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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

Mahmood Karimi Hakak - interview with Bill Wolak

Peacebuilding Through the Arts: An Interview with Mahmood Karimi Hakak

Mahmood Karimi Hakak and Bill Wolak

Edward Field and partner Neil

Secret of the Masters: An Interview with Poet Edward Field

James Schwartz

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Hawaii sunset, copyright by goodmorph via sxc.hu

30 Years Between Letters, by Kirby Wright

Kirby Wright

‘weather reports’: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

More Poetry

Beat Generation

How Kerouac's haikus saved my life

How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life

Bridget McNulty

Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson

Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

Pete Winslow - Surrealist / Beat Poet

Pete Winslow, Beat/Surrealist Poet

Denise Enck

goodbye, ted joans - jack foley

Jack Foley: Goodbye, Ted Joans

Jack Foley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Konstruktion B (detail) - Kon Markogiannis collage

Four collages by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

Barry Johnson - Insomnia (detail)

New paintings by Barry Johnson

Barry Johnson

More Art

Essays

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Brooke Knisley

Body Bereft of Fitton Farm - Justine Fitton

Body Bereft of Fitton Farm

Justine Fitton

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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