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About Richard Risemberg

Richard Risemberg moved to Los Angeles from Cordoba, Argentina, long ago, and has since hovered between two worlds defined by divergent language constructs. His book of essays, is Our Own Day Here: Selected Essays. You can read more of Richard's work at SustainableCityNews.

Architecture, Money, Graffiti and Birds

Richard Risemberg

Twick ICP San Francisco Graffiti Art / Photo credit: anarchosyn https://www.flickr.com/photos/24293932@N00/3360220967/

Where you would not have your own [child] live, and develop, and gather to itself knowledge of life and the things of life, is not a fit place for the [children] of other men to live, and develop, and … [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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