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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

Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

L - art by D. Enck

“I am a deserter” — Marcel Duchamp

Bobbi Lurie

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

no. 9 / d.enck

Three poems by John T. Trigonis

John T. Trigonis

wall

Jazz and the Money Jungle

Todd Clouser

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (10)

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Ted Joans WOW sun logo

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

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Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac by Joerg Haeske

Review – Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac, by Joerg Haeske

Denise Enck

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Book Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

constellations collage (detail) by Tim Stuemke

Constellations: Collages by Tim Stuemke

Tim Stuemke

Scraps 2 (detail) by Fabio Sassi

Scraps by Fabio Sassi

Fabio Sassi

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Essays

How to Be Silent in German

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

Sait Faik Abasiyanik

Sait Faik Abasiyanik: The Man Who Faithfully Embraces the World

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

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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