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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

Marcel Duchamp by Man Ray

Concealing The Light From The Lit

Bobbi Lurie

Slow Dance Bullets by Meaghan Quinn

A conversation with poet Meaghan Quinn

Lauren Davis and Meaghan Quinn

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

tulip fields / credit: em

2 poems for Easter (Video)

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footnotes from history — the debord variations

Colin Campbell Robinson

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (2)

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Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake's Influence on Allen Ginsberg by Alexandre Ferrere

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake’s Influence on Allen Ginsberg

Alexandre Ferrere

On the Road illustartion copyright Paul Rogers

David Handley interviews Paul Rogers about his work & the On the Road illustrations

David Handley

Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Spring Garden MFL, (detail) 06.04.2017

Urban Geologies

Orchid Tierney

No Way Out (detail) by Nathalie Tierce

Memory of Place: 8 paintings by Nathalie Tierce

Nathalie Tierce

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part V) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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

Emily Sinclair

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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