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About Carolyn Ogburn

Carolyn Ogburn lives and writes in the mountains of western North Carolina where she does any number of things for love and for money. Her writing can be found in Ploughshares online, Numero Cinq, the Potomac Review, the Asheville Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @c_ogburn.

Re- by Andrea Blancas Beltran, reviewed by Carolyn Ogburn

Carolyn Ogburn

Andrea Blancas Beltran - Re- (cover)

Re- by Andrea Blancas Beltran / Redbird Chapbooks / 2018 Andrea Blancas Beltran’s chapbook, Re-, is a beautiful, textured collection of poems centered around her grandmother’s memory loss, and … [Read more...]

Book Review – In Whatever Light Left to Us by Jessica Jacobs

Carolyn Ogburn

In Whatever Light Left to Us by Jessica Jacobs, poetry

In Whatever Light Left To Us by Jessica Jacobs / Sibling Rivalry Press / ISBN: 978-1-943977-19-2 / 44 pages / 2016 Jessica Jacob’s In Whatever Light Left to Us, is a chapbook infused with the … [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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