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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

root exposure / credit: de

Fluency in Translation: Avoiding Homogeneity and Ethnocentrism by Alice Banks

Alice Banks

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

semiahmoo door / credit: de

Observations on the Cynic

Todd Clouser

the moment / credit: de

Crown of Sonnets—Me in the Multiverse by Prince Bush

Prince Bush

More Poetry

Beat Generation

poet and painter Kay Johnson / Beat Hotel resident

Poet Kay Johnson, aka Kaja

David Gitin

Kenneth Tindall - Great Heads

Interview with Kenneth Tindall: From Bellevue to Lynæs. An Interview by Lars Movin

Kenneth Tindall

photo credit: adjac

Heeding the Call of the Open Road

Kyrsten Bean

Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

The Language of Bebop: Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

Nicole Henares

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Figs.03: Franz Marc, Caliban, 1914. (Figure for Shakespeare’s „Der Sturm“. Tempera, 46 x 39.5 cm.) Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett der öffentlichen Kunstsammlung, Switzerland.

The Tempest and the Savages: Franz Marc, Hugo Ball, and a Decisive Moment in Dada-Expressionist Theater With a Special Appearance by August Macke

Jean Marie Carey

Spring Garden MFL, (detail) 06.04.2017

Urban Geologies

Orchid Tierney

More Art

Essays

Mystery Forest - Denise Enck

The Poetry of Walking

Wendy Gist

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part IV) 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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