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Mike Corrao’s novel, Man Oh Man, released by Orson’s Publishing

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Man, Oh Man novel by Mike Corrao

Man, Oh Man a novel by Empty Mirror contributor Mike Corrao, was published by Orson's Publishing on October 23. Two patrons appear in a dim cafe one day. How they've arrived, where they've come … [Read more...]

The Cloud Museum by Beth Spencer published by Sixteen Rivers Press

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The Cloud Museum - Poems by Beth Spencer

Empty Mirror contributor Beth Spencer's poetry collection, The Cloud Museum was recently published by Sixteen Rivers Press. “This collection dives deep. In The Cloud Museum, Beth Spencer leads us … [Read more...]

Faleeha Hassan’s poetry collection, Breakfast for Butterflies, released

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Faleeha Hassan poetry collection

Published by Inner Child Press, Breakfast for Butterflies is the twenty-first collection of poems written by poet Faleeha Hassan, and the first published in English. Born in Iraq and now living in … [Read more...]

Joost de Jonge paintings exhibited in San Diego through September 2018

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Joost de Jonge paintings exhibit in San Diego

Alexander Salazar Fine Art presents an exhibition of paintings by Joost de Jonge is up the month of September at: 225 Market St San Diego, CA 92101 USA ‭+1 (619) 851-0760 If you're in … [Read more...]

William Bortz’s chapbook, The Sky Grew Back with Clouds, published

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The Sky Grew Back with Clouds - poetry by William Bortz

The Sky Grew Back with Clouds by William Bortz was published on August 26, 2018. It's the first installment of a chapbook poetry series entitled "make time to breathe today". This chapbook, like … [Read more...]

EM’s newsletter and submissions

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The EM newsletter. EM's newsletter missed a few weeks while I retooled it. (There were some formatting errors everytime it sent over the past couple months.) It took me a while to figure out what was … [Read more...]

Passing Through: Paintings by Sky Pape at Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID, July-August 2018

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Sky Pape paintings exhibition

New York artist Sky Pape creates process-based, abstract works on paper that are subtly impactful. With organic sweeps of ink and bright flashes of color Pape is able to balance soft and hard … [Read more...]

hiromi suzuki’s logbook published by Hesterglock Press

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hiromi suzuki - logbook

hiromi suzuki's logbook was published on March 17, 2018 by Hesterglock Press. logbook features, in color, 96 pages of hiromi's visual poetry / poem brut. It's available for £10.00 + postage … [Read more...]

Star Spider’s YA novel, Past Tense – book release and launch event

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Past Tense - YA novel by Star Spider

Empty Mirror contributor Star Spider's novel, Past Tense will soon be published by HarperCollins. Past Tense will be released April 10, 2018 (and will be available at Amazon). Past Tense is a debut … [Read more...]

River Nocturne by Z.G. Tomaszewski now available for pre-order

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River Nocturne by Z.G. Tomaszewski

Z.G. Tomaszewski's poetry book, River Nocturne will be published by Finishing Line Pressin in the summer of 2018 and is now available for pre-order. Advance Praise “Tomaszewski is mystic and … [Read more...]

Zackary Lavoie’s debut poetry chapbook, Upheavals, released

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Upheavals chapbook - Zackary Lavoie

Empty Mirror contributor Zackary Lavoie's debut poetry chapbook, Upheavals has just been released by Pond Bench Press. There are two ways to get your copy of Upheavals: -- Order a signed copy … [Read more...]

Rik Lina art exhibit: Coral Bouquets, Amsterdam, March 25, 2018

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Rik Lina Coral Bouquets Amsterdam Exhibition

CORAL BOUQUETS acrylic paintings on wood HET TUINHUIS FAGELSTRAAT 52A -1052GE - AMSTERDAM 25 March - 3-7 * 2018 Rik Lina's CORAL BOUQUETS paintings will be exhibited in Amsterdam. To view … [Read more...]

All-art issue: in memory of Eileen Enck

Denise Enck

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This special all-art issue is dedicated to the memory of my late mother-in-law, Eileen Enck. Born in January, she owned the Eileen Enck Gallery in Bellevue, Washington where she featured the work of … [Read more...]

Trish Hopkinson’s new poetry collection, Footnote, reviewed by Matthew J. Hall

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Footnote - poetry - Trish Hopkinson

Trish Hopkinson's newest poetry collection, Footnote, was published by Lithic Press. Matthew J. Hall recently reviewed Footnote on his blog, Screaming with Brevity. You can also read Trish's … [Read more...]

Support Empty Mirror as you do your shopping

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Planning on doing some shopping? When you buy anything after clicking one of the affiliate links below, we receive a small commission which helps to keep Empty Mirror online. AbeBooks offers … [Read more...]

Empty Mirror: Fundraiser

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As Empty Mirror has grown, so have our costs, especially for web hosting, backup, and software updates. It's getting difficult for me to keep up. Empty Mirror is owned and edited solely by me, has … [Read more...]

North of Oxford: Call for Submissions

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north of oxford literary journal

North of Oxford, a journal of book reviews, essays, commentary, and poems is open for submissions. North of Oxford is edited by Diane Sahms-Guarnieri and g. emil reutter. Guidelines can be … [Read more...]

Michael McClure reads from Persian Pony in B.C. October 18/19

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persian pony michael mcclure

Michael McClure's poetry collection, Persian Pony, has just been published by Ekstasis Editions. He's in British Columbia this week for a reading and performance. Poetry Reading Wednesday, … [Read more...]

Joost de Jonge solo show in Cologny, Geneva, November 2017

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joost de jonge solo show, cologny

Joost de Jonge announces his upcoming solo show, "Icarus et l'Infini/invitation au voyage," at the Centre Culturel du Manoir in Cologny, Geneva. Please see details in the image below, or down load … [Read more...]

Book release — I Am the Revolutionary: Young Jack Kerouac by Paul Maher Jr.

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I Am the Revolutionary: Young Jack Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.'s new Kerouac biography, I Am the Revolutionary: Young Jack Kerouac, takes the reader from Kerouac's childhood years in Lowell, Massachusetts through his World War II years in New York … [Read more...]

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