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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

root exposure / credit: de

Fluency in Translation: Avoiding Homogeneity and Ethnocentrism by Alice Banks

Alice Banks

franz marc writings - jean marie carey

Between Something and Nothing: Franz Marc’s Authorial Ether

Jean Marie Carey

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

steve dalachinsky poem

the leaves are changing

Steve Dalachinsky

Untitled231 - d. enck

5 poems by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac . . . reissued.

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac is reissued

Paul Maher Jr.

Some Kind of Dharma 1 (detail) - Steve Paul

Some Kind of Dharma: Photographs

Steve Paul

city lights books

A.D. Winans on A.D. Winans

A.D. Winans

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (9)

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

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

Patient Clouds - BIll Wolak

Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

More Art

Essays

photo by Daniel Tseng / unsplash

Intimacy with Doors

Bára Hladík

Dearly Beloved, Part II: Growing up in Bohemian 1950s San Francisco

Nanette Jordan

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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