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by the river / credit: de

Four poems by Orchid Tierney

Poetry

Chuckanut rain / credit: de

Two poems by Amy Gong Liu

possibilities / credit: de

Three poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz

Jose Hernandez Diaz

YOU in trees

Two poems by Lauren Saxon

cloudune / credit: de

Three poems by Jennifer Vaknine

Jennifer Vaknine

Book Reviews

Divided Loyalties by Nilofar Shidmehr

Divided Loyalties by Nilofar Shidmehr, reviewed by Lea Bickel

The Ribbon Around the Bomb - Elizabeth Levine

The Ribbon Around the Bomb by Elizabeth Levine, reviewed by Dimitri Reyes

Chew Yi Wei - Indelible City

Memory as Mapmaking: Reading Chew Yi Wei’s Indelible City, by Matthew Wu

Eunice Andrada, Flood Damages

“Where the water flows down”: Wounds of Heritage and Home in Eunice Andrada’s Flood Damages

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Essays

Sait Faik Abasiyanik

Sait Faik Abasiyanik: The Man Who Faithfully Embraces the World

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

skyview / credit: em

When Fear Sets In

More Personal Essays

Visual Art

Ahh You Ahh Freedom Bliss (detail) - Michelle Firment Reid

Thought Notes From My Open Side: Mixed-Media Work by Michelle Firment Reid

Michelle Firment Reid

Blanc Casse 7 (detail)

Blanc Casse: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

Yen Yen - Rainbow Stacks (detail) watercolor

Everything is Zero Calorie: Watercolors by Yen Yen

geographies )detail) - Rangemore - Mark Young

geographies by Mark Young

On Literature

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue - Emmanuelle Pagano

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano: Nataliya Deleva interviews translators Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

Nataliya Deleva, Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

Mahmood Karimi Hakak - interview with Bill Wolak

Peacebuilding Through the Arts: An Interview with Mahmood Karimi Hakak

Mahmood Karimi Hakak and Bill Wolak

Stephanie Dickinson and Rosalind Palermo Stevenson conversation

Writing Through Icons: Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson on Franz Kafka and Jean Seberg

Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson

root exposure / credit: de

Fluency in Translation: Avoiding Homogeneity and Ethnocentrism by Alice Banks

More Essays and Interviews

Beat Generation

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg: Howl (for the queer and disabled Americans)

Ben Berman Ghan

Allen Ginsberg College Censorship - Pavan - Loretta Graceffo

Resisting the Thought Police: The Untold Story of Allen Ginsberg’s Stand Against College Censorship

Loretta Graceffo

More About the Beat Generation

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

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Four poems by Orchid Tierney
Divided Loyalties by Nilofar Shidmehr, reviewed by Lea Bickel
Thought Notes From My Open Side: Mixed-Media Work by Michelle Firment Reid
Sait Faik Abasiyanik: The Man Who Faithfully Embraces the World
Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano: Nataliya Deleva interviews translators Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins
Allen Ginsberg: Howl (for the queer and disabled Americans)
The Ribbon Around the Bomb by Elizabeth Levine, reviewed by Dimitri Reyes

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