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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

A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas reads “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”

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Realism: How Realistic Is It?

Realism: Just How Real Is It?

Dennis Vanatta

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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Music and Sleep

Todd Clouser

Berthusen -- D. Enck

Three new poems by Mark Young

Mark Young

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Cosmopolitan Greetings by Allen Ginsberg

Now What’s Wrong? Reflections on Allen Ginsberg’s Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992

Doren Robbins

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (2)

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grass

The Great Consciousness of Life

Paul Maher Jr.

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (9)

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More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Blue Bird Cult - Mette Norrie

Blue Bird Cult

Mette Norrie

hummingbird wings bloom in your eye sockets and every petal cradles your bones (a found poem from Lorca's Dream by former SF Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía)

Two collages with found poetry, by Alessandra Bava

Alessandra Bava

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Essays

Faleeha Hassan - My Life as an Iraqi Refugee

Faleeha Hassan: My Life as a Refugee

Faleeha Hassan

Seizure - essay by Stephanie Andersen

Seizure

Stephanie Andersen

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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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