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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

Carla Sofia Ferreira - Walt Whitman Laforgue

Frenchness Versus Frenchiness: Laforgue’s Translations and the “Wordly” Estate of Whitman

Carla Sofia Ferreira

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

wall

Jazz and the Money Jungle

Todd Clouser

third daydream / credit: em

Delayed Saleslady

Serkan Engin

More Poetry

Beat Generation

railroad

Lonely? You better believe it.

Alan Griffey

Kerouac and Van Gogh -- Paul Maher Jr.

This is IT: Van Gogh and Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.

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

Kirby Doyle poet

Remembering Poet Kirby Doyle

Michael McClure

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Shadowplay II by Anthony Flynn (detail)

Shadows: Art by Anthony Flynn

Anthony Flynn

Chum Bucket, 2013 (detail) / photo by Maggie Shannon

Teeth of the Sea

Maggie Shannon

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part III) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

How to Be Silent in German

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

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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