@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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Typewriter Christmas ornament -- Noel

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Sundog Lit@SundogLit30 Nov 2021
Just a quick note here on publication for anyone who needs to hear this: Your writing--as well as the writer--has value beyond whether it's ever published or not. We read great work all the time that doesn't quite work for our journal but are changed and moved by it nonetheless.
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After a long, unplanned hiatus -- and a couple of false starts -- we're revving up the engines! Stay tuned for EM's relaunch date.
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I'm working hard to catch up on submissions. Thanks for your patience!
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Empty Mirror's weekly issues will return this spring!
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Here's what's new from Empty Mirror! - eepurl.com/habXmL
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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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Empty Mirror is running late today, for the first time in years. My apologies; I haven't been feeling well for the past couple of weeks. Thanks for your patience.
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“Art has side effects,” I said. - Bobbi Lurie @bobbi_lurie #MarcelDuchamp emptymirrorbooks.com/literat…

“Art has side effects,” I said. • Empty Mirror

“Art has side effects,” I said. quitting art finally at death I woke up at the end of a dark hall … a man was staring at me intensely … I felt a shock run through me … it was a guy from the street …

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Funny Weather by Olivia Laing, reviewed by Callum McAllister! @CallyMcA @PicadorUSA emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews…

Funny Weather by Olivia Laing, reviewed by Callum McAllister • Empty Mirror

Funny Weather by Olivia Laing / Picador / 368 pages / 2020 It feels as though we are living in an alternate timeline. Sometime in 2016, we entered a parallel version of history and have not since…

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The Clearing by Allison Adair, reviewed by Dasha Bulatova! @a_dasha_b @fascicles @Milkweed_Books emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews…

The Clearing by Allison Adair, reviewed by Dasha Bulatova • Empty Mirror

The Clearing by Allison Adair – Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize / Milkweed Editions / 978-1-57131-514-4 / 88 pages / June 9, 2020 I first cracked open Alison Adair’s The Clearing at the end of…

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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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Here's what's new from Empty Mirror! - eepurl.com/g9PehX

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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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