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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

‘Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind’: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Alchemy and Individuation by William Bishop

“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind”: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Alchemy and Individuation by William Bishop

William Bishop

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

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

logjam

6 poems by Lucas Margarit, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen

Lucas Margarit and Katherine M. Hedeen

Wall, Mexico

Forgiving Time

Todd Clouser

More Poetry

Beat Generation

ruth and Hal Davis on their porch. Photo by Horst Spandler, 2013.

Celebrating ruth weiss on her 90th birthday

Horst Spandler

29 Russell St., 1999, by Joshua Medsker

Neal and Carolyn Cassady’s house at 29 Russell St., San Francisco

Josh Medsker

Pete Winslow - Surrealist / Beat Poet

Pete Winslow, Beat/Surrealist Poet

Denise Enck

William S. Burroughs and Cats

The Guardian and the Familiar: William S. Burroughs and Cats

Lee Watkins

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Juicy Satellite (detail) - collage by hiromi suzuki

Six collages by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

Ryoji Ikeda’s Continuum - photo copyright Leland Buck

Swimming in the river of bits: The digital meditation of Ryoji Ikeda’s Continuum

Leland Buck

More Art

Essays

The moon over Aaqrabâte, Syria / photo by Samer Daboul

Chasing the Moon

Sarah Zanabli

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part VI) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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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