@EmptyMirror

Online literary journal featuring poetry, essays, reviews, and art, since 2000. On hiatus.

 Bellingham, WA
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Joined March 2009
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VSC alum Emily Vizzo has two new poems published in Empty Mirror! Emily Vizzo is the author of Giantess (YesYes Books) and recent panelist at the Nobel Prize Teacher Summit in Stockholm. emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/e… #poetry #poems #vtstudiocenter @EmilyVizzo
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Two poems by Emily Vizzo emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/e… via @emptymirror "Eggs from the fairy shrimp deep in the mud waiting for rain."

Two poems by Emily Vizzo • Empty Mirror

Bound in red fir, the fragrant breath of a Central Valley As they say breadbasket, an open data, Bound in headwaters, the Mokelumne, the San Joaquin. The bottomlands. Eggs from the fairy shrimp deep…

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"It's not that I am barred from thinking and imaging new spaces in the city but I have learned to internalize the invisible borders within it." Some thoughts about the difference between walking in the city, walking in the country. Now in @EmptyMirror emptymirrorbooks.com/persona…

Convergence by Etan Nechin • Empty Mirror

I grew up in a small village in the countryside. The village did not have street names; in fact, streets were rare: most of the village roads were dirt with patches of tar and gravel…

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Two poems by Emily Vizzo! @EmilyVizzo emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/e…

Two poems by Emily Vizzo • Empty Mirror

Bound in red fir, the fragrant breath of a Central Valley As they say breadbasket, an open data, Bound in headwaters, the Mokelumne, the San Joaquin. The bottomlands. Eggs from the fairy shrimp deep…

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"But for me, walking wasn’t about infrastructure, size, or purpose; it was a real autonomous act." Convergence by Etan Nechin @Etanetan23 emptymirrorbooks.com/persona…

Convergence by Etan Nechin • Empty Mirror

I grew up in a small village in the countryside. The village did not have street names; in fact, streets were rare: most of the village roads were dirt with patches of tar and gravel…

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Now is such a crazy time to share a new book. It often feels like a slippery slope. Thank you, @shepherdessjess and @EmptyMirror for this opportunity and support. May poetry continue to empower and heal us. emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews…

Finding Freedom in the Female Voice: Threed: This Road Not Damascus by Tamara J. Madison, reviewed...

Threed: This Road Not Damascus by Tamara J. Madison / Trio House Press / 2019 In Threed: This Road Not Damascus, Tamara Madison’s first full-length collection of poetry, this poet and performer...

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@EmptyMirror - July 4th - On his birthday, remembering the great African-American jazz poet Beat poet Ted Joans - "Jazz is my Religion and Surrealism is my point of view" - allenginsberg.org/2020/07/s-…
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a couple more fragments of my work-in-progress, "essays in the face of uncertainties" (referencing @Writersfest @Stintzi @HeraBird @sirihustvedt @lithub Brian Eno etc) but this time posted at @EmptyMirror ; thanks thanks thanks! emptymirrorbooks.com/persona…

essays in the face of uncertainties by rob mclennan • Empty Mirror

Canadian poet Lisa Pasold posts a photo of her neighbour’s cactus plants, suddenly in bloom with the hashtag #poetrykeepsmesane, along with a quote from something of mine. While I appreciate the…

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"The first love is the ghost of all the waiting loves, the intimacies trying to enter." I'm so honored by the attentiveness to language and detail, such care paid by @aliner in this review of WRITING YOUR NAME ON THE GLASS, over at @EmptyMirror 💗📚💗 emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews…

Music In A Blade of Glass: Jim Whiteside’s Writing Your Name on the Glass, reviewed by Alina...

Writing Your Name On the Glass by Jim Whiteside / Bull City Press / 35 pages / 978-1-949344-08-0 / 2019 It is significant that Whiteside’s poems begin with a fugue. In Latin, the verb fuga means to…

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Our booksellers' #PrideMonth2020 reading list. Art, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and YA. 54 books to celebrate 54 years since the Compton Cafeteria Riots in the Tenderloin. citylightsbooks.tumblr.com/p…

City Lights Booksellers’ Pride 2020 Reading List

This June (and always), we look to our queer elders who came before us. Without them and their courage to riot and demand equality, we wouldn't have the Pride we know today. We especially want to...

