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About Cooper Wilhelm

Cooper Wilhelm is a poet, occultist, and researcher living in NYC. He is the author of three books of poetry, a chapbook about pigs, a microchapbook about raising the dead, and a full-length called DUMBHEART/STUPIDFACE. More at cooperwilhelm.com and on twitter @CooperWilhelm.

3 poems by Cooper Wilhelm

Cooper Wilhelm

san juan / image: de

Multimedia If I were an elephant all my paintings would be of oranges, flecks left in where white paper could peak out and mirror light on skin. And people would look at the paintings and … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

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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