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About Shelby Stephenson

Shelby Stephenson's Family Matters: Homage to July, the Slave Girl won the 2008 Bellday Poetry Prize, Allen Grossman, judge. Recent publications include chapbooks from Finishing Line Press: Playing Dead (2011) and Play My Music Anyhow (2013). Please visit Shelby's website and connect with him on on Facebook.

Poems from COUNTRY by Shelby Stephenson

Shelby Stephenson

Country

Nin’s making ham-hock soup, feeding her hypomania: A.M. radio talking-heads rail for holiness on and on for keeping “Christ” in Christmas, the needles, I’m sure screaming eagles in the … [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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