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About Maya Jewell Zeller

Maya Jewell Zeller is the author of Rust Fish and YESTERDAY, THE BEES. She serves as poetry editor for Scablands Books, as fiction editor for Crab Creek Review, and as Assistant Professor for Central Washington University. Learn more at mayajewellzeller.com; follow Maya on Twitter @MayaJZeller.

Little Spells: Poems by Maya Jewell Zeller

Maya Jewell Zeller

Ship (detail) by Carrie DeBacker

Little Spell with Chest X-ray sweet girl made of dust & water/ please leave jewelry at home/ wear open, loose clothing/ this will not hurt a bit/ possibly we will ask you to don this gown/ you … [Read more...]

All Night You Dream of Ice and In the Morning Wake to a Skiff of Snow

Maya Jewell Zeller

After all these weeks of rain and gray, the sky a fitted sheet on the too bulky mattress of mass, last night there were white blossoms in the trees and snow on the earth and your hair grew long 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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