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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

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake's Influence on Allen Ginsberg by Alexandre Ferrere

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake’s Influence on Allen Ginsberg

Alexandre Ferrere

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“I am a deserter” — Marcel Duchamp

Bobbi Lurie

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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Four poems for Empty Mirror by rob mclennan

rob mclennan

Carl Solomon - Mishaps, Perhaps

Two Songs for Samson: An Invective Poem for Carl Solomon

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Allen Ginsberg Wait Til I'm Dead Uncollected Poems

Book Review — Wait Til I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

Pete Winslow - Surrealist / Beat Poet

Pete Winslow, Beat/Surrealist Poet

Denise Enck

ken kesey books

Remembering Ken Kesey

Jason Reott

photo by Bruno Cervera / Unsplash

Blowing: Poetry Meets Music in the Writing of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Son of Daedalus: poem with 2 paintings by Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge

Self Portrait )detail) - Tom Melsen

Eight paintings by Tom Melsen

Tom Melsen

More Art

Essays

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The Muse Cuts: On Mental Health and Writing

Foster McKinnell

in the window / image by de from photo by milada vigerova

essays in the face of uncertainties

rob mclennan

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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