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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 and Jane Austen - Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Remembering and Jane

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Writers on Writers on Writers I: Linda Chown on E.L. Doctorow on Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

Linda E. Chown

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

tent city

3 Poems by Viatrix Curry

Viatrix Curry

…the clouds looked like they were bought at Target or Walmart and then someone hung them up in the sky

Calvero

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg: Howl (for the queer and disabled Americans)

Ben Berman Ghan

ted joans photo by larry keenan (lo res)

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Rik Lina, Hammond Guthrie, Richard Krech and more

Rik Lina

Free Beer: Kicks & Truth with Jack Kerouac by Cliff Anderson

Review – Free Beer: Kicks and Truth with Jack Kerouac by Cliff Anderson

Denise Enck

La Picaudiere - and Hundertwasser's Honey

La Picaudiere — and Hundertwasser’s Honey

Kenneth Tindall

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

alphabets (detail) - ji kleinberg

Eight found-word collage poems by J.I. Kleinberg

J. I. Kleinberg

Rik Lina - Dragon Mountain

7 Paintings by Rik Lina

Rik Lina

More Art

Essays

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee - Richard's Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Richard’s Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee

How to Be Silent in German

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

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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