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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

Jorge Luis Borges - This Craft of Verse

A Consideration of Borges’ Poetics

Michael Julian

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

at the fragrance garden / credit: de

Three poems by Andrew Shattuck McBride

Andrew Shattuck McBride

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Allen Ginsberg Wait Til I'm Dead Uncollected Poems

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

Marc Olmsted

Max Douglas poetry

Max Douglas, Poet

Empty Mirror

Jack Kerouac - Library of America

An interview on Jack Kerouac and Library of America

Paul Maher Jr.

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg: Howl (for the queer and disabled Americans)

Ben Berman Ghan

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

monologue I Idetail) by hiromi suzuki

monologue: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

EMMET GOWIN Edith, Chinoteague, Virginia, 1967 (detail)

Modern photographer Emmet Gowin

Leah Kelly

More Art

Essays

Jenny Lynn

Jenny Lynn

Lloyd Bond

photo credit: Digital Third Eye

From Motown to Mowtown

Andrew Lees

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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