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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

Questioning Our Characters: Performative Identity in Nella Larsen’s Passing and Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, by Ben Berman Ghan

Ben Berman Ghan

In Xochitl In Cuicatl: Poets Nezahualcoyotl and Humberto Ak’abal by Jose Trejo Maya

In Xochitl In Cuicatl: Poets Nezahualcoyotl and Humberto Ak’abal

Jose Trejo Maya

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Love Wall

Where We Got Our Cool: Poems

Sam Silva

Halley's Comet

Two poems by Nick D’Annunzio Jones

Nick D’Annunzio Jones

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Intersection of Buddhism and the Beat Generation

The Intersection of Buddhism and the Beat Generation

Sean Negus

Jack Kerouac - The Sea is My Brother

Addendum to “Lost Letter Found”

Paul Maher Jr.

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

A.D. Winans Remembers Jack Micheline

A.D. Winans

seymour krim

Beat Generation Writer Seymour Krim

Mark Cohen

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Electric Cholla - William Clarkson

The cholla garden at Joshua Tree: paintings by William Clarkson

William Clarkson

La Picaudiere - and Hundertwasser's Honey

La Picaudiere — and Hundertwasser’s Honey

Kenneth Tindall

More Art

Essays

Las Meninas (detail) by Diego Vasquez

Seeing Las Meninas in Madrid, 1994

Sara Schaff

after the rains / credit: em

Flash Flood and Visitation

Brandon Noel

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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