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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

Oscar Wilde reclining

The Beauty in Hatred: Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic Theory in De Profundis

Stacey Mankoff

Ian Haight in conversation with Dennis Maloney, writer, translator and publsher of White Pine Press.

Ian Haight in conversation with Dennis Maloney: writer, translator, editor of White Pine Press

Ian Haight and Dennis Maloney

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Carl Solomon - Mishaps, Perhaps

Two Songs for Samson: An Invective Poem for Carl Solomon

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

Argentina / via http://www.freeimages.com/profile/mexikids

The Insides of Argentina

Todd Clouser

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac: On the Binge by Kenton Crowther

Book Review – Kenton Crowther’s Kerouac on the Binge

Denise Enck

Allen Ginsberg HOWL

Chorus of Poets Gather for Allen Ginsberg “Howl” Celebration (2005)

Teresa Conboy

Big Sur film - Kerouac

Jack Kerouac – “Big Sur” Movie Trailer

Denise Enck

ruth and Hal Davis on their porch. Photo by Horst Spandler, 2013.

Celebrating ruth weiss on her 90th birthday

Horst Spandler

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Integrant 11 collage by Lita Poliakova

Integrant: Collages by Lita Poliakova

Lita Poliakova

Kathmandu (detail) by Carlyle Baker

Collages by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

More Art

Essays

Panic Drapes the Look of the World: Literary Treatment for Anxiety in an Uncertain Age

Emily Sinclair

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part I) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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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