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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

Zlatko Anguelov

Love in the no-land space between two cultures: an interview with Zlatko Anguelov

Jasmina Tacheva

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Teresa K. Miller: poems from California Building

Teresa K. Miller

credit: Eastman / public domain

Liz Taylor’s Lovers – for Ted Joans

Steve Dalachinsky

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Allen Ginsberg Wait Til I'm Dead Uncollected Poems

Book Review — Wait Til I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

Pete Winslow - Surrealist / Beat Poet

Pete Winslow, Beat/Surrealist Poet

Denise Enck

Cosmopolitan Greetings by Allen Ginsberg

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

Doren Robbins

Mary Norbert Korte

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Fabio Sassi - Lost Archive

Lost Archive

Fabio Sassi

(detail) Getting Measured, 1999. Acrylic, tracing paper and string on canvas. Collection of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State University. ©Mernet Larsen

Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured, 1957-2017

Jean Marie Carey

More Art

Essays

Seizure - essay by Stephanie Andersen

Seizure

Stephanie Andersen

photo by Daniel Tseng / unsplash

Intimacy with Doors

Bára Hladík

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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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