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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

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake's Influence on Allen Ginsberg by Alexandre Ferrere

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake’s Influence on Allen Ginsberg

Alexandre Ferrere

Alex Preston Books

David Handley’s interview with Author Alex Preston

David Handley

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

riversound (detail) / credit: de

Two poems by Emily Vizzo

Emily Vizzo

Karoly-Fellinger-Pallai

Six Poems by Károly Fellinger, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai

Károly Fellinger and Károly Pallai

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Allen Ginsberg photo by Larry Keenan / Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg: A Story of Influences

Alexandre Ferrere

How Kerouac's haikus saved my life

How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life

Bridget McNulty

ted joans interview teducated

The Teducated Mouth: John Barbato interviews Ted Joans

Ted Joans

Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Invisible stories

hiromi suzuki

Joy of Water 3 (detail) - hiromi suzuki

Joy of Water: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

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Essays

The moon over Aaqrabâte, Syria / photo by Samer Daboul

Chasing the Moon

Sarah Zanabli

after the rains / credit: em

Flash Flood and Visitation

Brandon Noel

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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