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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

Panic In The Rear-View Mirror: Exploring The Work of Richard Siken and Ann Gale

Rhienna Renee Guedry

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

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Street Flowers by Alexis Doyen

A Song Which the Artist Inspires: Poems

Sam Silva

Jeremiah Walton, poet

2 poems and a video by Jeremiah Walton

Jeremiah Walton

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Philip Whalen

Denise Enck

beat beat beat

The Beat Generation vs. “Beatniks”

Denise Enck

Allen Ginsberg

Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s birthday with a few videos

Denise Enck

Jack Kerouac’s “Strange Cemetery in Jamaica”

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

city by the sea - Ben Stainton

Collages by Ben Stainton

Ben Stainton

Breath (detail) - painting by Kate Brown

Bowls: Six paintings by Kate Brown

Kate Brown

More Art

Essays

photo credit: Digital Third Eye

From Motown to Mowtown

Andrew Lees

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee - Richard's Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Richard’s Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee

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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