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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

Who the Hell is Stew Albert?

Who the Hell is Stew Albert? A Memoir, reviewed by Hammond Guthrie

Hammond Guthrie

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue - Emmanuelle Pagano

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano: Nataliya Deleva interviews translators Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

Nataliya Deleva, Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

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Poetry

Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/karmadude/8302907982/ Liji Jinaraj

Poems by Sarah Stockton

Sarah Stockton

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Two poems by Emily Vizzo

Emily Vizzo

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Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (10)

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Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

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

Ben Berman Ghan

Ted Joans Lives!

Ted Joans Lives! A Tribute

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Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (9)

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More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Fighting Chance (detail) - LIta Kenyon

All These Sensations: 11 artworks by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

mixed media art (detail) by Stephen Lee Naish

Four Paintings and a Poem by Stephen Lee Naish

Stephen Lee Naish

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Essays

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They Saved Me from Myself by D. Nolan Jefferson

D. Nolan Jefferson

Are Made Of - essay by Tomoé Hill

Are Made Of

Tomoé Hill

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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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