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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

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue - Emmanuelle Pagano

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano: Nataliya Deleva interviews translators Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

Nataliya Deleva, Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

Scattered Clouds: New and Selected Poems by Reuben Jackson

Clara B. Jones interviews poet Reuben Jackson

Clara B. Jones

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

tree of love

Three poems by J. David

J.David

Four poems by Sam Silva

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

ginsberg-orlovsky-stephenson

Passing Through: Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky in Copenhagen, January 1983

Gregory Stephenson

poet and painter Kay Johnson / Beat Hotel resident

Poet Kay Johnson, aka Kaja

David Gitin

The Stray Bullet - William S. Burroughs in Mexico

Review – The Stray Bullet: William S. Burroughs in Mexico

Denise Enck

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (13)

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More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Frustrated Fisherman Bridges Chasm (detail) - Jesse M. Bell watercolor

13 poetic watercolors by Jesse M. Bell

Jesse M. Bell

Confluence (detail) by Doug Gilbert

12 Paintings by Doug Gilbert

Doug Gilbert

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part I) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

photo credit: Digital Third Eye

From Motown to Mowtown

Andrew Lees

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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