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About Clair Dunlap

Clair Dunlap grew up just outside Seattle, Washington, and started writing at the age of six. She is the author of In the Plum Dark Belly (2016) and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, SWIMM, The Ilanot Review, Hobart, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and more. She currently lives in the Midwest and answers questions in an academic library.

Three poems by Clair Dunlap

Clair Dunlap

bay wind / d.enck

Homebody sometimes i am two people: me, and me but sadder. the space this second me inhabits is the space between the mind's eye and the smaller me of 1998 picking her way over a rocky … [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.

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