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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

Aural Dialectics: On Allen Ginsberg’s Musical Rendition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Chris Mustazza

Wordworth & Kerouac

Wordsworth and the Beats: The Longevity of Influence

William R. Soldan

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

southcoast / credit: de

A Variable. A Choice. by Gervanna Gravity Stephens

Gervanna Gravity Stephens

BOB KAUFMAN poet of ecstatic litany by Matt Hill

Matt Hill

More Poetry

Beat Generation

ken kesey books

Remembering Ken Kesey

Jason Reott

Ted Joans WOW sun logo

Ted Joans Lives! Coreley Coit, Kenya Rodriguez, Valery Oisteanu, Hidani Ditmars

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Heeding the Call of the Open Road

Kyrsten Bean

seymour krim

Beat Generation Writer Seymour Krim

Mark Cohen

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Visual Art

Juicy Satellite (detail) - collage by hiromi suzuki

Six collages by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

ailes de la chanson #2 (detail) - hiromi suzuki

A dozen collages by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

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Essays

Faleeha Hassan - My Life as an Iraqi Refugee

Faleeha Hassan: My Life as a Refugee

Faleeha Hassan

Home (detail). Photo by Tara Shepersky.

Love Song for a River Bank

Tara K. Shepersky

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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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