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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

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

Chaucer and the Art of the Grift

Chaucer and the Art of the Grift

K. A. Laity

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

olivetti

Allen Ginsberg’s Typewriter and 2 more poems by Jim Bennett

Jim Bennett

imminent / credit: em

Three poems by Danielle Rose

Danielle Rose

More Poetry

Beat Generation

David Amram, Ed Heflin & Joe Kerouac. © Ed Heflin, 2003

An Interview with David Amram: By Your Works Ye Shall Be Known

Ed Heflin

Elegy For My Beat Generation - poetry by Neeli Cherkovski

Neeli Cherkovski’s Elegy For My Beat Generation, reviewed by Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas

Laura Corsiglia and Ted Joans

Remembering Ted Joans – Beat / Surrealist Poet & Artist

Denise Enck

photo credit: adjac

Heeding the Call of the Open Road

Kyrsten Bean

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

8 new mixed-media pieces by Claudio Parentela

Claudio Parentela

Bride - Rehan Miskci

Void: Photography of Displacement

Rehan Miskci

More Art

Essays

The Baby in the Air

Max King Cap

Lexington Avenue by Jeffrey Zeldman

Lexington Avenue

Buku Sarkar

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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