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About Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould is a writer, translator, and scholar whose books include Writers and Rebels (Yale University Press, 2016), After Tomorrow the Days Disappear (Northwestern University Press, 2016), and The Prose of the Mountains: Tales of the Caucasus (Central European University Press, 2015). Find her on Twitter @rrgould.

Poems of Place

Rebecca Gould

isfahan-bridge CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=657963

The Arches of Isfahan When we recited poetry in Isfahan, the Bridge of Thirty-Three Arcs stretched to embrace the firmament. The songs you brought to life were meteorites, detonating in … [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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