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About Kyrsten Bean

Kyrsten Bean is a writer, a musician and a wanderer. Her work has been published in PoV magazine, Gutter Eloquence, Amphibi.us, Breadcrumb Scabs, The Camel Saloon and many other fine publications. She is a frequent contributor to Lip Service West, a non-fiction reading series in Oakland, California. You can find links to her work at kyrstenbean.com.

Heeding the Call of the Open Road

Kyrsten Bean

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Beat culture and hippie culture were both long gone as a central movement by the time I was growing up, but hop on the bandwagon I did. As a teenager, there was nothing I wanted more than to get the … [Read more...]

Book Review – Baby Driver by Jan Kerouac

Kyrsten Bean

Jan Kerouac - Baby Driver review

While I was being gifted a tiny grocery store carrot cake for my fifteenth birthday in a park in Connecticut, still on the road myself, Jan Kerouac passed away. It was June 5, 1996. I had no idea who … [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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