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About Devorah Major

Devorah Major is San Francisco’s third Poet Laureate, an award-winning poet and fiction writer, creative non-fiction writer, performer, editor, and part-time senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts as well as the poet-in-residence of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

She's toured internationally and throughout the United States both performing her poetry and serving on panels speaking on African-American poetry, Beat poetry, and poetry of resistance.

She has published two novels and four books of poetry. Learn more at devorahmajor.com.

“Write What My Spirit Demands”: An Interview with Devorah Major on Writing in Multiple Genres

Rochelle Spencer and Devorah Major

Writing in more than one genre can free a writer’s creativity and open up ways of interacting with the world, but writing in multiple genres means making the mental switch from one form to another. … [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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