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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

Andalusian Dogging by Erik Verhaar

Book Review – Erik Verhaar’s Andalusian Dogging

Denise Enck

Rosamund Lehmann

Aching for Meaning: The Work of Novelist Rosamond Lehmann

Kathryn Hummel

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Old Mill Beach / credit: D. Enck

Five poems by Laura McPhee-Browne

Laura McPhee-Browne

way / credit: em

Three poems by Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kenneth Tindall - Great Heads

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

Kenneth Tindall

Harry Nudel: Ted Joans LIves

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Harry Nudel

Harry Nudel

Gregory Corso mug shot -- prison

Poetic Licence: The Crime and Hard Time of Gregory Corso, or A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Felon

Gregory Stephenson

City Lights Bookstore window

A. D. Winans Looks Back at the Beat Generation

A.D. Winans

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

13 Collages by Rhed Fawell

Rhed Fawell

Last Ride: Photographs by Fabio Sassi

Fabio Sassi

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Essays

Faleeha Hassan - My Life as an Iraqi Refugee

Faleeha Hassan: My Life as a Refugee

Faleeha Hassan

The Accidental Monster: Salomé, Mom and Me

The Accidental Monster: Salomé, Mom and Me

Melissa Knox

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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