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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

Aural Dialectics: On Allen Ginsberg’s Musical Rendition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Chris Mustazza

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Merlin Flower - Rubbish (detail)

When there is nothing, there’s the cup of coffee

Merlin Flower

nest / credit: d.raphael

Back Principles: Poems by Stephen Bett

Stephen Bett

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Big Sur film - Kerouac

Jack Kerouac – “Big Sur” Movie Trailer

Denise Enck

Visions of Cody, a book of martyrdom

Yannis Livadas

Ted Joans WOW sun logo

Ted Joans Lives! Coreley Coit, Kenya Rodriguez, Valery Oisteanu, Hidani Ditmars

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Kerouac and Van Gogh -- Paul Maher Jr.

This is IT: Van Gogh and Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Mark Rothko, Untitled (detail)

Rothko’s Passage Through Fear and Trembling During the Seagram Murals

George Saitoh

9 Collages by Laura J. Stein

Laura J. Stein

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Essays

The Seed

The Seed

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

credit: Viktor Dukov / Unsplash

Birds, Caves, Time by Nels Hanson

Nels Hanson

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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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