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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

A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas reads “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”

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Gueorgui Konstantinov interview and poems

Love, Unforseen Poetry, and Other Radical Reforms: An interview with the Bulgarian poet Gueorgui Konstantinov

Bill Wolak and Gueorgui Konstantinov

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

poems by Ana Maria Caballero

Poems by Ana Maria Caballero

Ana Maria Caballero

Gates at the metro-station Bullewijk, subway of Amsterdam City (detail) by Hilly van Eerten

4 poems by Mark Terrill

Mark Terrill

More Poetry

Beat Generation

ruth and Hal Davis on their porch. Photo by Horst Spandler, 2013.

Celebrating ruth weiss on her 90th birthday

Horst Spandler

Visions of Cody, a book of martyrdom

Yannis Livadas

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, reviewed by Eric D. Lehman

Eric D. Lehman

Philip Whalen

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

copyright Yoav Friedlander http://www.yoavfriedlander.com

A Form of View: Photography by Yoav Friedländer

Yoav Friedländer

Aesop (detail) - Alec Clayton

In the Jungle: Abstract Paintings of Life in the Wild

Alec Clayton

More Art

Essays

An excerpt from Rachmil Bryks' memoir, The Fugitives translated from Yiddish by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

An excerpt from Rachmil Bryks’ memoir, The Fugitives, translated from the Yiddish by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

Rachmil Bryks and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part VI) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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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