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Eileen “Mish” Murphy lives near Tampa with her Chi-Spaniel Cookie. She teaches English and literature at Polk State College. Her poems have been published in numerous journals, including Tinderbox Journal, Rogue Agent, and Thirteen Myna Birds. She is Associate Poetry Editor for Cultural Weekly. A prolific book reviewer and visual artist, she has also done the illustrations for the highly acclaimed children’s book Phoebe and Ito are dogs written by John Yamrus. Fortune Written on Wet Grass is her first full length collection; her chapbook "Evil Me" was published in 2020. Her second collection Sex & Ketchup was published in 2021.

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“All My Thoughts”: Interview with Katherine Koch

By Mish on February 24, 2021

Cultural Weekly's Associate Poetry Editor Mish recently caught up with artist-writer Katherine Koch, seeking insight into Koch's work as a memoirist... Read more →
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Snake in the Garden: Review of Salaam of Birds by Rachel Neve-Midbar

By Mish on November 25, 2020

…stones worn soft by a thousand laments, stones etched by a thousand feet, …a wall of stones 3500 hundred years of stones, each as smooth... Read more →
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Delicious “Raw” Poems: Review of My Soul is a Broken Down Valise by Rob Plath

By Mish on November 18, 2020

a father beats his son w/ in its walls where bones are broken more than bread sounds fucked up but it’s the price we pay for... Read more →
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Eileen Murphy: Two Poems

By Mish on August 12, 2020

I Wish   Grandma, I wish we could sit down at your Formica table in your kitchen in Tampa and eat grapes and drink Cokes from the... Read more →
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Rising Star: Review of Impossible Thirst by Kathryn de Lancellotti

By Mish on August 5, 2020

I don’t want to have sex with you, / don’t want to make your bed. Go ahead and call me a whore (“Not to the Father Will I Give... Read more →
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Bold Mélange: Review of Blues for French Roast with Chicory by Martina Reisz Newberry

By Mish on July 29, 2020

There is no sun. The sun left long ago when times got tough and people got greedy and ate the sun. Now there’s only gray... Read more →
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Interview with The Incredible Music-Mage Derek Menchan

By Mish on July 15, 2020

I heard it through the grapevine—multi-talented singer/musician/music producer-arranger/philosopher/humanities professor Derek Menchan is about to... Read more →
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Post-modern “Happy Place”: Exile Home by Mark Statman

By Mish on July 1, 2020

an artist / don’t look back (Bob Dylan, “She Belongs to Me”) I am not wilder than love nor than kisses not wilder than wine not wild... Read more →
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Interview & Review: Sex and Other Slapsticks by Ellaraine Lockie

By Mish on February 12, 2020

Sex can be many things: loving, sad, embarrassing, horrific, routine, sublime. But it can also be funny. In her new chapbook Sex & Other... Read more →
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Inner Phoenix: Interview with Derek Menchan

By Mish on January 8, 2020

Derek Menchan, music producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, doctoral candidate, visual artist, philosopher, and Humanities professor, always has... Read more →
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