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Poems by Michael S. Begnal

Michael S. Begnal

Gyr Rêve/ credit: D. Enck

Homage to Yoko Ono 1. Be it ones unjustly reviled who become atavistic avatars bringing out the marvelous mellifluistic magnum opera (opus plural) in all her musicians plumbing the … [Read more...]

5 Poems by Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner poems

YOKO AND THE NAKED BOTTOMS I was recruited by a friend in London 1967 a publisher of first edition American poetry a friend of Tony’s her husband (before John) to be in Yoko Ono’s movie … [Read more...]

Review – Reaching Out with No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono by Lisa Carver

Denise Enck

Reaching Out with No Hands - Reconsidering Yoko Ono

Reaching Out with No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono / Lisa Carver / Backbeat Books / 2012 / 978-1617130946 The popular perceptions of Yoko Ono are often unflattering: hanger-on, untalented, … [Read more...]

Review – An Invisible Flower by Yoko Ono

Denise Enck

Yoko Ono - Invisible Flower

An Invisible Flower by Yoko Ono / Chronicle Books / 52 pages / 978-1452109114 An Invisible Flower was written and illustrated by nineteeen-year-old Yoko Ono, years before she met John Lennon, or … [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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