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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

A Thank You to Joyce Carol Oates

Joys and Ticks: A Thank You to Joyce Carol Oates

Sarah Kennedy

root exposure / credit: de

Fluency in Translation: Avoiding Homogeneity and Ethnocentrism by Alice Banks

Alice Banks

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

at the fragrance garden / credit: de

Three poems by Andrew Shattuck McBride

Andrew Shattuck McBride

cobblestones

Two Poems by Alessandra Bava

Alessandra Bava

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Some Kind of Dharma 1 (detail) - Steve Paul

Some Kind of Dharma: Photographs

Steve Paul

In honor of Jack’s birthday: 4 Kerouac videos

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Gregory Corso mug shot -- prison

Poetic Licence: The Crime and Hard Time of Gregory Corso, or A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Felon

Gregory Stephenson

Practice of the Wild - Gary Snyder

Book Review – The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

GOYA - El aquelarre (Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, 1797-98)

In Goya’s Dark Room

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Red Wheelbarrow (detail) -- Tisa Walden

San Francisco in the 21st Century: 75 color photographs and poem by Tisa Walden

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More Art

Essays

Are Made Of - essay by Tomoé Hill

Are Made Of

Tomoé Hill

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee - Richard's Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Richard’s Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee

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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