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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

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Charles Reznikoff’s “During the Second World War…” as Objectivist Ars Poetica

Chris Mustazza

Chaucer and the Art of the Grift

Chaucer and the Art of the Grift

K. A. Laity

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

eleven / image: em

Three Dream Poems by Z.G. Tomaszewski

Z.G. Tomaszewski

gunter grass translated by allie marini

Günter Grass: three translations and response poems by Allie Marini

Allie Marini

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Book Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

Ruth Weiss / copyright Horst Spandler

In honor of ruth weiss on her 85th birthday

Horst Spandler

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac, reviewed by Eric D. Lehman

Eric D. Lehman

How Kerouac's haikus saved my life

How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life

Bridget McNulty

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Dervish (detail) by Alec Clayton

7 Abstract Paintings by Alec Clayton

Alec Clayton

Jason Stoneking - Death to the Rebirth

Death to the Rebirth!

Jason Stoneking

More Art

Essays

photo by Laura Johnson

Desert Alignment

Laura Johnson

All Night You Dream of Ice and In the Morning Wake to a Skiff of Snow

Maya Jewell Zeller

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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