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About Matt Hill

Having lived in the southern part of Northern California for a lifetime, Matt Hill is a poet and sculptor working in native hardwoods. His work has been published in dozens of journals, including Big Bridge, Talisman: A Journal of Poetics and Poetry, Sugar Mule, Chiron Review, and Dispatches. Integral Process: Selected Prose and Poems (Gradient Books, Finland, 2016); Yet Another Blunted Ascent (Moira/Locofo Chaps, 2017); and Tertium Quid, (Moira/Locofo Chaps, 2017) are his latest books.

Little Million Doors by Chad Sweeney, reviewed by Matt Hill

Matt Hill

Little Million Doors: An Elegy by Chad Sweeney

Little Million Doors: An Elegy by Chad Sweeney / Nightboat Books / 2019 / 978-1643620008 / 80 pages Lines composed by a disjoint of conscious memory, shards of grief felt in the liminal spaces of … [Read more...]

BOB KAUFMAN poet of ecstatic litany by Matt Hill

Matt Hill

BOB KAUFMAN poet of ecstatic litany Bob Kaufman’s poetry of jazz echoes Bob Kaufman is a traveler of deep space Bob Kaufman is a holder of many sorrows Bob Kaufman in syncopated dream chanter … [Read more...]

Poems from Matt Hill’s Pellucid Inferno

Matt Hill

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High End Dirt The place had all the looks of Defeat, the faded Idols of the Marketplace having absconded to parts unknown, the place now littered with mid-age outliers amidst the wreckage of rust, … [Read more...]

“Street Corner” and “Process” – Matt Hill

Matt Hill

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A hypothetical encounter between poets Philip Lamantia and Bob Kaufman on a San Francisco street corner. Since both lived in the same North Beach neighborhood, loitered in the same cafes, and more … [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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