Empty Mirror https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com a literary magazine Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:54:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 My Father’s Map https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/my-fathers-map https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/my-fathers-map#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2020 07:00:51 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42657 My Father's Map - Jan GlazewskiAfter repeated requests, my father, in his later years, handed me a hand-drawn map of a place in eastern Europe on the river Dnestr, which meanders to the Black Sea. The map came with a page and a half of instructions headed Route to Toporowno, typed on his old Olivetti typewriter, where the s’s always came out faded. The instructions... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/my-fathers-map/feed 12 On Waiting https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/on-waiting https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/on-waiting#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2020 07:01:34 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42838 Zaatari Refugee Camp, JordanStanding at the stove, I am stirring the bright white of milk, waiting for it to set. The kids are asleep, and though I have other things to do, tonight I have chosen the anti-rebellion of cooking low and slow. Stock-piled milk in the fridge threatens to go bad, and because it’s almost summer, I’ve been remembering the way my... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/on-waiting/feed 2 Seeing Las Meninas in Madrid, 1994 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/las-meninas-in-madrid-1994 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/las-meninas-in-madrid-1994#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2020 07:00:51 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41961 Las Meninas (detail) by Diego VasquezI keep a postcard of Velázquez’s Las Meninas above my desk at work, and I can’t look at it without thinking of the summer I spent in Spain with R, the last summer we were friends. That summer I was an ugly American tourist. I did not wear inappropriate clothes or go around demanding things in English. But I was... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/las-meninas-in-madrid-1994/feed 1 Visual poems from 23 Bodhisattvas by Chris Stephenson https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/visual-art/poems-23-bodhisattvas https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/visual-art/poems-23-bodhisattvas#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2020 07:00:44 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41933 (detail) BODHISATTVA EXQUISITE JELLY ENGINES - CHRIS STEPHENSON

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/visual-art/poems-23-bodhisattvas/feed 0 Historical Punctum: Reading Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia and Native Guard Through the Lens of Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/histonatasha-trethewey-bellocqs-ophelia-native-guard https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/histonatasha-trethewey-bellocqs-ophelia-native-guard#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2020 06:55:47 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42289 Native Guard and Bellocq's Opheli by Natasha TretheweyNot much has been written about Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia or Native Guard, and what has been written is mostly about the racial content of the poems. Quite a bit, however, has been written about Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida and his use of studium and punctum in relation to photography, but not much has been written about how punctum can... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/histonatasha-trethewey-bellocqs-ophelia-native-guard/feed 0 Panic In The Rear-View Mirror: Exploring The Work of Richard Siken and Ann Gale https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/richard-siken-ann-gale https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/richard-siken-ann-gale#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2020 06:00:37 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42151 What we are attracted to can sometimes intimidate or unsettle us. In the case of art and writing, the work we find powerful demands our attention, sometimes even a second encounter. Poets may shock us with difficult evocations, or flood us with surprising thoughts and emotions. Poet Richard Siken and artist Ann Gale both provide the opportunity for discomfort and... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/richard-siken-ann-gale/feed 0 “Art has side effects,” I said. https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/art-has-side-effects-bobbi-lurie https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/art-has-side-effects-bobbi-lurie#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2020 06:54:52 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41897 Art has side effects, I said - Bobbi Lurie - Marcel Duchamp“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 … I remembered him chasing me … I remembered the crash … I looked down... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/art-has-side-effects-bobbi-lurie/feed 0 The Clearing by Allison Adair, reviewed by Dasha Bulatova https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/the-clearing-allison-adair https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/the-clearing-allison-adair#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2020 06:37:00 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42843 The Clearing by Allison AdairThe 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 May, just as the national consciousness, already distressed by the ongoing pandemic, plunged deeper into the thicket of police and racial violence. Admittedly, reading was... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/the-clearing-allison-adair/feed 0 Funny Weather by Olivia Laing, reviewed by Callum McAllister https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/funny-weather-olivia-laing https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/funny-weather-olivia-laing#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2020 06:27:36 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42425 Funny Weather by Olivia LaingFunny 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 reemerged. Olivia Laing’s latest book, Funny Weather: Art in An Emergency, collects essays, articles, reviews and interviews which span this crucial period—although some... