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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

root exposure / credit: de

Fluency in Translation: Avoiding Homogeneity and Ethnocentrism by Alice Banks

Alice Banks

Mahmood Karimi Hakak - interview with Bill Wolak

Peacebuilding Through the Arts: An Interview with Mahmood Karimi Hakak

Mahmood Karimi Hakak and Bill Wolak

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

bay wind / d.enck

Three poems by Clair Dunlap

Clair Dunlap

Teresa K. Miller: poems from California Building

Teresa K. Miller

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (9)

Empty Mirror

BEAT The Latter Days of the Beat Generation, A First-Hand Account - Andy Clausen

Beat: The Latter Days of the Beat Generation, A First-Hand Account by Andy Clausen

Marc Olmsted

Jack Kerouac and Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison and Jack Kerouac

Jim Cherry

Bob Kaufman's Lonely Vigil by Michael Amundsen

Bob Kaufman’s Lonely Vigil – Michael Amundsen

Michael Amundsen

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

ria bauwens - enveloppes

enveloppes: collages by Ria Bauwens

Ria Bauwens

collage artist and poet John Digby

Screaming To Escape From All Limitations: An Interview with John Digby

John Digby

More Art

Essays

Darla

Notes on the Sacred Art of Dog Walking

Chris La Tray

lake padden

Something About Rage and the Light Dying

Jason Hardung

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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