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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

An Interview with Poet Jack Leaf Willetts

Denise Enck

Readability Versus Creativity: On Susan Howe and Reading Poetry

Leticia del Toro

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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Two poems by Michael O’Shaughnessy

Michael O'Shaughnessy

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Two poems from Stilled Somewhere Possible by Cheryl Pallant

Cheryl Pallant

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac - Library of America

An interview on Jack Kerouac and Library of America

Paul Maher Jr.

Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Book Review — Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

Kerouac books - French

The sardonic pilgrimage of Jack Kerouac

Yannis Livadas

Carl Solomon - Mishaps, Perhaps

Two Songs for Samson: An Invective Poem for Carl Solomon

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Yen Yen - Rainbow Stacks (detail) watercolor

Everything is Zero Calorie: Watercolors by Yen Yen

Yen Yen

You were made for me(detail) - Oscar Varona

Collages by Oscar Varona

Oscar Varona

More Art

Essays

How to Be Silent in German

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

Denise Enck

Marshmallow Forest

Melissa Wiley

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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