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/funny-weather-olivia-laing/feed 0 The Soul in Paraphrase, the Heart in Pilgrimage: Amounting to Nothing by Paul Quenon, reviewed by Gregory Stephenson https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/amounting-to-nothing-paul-quenon https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/amounting-to-nothing-paul-quenon#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2020 19:22:57 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42263 Amounting to Nothing: Poems by Paul QuenonAmounting to Nothing by Paul Quenon, OSCO / Paraclete Press / 978-1-64060-201-4 / 93 pages / 2019 The coincidence of a vocation as monk and a vocation as poet — though far from commonplace — is one that occurs often enough so as not to be entirely unfamiliar to many readers of poetry. There are, for example, the celebrated monk-poets... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/amounting-to-nothing-paul-quenon/feed 4 Two poems by Emily Vizzo https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/emily-vizzo https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/emily-vizzo#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2020 07:02:51 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42318 riversound (detail) / credit: deToward Openness 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 in the mud waiting for rain. Above a raptor. Below three remnants of a songbird, a Flower Pot map, A Toolbox quadrant, a tundra... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/emily-vizzo/feed 1 essays in the face of uncertainties https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/essays-uncertainties https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/essays-uncertainties#respond Fri, 03 Jul 2020 07:01:52 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42436 in the window / image by de from photo by milada vigerovaCanadian 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 gesture, I would think the flowering cactus provides more salve in her example than I ever could. In lock-down, I ruminate upon my own bookshelves, moving back and forth... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/essays-uncertainties/feed 0 Convergence https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/convergence https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/convergence#respond Fri, 03 Jul 2020 07:00:58 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42294 the skagit trail / credit: emI 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, there were no sidewalks, and the houses were not lined on the streets but were obscured behind the towering pine and oak trees. The main... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/convergence/feed 0 Finding Freedom in the Female Voice: Threed: This Road Not Damascus by Tamara J. Madison, reviewed by Jessica Gigot https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/threed-poems-tamara-j-madison https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/threed-poems-tamara-j-madison#respond Fri, 03 Jul 2020 06:59:36 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42550 Review of Threed by Tamara Madison poemsThreed: 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 dances between mythical and tactile worlds. Through intimate conversations with ancestors, the Bible, and her own self as a poet and mother, she is not subtle in her message. In... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/threed-poems-tamara-j-madison/feed 0 Knitting as Queer Metaphor: A Shawl Pattern by Lola Arellano-Fryer https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/knitting-as-queer-metaphor https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/knitting-as-queer-metaphor#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2020 06:08:30 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42664 rainbow yarn / photo by inger maaikeSIZE: 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 fluffy as a cloud. I recommend a color from your favorite pride flag, but it can be whatever color you desire. GAUGE: Is not... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/knitting-as-queer-metaphor/feed 3 Two poems by Jason B. Crawford https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/two-poems-by-jason-b-crawford https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/two-poems-by-jason-b-crawford#respond Fri, 26 Jun 2020 06:07:43 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42623 photo credit: Meriç DağlıBeasts 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, eyes, nails painted in red A doll given life until ripped by the dog Guts of hay and blood... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/two-poems-by-jason-b-crawford/feed 0 Two poems by Jennifer Cie https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/poems-jennifer-cie https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/poems-jennifer-cie#respond Fri, 26 Jun 2020 06:06:41 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42612 credit: em/p. blenkhornslip tuned to miss damita jo jackson remember 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. Ss-tu-tt like in the city but not like we’re home 2.   New, big rooms, one—once had a white paper sign       2.1. We couldn’t read, yet, so... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/poems-jennifer-cie/feed 0 Two poems by Robin Gow https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/robin-gow https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/robin-gow#respond Fri, 26 Jun 2020 06:04:35 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42625 behind the glass / credit: emBallet With No Dancers 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 gender              not defined by how you want              to be devoured? She asked me... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/robin-gow/feed 0 Tremolo, a poem by G. Metelli https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/tremolo-g-metelli https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/tremolo-g-metelli#respond Fri, 26 Jun 2020 06:02:01 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42580 credit: steve johnsonTremolo The summer I died the first time, locusts carved the corn to its cusp. That fall, I whispered the cornfields, the coffins, the blackbirds, hollowed my mouth around the words. I said fullness, dreamt of gods, of open mouths, and each time I almost meant it new blood promised itself to land. // Blood a promised land, a mother... