Empty Mirror

Poetry

5 Poems by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Two poems by Michael O’Shaughnessy

Michael O'Shaughnessy

2 poems by Jim Nawrocki

Jim Nawrocki

6 poems by Michael Begnal

Michael S. Begnal

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Visual Art

Visual poetry by József Bíró

József Bíró

8 new mixed-media pieces by Claudio Parentela

Claudio Parentela

12 Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

Autogéométrie: The Art Brut of Francis Palanc

Yannis Livadas

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On Literature

“No, this was all first person”: Revisiting Jorie Graham’s Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

Timothy Duffy

I Am Nothing: Thoughts on Thoreau

Paul Maher Jr.

The Yoke of Duty: Of Caregiving and Middlemarch

Kate Washington

Lucien Stryk: Zen in the art of translating Zen poetry

Yannis Livadas

More Essays and Interviews

Book Reviews

Book Review – Enfermario by Gabriela Torres Olivares

Michael Kirby

Shock of the New: Jennifer L. Lieberman, Power Lines, and Science and Technology Studies

Michael Lindgren

Giving the Stars Their Right Names: Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith, reviewed

Z.G. Tomaszewski

Book Review – Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

John Burns

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Personal Essays

Dearly Beloved, Part II: Growing up in Bohemian 1950s San Francisco

Nanette Jordan

Edward Albee Speaks

Sparrow

White Jesus – A reflection on summer camp and Charlottesville

Todd Clouser

Panic Drapes the Look of the World: Literary Treatment for Anxiety in an Uncertain Age

Emily Sinclair

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The Beat Generation

Visions of Cody, a book of martyrdom

Yannis Livadas

Book Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

More About the Beat Generation