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About Cynthia X. Hua

Cynthia X. Hua is a poet and artist. She was previously a finalist for the Norman Mailer Awards in Poetry, and a fellow with Brooklyn Poets. She has been published in Boulevard, Glass Poetry, and Carbon Culture.

Two poems by Cynthia X. Hua

Cynthia X. Hua

harbor / credit: d.enck

Brown Eyes So the universe is everything, even the anthills even the anthills lit with whispering, longing, elegant brownstones and engine fires and dirty arguments the body you didn’t … [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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