Christopher Routheut
      • YIELD LIGHT OF WAY by Ken Goodman
      • SEVEN TALES by Sara Streett
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 2 >
      • THE PUNCH-CARD CIPHERS by DF Short
      • SHE WAS THE FIRST TO GIVE A TOAST by Kelli Russell Agodon
      • HABLU L-WARIDI by Jesse Hilson
      • THE KEY TO DREAMS by Sean S. Bentley
      • SOFA, SO GOOD, SORT OF by Remy Ngamije
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 1 >
      • STAMPING THE DEAD by Habib Mohana
      • LEGS by A. Joachim Glage
      • I THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX by Heikki Huotari
      • LUŽÁNKY by V.B. Borjen
    • ARCHIVES: VOLUME 3 >
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 4 >
        • TALES UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN by Devon Ortega
        • WAKE UP by JayJay Conrad
        • AMONG THE MEN IS APRIL by Logo Wei
        • SWEET by Melinda Giordano
        • BLACK ROSES by Osamase Ekhator
        • MEET ME TONIGHT ON METAPHOR STREET by Vivek Narayan
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 3 >
        • MENAGE A TROIS, WITH HORSE by Don Dussault
        • THE BLACK by Ben Colandrea
        • BLUE SKY LANGUAGE by Christien Gholson
        • UN DETECTIVE VIEJO by Franco Strong
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 2 >
        • THE CLEANSING by Linda Dennard
        • SHUFFLE by Debbie Fox
        • DID YOU FALL OR RISE FROM THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING? by M. Ann Reed
        • THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE PORNQUEEN by Omar Sabbagh
        • KIGALI MEMORIAL by Carlos Andres Gomez
        • PANTOUM OF THE MEAT by Ouita Rogers
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 1 >
        • HOW TO WRITE A BIOGRAPHY by Joanne B. Mulcahy
        • PROTOCOL NINE-NINE-NINE-NINE by Kenneth Hanes
        • LESS' MORE by TWIXT
        • POINTLESS MR. PROBST by Beatriz Seelaender
    • ARCHIVES: VOLUME 2 >
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 4 >
        • SYLVAN PASSAGES by Dan Wood
        • SISTER ALONE by Janet M Powers
        • CENTURY 2.1 by Alan Flurry
        • CLAIMED BY THE SEA by Sam Reese
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 3 >
        • CROSSHATCHING by M.K. Rainey
        • LULLABY by Barbara Daddino
        • HOUSEMOUTH (and other poems) by Anhvu Buchanan and Brent Piller
        • THE RESIDUE IN PUBLIC TEA AND COFFEE CUPS by V.B. Borjen
        • SYZYGY (and other poems) by Malorie Seeley-Sherwood
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 2 >
        • DRAGONFLIES: A DISCOURSE ON ANXIETY by Lara Lillibridge
        • AND RICHARD BURBAGE ALSO HAD A SISTER by Freya Shipley
        • THE WATCHERS by M.K. Rainey
        • JAZZ INTERACTION WITH SYMBOLS by Sarah T.
        • SPIDER (and other poems) by Natalie Crick
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 1 >
        • ECHOES by Daniel Freeman
        • MAPS by Susan Brennan
        • EDGAR'S FATHER'S MAGIC WORDS by JWM Morgan
        • LOCKJAW: IN TWO ACTS by James Blevins
        • WHAT THE LIVING DO by Susan Wadds
    • Archives: Volume 1 >
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 10 >
        • SUSURROS DE RECURRENCIA by Franco Strong
        • THE OLD MAN by Sarah T.
        • PERMUTATIONS by Laura Cesarco Eglin
        • WORLD PEACE 3 by Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 9 >
        • LITTLE GHOST by Danny Judge
        • THE LAST ALLUSIONIST by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • CHURCH by Diana McClure
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 8 >
        • DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS by Nancy Flynn
        • WHAT I COULDN'T SAY by Erika Ranee & Diana McClure
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 7 >
        • BRASS TYRANT AND THE AMERICAN THIRST by Kirk Marshall
        • LADY KILLER by Monika Viola
        • THE RIBBONS by Ferguson Williams
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 6 >
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (ACT 2 - Part 1) by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • NEW AGE UNCAGED by Frank Light
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 5 >
        • THE TRIALS OF TOBIT by Joseph Lisowski
        • LIKE MANY GIANT FOOTPRINTS (and other poems) by William Doreski
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (ACT I) by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 4 >
        • WARDENCLIFF by Barbara Daddino
        • BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY by Reg Darling
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (LIBRETTO) by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 3 >
        • LAWTON, OKLAHOMA by Mark Lawley
        • TWEETY BIRD'S GRACE by Diana McClure
        • CONTAGION AND THE DINNER GUEST by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • ON POETRY AND PROSE by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 2 >
        • TWO MICE IN A BLACK BOX & THE DECONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 1 >
        • CHARACTER SKETCHES by Diana McClure
        • SEASONS ON A GRAVESTONE by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • COCKTAIL PARTY by Diana McClure
        • DESUETUDE by Sakina B. Fakhri
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