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WELCOME TO PC# 13:
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HE SURVIVAL ISSUE

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. - Audre Lorde
Survival isn't always about overcoming the wilderness.

Or... Maybe it is.

We encounter many wildernesses throughout our lives, and even those we overcome ride shotgun with us into the future. It's inevitable that we will, each of us, face trials. We will endure crises. We will face death. 

​And we will continue.

Art grows in those fields made fallow by our struggles. 
That is where the story is.
Header art by M. Guzzio & T. Guzzio .

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LIFE, IN LAYERS AND SEASONS

A FAMILY TRIP LEADS BEN ADELMAN TO A BEAUTIFUL, YET NOTORIOUS PLACE THAT GETS HIM THINKING ABOUT THE MEANING OF SURVIVAL.

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THREE POEMS FROM NOW/HERE

MICHAEL E. WOODS​ SHARES THREE POEMS THAT STRUGGLE WITH GRIEF AND LOSS IN A LOVING CONTEXT.

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A SURVIVOR'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

LISA DESIRO'S POEMS TELL STORIES OF SURVIVAL AT THE INDIVIDUAL, COLLECTIVE, AND SOCIETAL LEVELS.

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AN EXECUTIVE'S SURVIVAL GUIDE

DAVID SHAWN SMITH WONDERS IF YOUNG COMPANIES LIKE UBER CAN SURVIVE THE MISTAKES AND MISSTEPS OF THEIR CEOS.

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A LETTER TO THE GIRL I NEVER MET

VINCE RAPPA SINGS A SHANTY OF SORTS TO SURVIVING SHIPS THAT SAILED PAST AND THE PASSENGERS UPON THEM.

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POEMS OF ENDURANCE

SUZANNE BOUCHER PROVIDES TWO PERSPECTIVES OF SURVIVAL FROM IN AND OUT OF THE CENTER CIRCLE OF "I".

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