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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

Gloria Avner and David Gitin

Remembering poet David Gitin

Sam Vinicur

Five Past Noon: Reading Darkness at Noon in Trump’s America

Five Past Noon: Reading Darkness at Noon in Trump’s America

Michael Huguenor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Crown Point -- by D. Enck

Carolina Ends in Deep August: Poems

Sam Silva

Padden mist / credit: em

Two poems by Faizan Syed

Faizan Syed

More Poetry

Beat Generation

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eric D. Lehman

ted joans photo by larry keenan (lo res)

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Rik Lina, Hammond Guthrie, Richard Krech and more

Rik Lina

Ted Joans Lives

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

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ken kesey books

Remembering Ken Kesey

Jason Reott

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

EMMET GOWIN Edith, Chinoteague, Virginia, 1967 (detail)

Modern photographer Emmet Gowin

Leah Kelly

The Eyes Have It (detail)- collage by Cherie Hunter Day

Six collages by Cherie Hunter Day

Cherie Hunter Day

More Art

Essays

Plain Sight by Matt Dube

Plain Sight

Matt Dube

Aztek peak fire lookout - John Yohe / Edward Abbey

Aztec Summer

John Yohe

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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