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About Merridawn Duckler

Merridawn Duckler's poetry, fiction, non-fiction and scripts have been published and performed widely. She is currently a Senior Fellow at The Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon, an Associate Editor at Narrative. Merridawn is doing a ritual/performance piece this month at Blackfish Gallery in Portland, Oregon for a group show on Ritual Show about the time she met Allen Ginsberg and was inspired to try and finish the ten thousand bows he was working on.

Ginsberg at the Grey

Merridawn Duckler

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How belly they aged, your friends, how hard the young years, every look, an eye for an eye, rapscallions when this country had corners rounded to secret, sweet places unfound by blab and tweet. In … [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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