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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

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake's Influence on Allen Ginsberg by Alexandre Ferrere

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake’s Influence on Allen Ginsberg

Alexandre Ferrere

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Attempt to Hear All the Voices: On the Nature of Essay

Shannon Berg

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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Imagist Socialist Poetry and Objective Reality

Serkan Engin

wave

Six poems by Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner

More Poetry

Beat Generation

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The Great Consciousness of Life

Paul Maher Jr.

Practice of the Wild - Gary Snyder

Book Review – The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder

Eric D. Lehman

Marlie Centawer - a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

Tristessa by Jack Kerouac, book cover

Book Review — Tristessa by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Confluence (detail) by Doug Gilbert

12 Paintings by Doug Gilbert

Doug Gilbert

Aesop (detail) - Alec Clayton

In the Jungle: Abstract Paintings of Life in the Wild

Alec Clayton

More Art

Essays

Seizure - essay by Stephanie Andersen

Seizure

Stephanie Andersen

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Are Hungry Ghosts Just Ghosts with Borderline Personality Disorder?

Courtney Cook

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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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