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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

Oscar Wilde reclining

The Beauty in Hatred: Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic Theory in De Profundis

Stacey Mankoff

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake's Influence on Allen Ginsberg by Alexandre Ferrere

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake’s Influence on Allen Ginsberg

Alexandre Ferrere

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Zen Moon

Moon Songs: two poems by Matthew Woodman

Matthew Woodman

olivetti

Allen Ginsberg’s Typewriter and 2 more poems by Jim Bennett

Jim Bennett

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Stray Bullet - William S. Burroughs in Mexico

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

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

Max Douglas poetry

Max Douglas, Poet

Empty Mirror

Pete Winslow - Surrealist / Beat Poet

Pete Winslow, Beat/Surrealist Poet

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

more trusting - Dev Murphy

Seven Abstract Comics by Dev Murphy

Dev Murphy

mustard jar (detail) - collage drawing by Lori Langille

Looking/Not Looking: nine contour drawing collages by Lori Langille

Lori Langille

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Essays

20 east / credit: de

Are Hungry Ghosts Just Ghosts with Borderline Personality Disorder?

Courtney Cook

The Seed

The Seed

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

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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