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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

Carla Sofia Ferreira - Walt Whitman Laforgue

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

Carla Sofia Ferreira

Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

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Poetry

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Two poems from Stilled Somewhere Possible by Cheryl Pallant

Cheryl Pallant

2 Poems by Craig Kocij

2 Poems by Craig Kocij

Craig Kocij

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac Gide featured image

Kerouac and An American Marriage

Paul Maher Jr.

On the Road movie poster

The Official Kerouac “On the Road” Movie Trailer is Here!

Denise Enck

Ted Joans rhinostopper art

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (6)

Empty Mirror

AD Winans remembers Bob Kaufman

A.D. Winans Remembers Bob Kaufman

A.D. Winans

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

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Visual poetry by Richard Biddle aka (bid)

Richard Biddle aka (bid)

Figs.03: Franz Marc, Caliban, 1914. (Figure for Shakespeare’s „Der Sturm“. Tempera, 46 x 39.5 cm.) Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett der öffentlichen Kunstsammlung, Switzerland.

The Tempest and the Savages: Franz Marc, Hugo Ball, and a Decisive Moment in Dada-Expressionist Theater With a Special Appearance by August Macke

Jean Marie Carey

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Essays

Aztek peak fire lookout - John Yohe / Edward Abbey

Aztec Summer

John Yohe

Photo by Ant Rozetsky on Unsplash / edited by Empty Mirror

Milkman by Anna Burns: a soundtrack to street harassment

Laura Eppinger

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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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