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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

Marcel Duchamp by Man Ray

Concealing The Light From The Lit

Bobbi Lurie

Edward Field and partner Neil

Secret of the Masters: An Interview with Poet Edward Field

James Schwartz

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Gordon Skagit Indian Corn - image: D. Enck

An Old Near Abandoned Kitchen: Poems

Sam Silva

Huntington Pier / Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bmh4you/84188300/ b r e n t

Four Poems by George Moore

George Moore

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Gregory Corso - Mindfield

About Gregory Corso

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Seymour Wyse, Horace Mann School, 1940, courtesy of Dave Moore

Kerouac — “My really best friend…” an interview with Seymour Wyse by Dave Moore

Dave Moore

Kirby Doyle poet

Remembering Poet Kirby Doyle

Michael McClure

Gloria Avner and David Gitin

Remembering poet David Gitin

Sam Vinicur

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

The Wild Woman of Karakorum (detail) - Silas Plum

Some G*ddamn Horses!: paintings by Silas Plum

Silas Plum

visual poetry (detail) by Sheila E. Murphy

Visual poetry by Sheila E. Murphy

Sheila E. Murphy

More Art

Essays

Denise Enck

Marshmallow Forest

Melissa Wiley

God and the Magical Potato Chips by Jennifer Jordan Schaller

God and the Magical Potato Chips by Jennifer Jordán Schaller

Jennifer Jordán Schaller

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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