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About Bradley J. Fest

Bio: Bradley J. Fest teaches literature as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh. His poems have appeared in After Happy Hour Review, BathHouse, Flywheel, PELT, PLINTH, Open Thread, Spork, 2River View, and elsewhere. His first collection of poems, The Rocking Chair, is forthcoming from Blue Sketch Press. He has also published articles in the journals boundary 2, Critical Quarterly, and Studies in the Novel; his essays have appeared in David Foster Wallace and “The Long Thing” (2014) and The Silence of Fallout (2013). And he blogs at The Hyperarchival Parallax.

Six sonnets by Bradley J. Fest

Bradley J. Fest

G.C.D. - D. Enck

2014.01 I wish to transcribe Camera Obscura into your oscilloscopes, forsake the barriers of the next seventeen years for two little droplets of carbon nanofiber. I will. You’ll see. Many … [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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