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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

Marcel Duchamp by Man Ray

Concealing The Light From The Lit

Bobbi Lurie

Is That You Simon? Akbar Del Piombo

Mutinous Jester: The Collage Novels of Akbar Del Piombo

Gregory Stephenson

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

palace-meat-market-denise-enck

I am Born of Nobility

g emil reutter

the path

Poems by Heidi Williamson

Heidi Williamson

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 photo by larry keenan (lo res)

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Keith Scotcher and Larry Keenan

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Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (7)

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On the Road illustartion copyright Paul Rogers

David Handley interviews Paul Rogers about his work & the On the Road illustrations

David Handley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Grafik 4 (detail) collage by Kon Markogiannis

Six new collages by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

Calcutta: Photography by Buku Sarkar

Calcutta: Photographs by Buku Sarkar

Buku Sarkar

More Art

Essays

lake padden

Something About Rage and the Light Dying

Jason Hardung

Photo credit: www.flickr.com/photos/zeroy/5673872877/ Roy Ubu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ CC-NC-ND

Irishry

John O'Kane

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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