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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

Srinivas Reddy

Sitar and Sanskrit: Bill Wolak Interviews Srinivas Reddy

Bill Wolak and Srinivas Reddy

Boats for Women - poems by Sandra Yannone

Boats for Women: An Interview with Poet Sandra Yannone

Lauren Davis and Sandra Yannone

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Poetry

elevation - photo by empty mirror

The Muse is on the loose

Yannis Livadas

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A Variable. A Choice. by Gervanna Gravity Stephens

Gervanna Gravity Stephens

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

The Language of Bebop: Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

Nicole Henares

City Lights Bookstore window

A. D. Winans Looks Back at the Beat Generation

A.D. Winans

rob lee poets photos

Beat Generation Photos by Rob Lee

Rob Lee

Allen Ginsberg Wait Til I'm Dead Uncollected Poems

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

Marc Olmsted

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Kathmandu (detail) by Carlyle Baker

Collages by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

Nature is Alphabet 8 (detail) - Nico Vasilikas

Nature is Alphabet: Vispo

Nico Vassilakis

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Essays

The Millstones of History

The Mill Stones of History

Lazar Trubman

An excerpt from Rachmil Bryks' memoir, The Fugitives translated from Yiddish by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

An excerpt from Rachmil Bryks’ memoir, The Fugitives, translated from the Yiddish by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

Rachmil Bryks and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

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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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