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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

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

John Keats by Joseph Severn 1819

Negative Capability: Keats and Buddha

Alfred K. LaMotte

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Le Khmer Bleu (detail) by J. H. Martin

Dew Drops: Four Poems

J. H. Martin

summer hills / credit: de

no a/c in august: poems by Constance Shultz

Constance Bacchus

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (13)

Empty Mirror

T. Paul Ste.. Marie and Ted Joans

Ted Joans Lives! Words by T. Paul Ste. Marie

T. Paul Ste. Marie

Gotham Book Mart - Evan P. Cordes

Being Michael Brownstein – Thomas Locicero

Thomas Locicero

On the Road illustartion copyright Paul Rogers

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

David Handley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Integrant 11 collage by Lita Poliakova

Integrant: Collages by Lita Poliakova

Lita Poliakova

Giinnie Gardiner - Aerial (detail)

The Enfolded: Collage Paintings by Ginnie Gardiner

Ginnie Gardiner

More Art

Essays

The Seed

The Seed

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

in the window / image by de from photo by milada vigerova

essays in the face of uncertainties

rob mclennan

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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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