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About Bára Hladík

Bára Hladík is an artist and writer based in Montréal. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Cosmonauts Avenue, The Whaleroad Review, Moonchild Mag, and elsewhere. She is the managing editor of Theta Wave and her micro-chap Book of Mirrors was recently published by Ghost City Press. Tweet her @baroslavka.

Intimacy with Doors

Bára Hladík

photo by Daniel Tseng / unsplash

Doors are a foundation of our psyche. To understand this, we must ask ourselves: how do we move through doors, how do we conduct ourselves near doors, as we flit through our busy lives, bags in hand, … [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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