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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

Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts - Jorie Graham

“No, this was all first person”: Revisiting Jorie Graham’s Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

Timothy Duffy

IF by Rudyard Kipling

The Middle Word in Life: Dennis Hopper and Rudyard Kipling’s “If”

Stephen Lee Naish

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Addisonia / 1902

Three poems by Elizabeth Threadgill

Elizabeth Threadgill

Karoly-Fellinger-Pallai

Six Poems by Károly Fellinger, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai

Károly Fellinger and Károly Pallai

More Poetry

Beat Generation

William S. Burroughs collage (detail) by Stephen James

Out to Lunch with William Burroughs: Who Owns the Dropper Owns the Fix

Leon Horton

Larry Keenan, Photographer

About photographer Larry Keenan

Denise Enck

JK - Jack Kerouac typewriter

October Ghost

Ashley Shelby

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (11)

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Somiers(detail) - collage by Rebeka Elizegi

Eleven collages by Rebeka Elizegi

Rebeka Elizegi

Shadowplay II by Anthony Flynn (detail)

Shadows: Art by Anthony Flynn

Anthony Flynn

More Art

Essays

Art has side effects, I said - Bobbi Lurie - Marcel Duchamp

“Art has side effects,” I said.

Bobbi Lurie

animals, seven days old

Animals, Seven Days Old

Lake Vargas

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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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