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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

Gueorgui Konstantinov interview and poems

Love, Unforseen Poetry, and Other Radical Reforms: An interview with the Bulgarian poet Gueorgui Konstantinov

Bill Wolak and Gueorgui Konstantinov

In Watermelon Sugar

Bruce Hodder’s Ten Favourite Books

Bruce Hodder

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

wave

Six poems by Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner

Poems by Sam Silva

Histories of a Small Southern Town / What Happens With Our Greed

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

goodbye, ted joans - jack foley

Jack Foley: Goodbye, Ted Joans

Jack Foley

beat beat beat

The Beat Generation vs. “Beatniks”

Denise Enck

ken kesey books

Remembering Ken Kesey

Jason Reott

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Dietrich's Mirror 7 (detail) - Kalliope Amorphous

Dietrich’s Mirror: Portraits In The Mirrors Of Marlene Dietrich

Kalliope Amorphous

donkeys find an opening (detail) - Jill Emery

Workings: Paintings by Jill Emery

Jill Emery

More Art

Essays

Candy Darling on her Deathbed by Peter Hujar, used as cover photo for I Am a Bird Now / fair use

Candy Says, by Kaiya Gordon

Kaiya Gordon

photo by Daniel Tseng / unsplash

Intimacy with Doors

Bára Hladík

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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