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About Teresa Conboy

Teresa Conboy is working on a collection of short stories about her two decades in the Hollywood area of Silver Lake, but from the new vantage point of Altadena, which she hopes will be a little slower to gentrify. You can find Teresa on Facebook, and Twitter.

A Curious Stew

Teresa Conboy

Los Angeles, copyright Aculine http://www.sxc.hu/profile/aculine

Silver Lake was a circus when I moved here in ‘92.  By day it was old buildings with peeling paint set against lush hillsides with hidden graffitied cement stairways and morning glories everywhere. … [Read more...]

Hollywood Rooftops

Teresa Conboy

Photo by Josh Rose via Unsplash, modified by EM

The ghosts of that 1920s apartment were in the air when we sat on its rooftop drinking wine, one summer’s eve at dusk. We could almost see old Betty’s skinny frame still making her way up Las Palmas … [Read more...]

Everything Must Go by Teresa Conboy

Teresa Conboy

Larry was a rare one. Very nice and helpful – he would expertly fix the leaky faucets when my landlord didn’t get around to it. Unfortunately when it came to most everything else, Larry was like the … [Read more...]

Chorus of Poets Gather for Allen Ginsberg “Howl” Celebration (2005)

Teresa Conboy

Allen Ginsberg HOWL

A horn call sounded the start of the 50th anniversary celebration of Allen Ginsberg's first public reading of his masterpiece Howl, on this occasion, Oct. 7, 2005 at Skylight Books in Los Feliz … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

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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