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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

Beautiful Raft by Tina Barry

Beautiful Raft: An Interview with Tina Barry

Hannah Grieco and Tina Barry

Complete Fiction Bruno Schulz

Ten Favorite Books List Contributed by Little

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

On Being Corso's Lover by Jacqueline Kirkpatrick

On Being Corso’s Lover

Jacqueline Kirkpatrick

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2 poems by Zachary Lavoie

Zackary Lavoie

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

Love and the Titanic: Notes on Last Words: The Final Journals of William Burroughs

Lee Watkins

Ted Joans Lives!

Ted Joans Lives! A Tribute

Empty Mirror

Allen Ginsberg College Censorship - Pavan - Loretta Graceffo

Resisting the Thought Police: The Untold Story of Allen Ginsberg’s Stand Against College Censorship

Loretta Graceffo

Bowles & I

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

Jasun Horsley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Western (detail) - Kareem Rizk

Collages by Kareem Rizk

Kareem Rizk

Landscape 1 - Magie Dominic

Four Landscapes (Through a Window) by Magie Dominic

Magie Dominic

More Art

Essays

Mystery Forest - Denise Enck

The Poetry of Walking

Wendy Gist

drawing of man with guitar

Being There – Michelle Bracken

Michelle Bracken

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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