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About Kirby Wright

Kirby Wright's third play, Rag of Man, was performed at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre on February 22nd, 2017. His first screenplay is a Semi-Finalist in the 2017 Los Angeles CineFest Film Festival. He is working on a hybrid form between the screenplay and the stage play.

The Only Man in the World

Kirby Wright

Only Man in the World - Kirby Wright

DADIO SPLIT FOR MOLOKA’I every weekend to supervise his Puko’o project. He was certain his pick-and-shovel laborers and heavy equipment operators were slacking off. I took turns with Troy, my big … [Read more...]

The Woman on Ocean Boulevard

Kirby Wright

birds

A woman with long brown hair stands behind a door with a torn screen. She’s late thirties. Her yellow silk blouse billows to Woodstock jeans. A beagle sleeps on the landing below her three-step … [Read more...]

Keeping the Darkness Out

Kirby Wright

How fast the sun arrives And disappears, its arc Belongs to yesterday As whiskey and cigarettes Future forward. The night turns to lust To keep the darkness out. We are addicted … [Read more...]

30 Years Between Letters, by Kirby Wright

Kirby Wright

Hawaii sunset, copyright by goodmorph via sxc.hu

30 Years Between Letters Words from an old flame Sunrise the past The time of immortality When the future Was not reduced But expansive as ocean At sunset Where you embraced In a … [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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