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About Jared Benjamin

Jared Benjamin (also known by his pseudonym J.B. Stone) is a neurodivergent writer and slam poet from Brooklyn, now residing in Buffalo, NY. He is the author of two digital chapbooks, A Place Between Expired Dreams And Renewed Nightmares (Ghost City Press 2018) and forthcoming, Fireflies & Hand Grenades (Stasia Press 2019). His fiction, poetry, and reviews have appeared and.or forthcoming in BlazeVOX, Maudlin House, Occulum, Peach Mag, Bone & Ink, Breadcrumbs, Crack the Spine, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. You can check out more of his work at jaredbenjaminstone.com and more of his tweets @JB_StoneTruth.

Constant Stranger: After Frank Stanford, reviewed by Jared Benjamin

Jared Benjamin

Constant Stranger: After Frank Stanford, edited by Max Crinnin & Aidan Ryan

Constant Stranger: After Frank Stanford, edited by Max Crinnin & Aidan Ryan / Foundlings Press / 2018. In the early 1970s, a poet from the Mississippi heartland, expatriated to the Ozark scenery of … [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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