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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

Susan Howe / Federalist 10 essay

Susan Howe’s Federalist 10: a literary approach to colonial America

Leticia del Toro

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

mosaic via sxc.hu/profile/ortonesque

4 poems by Sam Silva

Sam Silva

nest / credit: d.raphael

Back Principles: Poems by Stephen Bett

Stephen Bett

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (9)

Empty Mirror

an interview with Carolyn Cassady

For Beat’s Sake: An Interview with Carolyn Cassady

Jon Alan Carroll

Cosmopolitan Greetings by Allen Ginsberg

Now What’s Wrong? Reflections on Allen Ginsberg’s Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992

Doren Robbins

Kenneth Tindall - Great Heads

Interview with Kenneth Tindall: From Bellevue to Lynæs. An Interview by Lars Movin

Kenneth Tindall

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Four Owls (detail) - Francesca Badea

The Owls Series by Francesca Badea

Francesca Badea

100 Percent Real Live Art (detail) - Silas Plum

Silas Plum: Cardboard Primitives

Silas Plum

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Essays

Jenny Lynn

Jenny Lynn

Lloyd Bond

Plain Sight by Matt Dube

Plain Sight

Matt Dube

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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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