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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

Alex Preston Books

David Handley’s interview with Author Alex Preston

David Handley

Independence Day by Richard Ford

Linda Lenhoff’s Top Ten Books

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Karoly-Fellinger-Pallai

Six Poems by Károly Fellinger, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai

Károly Fellinger and Károly Pallai

ancient glass afternoon

Three poems by Ann Eleven

Ann Eleven

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Robert Creeley: Ted Joans, Primary Poet

Robert Creeley

Kenneth Tindall - Great Heads

Interview with Kenneth Tindall: From Bellevue to Lynæs. An Interview by Lars Movin

Kenneth Tindall

Gregory Corso - Mindfield

About Gregory Corso

Empty Mirror

beat beat beat

The Beat Generation vs. “Beatniks”

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Veiny Cathedral Transaction (detail) - visual poetry by James Knight

Monster: visual poems by James Knight

James Knight

Invisible stories

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

Denise Enck

Marshmallow Forest

Melissa Wiley

drawing of man with guitar

Being There – Michelle Bracken

Michelle Bracken

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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