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About Mark Terrill

A native Californian and former merchant seaman, Mark Terrill was a participant in the School of Visual Arts Writing Workshop in Tangier, Morocco, conducted by Paul Bowles in 1982 and has lived in Germany since 1984, working as a shipyard welder, road manager for rock bands (Mekons, American Music Club, etc.), cook, and postal worker. Recent books include Competitive Decadence (New Feral Press, 2016), Diamonds & Sapience (Dark Style, 2017), and Great Balls of Doubt (Verse Chorus Press, 2020). Forthcoming from Tract Home Publications in The Visible Spectrum Series is a collaborative novel written with Francis Poole entitled Ultrazone: A Tangier Ghost Story.

Four poems by Mark Terrill

Mark Terrill

Glass Beach / credit: d.e

PARABELLUM In July enough rain to get the stream flowing in the other direction; but sufficient sunlight to raise the heads of drooping flowers seen through windows unwashed in all these … [Read more...]

Here to Learn: Remembering Paul Bowles by Mark Terrill

Mark Terrill

Here to Learn: Remembering Paul Bowles by Mark Terrill

In the spring of 1982 I was working as a deck machinist on a cable-laying ship based out of Norfolk, Virginia. In a copy of the Village Voice that I’d picked up while on shore leave, I saw an … [Read more...]

4 poems by Mark Terrill

Mark Terrill

Gates at the metro-station Bullewijk, subway of Amsterdam City (detail) by Hilly van Eerten

Ode to the Obvious A road untraveled like a fever unmeasured, the distance vaporizing in the heat of the moment; the representations are no longer visible. The world takes on a hue. … [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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