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/tremolo-g-metelli/feed 0 Melania Geymonat: How the London Bus Attack Shaped Her Views on Homophobia and Sexism https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/melania-geymonat-london-bus-attack https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/melania-geymonat-london-bus-attack#respond Fri, 26 Jun 2020 06:01:55 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42628 Melania GeymonatYou might not recognize her right away, but you’ve likely seen her face before. Remember the “London Bus Attack” and that picture of two women covered in blood, often under clickbaity headlines, that made its way across the world a little over a year ago? In the early hours of May 29, 2019, my friend Melania Geymonat — a Uruguayan... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/melania-geymonat-london-bus-attack/feed 0 Julia Justo: Crossroads https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/julia-justo-crossroads https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/julia-justo-crossroads#respond Fri, 26 Jun 2020 06:00:22 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42648 Legendary Roommate (detail) - Julia Justo

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/julia-justo-crossroads/feed 0 Maureen Catbagan: Queer Film Stills https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/maureen-catbagan-queer-film-stills https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/maureen-catbagan-queer-film-stills#respond Fri, 26 Jun 2020 06:00:00 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42755 Lilly Galaxy -Pozsi and Gage - Film Still by Grace CatbaganThese 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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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/pride-2020/maureen-catbagan-queer-film-stills/feed 0 On Empty Mirror’s First Twenty Years https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/empty-mirror-first-twenty-years https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/empty-mirror-first-twenty-years#comments Fri, 29 May 2020 07:04:50 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42168 Empty Mirror - 20 yearsOn December 30, 1999 I left my last day as a retail store manager, and I never looked back. I’d worked in and managed bookstores and wanted to open my own. I’d been collecting out-of-print, signed, poetry, Beat Generation and art books books with an eye toward opening an online bookstore, and now the time had arrived. Previously, I’d edited... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/empty-mirror-first-twenty-years/feed 6 Spot the Differences https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/spot-the-differences https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/spot-the-differences#respond Fri, 29 May 2020 07:03:28 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41861 photo by Yuxiang ZhangWhen my mother met my father in 1992 in Chicago, she was 17 and my father was 20. My mother was a senior in high school, and my father out of school and working, already a supervisor at the Luster Products factory all the way in the city. When I look it up in Google Maps, the factory’s red pin... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/spot-the-differences/feed 0 Three poems by Bailey Grey https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/three-poems-by-bailey-grey https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/three-poems-by-bailey-grey#respond Fri, 29 May 2020 07:02:48 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42305 Long Beach WA watercolor / credit: dereflections by naming an ocean / we shrink it / it gains sharp edges and an orientation / (who decided that north means up?) we are like reflections in spoons / (cotton balls and lighters) really each ocean intertwines with another / together they shout no / that was not just an allusion without thought / that was something i... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/three-poems-by-bailey-grey/feed 0 Music In A Blade of Glass: Jim Whiteside’s Writing Your Name on the Glass, reviewed by Alina Stefanescu https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/jim-whiteside-writing-your-name-on-the-glass https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/jim-whiteside-writing-your-name-on-the-glass#respond Fri, 29 May 2020 07:01:48 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42157 Jim Whiteside - Writing Your Name On the Glass - Bull City PressWriting Your Name On the Glass by Jim Whiteside / Bull City Press / 35 pages / 978-1-949344-08-0 / 2019 fugue (n.) in music, a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts. in psychiatry, a state or period of... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/jim-whiteside-writing-your-name-on-the-glass/feed 0 Mining the Ruins: Andrea Burgay https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/visual-art/mining-the-ruins-andrea-burgay https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/visual-art/mining-the-ruins-andrea-burgay#comments Fri, 29 May 2020 07:01:14 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41793 Eastern Seaboard (detail) - Andrea BurgayMy work elevates the overlooked and the mundane through a process of cutting, reconfiguring and unifying a variety of handmade, found and discarded materials. Using paper ephemera whose original relevance has been lost or abandoned, I integrate the past histories of these objects into the present. Their disintegration and decay speak of the passage of time and the possibility of... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/visual-art/mining-the-ruins-andrea-burgay/feed 1 Behind the Scene: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/visual-art/behind-the-scene-hiromi-suzuki https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/visual-art/behind-the-scene-hiromi-suzuki#respond Fri, 29 May 2020 07:00:57 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41662 Behind the Scene 6 by hiromi suzukiWe can see the lights in the distance. Through the thin papers coated with Linseed oil. The Lumière brothers said, “The cinema is an invention without any future”. The cine projector continues to emit the “Lumière” behind the scenes.

