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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

desolation angels

Christina C.’s Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

Srinivas Reddy

Sitar and Sanskrit: Bill Wolak Interviews Srinivas Reddy

Bill Wolak and Srinivas Reddy

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Sam Silva - Prayers Made out of Christmas

Prayers Made Out of Christmas: Poems

Sam Silva

nest / credit: d.raphael

Back Principles: Poems by Stephen Bett

Stephen Bett

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Practice of the Wild - Gary Snyder

Book Review – The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder

Eric D. Lehman

ken kesey books

Remembering Ken Kesey

Jason Reott

beat beat beat

The Beat Generation vs. “Beatniks”

Denise Enck

photo by Bruno Cervera / Unsplash

Blowing: Poetry Meets Music in the Writing of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Still Life Mashup (detail)

Mashups: Canvases from 2013-2017 by Gregg Simpson

Gregg Simpson

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

More Art

Essays

Photo by Alina Daniker on Unsplash

No Place Like Home

Angela Mayorga

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part III) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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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