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About Orchid Tierney

Orchid Tierney is an Aotearoa-New Zealand writer, former Philly-an, currently living in Gambier, Ohio where she teaches at Kenyon College. She is the author of a year of misreading the wildcats (Operating System, 2019) and Earsay (TrollThread, 2016), and chapbooks ocean plastic (BlazeVOX 2019), blue doors (Belladonna* Press), Gallipoli Diaries (GaussPDF 2017), the world in small parts (Dancing Girl Press, 2012), and Brachiaction (Gumtree, 2012). Other poems, reviews, and scholarship have appeared in Jacket2, Journal of Modern Literature, and Western Humanities Review, among others.

Four cow poems by Orchid Tierney

Orchid Tierney

by the river / credit: de

From blue doors The epistolemology of the field History refuses a settlement. The field is a category for knowledge. A cow is a period and more likely syntaxis. Cover of grass is blue, … [Read more...]

Urban Geologies

Orchid Tierney

Spring Garden MFL, (detail) 06.04.2017

What kind of temporal-spatio-rhetoric does a polaroid afford? How does the slow afterlife of exposure agitate against the so-called instantaneousness of the film? Although digital photography … [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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