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About Irène Mathieu

Irène Mathieu is a pediatrician, writer, and public health researcher. She is author of the book orogeny (Trembling Pillow Press, 2017), which won the Bob Kaufman Book Prize, and poetry chapbook the galaxy of origins (dancing girl press & studio, 2014). She also has received the Yemassee Journal Poetry Prize, Honorable Mention and Editor's Choice awards in the Sandy Crimmins National Poetry contest, and runner-up in the Cave Canem/Northwestern Book Prize. Irène has been a fellow of the Fulbright Program and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. A poetry book reviewer for Muzzle Magazine and an editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine's humanities section, she is represented by Jack Jones Literary Arts.

Two poems by Irène Mathieu

Irène Mathieu

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isthmus on our dates he’d take a pack of cookies, a roast chicken, and me down to the lakefront where stairs empty to saltwater, hand me a wing or two, and lick the rest from his knuckles, … [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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