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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

Gloria Avner and David Gitin

Remembering poet David Gitin

Sam Vinicur

Mahmood Karimi Hakak - interview with Bill Wolak

Peacebuilding Through the Arts: An Interview with Mahmood Karimi Hakak

Mahmood Karimi Hakak and Bill Wolak

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

the corner of columbia and pacific -- D. Enck

Poetry by Carl Boon

Carl Boon

photo credit: http://www.sxc.hu/profile/uttecht

Remember When You Have A Son

Todd Clouser

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Allen Ginsberg

Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s birthday with a few videos

Denise Enck

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (12)

Empty Mirror

The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr. considers Kerouac’s Haunted Life

Paul Maher Jr.

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg: Howl (for the queer and disabled Americans)

Ben Berman Ghan

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Total Deals (detail) by Drew B. David

Visual Poetry by Drew B. David

Drew B. David

Unexpected As the Twist of a Kiss (detail) - collage by Bill Wolak

12 collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

More Art

Essays

Threshold_2 (detail) Tara K Shepersky

Conversations at Thresholds: a Contemplative Offering

Tara K. Shepersky

Bellingham, WA sunset -- Boulevard Park

Spring in Cascadia

David Marshall

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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