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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

Gloria Avner and David Gitin

Remembering poet David Gitin

Sam Vinicur

Virginia Woolf & Edith Wharton -- Linda Chown Essay

Writers on Writers on Writers II: John Colopinto, “Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and A Case of Anxiety of Influence”

Linda E. Chown

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

image: de/em

Two poems by Irène Mathieu

Irène Mathieu

Photo credit: Rich Anderson / CC BY-SA / photoshopped by Empty Mirror

Ginsberg’s Refrigerator

Alessandra Bava

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson

Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

grass

The Great Consciousness of Life

Paul Maher Jr.

David Amram, Ed Heflin & Joe Kerouac. © Ed Heflin, 2003

An Interview with David Amram: By Your Works Ye Shall Be Known

Ed Heflin

Kirby Doyle poet

Remembering Poet Kirby Doyle

Michael McClure

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

A Third Scroll of Malachite: A Painting by Joost de Jonge and Poem by Norman Dubie

Joost de Jonge

Chris Turnbull - maybe (detail)

Vispo by Chris Turnbull

Chris Turnbull

More Art

Essays

up the afternoon / credit: de

Person to Person

Erica Soon Olsen

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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