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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

Independence Day by Richard Ford

Linda Lenhoff’s Top Ten Books

Top Ten List Contributor

Was Roosevelt Reciting Poetry?

Was Roosevelt Reciting Poetry?: The Need for a New Prosody

Dustin Junkert

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

San Francisco

David Gitin: 5 From San Francisco in the Sixties

David Gitin

Addisonia / 1902

Three poems by Elizabeth Threadgill

Elizabeth Threadgill

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

The Language of Bebop: Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

Nicole Henares

Who Was Sinclair Beiles? Essays

Book Review – Who was Sinclair Beiles?

Denise Enck

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eric D. Lehman

Mario Cesariny by Carlos Botelho

Remembering Surrealist Mario Cesariny

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

toriot 14 (detail - paul hawkins

toriot: text art by paul hawkins

Paul Hawkins

watercolor (detail)- Mattina Blue

Traveling Home: watercolors by Mattina Blue

Mattina Blue

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Essays

credit: Orlova Maria

Food Service, by Caitlin Sellnow

Caitlin Sellnow

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part I) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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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