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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

Andy Kaufman Still Alive?

Is Andy Kaufman Still Alive? The Evidence

Jack Bristow

Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts - Jorie Graham

“No, this was all first person”: Revisiting Jorie Graham’s Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

Timothy Duffy

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Nooksack Flow / photo: dre

2 poems by Bola Opaleke

Bola Opaleke

photo credit: http://www.sxc.hu/profile/uttecht

Remember When You Have A Son

Todd Clouser

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Gotham Book Mart - Evan P. Cordes

Being Michael Brownstein – Thomas Locicero

Thomas Locicero

ted joans photo by larry keenan (lo res)

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Keith Scotcher and Larry Keenan

Empty Mirror

The Buddhist Beat Poetics of Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel - Max Orsini

The Buddhist Beat Poetics of Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel by Max Orsini, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

photo credit: adjac

Heeding the Call of the Open Road

Kyrsten Bean

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Dawn Reaching into Darkness - Bill Wolak collage (detail)

12 Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

Renunication, Mixed media on paper, 22x32, 2006

Meditations: Paintings by Kurt Rostek

Kurt Rostek

More Art

Essays

Seizure - essay by Stephanie Andersen

Seizure

Stephanie Andersen

All Night You Dream of Ice and In the Morning Wake to a Skiff of Snow

Maya Jewell Zeller

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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