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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

Slow Dance Bullets by Meaghan Quinn

A conversation with poet Meaghan Quinn

Lauren Davis and Meaghan Quinn

Jason Stoneking and Celia Daley

Bespoke Books: An interview with Jason Stoneking

Jason Stoneking and Celia Galey

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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Three poems by Michael O’Shaughnessy

Michael O'Shaughnessy

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Imagist Socialist Poetry and Objective Reality

Serkan Engin

More Poetry

Beat Generation

How Hip Was My Alley by Kenton Crowther

Review – Alleycats and Beatsters: The Hip, the Gone, and the Way Gone

Denise Enck

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

Jack Kerouac Rocky Mount Hall of Fame Potrtrait - inducted by John J. Dorfner

John J. Dorfner on Jack Kerouac’s Induction into the Rocky Mount Hall of Fame

John J. Dorfner

Kerouac and Van Gogh -- Paul Maher Jr.

This is IT: Van Gogh and Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Folly and Fortune (detail) - Nathan Pietrykowski

Too Dee: Drawings by Nathan Pietrykowski

Nathan Pietrykowski

Private Eyes 2 (detail) hiromi suzuki

Private Eyes: Collages

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

Denise Enck

Marshmallow Forest

Melissa Wiley

photo by Daniel Tseng / unsplash

Intimacy with Doors

Bára Hladík

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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