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About Faizan Syed

Faizan Syed is a poet and psychiatrist based in Queens, NY. He was awarded the Folger Adams Jr. Prize and the Graduating Poet’s Award from the University of Illinois. Faizan's work has appeared in Montage Literary Arts Journal and MACE and is forthcoming in Newtown Literary. Poems he's written in collaboration with Matthew DeMarco have been published in Dogbird and They Said, an anthology of collaborative writing from Black Lawrence Press. One can find him on ig @drfaizansdreamery.

Two poems by Faizan Syed

Faizan Syed

Padden mist / credit: em

Always My depression was never a pill, except when I swallowed it whole and allowed the smoke to meander up out of the orifice I once measured by its silences. My pills were never moonlight, … [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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