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/visual-art/behind-the-scene-hiromi-suzuki/feed 0 Four poems by Allan Graubard: For Steve Dalachinsky, Ira Cohen, and Ronnie Burk https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/allan-graubard https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/allan-graubard#comments Fri, 29 May 2020 07:00:47 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41629 recall / credit: emI am reading Lundkvist’s dreams       when he was in               a coma                   for two months when Valery       calls          to tell me               that Dalachinksy                        is in                          a coma           brain dead                 but breathing this has happened before it will happen                   again life invades poetry the transfusion        suppurates     across the page red beacons    blue beacons I stop and close my eyes       there they are             two... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/allan-graubard/feed 1 Four Paintings and a Poem by Stephen Lee Naish https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/visual-art/four-paintings-and-a-poem-by-stephen-lee-naish https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/visual-art/four-paintings-and-a-poem-by-stephen-lee-naish#comments Fri, 29 May 2020 07:00:25 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41865 mixed media art (detail) by Stephen Lee NaishUntitled a Coke machine a smile a casual “hi” a walk barefoot in cut grass a door a gas station a pencil a paperclip a desire to be anything you want a bed a lamp                           a bed sheet sent out of a top floor window floats like a ghost over a city a laugh from another room a reminder an... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/visual-art/four-paintings-and-a-poem-by-stephen-lee-naish/feed 2 Three poems by Constance Bacchus https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/constance-bacchus https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/constance-bacchus#comments Fri, 29 May 2020 06:59:37 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42044 Riverside Columbia / credit: dehelen imagines she is cailleach on a snowed in Thursday wears a wig of stiff twigs glasses, holding the sun hat, a lot of makeup or none she has a feather brown flying coat rainbowed scarf, a bandaid on her left hand carries a folded newspaper totes a purse once a briefcase always, always she never smiles & when she... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/constance-bacchus/feed 1 Chasing the Moon https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/chasing-the-moon https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/chasing-the-moon#comments Fri, 29 May 2020 06:59:15 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42206 The moon over Aaqrabâte, Syria / photo by Samer DaboulOur story begins in a scalding desert city, the aroma of burning nearby: burning salty corn the size of a pistol and burning garbage on the side of semi-paved country roads. Strangers minding their business while stealing glances as they secretly guess which line of ancestry my identity of tangled roots belongs to. I stroll through the familiar patch of... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/chasing-the-moon/feed 4 Remembering and Jane https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/remembering-and-jane https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/remembering-and-jane#comments Fri, 22 May 2020 07:00:28 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41919 Remembering and Jane Austen - Nazli KarabiyikogluThat night you heard voices say remember, remember. You did your best not to remember. You spread a meter of cloth and started painting on it. Colors called for other colors and you portrayed the image of the momentary light bending the line between good and bad. You pulled them to a corner, lay down on your stomach, and tried... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/literature/remembering-and-jane/feed 2 Two poems by Lynne Schmidt https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/lynne-schmidt https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/lynne-schmidt#respond Fri, 22 May 2020 07:00:23 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41680 curve / credit: deWhen My Sister Calls My sister calls to ask me “Why would my dog be bleeding from his mouth?” She asks me because I am a dog person. She asks me because I have a degree in medical biology and a life ago planned to become a veterinarian. She asks me because I am a black hole of grief, and... