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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

Endgame collage - Denise Enck

Endgame (May you live in interesting times – Chinese Curse)

Bobbi Lurie

Sarah Trembath interview

It Was The Scarlet That Did It: An Interview with Sarah Trembath

Hannah Grieco and Sarah Trembath

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Vasilis Steriadis poems in English

Two poems by Vasilis Steriadis, translated by Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas

Oval - D. Raphael

Six poems by Alfred K. LaMotte

Alfred K. LaMotte

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Allen Ginsberg HOWL

Chorus of Poets Gather for Allen Ginsberg “Howl” Celebration (2005)

Teresa Conboy

On the Road illustartion copyright Paul Rogers

David Handley interviews Paul Rogers about his work & the On the Road illustrations

David Handley

Laura Corsiglia and Ted Joans

Remembering Ted Joans – Beat / Surrealist Poet & Artist

Denise Enck

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia book review

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia, reviewed by Kevin Riordan

Kevin Riordan

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Paul Hawkins -- Coach House 08 (detail)

from the Coach House Series: text collages by Paul Hawkins

Paul Hawkins

Dream Sequence 2 (detail) - Jonathan K. Rice

Dream Sequences

Jonathan K. Rice

More Art

Essays

Las Meninas (detail) by Diego Vasquez

Seeing Las Meninas in Madrid, 1994

Sara Schaff

peaches

Under His Roof

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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