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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

Mahmood Karimi Hakak - interview with Bill Wolak

Peacebuilding Through the Arts: An Interview with Mahmood Karimi Hakak

Mahmood Karimi Hakak and Bill Wolak

Oscar Wilde - De Profundis

That Deadly Lord Douglas: Oscar Wilde and De Profundis

Kenton Crowther

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

arbor trail / credit: em

The End of the World Through a Fish Bowl

Sam Silva

Lake

Two poems by Nicole Burney

Nicole Burney

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac Vanity of Duluoz

Book Review — Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, reviewed by Eric D. Lehman

Eric D. Lehman

ted joans interview teducated

The Teducated Mouth: John Barbato interviews Ted Joans

Ted Joans

Larry Keenan, Photographer

About photographer Larry Keenan

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Dawn Reaching into Darkness - Bill Wolak collage (detail)

12 Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

Rik Lina - Leporello

Rik Lina Painting a Leporello

Rik Lina

More Art

Essays

Faleeha Hassan - My Life as an Iraqi Refugee

Faleeha Hassan: My Life as a Refugee

Faleeha Hassan

The Seed

The Seed

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

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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