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About Linda E. Chown

Linda Chown is a poet and critic. Originally from Berkeley, she lived in the Bay Area until going to Spain and teaching there for some 15 years. Now living in Michigan, she is professor emerita at Grand Valley State University. She has published work in Signs, Numero Cinq, Foothill Quarterly, and many other journals. There is also a book comparing novelist Carmen Martín Gaite and Doris Lessing called Narrative Authority and Homeostasis in Selected Writings of Carmen Martín Gaite and Doris Lessing, as well as extensive writings on Lessing, Woolf, Martin Gaite, Willa Cather, and Coetzee. Recent reviews and poems, including "On The Other Side of Language, appear in Numero Cinq's archives.

Three poems by Linda E. Chown

Linda E. Chown

ten mile / credit: d.e.

Education Don’t ask me to know your trees or the green statues of famous men. Don’t ask me to assume polite silence before gray old churches or to join in your search for the meaning of proud … [Read more...]

Jean Stafford’s Boston Adventure: Tradition and the Talented Individual

Linda E. Chown

Jean Stafford’s Boston Adventure: Tradition and the Talented Individual by Linda Chown

In 1944, Jean Stafford published her first novel, Boston Adventure, a book which became an unexpected best seller..1 From the start, it was an anomaly, "the book that Stafford wrote before one would … [Read more...]

Three poems by Linda E. Chown

Linda E. Chown

zuanich two / image: d. enck

More Than the Dying and the Wars and Our Words about Them To sit here on this roof with the Sierra Nevada mountains in my mouth and the Alhambra’s blossoming gardens up my nose and the tiled … [Read more...]

Writers on Writers on Writers II: John Colopinto, “Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and A Case of Anxiety of Influence”

Linda E. Chown

Virginia Woolf & Edith Wharton -- Linda Chown Essay

In this second piece in her "Writers on Writers on Writers" series, Linda Chown comments on John Colopinto's piece which was published in The New Yorker's Cultural Comment section, September 19, 2014: … [Read more...]

for what the same ignites: poems by Linda E. Chown

Linda E. Chown

koi / image by d. enck

For Alison Krause In her honor, she was killed at Kent State May 4, 1970 The girl who placed the stem in a gun Said I’m hit And all the world burst Into blood As the bullet burrowed And … [Read more...]

Writers on Writers on Writers I: Linda Chown on E.L. Doctorow on Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

Linda E. Chown

This is the first of a series of short essays. These reviews will interpret writers interpreting each other. This first one specifically addresses what I think E.L Doctorow does with Hemingway and … [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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