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Empty Mirror 25th Anniversary

Empty Mirror celebrated its 25th anniversary on May 31, 2025! While we are currently on hiatus, we invite you to enjoy a quarter century of writing and art in our archives.

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On Literature

Gueorgui Konstantinov interview and poems

Love, Unforseen Poetry, and Other Radical Reforms: An interview with the Bulgarian poet Gueorgui Konstantinov

Bill Wolak and Gueorgui Konstantinov

Aural Dialectics: On Allen Ginsberg’s Musical Rendition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Chris Mustazza

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Karoly-Fellinger-Pallai

Six Poems by Károly Fellinger, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai

Károly Fellinger and Károly Pallai

in the bois des rappes / image credit: dre

4 Poems by Larry Beckett

Larry Beckett

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Sinclair Beiles - courtesy of GC - from the book Bone Hebrew

Sinclair Beiles: A Man Apart

Josh Medsker

The Creative Birth of Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s Creative Birth

Paul Maher Jr.

Allen Ginsberg Wait Til I'm Dead Uncollected Poems

Book Review — Wait Til I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

How Kerouac's haikus saved my life

How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life

Bridget McNulty

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Landscape 1 - Magie Dominic

Four Landscapes (Through a Window) by Magie Dominic

Magie Dominic

Lepanto by Cy Twombly (panel 2)

Cy Twombly’s Lepanto Green

Wm. Anthony Connolly

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Essays

The moon over Aaqrabâte, Syria / photo by Samer Daboul

Chasing the Moon

Sarah Zanabli

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part V) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

More Essays

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Empty Mirror

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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