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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

Walt Whitman's Talbot Wilson Notebook page

Visionary Markings: Em Dashes and Ellipses in Walt Whitman’s “Talbot Wilson” Notebook

Tom Holmes

Dorothea and Will Ladislaw, Middlemarch

The Yoke of Duty: Of Caregiving and Middlemarch

Kate Washington

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Poetry

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Poem for a Lady Boy

Todd Clouser

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Poems from Matt Hill’s Pellucid Inferno

Matt Hill

More Poetry

Beat Generation

BEAT The Latter Days of the Beat Generation, A First-Hand Account - Andy Clausen

Beat: The Latter Days of the Beat Generation, A First-Hand Account by Andy Clausen

Marc Olmsted

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The Beat Generation vs. “Beatniks”

Denise Enck

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The Teducated Mouth: John Barbato interviews Ted Joans

Ted Joans

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Ted Joans Lives! Coreley Coit, Kenya Rodriguez, Valery Oisteanu, Hidani Ditmars

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More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Cory Peeke - Counting Sheep (detail)

Higher Education: 11 collages by Cory Peeke

Cory Peeke

Bandoleros (detail) by Tina Garvin

Mixed Media Paintings by Tina Garvin

Tina Garvin

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Essays

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Eight Hours

Marina Petrova

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On Painting On

Nanette Jordan

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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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