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About Alan Catlin

Alan Catlin has been publishing for five decades in print and online. His latest full length book is Walking Among Tombstones in the Fog. Forthcoming from Night Ballet Press is a chapbook, Hollyweird.

City of the Red Night: Burroughs poems by Alan Catlin

Alan Catlin

Splice

City of the Red Night He came from some place so far away and unknowable there wasn't a word invented yet to describe it. He spoke of a city of unnatural red nights and impossible vivid … [Read more...]

Trout Fishing: Richard Brautigan Poems by Alan Catlin

Alan Catlin

Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America Winter leaks from the cracked tar sealing around the carbon stained brick chimney forming puddles of sludge and ash along with the spilled hurricane … [Read more...]

Five poems on the Beat Generation

Alan Catlin

southbound / credit: em

Jan Kerouac Baby Driver "Looking for adventure in whatever comes my way I was a true nature's child Born to be wild-----" Steppenwolf Dreams of Hawaiian island paradise home ends up in a … [Read more...]

Ed Sanders Poems by Alan Catlin

Alan Catlin

1964-10

Jean Genet Our Lady of the Flowers at the Chicago Democratic Convention 1968 Was he in town to see the American political system in action or was it simply to witness a new kind of … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

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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