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About Nels Hanson

Nels Hanson’s fiction has received the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and Pushcart nominations in four separate years. His poems received a 2014 Pushcart nomination, Sharkpack Review’s 2014 Prospero Prize, and 2015 and 2016 Best of the Net nominations.

Birds, Caves, Time by Nels Hanson

Nels Hanson

credit: Viktor Dukov / Unsplash

Murmuration To shake one’s head, to murmur “I don’t know,” implies a certain faith, thisevening’s swerving, changing cloud of birds above the failing farm reminds me. We didn’t invent our bones … [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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