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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

Oscar Wilde reclining

The Beauty in Hatred: Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic Theory in De Profundis

Stacey Mankoff

Afghanistan Sky / U.S. Army

The Consequences of Violence

Steven Thomas Howell

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Poetry

hammond guthrie poems and art

OP_OETICS and digital art by Hammond Guthrie

Hammond Guthrie

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Three poems by Erin Russell

Erin Russell

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Beat Generation

Tristessa by Jack Kerouac, book cover

Book Review — Tristessa by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

The Buddhist Beat Poetics of Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel - Max Orsini

The Buddhist Beat Poetics of Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel by Max Orsini, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

David Amram / Ted Joans

David Amram: To Laura for Ted Joans

David Amram

Ted Joans Lives

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

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Visual Art

Bride - Rehan Miskci

Void: Photography of Displacement

Rehan Miskci

Florilegia 3 (detail) by Tristan Stamm

The Florilegia Project

Tristan Stamm

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Essays

Scylla - Buku Sarkar essay

Scylla

Buku Sarkar

Home (detail). Photo by Tara Shepersky.

Love Song for a River Bank

Tara K. Shepersky

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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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