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Ian Orti

August 7, 2014

Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: Boy of Summer: Six Chubby Sonnets by David McGimpsey

by Ian Orti
June 23, 2014

Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: A Botanical Re-Enactment of the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

by Ian Orti
May 16, 2014

Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: This is Fucking Happening

by Ian Orti
April 17, 2014

Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: Pass Over Girl: A Missing Person Case

by Ian Orti
March 14, 2014

Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: The Savage Detective Shooting Club

by Ian Orti
February 14, 2014

Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: (This) is Human Contact: A Valentine Manifesto

by Ian Orti
January 16, 2014

Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: Three Days In a Polar Vortex With a Poet

by Ian Orti
December 10, 2013

Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: Sex Pot: A Get Right Christmas Recipe

by Ian Orti
November 7, 2013

Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: On the Hunting and Killing of an Extremely Rare and Indefatigable Shark off the West and Only Coast of Ecuador

by Ian Orti
October 2, 2013

Any Given Wednesday Afternoon: The Best Cappuccino in Europe, Quite Possibly the World

by Ian Orti

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