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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

Aural Dialectics: On Allen Ginsberg’s Musical Rendition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Chris Mustazza

The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volumes 1 and 2

Taking the Poet at his Word: Editing the Poems of T. S. Eliot

Jim McCue

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

between / credit: de

Three poems by Helen McClory

Helen McClory

Zen Moon

Moon Songs: two poems by Matthew Woodman

Matthew Woodman

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Michael McClure Sweetwater

In Honor of Michael McClure’s Birthday

Empty Mirror

Seymour Wyse, Horace Mann School, 1940, courtesy of Dave Moore

Kerouac — “My really best friend…” an interview with Seymour Wyse by Dave Moore

Dave Moore

seymour krim

Beat Generation Writer Seymour Krim

Mark Cohen

Iron Curtain Journals by Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg’s Iron Curtain Journals, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Deaf, by Weldon Sandusky (detail)

4 Paintings by Weldon Sandusky

Weldon Sandusky

Patient Clouds - BIll Wolak

Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

More Art

Essays

Marlie Centawer - a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

daydream on the forest pond / credit: de

The Pointless Forest

Emily O'Neill

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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