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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

Andalusian Dogging by Erik Verhaar

Book Review – Erik Verhaar’s Andalusian Dogging

Denise Enck

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

David Gitin’s Ten Favorite Books

David Gitin

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

downstairs

Three pieces for Beat poets

Jillian Moreno

Empty Mirror Books

Poem for a Lady Boy

Todd Clouser

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Howard Hart and Raymond Foye, by T. Walden

Remembering poet Howard Hart

Empty Mirror

beat beat beat

The Beat Generation vs. “Beatniks”

Denise Enck

Allen Ginsberg

Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s birthday with a few videos

Denise Enck

Vincent Zangrillo

Remembering Vincent Zangrillo

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

-blue 11 no. 2 (detail) by bruno neiva

re-blues 11 series

bruno neiva

Ask again when you're alone - Lita Kenyon

A Moment Just About to Happen: Collages by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

More Art

Essays

Faleeha Hassan - My Life as an Iraqi Refugee

Faleeha Hassan: My Life as a Refugee

Faleeha Hassan

photo credit: Digital Third Eye

From Motown to Mowtown

Andrew Lees

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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