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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

REVENGE OF THE IMAGIST SOCIALIST POETRY

Revenge of the Imagist Socialist Poetry

Serkan Engin

Beatitude by Larry Closs

Book review: Beatitude, a novel by Larry Closs

Denise Enck

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Scaling the Scaffolding

S.R. Lavin

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Crown of Sonnets—Me in the Multiverse by Prince Bush

Prince Bush

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Beat Generation

Philip Whalen

Denise Enck

Tangier

My meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980

Mark Blickley

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (11)

Empty Mirror

photo credit: adjac

Heeding the Call of the Open Road

Kyrsten Bean

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

mustard jar (detail) - collage drawing by Lori Langille

Looking/Not Looking: nine contour drawing collages by Lori Langille

Lori Langille

Paul Hawkins -- Coach House 08 (detail)

from the Coach House Series: text collages by Paul Hawkins

Paul Hawkins

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Essays

Dearly Beloved - Nanette Jordan

Dearly Beloved, Part I: Growing up in 1950s San Francisco

Nanette Jordan

Only Man in the World - Kirby Wright

The Only Man in the World

Kirby Wright

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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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