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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

Yannis Livadas double interview

Yannis Livadas: A double interview

Yannis Livadas

Srinivas Reddy

Sitar and Sanskrit: Bill Wolak Interviews Srinivas Reddy

Bill Wolak and Srinivas Reddy

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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Three poems by Jennifer Vaknine

Jennifer Vaknine

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A Study of Assassination

David Ethan

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (1)

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photo by Bruno Cervera / Unsplash

Blowing: Poetry Meets Music in the Writing of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

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Jack Kerouac’s Books

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boundary road, with blueberries

Juxtaposition of Wor[l]ds: The Cultural and Literary Legacy of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Joy of Water 3 (detail) - hiromi suzuki

Joy of Water: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

9 collages by Magda Dudziak

Magda Dudziak

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Essays

Sara Coleridge

My Coleridge: On Five Poems by Sara Coleridge

Stephanie Limb

d nolan jefferson

They Saved Me from Myself by D. Nolan Jefferson

D. Nolan Jefferson

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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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