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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

Henry David Thoreau and John Brown

The Sons of Anak: Henry David Thoreau and John Brown

Paul Maher Jr.

Agustín Guambo, Andean Nuclear Spring, translated by Carlos Moreno

Carlos Moreno, Translator of Agustín Guambo’s Andean Nuclear Spring, Interviewed by Clara B. Jones

Clara B. Jones

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Can't Stop the Beat - ruth weiss

Six poems by A.D. Winans

A.D. Winans

Nooksack Flow / photo: dre

2 poems by Bola Opaleke

Bola Opaleke

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

Love and the Titanic: Notes on Last Words: The Final Journals of William Burroughs

Lee Watkins

Howard Hart and Raymond Foye, by T. Walden

Remembering poet Howard Hart

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ted joans photo by larry keenan (lo res)

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Rik Lina, Hammond Guthrie, Richard Krech and more

Rik Lina

Aural Dialectics: On Allen Ginsberg’s Musical Rendition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Chris Mustazza

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

9 Bewildered by Neon Lips (detail)

Twelve collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

donna kuhn art (detail)

Six Mixed Media Pieces by Donna Kuhn

Donna Kuhn

More Art

Essays

Only Man in the World - Kirby Wright

The Only Man in the World

Kirby Wright

credit: Orlova Maria

Food Service, by Caitlin Sellnow

Caitlin Sellnow

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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