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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

Poetry as a Last Letter: Thomas James and his Influences Sylvia Plath and Georg Trakl by Lauren Davis

Poetry as a Last Letter: Thomas James and his Influences Sylvia Plath and Georg Trakl

Lauren Davis

Lord of the Rings

Eric D. Lehman’s Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Farmers, Queens, Trains and Clowns

g emil reutter

3 poems by Ndubisi Otolokpo

Ndubisi Otolokpo

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Allen Ginsberg - HOWL

The Howl Hat

Jason Stoneking

Big Sur film - Kerouac

Jack Kerouac – “Big Sur” Movie Trailer

Denise Enck

Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

Love and the Titanic: Notes on Last Words: The Final Journals of William Burroughs

Lee Watkins

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Book Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

(detail) Neco Beth painting

Motiv Eternal: Paintings by Neco Beth

Neco Beth

La Picaudiere - and Hundertwasser's Honey

La Picaudiere — and Hundertwasser’s Honey

Kenneth Tindall

More Art

Essays

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Brooke Knisley

The Millstones of History

The Mill Stones of History

Lazar Trubman

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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