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About Michael Lindgren

Michael Lindgren is a writer and bookseller. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and PEN America, he lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. Find him at mikelindgren.net.

Shock of the New: Jennifer L. Lieberman, Power Lines, and Science and Technology Studies

Michael Lindgren

When I was young, I found the idea that there were people who in the world who devoted their lives to writing about literature — about Shakespeare, say — both fascinating and mystifying. Readers had … [Read more...]

Sonosyntactics by Paul Dutton: A Book Review

Michael Lindgren

Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton

Sonosyntactics by Paul Dutton / Wilfrid Laurier University Press / $18.99 / 2015 Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton serves as a tidy overview of the work of an unheralded poet … [Read more...]

Book Review – Bad Baby by Abigail Welhouse

Michael Lindgren

Bad Baby - Poetry by Abigail Welhouse

Bad Baby by Abigail Welhouse / Dancing Girl Press / $7 / 2015 This spiky-funny little book of poems is by a young Brooklyn-based poet named Abigail Welhouse, via a charming Chicago-based chapbook … [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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