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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

Phillis Wheatley Biography - Richard Kigel

An interview with Richard Kigel, author of Heav’nly Tidings From the Afric Muse: The Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley

Richard Kigel and Denise Enck

Chaucer and the Art of the Grift

Chaucer and the Art of the Grift

K. A. Laity

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

rain storm

Rain Poem

A.D. Winans

San Francisco

David Gitin: 5 From San Francisco in the Sixties

David Gitin

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ruth Weiss / copyright Horst Spandler

In honor of ruth weiss on her 85th birthday

Horst Spandler

seymour krim

Beat Generation Writer Seymour Krim

Mark Cohen

In Memoriam: Bruce Conner, 1933-2008

In Memoriam: Bruce Conner, 1933-2008

Michael McClure

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (9)

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

JUNCTION by Robert R. Thurman

Robert R. Thurman

‘weather reports’: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

Icarus / credit: de

Icarus Regrets Every Tired Muscle

Wm. Anthony Connolly

How to Be Silent in German

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

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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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