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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

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue - Emmanuelle Pagano

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano: Nataliya Deleva interviews translators Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

Nataliya Deleva, Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

In Watermelon Sugar

Bruce Hodder’s Ten Favourite Books

Bruce Hodder

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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Imagist Socialist Poetry and Objective Reality

Serkan Engin

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Four poems by Allan Graubard: For Steve Dalachinsky, Ira Cohen, and Ronnie Burk

Allan Graubard

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac - The Sea is My Brother

Addendum to “Lost Letter Found”

Paul Maher Jr.

Elegy For My Beat Generation - poetry by Neeli Cherkovski

Neeli Cherkovski’s Elegy For My Beat Generation, reviewed by Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas

Some Kind of Dharma 1 (detail) - Steve Paul

Some Kind of Dharma: Photographs

Steve Paul

ginsberg-orlovsky-stephenson

Passing Through: Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky in Copenhagen, January 1983

Gregory Stephenson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Triangulating Peace (detail) - Sky Pape painting

Passing Through: Paintings by Sky Pape

Sky Pape

dangle (detail) - merlin flower

3 Paintings by Merlin Flower

Merlin Flower

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part III) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

God and the Magical Potato Chips by Jennifer Jordan Schaller

God and the Magical Potato Chips by Jennifer Jordán Schaller

Jennifer Jordán Schaller

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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