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About Marcia Arrieta

Marcia Arrieta's recent work appears in Word For/Word, Barrow Street, Eratio, Osiris, Synaeresis, Icarus Anthology, Clockwise Cat, Lines + Stars, Shuf, Daphne, and Of/With.

She has two poetry collections—archipelago counterpoint (BlazeVOX) and triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme (Otoliths), and has a chapbook forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press.

She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal.

Three poems by marcia arrieta

Marcia Arrieta

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the words the words appear like sunlight      visible lines of wind & dust luminous incantations of the Sacred Valley, of the Sedona desert I draw the tree … [Read more...]

Poems by Marcia Arrieta

Marcia Arrieta

and therefore in such controversies where the question is put, who shall be judge? who shall decide the controversy? into the forest tumbling [dreams] iconoclast redemption the garden in … [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.

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