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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

Howl by Allen Ginsberg / Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko / Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich.

Cry, Exploration, Ceremony

Winnie Khaw

Original image: Olivetti Lettera 32, c. 1975 by mpclemens / Foter.com / CC BY. Photoshopped greatly by Empty Mirror.

Typewriter Experiment #1: Getting to Know You

James Patrick

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Poems by Krisztián Tóbiás, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai

Poems by Krisztián Tóbiás, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai

Krisztián Tóbiás and Károly Pallai

wave

Six poems by Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans rhinostopper art

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (6)

Empty Mirror

La Picaudiere - and Hundertwasser's Honey

La Picaudiere — and Hundertwasser’s Honey

Kenneth Tindall

Jack Kerouac’s “Strange Cemetery in Jamaica”

Paul Maher Jr.

Elegy For My Beat Generation - poetry by Neeli Cherkovski

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

Yannis Livadas

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Visual Art

atmosphere 01 (detail) - Carlyle Baker

New Art by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

Popcorn Clouds (detail), William Clarkson

Seven Cloud Paintings by William Clarkson

William Clarkson

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Essays

the skagit trail / credit: em

Convergence

Etan Nechin

current / credit: em

Surfacing the Toxins

Audrey Burges

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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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