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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

John Keats by Joseph Severn 1819

Negative Capability: Keats and Buddha

Alfred K. LaMotte

D.H. Lawrence's Pansies, Nettles, and More Pansies: A Jeremiad by Kenneth Pobo

D.H. Lawrence’s Pansies, Nettles, and More Pansies: A Jeremiad

Kenneth Pobo

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Two poems by Robyn Pickens

Robyn Pickens

Halley's Comet

Two poems by Nick D’Annunzio Jones

Nick D’Annunzio Jones

More Poetry

Beat Generation

goodbye, ted joans - jack foley

Jack Foley: Goodbye, Ted Joans

Jack Foley

ted joans photo by larry keenan (lo res)

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Rik Lina, Hammond Guthrie, Richard Krech and more

Rik Lina

ted joans interview teducated

The Teducated Mouth: John Barbato interviews Ted Joans

Ted Joans

Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson

Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

All the Light That Never Returns (detail) - Bill Wolak

12 Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

atmosphere 01 (detail) - Carlyle Baker

New Art by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

More Art

Essays

Panic Drapes the Look of the World: Literary Treatment for Anxiety in an Uncertain Age

Emily Sinclair

eyes on 8 by Emilie Kneifel

eyes on / horizon by Emilie Kneifel

Emilie Kneifel

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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