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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

federico garcia lorca

Remembering Federico García Lorca

Steve Pelletier

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

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

credit: Eastman / public domain

Liz Taylor’s Lovers – for Ted Joans

Steve Dalachinsky

image: de/em

Two poems by Irène Mathieu

Irène Mathieu

More Poetry

Beat Generation

ted joans photo by larry keenan (lo res)

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Rik Lina, Hammond Guthrie, Richard Krech and more

Rik Lina

Barry Miles - Beat Hotel

Book Review – The Beat Hotel by Barry Miles

Hammond Guthrie

Cosmopolitan Greetings by Allen Ginsberg

Now What’s Wrong? Reflections on Allen Ginsberg’s Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992

Doren Robbins

Mario Cesariny by Carlos Botelho

Remembering Surrealist Mario Cesariny

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Twick ICP San Francisco Graffiti Art / Photo credit: anarchosyn https://www.flickr.com/photos/24293932@N00/3360220967/

Architecture, Money, Graffiti and Birds

Richard Risemberg

ptg series 11 art carlyle baker

New Digital Art by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

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Essays

Bellingham, WA sunset -- Boulevard Park

Spring in Cascadia

David Marshall

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part IV) 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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