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Book Review – The Beauty of being Hated by Jack Leaf Willetts

Denise Enck

Empty Mirror received a review copy of this book. Many of the poems in Jack Willetts' debut poetry collection, The Beauty of being Hated, explore the way we label and think about feelings. Here are … [Read more...]

An Interview with Poet Jack Leaf Willetts

Denise Enck

Jack, your new poetry collection, The Beauty of being Hated, has just been published. What can you tell us about it? It was hard to live and hard to write. It was written out of a series of … [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.

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