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About Carla Sofia Ferreira

Carla Sofia Ferreira is a teacher and poet from Newark, New Jersey. The daughter of Portuguese immigrants, she teaches English to first generation immigrants in the Bay Area. Her poems and reviews live in Cotton Xenomorph; Glass; Reclaim: An Anthology of Women's Poetry; and The Lascaux Review among other rad places. Her chapbook, Ironbound Fados, is out with Ghost City Press in May 2019 the day before Walt Whitman's birthday. Find her on twitter @csferreira08.

Frenchness Versus Frenchiness: Laforgue’s Translations and the “Wordly” Estate of Whitman

Carla Sofia Ferreira

Carla Sofia Ferreira - Walt Whitman Laforgue

I, too, am not a bit tamed . . . I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawps over the roofs of the world. Walt Whitman, 1855 Leaves of Grass 1848 - New Orleans: this may have been when … [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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