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“But no cars came to level me, so instead I found a boy to do the shoveling, I wonder if he knows what he’s buried” @jasonbcrawford stuns in @EmptyMirror today!
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Two poems by Jason B. Crawford! @jasonbcrawford emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2…

Two poems by Jason B. Crawford • Empty Mirror

Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything ~ Genesis 9 Verse 3 What was here once a body made entirely of straw mouth…

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Click below to read MFA student and grad instructor Tatiana Johnson-Boria's reviews of Aria Aber's "Hard Damage" and Sara Borjas' "Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff," which were published on the Empty Mirror and the Florida Review: emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews…

Poetics of Home and the Assertion of Self: Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff by Sara Borjas,...

Heart like a Window, Mouth like a Cliff: Poems by Sara Borjas / Noemi Press, Inc. / / 978-1-934819-79-1 March 15, 2019 / 95 pages / $15 Sara Borjas’ Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff…

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Maureen Catbagan: Queer Film Stills emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2…

Maureen Catbagan: Queer Film Stills • Empty Mirror

These images are stills from videos that I have made that explore the varied complexities and nuances of queer desire, fantasy, and longing.

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Two poems by Robin Gow! @gow_robin_frank emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2…

Two poems by Robin Gow • Empty Mirror

Each girl I’ve loved has been hallway— a dancing a mouth to lay down in. Her hands drew my soul out in sweat. She told me her stories of not wanting to be a girl and I gave her mine. Is there a...

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my favorite thing about @JenniferCie1's work is the fleshy feeling of memory. she makes it literally catch in the mouth and these poems are no exception!
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Two poems by Jennifer Cie! @JenniferCie1 emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2…

Two poems by Jennifer Cie • Empty Mirror

tuned to miss damita jo jackson 1. Green men with shaved faces. 1.1. Brown clocks with flashy birds 1.2. Silver plane wings from before 1.2.1. They came from blue men in the floating box 1.3.

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The PRIDE issue is now online! Thanks to Dani Rose, who did an amazing job as guest editor! @danirosepoet emptymirrorbooks.com
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This is such a lovely piece. Even if you are not a knitter and identify as straight. emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2…

Knitting as Queer Metaphor: A Shawl Pattern - Lola Arellano-Fryer

SIZE: One size, made to drape over the shoulders of any body. MATERIALS: First, find a brightly colored yarn, as close to an actual rainbow as you can find. Then, find a contrasting yarn that’s as…

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Check out @EmptyMirror’s amazing PRIDE issue, guest edited by @danirosepoet ❤️🥰
Empty Mirror@EmptyMirror26 Jun 2020
The PRIDE issue is now online! Thanks to Dani Rose, who did an amazing job as guest editor! @danirosepoet emptymirrorbooks.com
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I want to quote tweet the entire article, but I won't, but you should read it anyway.
Empty Mirror@EmptyMirror26 Jun 2020
Knitting as Queer Metaphor: A Shawl Pattern by Lola Arellano-Fryer @runlolarun emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2…

Knitting as Queer Metaphor: A Shawl Pattern - Lola Arellano-Fryer

SIZE: One size, made to drape over the shoulders of any body. MATERIALS: First, find a brightly colored yarn, as close to an actual rainbow as you can find. Then, find a contrasting yarn that’s as…

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🏳️‍🌈PRIDE🏳️‍🌈 It was such a pleasure to spend time with all of the wonderful work that was submitted, & I sincerely hope you all enjoy this selection as much as I do. So many thanks to @EmptyMirror! This was a lovely, awesome experience 🥰
Empty Mirror@EmptyMirror26 Jun 2020
EM's PRIDE issue, edited by Danielle Rose (@danirosepoet) is online now at emptymirrorbooks.com! - Poetry by Jennifer Cie, Jason B. Crawford, Robin Gow, and G. Metelli @jasonbcrawford @JenniferCie1 @GaiaMetelli @gow_robin_frank - Crossroads: Photography by Julia Justo 1/2
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