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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

Kristin Garth The Meadow poetry

Kristin Garth on her new collection, The Meadow — an interview by Amy Suzanne

Kristin Garth and Amy Suzanne

(detail) Bottle, Carafe, Jug and Lemons

Lemon Calls to Lemon: The Visual Poetics of D. H. Lawrence, Jack Spicer, and Robert Kroetsch

Ty Clever

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

credit: Romain Gille

Two poems by Alan Chazaro

Alan Chazaro

semiahmoo / credit: em

from Borderline Fortune: Three poems by Teresa K. Miller

Teresa K. Miller

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives

Ted Joans Lives! Michael Hayward, Jake Lamar, Bernie Mindich, and Guy Pierre Buchholtzer

Empty Mirror

Jack Kerouac’s “Strange Cemetery in Jamaica”

Paul Maher Jr.

Kerouac notebooks

Are There Any Good Unpublished Kerouac Books Left?

Paul Maher Jr.

Gloria Avner and David Gitin

Remembering poet David Gitin

Sam Vinicur

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Rock Art (detail) by Fabio Sassi

Rock Art – Photographs by Fabio Sassi

Fabio Sassi

what will you remember (detail) - visual poetry by sophie anne edwards

sophie anne edwards: Ice Poems

sophie anne edwards

More Art

Essays

International Times launch party flyer and debut issue / image credit: http://www.international-times.org.uk/ITarchive.htm

London 1966: I.T., the Camel, and a Song Named Me

Gloria Avner

cache / image credit: de

The Muse Cuts: On Mental Health and Writing

Foster McKinnell

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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