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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

Andalusian Dogging by Erik Verhaar

Book Review – Erik Verhaar’s Andalusian Dogging

Denise Enck

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue - Emmanuelle Pagano

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano: Nataliya Deleva interviews translators Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

Nataliya Deleva, Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

lichen - Denise Enck

Todd Clouser: five poems from the Forest in Hidalgo

Todd Clouser

beach maple / credit: em

Things Happen and three other poems by Sam Silva

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Tangier

My meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980

Mark Blickley

Jack Kerouac’s “Strange Cemetery in Jamaica”

Paul Maher Jr.

Wordworth & Kerouac

Wordsworth and the Beats: The Longevity of Influence

William R. Soldan

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

Chris Mustazza

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Wash Up (detail) photo by Braxton Younts

Shelter me! A photo essay by Braxton Younts

Braxton Younts

Landscape 1 - Magie Dominic

Four Landscapes (Through a Window) by Magie Dominic

Magie Dominic

More Art

Essays

animals, seven days old

Animals, Seven Days Old

Lake Vargas

eyes on 8 by Emilie Kneifel

eyes on / horizon by Emilie Kneifel

Emilie Kneifel

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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