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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

federico garcia lorca

Remembering Federico García Lorca

Steve Pelletier

Srinivas Reddy

Sitar and Sanskrit: Bill Wolak Interviews Srinivas Reddy

Bill Wolak and Srinivas Reddy

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Ship (detail) by Carrie DeBacker

Little Spells: Poems by Maya Jewell Zeller

Maya Jewell Zeller

discovery / credit: de

from Evolutions: poems by Cheryl Pallant

Cheryl Pallant

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives

Ted Joans Lives! Michael Hayward, Jake Lamar, Bernie Mindich, and Guy Pierre Buchholtzer

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La Picaudiere - and Hundertwasser's Honey

La Picaudiere — and Hundertwasser’s Honey

Kenneth Tindall

Vincent Zangrillo

Remembering Vincent Zangrillo

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outsider 2

Kerouac and the Outsider – A Puzzle

Dave Moore

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

circular reference (detail) - mixed media collage by Kelly Schaub

Nine Mixed Media Collages by Kelly Schaub

Kelly Schaub

Parenting (detail) - Margarita Gokun

Seven paintings by Margarita Gokun

Margarita Gokun

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Essays

in the window / image by de from photo by milada vigerova

essays in the face of uncertainties

rob mclennan

Dearly Beloved - Nanette Jordan

Dearly Beloved, Part I: Growing up in 1950s San Francisco

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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