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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

Agustín Guambo, Andean Nuclear Spring, translated by Carlos Moreno

Carlos Moreno, Translator of Agustín Guambo’s Andean Nuclear Spring, Interviewed by Clara B. Jones

Clara B. Jones

Independence Day by Richard Ford

Linda Lenhoff’s Top Ten Books

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Helle Busacca

Translations of three poems by Helle Busacca

Margaret Spiegelman

Hawaii sunset, copyright by goodmorph via sxc.hu

30 Years Between Letters, by Kirby Wright

Kirby Wright

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (8)

Empty Mirror

Barry Miles - Beat Hotel

Book Review – The Beat Hotel by Barry Miles

Hammond Guthrie

Why Kerouac? Rick Dale

Why Kerouac?

Rick Dale

Visions of Cody, a book of martyrdom

Yannis Livadas

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Mark Rothko, Untitled (detail)

Rothko’s Passage Through Fear and Trembling During the Seagram Murals

George Saitoh

Caelestis (detail) - Anna Carina Sinocchi

The Roman Arch: paintings by Anna Carina Sinocchi

Anna Carina Sinocchi

More Art

Essays

photo by Daniel Tseng / unsplash

Intimacy with Doors

Bára Hladík

daydream on the forest pond / credit: de

The Pointless Forest

Emily O'Neill

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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