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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

Jim Camp’s Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

The Invitation of the Mirror: Jonathan Lethem & Me, from the Margin to the Mainstream

Jasun Horsley

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

in back ii / credit: de

Three poems by Zach Linge

Zach Linge

roller / credit: de

Two poems from Stilled Somewhere Possible by Cheryl Pallant

Cheryl Pallant

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Beatific Soul: A film about John J Dorfner

The Beatific Soul: A film featuring Kerouac biographer John J. Dorfner

John J. Dorfner

photo credit: adjac

Heeding the Call of the Open Road

Kyrsten Bean

Laura Corsiglia and Ted Joans

Remembering Ted Joans – Beat / Surrealist Poet & Artist

Denise Enck

ginsberg-orlovsky-stephenson

Passing Through: Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky in Copenhagen, January 1983

Gregory Stephenson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Rik Lina - Dragon Mountain

7 Paintings by Rik Lina

Rik Lina

A Third Scroll of Malachite: A Painting by Joost de Jonge and Poem by Norman Dubie

Joost de Jonge

More Art

Essays

Las Meninas (detail) by Diego Vasquez

Seeing Las Meninas in Madrid, 1994

Sara Schaff

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Brooke Knisley

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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