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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

V - Pynchon

Top Ten Books List Contributed by John W.

Top Ten List Contributor

Readability Versus Creativity: On Susan Howe and Reading Poetry

Leticia del Toro

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

poems by Conley Lowrance

Poems by Conley Lowrance

Conley Lowrance

Carl Solomon - Mishaps, Perhaps

Two Songs for Samson: An Invective Poem for Carl Solomon

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

More Poetry

Beat Generation

ruth and Hal Davis on their porch. Photo by Horst Spandler, 2013.

Celebrating ruth weiss on her 90th birthday

Horst Spandler

Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

The Language of Bebop: Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

Nicole Henares

The Ghost Sonata - Vincent Zangrillo

The Ghost Sonata

Vincent Zangrillo

Vincent Zangrillo

Remembering Vincent Zangrillo

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Ask again when you're alone - Lita Kenyon

A Moment Just About to Happen: Collages by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

Russell Lee - couples at the square dance

Let’s Dance: Photographs by Russell Lee, McIntosh County, Okla. ca. 1939

Denise Enck

More Art

Essays

Marlie Centawer - a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

Candy Darling on her Deathbed by Peter Hujar, used as cover photo for I Am a Bird Now / fair use

Candy Says, by Kaiya Gordon

Kaiya Gordon

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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