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About Jim Nawrocki

San Francisco poet Jim Nawrocki passed away in May 2018. His work was included in the anthologies, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed (2010, Sixteen Rivers Press) and Art & Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty Years (Black Lawrence Press, 2014) as well as in Kyoto Journal, Poetry, America, Poetry Daily, Santa Fe Literary Review, Arroyo Literary Review, Mudfish, and many other journals and magazines. For more information, please see Remembering Jim Nawrocki at haroldnorse.com.

Two poems by Jim Nawrocki

Jim Nawrocki

Philip Whalen’s Chair First to arrive, I wait inside the empty circle for our zazen to begin. The basement waits too, so thick with quiet and so dim it’s almost dark. Against the back … [Read more...]

Two poems: “Ed Dorn Beside the Cloud of Unknowing” and “Fantasia”

Jim Nawrocki

Ed Dorn Beside the Cloud of Unknowing His Collected Poems on my nightstand, so thick that there’s room on the spine for his portrait, his face, sardonic behind cheap sunglasses, his life’s work … [Read more...]

St. Huncke

Jim Nawrocki

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St. Huncke Christ was hung between the thieves and forgave them amid the blaze and fly buzz of Golgatha, maybe he finally reckoned that thievery is nothing if not a borrowing of … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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