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About Brittany Helmick

Brittany Nicole Helmick is a Pacific Northwest native and MFA candidate in the NEOMFA. Her work has appeared in Manastash and at Empty Mirror. When she isn’t studying, she pokes around old woods in Ohio.

Brittany Helmick reviews Vievee Francis’ Forest Primeval

Brittany Helmick

Vievee Francis - Forest Primeval

Forest Primeval by Vievee Francis / Northwestern University Press / 2016 / 978-0-8101-3243-6 Every so often I take a trip to the woods, and every time I come out having had a different … [Read more...]

Two poems by Brittany Helmick

Brittany Helmick

Nooksack River Sunlight / credit: dre

My Self-Care I’ve learned, is to keep my lavender growing. My daughter says she is scared to go to school. Says she is worried because the president hates Mexicans. I pulled the sage … [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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