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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

At the Intersection of Linguistics and Literary Criticism: Objectivist Methodology in the Creation of Metalanguage(s) in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s La Jalousie

Preston Taylor Stone

Agustín Guambo, Andean Nuclear Spring, translated by Carlos Moreno

Carlos Moreno, Translator of Agustín Guambo’s Andean Nuclear Spring, Interviewed by Clara B. Jones

Clara B. Jones

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Chuckanut rain / credit: de

Two poems by Amy Gong Liu

Amy Gong Liu

way / credit: em

Three poems by Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell

More Poetry

Beat Generation

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

A.D. Winans Remembers Jack Micheline

A.D. Winans

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (12)

Empty Mirror

Gloria Avner and David Gitin

Remembering poet David Gitin

Sam Vinicur

Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

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Visual Art

collage (detail) by allison anne

Nine collages by allison anne

allison anne

Caelestis (detail) - Anna Carina Sinocchi

The Roman Arch: paintings by Anna Carina Sinocchi

Anna Carina Sinocchi

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Essays

The Baby in the Air

Max King Cap

My Father's Map - Jan Glazewski

My Father’s Map

Jan Glazewski

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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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