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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

Mt. Baker seen from Mt. Watson. Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bthompson/5011625855/ Ben Thompson

Nature As Muse: The World of Fine Writing

Doug Scott

The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volumes 1 and 2

Taking the Poet at his Word: Editing the Poems of T. S. Eliot

Jim McCue

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

peninsula / credit: em

2 poems by Emily Tuttle

Emily Tuttle

image credit: em

Three poems by Erin Russell

Erin Russell

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Mario Cesariny by Carlos Botelho

Remembering Surrealist Mario Cesariny

Denise Enck

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (11)

Empty Mirror

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac . . . reissued.

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac is reissued

Paul Maher Jr.

How Kerouac's haikus saved my life

How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life

Bridget McNulty

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Rik Lina - Leporello

Rik Lina Painting a Leporello

Rik Lina

Sleeping on Earth's Bed (detail) - Cristina Querrer

Silvery Twines, Embracing: Eight Paintings by Cristina Querrer

Cristina Querrer

More Art

Essays

Denise Enck

Marshmallow Forest

Melissa Wiley

Lexington Avenue by Jeffrey Zeldman

Lexington Avenue

Buku Sarkar

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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