Welcome to the Mirror and Poetry Project, a project intended to demonstrate how mirrors can be used as forms of representation in myth. The project focuses on poetry supplemented with images from the poet's life, mostly childhood photographs.

The forms of mirroring represented are as follows:

Baptism: Water

What You See: Plane

The Concave Man and Me: Concave

Sounds: Fracture/Kaleidoscope

Between An Officer and His Father: No Mirroring Effect Intended (Your Guess)


Theoretical Analysis:  Tom writes about this poetry and how each poem represents a certain type of mirror.  He writes about how each style of mirroring simultaneously reflects and distorts the poetic images. In a postmodern deconstruction, he analyzes his own analysis of the poetry, revealing a bias of plane mirroring of representation in the undertaking of this project.

About the Author: Tom Flynn, PhD, is graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology. He completed his dissertation in early 2005. The title of his dissertation was Hasta La Vista Hero: The Grotesque Image in Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis,' Fight Club, and the Terminator Films. He lives in the Seattle area and commutes over the Evergreen Point Bridge to work at the University of Washington.

Tom is also a scientist and engineer, father, soccer player and coach, and he loves to read. Some of his favorite authors are James Hillman, Donna Haraway, Dava Sobel, Chuck Palahniuk, and Annie Proulx.

You can catch up on some of Tom's other work at the beautiful Kota Press website. Download a free copy of the Kota Press 2002 Anthology that includes seventeen of Tom's poems. And don't miss his writing published on the really cool Headline Muse in 2002 and 2003. You can also read an article of his published by The New Times in 2001.