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About Matt Dube

Matt Dube teaches creative writing and American lit, but before that, or maybe on a pause from doing that, he lived for a year in Ukraine. He wondered what he was doing there at least as much as you are.

Plain Sight

Matt Dube

Plain Sight by Matt Dube

Behind a scarred metal door, painted red and inset with two locks that opened to keys in shapes I never saw in the States, including one that looked like the Philips head screwdriver on my old swiss … [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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