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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

Remembering Fred "F.N." Wright

Uncle Fred: remembering artist and poet F.N. Wright

Natalie Wright

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

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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A Variable. A Choice. by Gervanna Gravity Stephens

Gervanna Gravity Stephens

Teresa K. Miller: poems from California Building

Teresa K. Miller

More Poetry

Beat Generation

T. Paul Ste.. Marie and Ted Joans

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

T. Paul Ste. Marie

The Beats: A Short Introduction by David Sterritt

Review – The Beats: A Very Short Introduction by David Sterritt

Denise Enck

Iron Curtain Journals by Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg’s Iron Curtain Journals, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

Carl Solomon - Mishaps, Perhaps

Two Songs for Samson: An Invective Poem for Carl Solomon

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Dream Sequence 2 (detail) - Jonathan K. Rice

Dream Sequences

Jonathan K. Rice

Natalie Bradford - xerox transfer

Ten Xerox transfers by Natalie Bradford

Natalie Bradford

More Art

Essays

on painting on

On Painting On

Nanette Jordan

Joseph Magnin dress salon

Sleevelessness: Growing Up in Midcentury San Francisco by Nanette Jordan

Nanette Jordan

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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