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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

Carla Sofia Ferreira - Walt Whitman Laforgue

Frenchness Versus Frenchiness: Laforgue’s Translations and the “Wordly” Estate of Whitman

Carla Sofia Ferreira

Srinivas Reddy

Sitar and Sanskrit: Bill Wolak Interviews Srinivas Reddy

Bill Wolak and Srinivas Reddy

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Scaling the Scaffolding

S.R. Lavin

railroad tracks

We Are Jack Kerouac

Sarah Sarai

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Howard Hart and Raymond Foye, by T. Walden

Remembering poet Howard Hart

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Ted Joans Lives

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

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Jerry Kamstra Weed, reviewed

On the Dangerous Edge of Things: Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler by Jerry Kamstra, reviewed by Gregory Stephenson

Gregory Stephenson

Gotham Book Mart - Evan P. Cordes

Being Michael Brownstein – Thomas Locicero

Thomas Locicero

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Charles Bukowski (copyright Loren Kantor / http://woodcuttingfool.blogspot.com/)

A Gallery of Woodcut Prints by Loren Kantor

Loren Kantor

Confluence (detail) by Doug Gilbert

12 Paintings by Doug Gilbert

Doug Gilbert

More Art

Essays

Panic Drapes the Look of the World: Literary Treatment for Anxiety in an Uncertain Age

Emily Sinclair

Are Made Of - essay by Tomoé Hill

Are Made Of

Tomoé Hill

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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