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About Michael S. Begnal

Michael S. Begnal is the author of Future Blues (Salmon Poetry, 2012) and Ancestor Worship (Salmon Poetry, 2007), as well as the chapbook The Muddy Banks (Ghost City Press, 2016). His work has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Notre Dame Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Scoundrel Time, Empty Mirror, Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), and he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has an MFA from North Carolina State University. You can find him at mikebegnal.blogspot.com and on Twitter @Michael_Begnal.

Penumbra by Kate Behrens, reviewed by Michael S. Begnal

Michael S. Begnal

Penumbra by Kate Behrens (book review)

Penumbra by Kate Behrens / Two Rivers Press / 978-1-909747-46-3 / 2019 “Penumbra” is one of those words that I always think I know the meaning of, but then I realize I need to look it up again to … [Read more...]

6 poems by Michael Begnal

Michael S. Begnal

A Press of the (O) Mind 1. Phones dropped in the damp night of leaves a drizzly night picking them up then the signals dropped and trying to pick it up but that eventually they … [Read more...]

Poems by Michael S. Begnal

Michael S. Begnal

Gyr Rêve/ credit: D. Enck

Homage to Yoko Ono 1. Be it ones unjustly reviled who become atavistic avatars bringing out the marvelous mellifluistic magnum opera (opus plural) in all her musicians plumbing the … [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.

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