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/lynne-schmidt/feed 0 Read The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! by Miah Jeffra With Multiple Browser Tabs Open — a review by Laura Eppinger https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/fabulous-ekphrastic-fantastic-miah-jeffra https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/fabulous-ekphrastic-fantastic-miah-jeffra#respond Fri, 22 May 2020 07:00:06 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41914 Miah Jeffra essays The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! by Miah Jeffra / Sibling Rivalry Press / 978-1-943977-73-4 / 140 pages / March 20, 2020 An ekphrastic piece of writing responds to a work of art–usually one completely separate from the writer. Miah Jeffra’s The Fabulous Fantastic Ekphrastic! is a collection of ekphrastic nonfiction, with pieces in response to other works as well as artifacts... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/fabulous-ekphrastic-fantastic-miah-jeffra/feed 0 Remembering Vincent Zangrillo https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/beat/remembering-vincent-zangrillo https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/beat/remembering-vincent-zangrillo#respond Fri, 22 May 2020 06:58:51 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=42203 Vincent ZangrilloLast week when I logged into Facebook, I was saddened to see the post below, posted by Sensitive Skin. Vincent was a writer who attended The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, where he studied with Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. Later on, he and Corso were roommates in New York City. In... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/beat/remembering-vincent-zangrillo/feed 0 Poems by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, translated by Kristine Ong Muslim https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/mesandel-virtusio-arguelles-kristine-ong-muslim https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/mesandel-virtusio-arguelles-kristine-ong-muslim#respond Fri, 15 May 2020 07:01:20 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41721 two-thirty / credit: emReptile He had been visited by countless frogs and snakes were nesting in his room. Although he was always trapped between trepidation and awe, he relished each encounter as forewarning, as ultimate realization of his potential. One night, he snatched a rat from his chest and grinned as he tore it open with his teeth. Reptilya Dinalaw siya ng sanlaksang... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/mesandel-virtusio-arguelles-kristine-ong-muslim/feed 0 The Pointless Forest https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/the-pointless-forest https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/the-pointless-forest#respond Fri, 15 May 2020 07:00:39 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41799 daydream on the forest pond / credit: deIt’s assuming a lot to say we were in love. We loved each other, though. We were nearly the same person if we pretended hard enough. Two girls hiding in the most wasp-riddled part of the tire park, stashing tickle grass inside the tires and calling it wheat we had to store for winter. We didn’t get stung. We didn’t... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/personal-essay/the-pointless-forest/feed 0 Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House, reviewed by Emma Gregory https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/carmen-maria-machado-dream-house https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/carmen-maria-machado-dream-house#respond Fri, 15 May 2020 07:00:31 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41881 review of In the Dream House - Carmen Maria MachadoIn the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado / Graywolf Press / 264 pages / November 5, 2019 In the Dream House follows the story of Machado’s own relationship with an emotionally and psychologically abusive woman. I feel obligated to put a disclaimer before my review: I’m in a polyamorous lesbian relationship. One of my girlfriends, (the small, blonde, butch... [read this]

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]]> https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/carmen-maria-machado-dream-house/feed 0 Three poems by María C. Domínguez https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/maria-c-dominguez https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/maria-c-dominguez#respond Fri, 08 May 2020 07:01:51 +0000 https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/?p=41412 helix iii / credit: deA house with two cats I have come here thinking it was a home, a release even if rented and the landlord is loud and flirts too much. I took two aeroplanes, two red buses, climbed a mountain on one side; my body lighted as I arrived and met the two cats at the door warm and wordy. The sun... [read this]

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