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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

Tangier

My meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980

Mark Blickley

Stephanie Dickinson and Rosalind Palermo Stevenson conversation

Writing Through Icons: Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson on Franz Kafka and Jean Seberg

Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

pier artifact / credit: d.enck

Two poems by Nate Maxson

Nate Maxson

New Poems by Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Why Kerouac? Rick Dale

Why Kerouac?

Rick Dale

Here to Learn: Remembering Paul Bowles by Mark Terrill

Here to Learn: Remembering Paul Bowles by Mark Terrill

Mark Terrill

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

Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Hildy Maze (detail)

No Inherent Existence: mixed-media pieces by Hildy Maze

Hildy Maze

Triangulating Peace (detail) - Sky Pape painting

Passing Through: Paintings by Sky Pape

Sky Pape

More Art

Essays

International Times launch party flyer and debut issue / image credit: http://www.international-times.org.uk/ITarchive.htm

London 1966: I.T., the Camel, and a Song Named Me

Gloria Avner

Dearly Beloved - Nanette Jordan

Dearly Beloved, Part I: Growing up in 1950s San Francisco

Nanette Jordan

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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