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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

‘Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind’: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Alchemy and Individuation by William Bishop

“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind”: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Alchemy and Individuation by William Bishop

William Bishop

Faust (detail) - public domain

The Necessity of Tragedy—How What Goethe Played with is Still Entirely Relevant

Marina Manoukian

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Can't Stop the Beat - ruth weiss

Six poems by A.D. Winans

A.D. Winans

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

I Am San Francisco

A.D. Winans

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (1)

Empty Mirror

Allen Ginsberg Wait Til I'm Dead Uncollected Poems

Book Review — Wait Til I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

grass

The Great Consciousness of Life

Paul Maher Jr.

Kerouac Vanity of Duluoz

Book Review — Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Title goes up the side (detail) - collage by Alicia Cole

Three collages by Alicia Cole

Alicia Cole

Trembling Facade (detail) Tony Rickaby

Altered Facades by Tony Rickaby

Tony Rickaby

More Art

Essays

The Baby in the Air

Max King Cap

The Accidental Monster: Salomé, Mom and Me

The Accidental Monster: Salomé, Mom and Me

Melissa Knox

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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