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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

Native Guard and Bellocq's Opheli by Natasha Trethewey

Historical Punctum: Reading Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia and Native Guard Through the Lens of Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida

Tom Holmes

In Watermelon Sugar

Bruce Hodder’s Ten Favourite Books

Bruce Hodder

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Poetry

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

Poems by Sarah Stockton

Sarah Stockton

credit: dre

2 poems by Zachary Lavoie

Zackary Lavoie

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (10)

Empty Mirror

Visions of Cody, a book of martyrdom

Yannis Livadas

Gregory Corso mug shot -- prison

Poetic Licence: The Crime and Hard Time of Gregory Corso, or A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Felon

Gregory Stephenson

Where to buy Beat Generation Books

For collectors: where and how to buy Beat Generation books (and others)

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

(detail) visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

Chocolate, Cigar and Orange Pekoe: visual poems by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

Formulation of Human (detail)- Darrell Urban Black

Twelve artworks by Darrell Urban Black

Darrell Urban Black

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Essays

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

Maya Jewell Zeller

Threshold_2 (detail) Tara K Shepersky

Conversations at Thresholds: a Contemplative Offering

Tara K. Shepersky

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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