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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

Panic In The Rear-View Mirror: Exploring The Work of Richard Siken and Ann Gale

Rhienna Renee Guedry

In Xochitl In Cuicatl: Poets Nezahualcoyotl and Humberto Ak’abal by Jose Trejo Maya

In Xochitl In Cuicatl: Poets Nezahualcoyotl and Humberto Ak’abal

Jose Trejo Maya

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

last reading (detail) - JC Osthoorn

eye the beholder

JC Olsthoorn

Photo credit: Joybot / CC BY-SA

Ginsberg at the Grey

Merridawn Duckler

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia book review

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

Kevin Riordan

seymour krim

Beat Generation Writer Seymour Krim

Mark Cohen

Gregory Corso mug shot -- prison

Poetic Licence: The Crime and Hard Time of Gregory Corso, or A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Felon

Gregory Stephenson

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (13)

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

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

12 collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

The Eyes Have It (detail)- collage by Cherie Hunter Day

Six collages by Cherie Hunter Day

Cherie Hunter Day

More Art

Essays

up the afternoon / credit: de

Person to Person

Erica Soon Olsen

Faleeha Hassan - My Life as an Iraqi Refugee

Faleeha Hassan: My Life as a Refugee

Faleeha Hassan

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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