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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

Chaucer and the Art of the Grift

Chaucer and the Art of the Grift

K. A. Laity

Aural Dialectics: On Allen Ginsberg’s Musical Rendition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Chris Mustazza

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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Two poems by Benjamin Smith

Benjamin Smith

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Three poems by Dani Putney

Dani Putney

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Book Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

city lights books

A.D. Winans on A.D. Winans

A.D. Winans

Bowles & I

Vast Regions from Nowhere: Paul Bowles, Unfathered Authors, Mother-Bonded Sons

Jasun Horsley

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (7)

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

The Wild Woman of Karakorum (detail) - Silas Plum

Some G*ddamn Horses!: paintings by Silas Plum

Silas Plum

mustard jar (detail) - collage drawing by Lori Langille

Looking/Not Looking: nine contour drawing collages by Lori Langille

Lori Langille

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Essays

Are Made Of - essay by Tomoé Hill

Are Made Of

Tomoé Hill

Marlie Centawer - a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

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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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