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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

Stephanie Dickinson and Rosalind Palermo Stevenson conversation

Writing Through Icons: Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson on Franz Kafka and Jean Seberg

Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson

The Glass Slipper: Deconstructing Cinderella's Magical Accessory

The Glass Slipper: Deconstructing Cinderella’s Magical Accessory

Robert Boucheron

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Into Jazz - Poems by Alfred K LaMotte

Into Jazz: Five Poems

Alfred K. LaMotte

Present Consumption – a poem by Eileen Tull

Eileen Tull

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia book review

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia, reviewed by Kevin Riordan

Kevin Riordan

Gloria Avner and David Gitin

Remembering poet David Gitin

Sam Vinicur

Harry Nudel: Ted Joans LIves

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Harry Nudel

Harry Nudel

Mary Norbert Korte

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

100 Percent Real Live Art (detail) - Silas Plum

Silas Plum: Cardboard Primitives

Silas Plum

Red Wheelbarrow (detail) -- Tisa Walden

San Francisco in the 21st Century: 75 color photographs and poem by Tisa Walden

Empty Mirror

More Art

Essays

God and the Magical Potato Chips by Jennifer Jordan Schaller

God and the Magical Potato Chips by Jennifer Jordán Schaller

Jennifer Jordán Schaller

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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