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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

Ian Haight in conversation with Dennis Maloney, writer, translator and publsher of White Pine Press.

Ian Haight in conversation with Dennis Maloney: writer, translator, editor of White Pine Press

Ian Haight and Dennis Maloney

Howl by Allen Ginsberg / Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko / Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich.

Cry, Exploration, Ceremony

Winnie Khaw

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Midnight

A Night in Spain

Bezalel Stern

Huntington Pier / Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bmh4you/84188300/ b r e n t

Four Poems by George Moore

George Moore

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives

Ted Joans Lives! Michael Hayward, Jake Lamar, Bernie Mindich, and Guy Pierre Buchholtzer

Empty Mirror

Allen Ginsberg - HOWL

The Howl Hat

Jason Stoneking

Gloria Avner and David Gitin

Remembering poet David Gitin

Sam Vinicur

Before and After Desolation: Two Sojourns by Jack Kerouac at Seattle's Hotel Stevens

Before and After Desolation: Two Sojourns by Jack Kerouac at the Hotel Stevens

Gregory Stephenson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Say When (detail) - Lita Kenyon

Certain People by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

9 Bewildered by Neon Lips (detail)

Twelve collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

More Art

Essays

The Seed

The Seed

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part VI) 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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