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Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan

On Waiting

Yasmine Shamma

Essays

My Father's Map - Jan Glazewski

My Father’s Map

Jan Glazewski

Las Meninas (detail) by Diego Vasquez

Seeing Las Meninas in Madrid, 1994

Sara Schaff

Art has side effects, I said - Bobbi Lurie - Marcel Duchamp

“Art has side effects,” I said.

Bobbi Lurie

in the window / image by de from photo by milada vigerova

essays in the face of uncertainties

rob mclennan

the skagit trail / credit: em

Convergence

Etan Nechin

photo by Yuxiang Zhang

Spot the Differences

Taylor Byas

More Essays

Poetry

riversound (detail) / credit: de

Two poems by Emily Vizzo

Emily Vizzo

Long Beach WA watercolor / credit: de

Three poems by Bailey Grey

Bailey Grey

recall / credit: em

Four poems by Allan Graubard: For Steve Dalachinsky, Ira Cohen, and Ronnie Burk

Allan Graubard

Riverside Columbia / credit: de

Three poems by Constance Bacchus

Constance Bacchus

curve / credit: de

Two poems by Lynne Schmidt

Lynne Schmidt

two-thirty / credit: em

Poems by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, translated by Kristine Ong Muslim

Kristine Ong Muslim and Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles

More Poetry

On Literature

Native Guard and Bellocq's Opheli by Natasha Trethewey

Historical Punctum: Reading Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia and Native Guard Through the Lens of Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida

Tom Holmes

Panic In The Rear-View Mirror: Exploring The Work of Richard Siken and Ann Gale

Rhienna Renee Guedry

More Essays and Interviews

Book Reviews

The Clearing by Allison Adair

The Clearing by Allison Adair, reviewed by Dasha Bulatova

Dasha Bulatova

Funny Weather by Olivia Laing

Funny Weather by Olivia Laing, reviewed by Callum McAllister

Callum McAllister

Amounting to Nothing: Poems by Paul Quenon

The Soul in Paraphrase, the Heart in Pilgrimage: Amounting to Nothing by Paul Quenon, reviewed by Gregory Stephenson

Gregory Stephenson

Review of Threed by Tamara Madison poems

Finding Freedom in the Female Voice: Threed: This Road Not Damascus by Tamara J. Madison, reviewed by Jessica Gigot

Jessica Gigot

More Book Reviews

JUNE 26 – PRIDE ISSUE, GUEST EDITED BY DANIELLE ROSE

credit: em/p. blenkhorn

Two poems by Jennifer Cie

Jennifer Cie

Legendary Roommate (detail) - Julia Justo

Julia Justo: Crossroads

Julia Justo

Melania Geymonat

Melania Geymonat: How the London Bus Attack Shaped Her Views on Homophobia and Sexism

Cristina Tomàs White and Melania Geymonat

credit: steve johnson

Tremolo, a poem by G. Metelli

G. Metelli

rainbow yarn / photo by inger maaike

Knitting as Queer Metaphor: A Shawl Pattern by Lola Arellano-Fryer

Lola Arellano-Fryer

Lilly Galaxy -Pozsi and Gage - Film Still by Grace Catbagan

Maureen Catbagan: Queer Film Stills

Maureen Catbagan

photo credit: Meriç Dağlı

Two poems by Jason B. Crawford

Jason B. Crawford

behind the glass / credit: em

Two poems by Robin Gow

Robin Gow

Visual Art

(detail) BODHISATTVA EXQUISITE JELLY ENGINES - CHRIS STEPHENSON

Visual poems from 23 Bodhisattvas by Chris Stephenson

Chris Stephenson

Eastern Seaboard (detail) - Andrea Burgay

Mining the Ruins: Andrea Burgay

Andrea Burgay

Behind the Scene 6 by hiromi suzuki

Behind the Scene: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

mixed media art (detail) by Stephen Lee Naish

Four Paintings and a Poem by Stephen Lee Naish

Stephen Lee Naish

More Art

Beat Generation

Vincent Zangrillo

Remembering Vincent Zangrillo

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Photo by Robert Wilson. Used by permission.

Notes on Three Lost Poems by Gregory Corso

Gregory Stephenson

More About the Beat Generation

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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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Recent features

  • My Father’s Map
  • On Waiting
  • Seeing Las Meninas in Madrid, 1994
  • Visual poems from 23 Bodhisattvas by Chris Stephenson
  • Historical Punctum: Reading Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia and Native Guard Through the Lens of Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida
  • Panic In The Rear-View Mirror: Exploring The Work of Richard Siken and Ann Gale
  • “Art has side effects,” I said.

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