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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

Afghanistan Sky / U.S. Army

The Consequences of Violence

Steven Thomas Howell

Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer censorship

“My Friend the Censor”: Henry Miller, Huntington Cairns, and Tropic of Cancer

Arthur Hoyle

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

eleven / image: em

Three Dream Poems by Z.G. Tomaszewski

Z.G. Tomaszewski

San Francisco

David Gitin: 5 From San Francisco in the Sixties

David Gitin

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Vincent Zangrillo

Remembering Vincent Zangrillo

Empty Mirror

Allen Ginsberg Wait Til I'm Dead Uncollected Poems

Book Review — Wait Til I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (9)

Empty Mirror

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (1)

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

oblivion 1 (detail) - visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

Oblivion — visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

Wash Up (detail) photo by Braxton Younts

Shelter me! A photo essay by Braxton Younts

Braxton Younts

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Essays

Photo by Ant Rozetsky on Unsplash / edited by Empty Mirror

Milkman by Anna Burns: a soundtrack to street harassment

Laura Eppinger

Lexington Avenue by Jeffrey Zeldman

Lexington Avenue

Buku Sarkar

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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