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Plain Spoke is a quarterly literary magazine project at Amsterdam Press.   We publish works that can be described in these ways:  specific; honest; well-crafted with a strong sense of clarity; wise; quiet; gritty; surprising, true*.   You can purchase Plain Spoke at Amsterdam Press' Etsy shop:  http://amsterdampress.etsy.com Masthead: Cindy M. Kelly:  General Editor / Poetry Editor  Shaun M. Barcalow: Fiction Editor Laura Wackerly:  Reader Cathy J. Kelly:  Reader & Publisher *Please do not read our love for the plain-spoken as a request for submissions of vulgar, lurid, hateful, or prurient material.