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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

Boats for Women - poems by Sandra Yannone

Boats for Women: An Interview with Poet Sandra Yannone

Lauren Davis and Sandra Yannone

Tangier

My meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980

Mark Blickley

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

in the bois des rappes / image credit: dre

4 Poems by Larry Beckett

Larry Beckett

semiahmoo tree

Two poems by Alina Stefanescu

Alina Stefanescu

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Beatitude 50th Anniversary - Latif Harris

Book Review — Beatitude Golden Anniversary: 1959-2009

Denise Enck

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (1)

Empty Mirror

La Picaudiere - and Hundertwasser's Honey

La Picaudiere — and Hundertwasser’s Honey

Kenneth Tindall

The Rebirth of the Author in On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Rebirth of the Author in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Eric V. Patterson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg

Nixon, Kennedy, and Brooks Brothers: Robert Rauschenberg’s Monogram, 1955-59

Max King Cap

Detail from Servant Suburbia by Joe Castro

13 Collages by Joe Castro

Joe Castro

More Art

Essays

Faleeha Hassan - My Life as an Iraqi Refugee

Faleeha Hassan: My Life as a Refugee

Faleeha Hassan

Candy Darling on her Deathbed by Peter Hujar, used as cover photo for I Am a Bird Now / fair use

Candy Says, by Kaiya Gordon

Kaiya Gordon

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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