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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

Five Past Noon: Reading Darkness at Noon in Trump’s America

Five Past Noon: Reading Darkness at Noon in Trump’s America

Michael Huguenor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

union: credit: em

Six poems by Patrick Mackay

Patrick Mackay

discovery / credit: de

from Evolutions: poems by Cheryl Pallant

Cheryl Pallant

More Poetry

Beat Generation

poet and painter Kay Johnson / Beat Hotel resident

Poet Kay Johnson, aka Kaja

David Gitin

Allen Ginsberg College Censorship - Pavan - Loretta Graceffo

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

Loretta Graceffo

Beatitude 50th Anniversary - Latif Harris

Book Review — Beatitude Golden Anniversary: 1959-2009

Denise Enck

boundary road, with blueberries

Juxtaposition of Wor[l]ds: The Cultural and Literary Legacy of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Shelter from the Storm 10 (detail) - James Williams Jr.

Shelter from the Storm: Photographs by James Williams Jr.

James Williams Jr.

Cynthia Yachtman - Woman with Heron (detail)

Mixed-media pieces by Cynthia Yachtman

Cynthia Yachtman

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part V) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

up the afternoon / credit: de

Person to Person

Erica Soon Olsen

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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