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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

Questioning Our Characters: Performative Identity in Nella Larsen’s Passing and Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, by Ben Berman Ghan

Ben Berman Ghan

Artificial Paradises by Charles Baudelaire

Ten Favorite Books List Contributed by Josechu C.

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Poems by Krisztián Tóbiás, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai

Poems by Krisztián Tóbiás, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai

Krisztián Tóbiás and Károly Pallai

Two poems: “Ed Dorn Beside the Cloud of Unknowing” and “Fantasia”

Jim Nawrocki

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Beatific Soul: A film about John J Dorfner

The Beatific Soul: A film featuring Kerouac biographer John J. Dorfner

John J. Dorfner

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (1)

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Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (2)

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Robert Creeley: Ted Joans, Primary Poet

Robert Creeley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Eastern Seaboard (detail) - Andrea Burgay

Mining the Ruins: Andrea Burgay

Andrea Burgay

Collage by Gloria Avner

Seven Artworks by Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner

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Essays

The Millstones of History

The Mill Stones of History

Lazar Trubman

Are Made Of - essay by Tomoé Hill

Are Made Of

Tomoé Hill

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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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