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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

Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts - Jorie Graham

“No, this was all first person”: Revisiting Jorie Graham’s Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

Timothy Duffy

Sara Coleridge

My Coleridge: On Five Poems by Sara Coleridge

Stephanie Limb

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

two-thirty / credit: em

Poems by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, translated by Kristine Ong Muslim

Kristine Ong Muslim and Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles

overlay / credit: de

Three poems by Denzel Scott

Denzel Scott

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Larry Keenan, Photographer

About photographer Larry Keenan

Denise Enck

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (13)

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Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (1)

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

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Hush Now Little Baby (detail) - Adrian Jugaru

Six collages by Adrian Jugaru

Adrian Jugaru

The Demiurge (detail) by Joanna Marcjanna

Tales from the future: collages by Joanna Marcjanna

Joanna Marcjanna

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Essays

Scylla - Buku Sarkar essay

Scylla

Buku Sarkar

photo credit: Digital Third Eye

From Motown to Mowtown

Andrew Lees

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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