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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

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Lucien Stryk: Zen in the art of translating Zen poetry

Yannis Livadas

Readability Versus Creativity: On Susan Howe and Reading Poetry

Leticia del Toro

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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Poems by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, translated by Kristine Ong Muslim

Kristine Ong Muslim and Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles

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Two poems by Risa Denenberg

Risa Denenberg

More Poetry

Beat Generation

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Passing Through: Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky in Copenhagen, January 1983

Gregory Stephenson

Jack Kerouac and Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison and Jack Kerouac

Jim Cherry

Memory Babes: The Legends of Proust and Kerouac Mersiha Bruncevic

Memory Babes: The Legends of Proust and Kerouac

Mersiha Bruncevic

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The Teducated Mouth: John Barbato interviews Ted Joans

Ted Joans

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

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3 paintings by Merlin Flower

Merlin Flower

Fighting Chance (detail) - LIta Kenyon

All These Sensations: 11 artworks by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

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Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part VI) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

photo by Laura Johnson

Desert Alignment

Laura Johnson

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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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